Above: Armed demonstrators right-wing thugs, who identified themselves as Liberty Boys, pose for fellow demonstrators’ pictures outside the Oregon State Capitol on Jan. 17, 2021, in Salem, Oregon (AP Photo/Noah Berger), eleven days after the violent insurrection in the nation’s Capitol led by Proud Boys, Three Percenters and Oath Keepers militias on January 6, 2021. Armed right-wing thugs … Read more
The Washington Post reports, Inside Ted Cruz’s last-ditch battle to keep Trump in power: (excerpt): By Sen. Ted Cruz’s own account, he was “leading the charge” to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as president. An examination by The Washington Post of Cruz’s actions between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, shows just how deeply … Read more
Update to Sounds Like A Plan to Deal With the 147 Sedition Party Insurrectionists (excerpt): A group of North Carolina voters took dramatic legal action against Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s (R-N.C.) reelection bid on Monday, arguing that the Constitution prohibits insurrectionist lawmakers from holding office. The nonprofit Free Speech For People filed a challenge with the … Read more
The Arizona Republic reports, ‘I love Andy Biggs’: Book says Sen. Kyrsten Sinema praised him after Jan. 6: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema privately praised [seditious insurrectionist] Rep. Andy Biggs months after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol many suspect he helped stoke, and she questioned why she needed to wear a mask in an early … Read more
The Fox News fascist propaganda network parroting the Kremlin talking points on Ukraine should take a lesson from World War II and what happened to the propagandists of the Axis allies after they lost the war. Tucker Carlson is Nazi Germany’s “Lord Haw-Haw” (not as well-remembered as Japan’s “Tokyo Rose”). David Corn at Mother Jones … Read more