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
Earlier this year, Chrissy Stroop reported for Religion Dispatches, NEW REPORT ON (WHITE) CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE J6 INSURRECTION SHOWS JUST ‘HOW DIRE THE THREAT IS’ (excerpt): Readers who follow my work will be aware of my conviction that neither the press, nor the American public generally, is taking the serious threat to democracy and human … Read more
Update to Lordy, There’s Tapes! Lyin’ ‘Traitor’ Kevin McCarthy Needs To Resign From Office (Updated). Lyin’ Traitor Kevin MCarthy, desperate to distract and deflect from new revelations about his duplicity on Friday, and new revelations about the House GQP Freedom (sic) Caucus – more accrurately described as the House GQP Fascist Caucus – on Saturday, … Read more