Miami Police Gave Out Fliers With Website Selling Trump Merch at Traffic Stops
At traffic stops in Miami-Dade County and elsewhere, police have been handing out flyers from their department advertising a website selling Donald Trump merchandise to drivers. Miami Herald recently reported. The fliers included a link to a website — miami-dadeclerk.com — where people with traffic citations can pay off fines or register for driving school. […]
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January 6 Committee Is Considering Subpoenaing Ivanka Trump
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is considering issuing Ivanka Trump a subpoena to compel her to cooperate with their investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. An anonymous source told The GuardianThe committee is still discussing the matter but would like to give her […]
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Just 13 of 143 Texas GOP Candidates Will Admit Trump’s Loss Was “Legitimate”
Just 13 of the 143 Texas Republicans running for Congress acknowledge that the results of the 2020 election are “legitimate,” according to a survey. Hearst Newspapers sent questions about the election to all 143 candidates and only a baker’s dozen accepted the results of the election despite repeated recounts, audits and court cases that have […]
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EU Chief Calls Patents “Precious” as Hundreds of Millions Lack Vaccine Access
The head of the European Commission on Friday defended coronavirus-related intellectual property protections as “precious” after South Africa’s president reiterated his support for a temporary patent waiver, arguing the step is necessary to ramp up vaccine production on the African continent. Speaking at the E.U.-African Union summit in Brussels, European Commission President Ursula von der […]
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State Constitutions Could Stymie Right-Wing Strategies for a Post-“Roe” World
Republican lawmakers in a handful conservative states have hit a roadblock to what they thought would be an easy path to imposing new restrictions on abortion if it is upended by the Supreme Court Roe v. WadeDecision: Right-to-privacy protections are enshrined into their state constitutions. In states where courts have ruled that their constitutions’ explicit […]
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US Is Effectively Stealing Billions From a Nation Ravaged by a US-Initiated War
Recent remarks by President Joe Biden declared a national emergency in the name of addressing the dual threats of the massive humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Afghanistan, as well as “the potential for a deepening economic collapse in Afghanistan.” He was right to do so. In sharp contrast, his decision to unilaterally assert the U.S.’s authority […]
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Revisionist Media ‘Explainer’ Articles Insist Nobody ‘Spied’ on Trump
There’s a second wave of media reaction to John Durham’s latest filing on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The first wave consisted of silence, in the hope that somehow the entire story would disappear. Now, the second wave is “Explainers,” which attempt to hem and haw defensively through the whole business. The Associated Press […]
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Leaning Into Culture Wars Works
Republicans have shied away from culture issues for far too long, says Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, allowing “the left to drag our culture in an anti-American direction.” “Our party leaders for too long preached that we shouldn’t be involved in cultural fights,” he said in a Thursday phone interview with The Daily Signal. “I can […]
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Hillary Clinton’s Greatest Masterpiece
Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015 to 2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup. Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and dangerous new tensions with Russia were some of the wages of Clinton’s machinations. Christopher Steele (a British national who was also an ex-spy) was hired by Clinton in order to […]
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‘Freedom Convoy’ Exposes Canada’s Hollow Liberal Universalism
Canada’s third week of so-called trucker demonstrations has come to an end. Most of the protests have been focused on downtown Ottawa, near Parliament. Authorities ended traffic jamming on the Ambassador Bridge linking Ontario and Michigan last weekend. And now Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will use the tools of its Emergencies […]
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