President Joe Biden’s trip to Kyiv was a diplomatic masterstroke. There’s no other action he might have taken that would have demonstrated the United States’ dedication to providing Ukraine with the materiel to finish this fight.
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New York Rep. George Santos admitted what we all already knew in a 40-interview released Monday night: He has “been a terrible liar.”
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Trump released his version of a Republican education reform policy. It is perfectly fascistic and does away with all of the pretend parental rights the Republican Party has been giving lip service to. It’s about putting kids in prison.
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The loudest pro-Putin wing of the Republican Party, which is pretty much all of them, absolutely cannot stand that President Joe Biden ruled the airwaves with his historic trip to Kyiv.
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Putin claims that the United States wants to “inflict a strategic defeat on us and claim our nuclear facilities,” drawing a false equivalence between Russian withdrawal from Ukraine and an occupation of Russia.
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Several focus groups of conservatives who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 now say the candidate has lost his luster despite the fact that they would still side with him over Joe Biden in a 2024 matchup.
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Rep. Barbara Lee opens #CASEN bid with video highlighting how she's be only Black woman in Senate and lonely vote against 2001 war in Afghanistan
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ICYMI at : Book banner pretends to be shocked after laws result in scrutiny of book about MLB legend and humanitarian Roberto Clemente.
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She remains the only Republican capable of claiming the moral and intellectual clarity to denounce Donald Trump as a completely unacceptable and unworthy candidate for president.
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Since being allowed back onto Twitter by insecure billionaire Elon Musk, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been demonstrating exactly why she was banned in the first place.
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Justices were set to hear arguments about whether GOP states have standing to sue within just a matter of days. But that has now been canceled.
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Rght-wing dirtbag James O’Keefe announced he was resigning from his position leading Project Veritas.
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Kevin McCarthy, who owes his speakership to deals struck with House Republican allies of the Jan. 6 coup attempt, has given "exclusive access" to "41,000 hours" of Capitol surveillance footage from that day to ... Tucker Carlson and his producers.
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According to Politico’s West Wing Playbook, Biden—who often pushes bipartisan bonhomie as far as it can possibly be pushed—hates him more than any other U.S. senator.
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If you ever told yourself that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis would stop with his insidious Don’t Say Gay legislation, I’m sorry to report that he certainly has not stopped, and in fact shows no signs of slowing down his brigade of hate.
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What we need is a House of Representatives rid of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the people who uplift her divisive rhetoric.
There are no off years. We can do something today.
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In today’s Republican Party it is no longer enough to deny that Donald Trump lost in 2020. The true Republican diehards demand that their leaders deny that Republicans ever lose any election.
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Democrats in Pennsylvania’s third-largest county appear to be on track for a seriously contested May primary for the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners following a Thursday convention where delegates refused to follow the lead of party leaders.
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President Joe Biden's surprise trip to war-torn Ukraine was a diplomatic coup of the highest order—and that means Republicans are absolutely furious over it.
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Carlson pumped the anti-Biden line all week, leading him to even pretend concern over environmental issues.
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“This conversation brings us closer to the victory. Today our negotiations were very fruitful …They were very important and crucial.”
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There are many layers here, so let’s dig in below to get at Rowling’s history on trans issues (hint: not good!), as well as the Times’ coverage, and the very real violence against trans folks that should be central to these conversations.
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Being open about mental health is always brave. But it’s perhaps especially so in Fetterman’s specific situation, as he suffered a stroke in May 2022 and faced a stunning amount of judgment and scrutiny while on the campaign trail.
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President Joe Biden likely caught some people by surprise last week during his State of the Union address when he devoted a whole section to decrying those annoying fees that so many companies use to nickel and dime their customers.
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Yes, electing the president by popular vote is possible! Joining us this week on The Downballot is Christopher of the group , the organization advocating for an interstate compact that would do just that. Listen here:
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Greg Abbott's border photo-op needs $460 million in additional funds just to get through the summer. But it's _immigrants_ who are the drain on state resources? Read more at 👇🏽
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Two deported veterans returned to the U.S. under the Biden administration are now also American citizens.
Welcome home, and congratulations. 🇺🇸 Read more at 👇🏽
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The Republican Party is trying to figure out how to place the blame on labor and “wokeness.” That’s not snark. buff.ly/3xyFUmx?
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In the short term, don't be surprised to see McConnell—mastermind of the House GOP no-compromise credo—occasionally sidling up to Biden while giving House Republicans the heave-ho.
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We’re at least three weeks into the latest round of “Bakhmut is going to fall any moment.” Still, Bakhmut holds.
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It has grown increasingly manifest over the past decade that our corporate media overlords have discovered that dividing the nation with ‘culture war’ narratives and misinformation is the road to profitability.
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There really isn’t a whole lot of time for the House GOP to spend trying to get their shit together, not considering how much time between now and July they won’t be in session, and not to mention the fact they’re a bunch of maniacs.
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In another clear sign that special counsel Smith thinks Trump may have committed actual crimes, federal prosecutors are trying to force one of Trump’s many lawyers to answer questions he has previously refused to answer, invoking attorney-client privilege.
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Republicans have won the Senate half the time since 2000, despite winning fewer votes than Democrats.
This phenomenon, combined with gerrymandering and the Electoral College, creates a major threat to American democracy and allows for minority rule.
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"I wish him well," McConnell said. "But I think the American people need to know, there's not going to be a default. Not going to be a default."
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The White House has released a scathing fact sheet calling out Republican hypocrisy titled “The Congressional Republican Agenda to Increase the Debt by Over $3 Trillion.” 👀
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Since 2017, a Black ranching couple in Colorado has been putting up with alleged harassment, racism, and stalking by their white neighbors and the sheriff’s office. It all came to a head on Feb. 7, when one of the ranchers was arrested.
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The ad avoids going after Paul Vallas, the former Chicago Public Schools CEO whom Lightfoot says she wants to face in a runoff.
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