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Politics With Charles P. Pierce
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The Lesson From the Debt-Ceiling Fiasco: Only Money Matters
the latest from the shebeen
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Teachers Are Leaving the Profession in Florida
School board meetings are the real battlefields of this stupid, ginned-up culture war.
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Congrats to Tara Reade On Her New Life In Russia?
Didn't see this one coming.
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Tommy Tuberville's Tough Little Week
His military advisor quit and his brother put some bad-mouth on him all over social media. Not saying he didn't earn it.
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Jack Smith Is Really Leaving No Stone Unturned
Today's stone: was security expert Christopher Krebs excommunicated for heresy?
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The Debt-Ceiling Debacle Is An Act of Extortion
This government has been rendered incapable of, you know, governing.
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Trump Will Soon Be Hiring Lawyers Off Billboards
The ones he had keep resigning or testifying against him or both.
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How Many People Died By Gun Violence This Weekend?
I'm not saying easy access to guns emboldens people to turn petty arguments into firefights, but easy access to guns emboldens people to turn petty arguments into firefights.
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Congress Knows What the Debt Ceiling Is, Right?
It's truly amazing, and a bit terrifying, to watch members of Congress express this level of ignorance.
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Texas House Says Ken Paxton Should Be Impeached
It's never a great idea for a state to have an attorney general who's been under indictment for almost a decade.
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SCOTUS Has It Out for the Clean Water Act
It's obvious that Alito simply doesn't like the law, so he refashions it to his own liking.
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Is Mark Meadows Singing to the Feds?
The crack legal team down at Mar-a-Lago sure does seem nervous about the possibility that Meadows may have been turned.
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Ronald DeSantis's Twitter Meltdown
Plus! Marjorie Taylor Greene called for "decorum" in the chamber. We're in the hands of madmen, friends.
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Canada Is On Fire
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Whatever Happened to 'Election Integrity'?
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The Governors of Both Dakotas Could Face Off
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