Medical examiner testifies: 'No,' there's nothing anyone could have done to save Ahmaud Arbery
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The trial for three men—accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery after spotting him running near a home under construction in their coastal Georgia neighborhood—has entered its eighth day on Tuesday, following a day of factual witnesses called by the stat
Proud Boy leader can't cope with poor conditions at jail, asks for early release
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A ringleader of the violent neofascist and racist group, the Proud Boys, asked for release from a D.C. jail on Monday, begging the court to let him serve out the remainder of his five-month sentence at home because of alleged harassment and conditions he clai
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy offers excuses for Gosar's murder-fantasy video
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy finally got around to responding to Rep. Paul Gosar’s violent anime video on Monday, close to a week after the video was posted. And on Tuesday, a closed-door House Republican meeting reportedly got acrimonious—bu
Attorney makes marathon out of testing judge's patience in trial following Ahmaud Arbery's death
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The trial for three men—accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery after spotting him running near a home under construction in their coastal Georgia neighborhood—has entered its eighth day on Tuesday, following a day of factual witnesses called by the stat
From 'kinda' liking prison to requesting early release, Proud Boy ringleader wants out
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A ringleader of the violent neofascist and racist group, the Proud Boys, asked for release from a D.C. jail on Monday, begging the court to let him serve out the remainder of his five-month sentence at home because of alleged harassment and conditions he clai
Forget CRT—new poll shows what Republicans really don't want taught in schools
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A new poll confirms that when Republicans scream about critical race theory, what they really mean is they oppose the teaching of anything about racism in the U.S.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll asked respondents: “How much do you thi
Far-right AZ Patriots show up at border crossing to hassle asylum seekers: ‘Why are you here?’
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The presence of right-wing vigilantes along the U.S.-Mexico border has become so normalized in recent years that their activities—which usually entail harassing immigrants before turning them over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents—scarcely eve
Fox News will require vaccine passports for Fox News event in ... DeSantis' Florida
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Is it possible for both a company and the individuals working for said company to be filled with more s@%t than even the sum of their parts? Fox News has time and time again defied all constructs of decency, intelligence, and morality. On Friday, Fox News sen
Morning Digest: Vermont's Patrick Leahy, the most senior senator, declines to seek a ninth term
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Arizona vigilantes back hassling asylum seekers at border under Border Patrol’s benign watch
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The presence of right-wing vigilantes along the U.S.-Mexico border has become so normalized in recent years that their activities—which usually entail harassing immigrants before turning them over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents—scarcely eve
Abbreviated pundit roundup: The GOP rallies around Steve Bannon
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We begin today’s roundup with Paul Waldman at The Washington Post and hist take on the indictment of Steve Bannon, who surrendered to authorities yesterday:
There is simply no serious person anywhere who thinks Bannon has the legal right to thumb his
News Roundup: Bannon bellows his defiance; new memo shows breadth of White House sedition plan
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In the news today: Steve Bannon, an apparent key plotter of the January 6 insurrection, was defiant and mocking as he surrendered to federal authorities after his indictment for ignoring a congressional subpoena demanding his testimony. House Republicans, mea
'Dad, welcome back': Advocate for deported veterans wins his own fight to return to the U.S.
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An activist and military father who has advocated for deported veterans as co-director of Unified Deported Veterans in Tijuana now gets to return back home himself. Robert Vivar “walked back to San Diego from Tijuana on Veterans Day,” nearly tw
Watching this anti-vaxxer try to prove he's magnetic is the laugh we all need right now
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The term “scraping the bottom of the barrel” doesn’t quite do justice to the new crop of MAGA talk show hosts that think Alex Jones is too tame. One of them is Stew Peters. He went from being a failed rapper, to a failed bounty hunter, to now
South Carolina governor wrongly calls award-winning LGBTQ book 'pornographic' in attempt to ban it
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As the battle against whether or not critical race theory should be taught in schools continues nationwide, some Republicans are also targeting the LGBTQ community. After attacking a Florida school board member for escorting a group of elementary school stude
Testimony confirms Title 42 was never about public health, it was about deporting asylum-seekers
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We already knew from an October 2020 Associated Press report that the flawed Title 42 public health order that’s used the novel coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to quickly deport asylum-seekers in violation of their rights was implement
Some religious groups oppose Biden child care plan because they might have to stop discriminating
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The Republican attack on President Joe Biden’s plan to make child care more affordable and accessible has escalated around a defense of the right to discriminate. Republican politicians and media started by claiming, falsely, that the plan would exclud
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: When racist COVID deniers have to face the consequences of their idiocy
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Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, an
Majority of Republicans support investigating representatives' ties to Jan. 6—but not Trump's ties
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As House Republicans do everything within their power to stymie the bipartisan probe in the Jan. 6 attack, a new Monmouth University poll shows that nearly three-quarters of Americans support exploring whether members of Congress played a role in the attack,
Lone Georgia GOP senator secretly drops bills targeting Dem-led school board and county commission
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A lone GOP Georgia senator is attempting to roll back the significant gains made during last year’s election, which handed dominant control of his county’s nearly million residents to Democrats.
Sen. Clint Dixon’s latest manipulative (and racist
Manchin keeps arguing Build Back Better will lead to more inflation. Manchin is wrong
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The announcement last week from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that consumer prices rose 6.2 percent over the past year in the U.S. The pain American consumers feel is very real (though their reported milk consumption might be exagger
When 'Let's Go Brandon' is chanted from pews at Texas megachurch, tax-exempt status is questioned
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When a bunch of QAnon-believing, MAGA-loving, former White House employees show up at church and begin shouting a veiled version of f**k Joe Biden via “Let’s Go, Brandon,” from the pews, that’s not a religious service, it’s a political rally; and Sa
2021 is already the deadliest year on record for trans folks in the United States
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As we kick off Transgender Awareness Week, which spans from Nov. 13 to 19, it’s important to celebrate all of the wins and victories the trans community has to celebrate. Whether it’s brave youth speaking out against transphobic legislation that affects t
Naturalization numbers go up, a good sign after pandemic and politics disrupted services for many
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Roughly 808,000 people became U.S. citizens in the 2021 fiscal year, up from just over 625,000 in the 2020 fiscal year, CNN reports. The numbers come as the Biden administration also naturalized thousands of former and current military service members (as wel
House Republicans promise revenge over Bannon indictment just as soon as they retake the gavel
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House Republicans did everything they could to block a bipartisan investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. seat of government. Now they are promising retribution against Democrats over that probe after the Department of Justice indicted Steve Bannon fo
Beto's back: Former Texas congressman launches campaign against Republican governor
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke announced Monday that he would challenge Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, a move that gives Texas Democrats a candidate they’ve eagerly sought for months. O’Rourke is unlikely to face any serious opposition in next year’s primary
Judge is fed up with Alex Jones, rules Sandy Hook families victorious in lawsuit
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On Monday, after months of hemming and hawing and delays generated by Infowars snake oil salesman Alex Jones, a judge in Waterbury, Connecticut, has ruled that Jones is liable to the families of eight people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary schoo
House Republicans scared stiff by Jan. 6 probe are already promising revenge against Democrats
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House Republicans did everything they could to block a bipartisan investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. seat of government. Now they are promising retribution against Democrats over that probe after the Department of Justice indicted Steve Bannon fo
Judge rules Alex Jones and Infowars are liable to Sandy Hook families
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On Monday, after months of hemming and hawing and delays generated by Infowars snake oil salesman Alex Jones, a judge in Waterbury, Connecticut, has ruled that Jones is liable to the families of eight people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary schoo
Bannon has turned himself in, but he's not the only one refusing to comply with a Jan. 6 subpoena
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Steve Bannon has surrendered to the FBI following a contempt of Congress indictment. Still, more such indictments need to follow because Bannon’s not the only Trump loyalist who has defied a subpoena from the select committee investigating th
The Senate's longest-serving member will not seek re-election in deep-blue Vermont
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Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who is the chamber’s longest-serving sitting member from either party, announced Monday that he would not seek a ninth term in 2022. While Leahy is famously the only Democrat ever elected to represent the Green Mountai
The Senate's longest-serving member will not seek re-election in deep blue Vermont
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Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who is the chamber’s longest-serving sitting member from either party, announced Monday that he would not seek a ninth term in 2022. While Leahy is, famously, the only Democrat ever elected to represent the Green Mount
Biden signs hard infrastructure bill, has to pivot to closing the deal on Build Back Better
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President Joe Biden will officially ring in infrastructure week, for real, when he signs the infrastructure bill Monday afternoon. The $1.2 trillion package contains $550 billion in new spending on road, bridges, ports, rail, and water systems.
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Welcome to the real infrastructure week, but the work’s only half done
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President Joe Biden will officially ring in infrastructure week, for real, when he signs the infrastructure bill Monday afternoon. The $1.2 trillion package contains $550 billion in new spending on road, bridges, ports, rail, and water systems.
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Defiant all the way: Bannon claims take down of the 'Biden regime' imminent as he surrenders to FBI
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After being indicted for contempt of Congress following his flat refusal to comply with a Jan. 6 Committee subpoena, Steve Bannon surrendered himself to the FBI on Monday and now faces criminal charges for his defiance.
Bannon, a longtime stalwart of f
LIVE: Watch what happens when defense attorney seeks mistrial in Arbery case
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The trial of the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery began on Monday with testimony from Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, Jason Seacrist.
Attorney Kevin Gough, representing William “Roddie” B
Despite clemency, Oklahoma may execute Julius Jones this week, an expert explains why
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Just a few days following the horrifying last moments of John Marion Grant’s execution in late October, in a 3-1 vote, the Oklahoma State Pardon and Parole Board granted clemency to another death row inmate: Julius Jones, who
Live updates: Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial enters closing arguments
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Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial has entered its third week and jurors are preparing for closing arguments and instructions from Judge Bruce Schroeder. Schroeder began proceedings on Monday by claiming he was worried that he would bore jurors with reading th
Developing: Trump's pet, Steve Bannon, surrenders to authorities
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After being indicted for contempt of Congress following his flat refusal to comply with a Jan. 6 Committee subpoena, Steve Bannon surrendered himself to the FBI on Monday and now faces criminal charges for his defiance.
Bannon, a longtime stalwart of f
LIVE: Watch how the trial following Ahmaud Arbery's death plays out in court
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The trial for the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery began on Monday with testimony from Georgia Bureau of Investigation Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jason Seacrist. Attorney Kevin Gough, representing William “Roddie” Bryan, qu
