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Politics With Charles P. Pierce
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House Republicans Still Want Us Jumping at 100-Year-Old Skeletons and Bogeymen
the latest from the shebeen
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We Would Not Like to Spy in Your Beautiful Balloon
Everybody shouting "Chinese spy balloon!" while ignoring years of spy satellites—it says a lot.
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5th Circuit Court Rejects Concept of Progress
The current Supreme Court's precedent locks the law (but not our guns!) away in the past forever.
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Shallow Republicans Sink to New Depths
Booting Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Service Committee is cheap political point-scoring and nothing else.
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DeSantis Wants Florida to Kill More People
He'd like Florida to kill those convicted of child rape, without unanimous verdicts, despite precedents.
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Hunter Biden Pushes for Probe of Laptop Leak
But his lawyers want an investigation into the dudes who pushed this nonsense in the first place.
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Tongass National Forest Spared the Chopping Block
The wilderness asks that someone please put it safely out of reach once and for all before something bad happens.
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Jim Jordan Targets Homeland Security
The Angry Children's Brigade is plotting to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas just because they can.
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"George Santos" Pauses his Committee Work
He should consider—just as a suggestion—starting with simple facts, like "who he is" and "where his money comes from."
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Election Denier Perry Wants to Deny DOJ his Phone
Based on his texts with Mark Meadows, you could say that Perry's phone was a bit of a 'hotspot' for the effort to overturn 2020.
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Salmon Defeat Mine in Bureaucratic Battle
The Environmental Protection Agency is finally living up to its name under Biden.
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Stormy Daniels Once Again Clouds Trump's Horizon
Has "hush money" ever produced less of a hush than the money she was paid?
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The Next Culture War May Have Entered the Chat
The census recognizing Middle Eastern and North African people is a good thing, so let's see what happens with a little bad faith.
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The 14th Amendment's Time to Shine Has Come
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Santos Even Lied to Alleged Ponzi Schemers
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When a Conspiracy Theory Can Issue Subpoenas
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