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Puff piece on Barr shows once again what an amoral, power-hungry snake Mitch McConnell is

According to Barr—and confirmed by McConnell himself—McConnell repeatedly urged him to publicly dump cold water on Trump’s claims that the election had been stolen. As McConnell was asking Barr to speak out, he himself stayed silent about the outcome of the election even after Joe Biden had widely been called as the winner. Why wouldn’t McConnell

Congress Again Taxes the Time of Benefit Recipients – BillMoyers.com

This article is adapted from Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report put out by The American Prospect. You can find the original publication here. First Response The eight-month impasse for additional COVID relief, unconscionable as it may have been, opportunistically gave time and space to those members of Congress most interested in policy. The 5,500-page, entire-session-of-Congress-in-a-bill that passed last

Michigan GOP again reverses course on certifying election results

Two members of a four-person board in Wayne County, Michigan, tasked with certifying election results have reversed course again following their initial refusal, and then acquiescence to certify results amid accusations of political motivations and racism by Democrats. Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two Republicans on the four-member board of canvassers, originally offered no

Guinness family curse strikes again as heiress drowns in pool 

The famed Guinness clan has tragically lost another member of its family. It was revealed this week that heiress Honor Uloth, 19, died in a freak swimming pool accident over the summer. On Friday, the “utterly devastated” family revealed Honor’s organs had been donated, telling the Daily Mail: “She always made it clear that if

Making Voting Great Again Can Literally Save Lives

In October 2018, Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and opened fire on the praying congregants while shouting anti-Semitic slurs, murdering 11. Even as he entered the hospital after having been shot by police, to be treated by Jewish doctors, he was still yelling, “I

Cruise Ships Can Get Ready to Set Sail Again, C.D.C. Says

Cruise ships can prepare to set sail again beginning Sunday under a conditional order issued by U.S. health officials that aims to mitigate the risk of Covid-19 transmission at sea by requiring a host of measures, including testing and quarantine, all designed to keep crews and passengers safe.No ship will set sail with passengers immediately,

Darrell Issa thought he had an easy path to a comeback. A new poll says guess again

This is the first independent poll we’ve seen since the top-two six months ago. Last month, Campa-Najjar released numbers from Strategies 360 that found him down 47-43, but his campaign did not mention any presidential results. So far, though, no major outside groups on either side have booked air time here, though that could always

Trump is using federal resources to campaign again—this time, via food aid boxes

Forty-nine House Democrats, led by Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio, objected to the Trump letter, writing to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, “Using a federal relief program to distribute a self-promoting letter from the President to American families just three months before the presidential election is inappropriate and a violation of federal law.” As we know,

Pretending Trump makes America ‘great again’ apparently takes more than 70 GOP convention speakers

Included on the agenda are several GOP politicians, Trump advisers, and apologists such as the president’s infamously corrupt personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani; Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who has yet to charge the officers who shot emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor in her own home; and Kim Klacik, who is trying to unseat the Democrat elected to fill the

The Pork Chops You’ll Make Again and Again

EatPork chops in lemon-caper sauce.Credit...Sarah Anne Ward for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Paola Andrea.There are precious few feelings as nice as the one that comes from falling in love with a cookbook — with its aesthetics and point of view, with its larder and stories, above all with the…