Above Image: From Politico, ‘Down the rabbit hole’: Arizona GOP goes full fringe. The Arizona Mirror reports, A dozen Arizona GOP lawmakers follow at least 1 far-right Facebook group: More than 1 in 5 Republican state lawmakers across the country have joined at least one far-right Facebook group, according to a new report. In Arizona, … Read more
For those of you who are not familiar with this history, Rupert Murdoch, an Australian citizen with a media empire of sleazy tabloid newspapers in Australia and Britain, became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1986, only in order to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership in order to purchase 20th Century Fox … Read more
Update to The GQP Midterm Agenda: All Culture Wars, All The Time – And Making You ‘Lucky Duckies’ Pay More Taxes: Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won’t release a legislative agenda before next year’s midterms, according to people who’ve attended private meetings with the minority leader. [S]enate Republican leaders have no … Read more
David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, writes at the Washington Post, Reversals usually expand rights. Alito’s ruling would deny them. In his leaked draft opinion for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. points to Brown v. … Read more
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post in a couple of opinions lays out how the white Christian Nationalist GQP is waging a sectarian religious war against Americans. Her colleague Paul Waldman explains this cult represents a tyranny of a minority of Americans who want to impose their views on the majority. Rubin writes, The Supreme … Read more