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Biden’s Approval Higher Than Congress and Supreme Court
A new Emerson College poll finds a majority disapprove of President Biden, Congress, and the Supreme Court. Biden has a 40% job approval, while 53% disapprove of the job he…
New York Gun Permitting Would Check Social Media
“New York would require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials could verify their ‘character and conduct’ under a…
Agents Confirm Trump Angrily Demanded to Go to Capitol
“Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn’t get his way, according to two Secret…
GOP Lawmaker Would Ban Birth Control
Ohio State Rep. Jean Schmidt (R) said during a radio interview this week that she would entertain a debate about outlawing birth control in the wake of the United States…
New York Moves to Enshrine Abortion Rights
“The New York State Senate on Friday passed a measure that, if fully enacted, would enshrine in the State Constitution the right to seek an abortion and access contraception,” the…
Trump’s Political Position Will Only Get Worse
David Rothkopf: “Mark it on your calendars. This was the week the meteoric political career of Donald Trump did what meteors often do and collided with planet Earth, leaving a…
Sleeper ‘Wire Fraud’ Scheme Could Nail Trumpworld
Daily Beast: “While the Jan. 6 hearings have delivered explosive testimony and evidence suggesting that a number of former administration officials may face criminal liability related to the attack on…
DeSantis Closes Gap with Trump in Possible GOP Primary
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now trails Donald Trump by just 9 percentage points in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov…
Trump’s Fundraising Nosedives
Associated Press: “Trump’s fundraising has fallen off dramatically over the last two months. He reported raising just over $19,000 in May and June combined after taking in nearly $9 million…
Not an Easy Week for Vladimir Putin
Associated Press: “He took his first foreign trip since the invasion of Ukraine to shore up relations with troublesome Central Asian allies. He watched as NATO declared Moscow its main…
The GOP Plan to Defeat Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly
“Republican strategists have discovered a problem: Personal attacks on two of the most vulnerable Democratic senators are falling flat because of their likability,” Axios reports. “In a broadly unfavorable national…
The End of the Federal Government as We Know It
Heather Cox Richardson: “In the past, the Supreme Court has operated on the basis of ‘stare decisis,’ which literally means ‘to stand by things decided.’ The purpose of that principle…
Quote of the Day
“When you try to overthrow the will of the people, and you try a coup in the United States government, you have to pay for that. Period.” — Rep. Adam…
Justice Department Blindsided by This Week’s Testimony
David Rhode: “Hutchinson’s testimony astonished Justice Department prosecutors as much as it did the viewing public, the Times reported. It also blindsided them. The committee gave no advance warning of…
A Plastic Free July
Sara Goddard offers 7 ways to make it a plastic free July. Save to Favorites
A Few Thoughts for the End of the Week
Fifteen years ago this week, I was having dinner with friends when conversation turned to the iPhone which had been released that day. People had lined up at stores for…
Leahy Undergoes Surgery on Broken Hip
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) underwent surgery Thursday after he broke his hip in a fall at his home, the AP reports. “Any prolonged absence by Leahy would complicate majority Democrats’…
The Most Hopeless Day of the SCOTUS Term
Mark Joseph Stern: “No single day has better captured the current state of the Supreme Court than Thursday. At 10 a.m., the court issued a devastating assault on the Biden…
Merrick Garland to Undergo Surgery
Attorney General Merrick Garland will undergo a medical procedure next week to treat an enlarged prostate, NBC News reports. He will will remain at the hospital for one to two…
Abortion Rights Grow as Priorities
A new AP-NORC poll “finds a growing percentage of Americans calling out abortion or women’s rights as priorities for the government in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to…
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