Venerable BedeKentucky Politics Analysis: Manchin won't let Democrats unwind the filibuster. So the GOP will do away with it laterverified_publisher CNN(CNN) — Joe Manchin was pissed. In the immediate aftermath of the Senate voting down a bipartisan commission to conduct a soup-to-nuts review of the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, the West Virginia...
Venerable BedeSt. Louis Judge Sets Trial Date For Lawsuit Over Missouri Medicaid Expansion stlpublicradio.org - Rudi Keller | Missouri Independent The lawsuit seeking to force Missouri to expand Medicaid coverage under a voter-approved constitutional amendment will go to trial June 18 in Cole …
Venerable Bede The Texas Winter Storm And Power Outages Killed Hundreds More People Than The State Says buzzfeednews.com - Peter Aldhous and Stephanie M. Lee and Zahra Hirji A BuzzFeed News analysis shows the catastrophic failure of Texas’s power grid in February killed hundreds of medically vulnerable people. The true …
Venerable BedeU.S. Politics 'They think we're like servants': Inside the fractured relationship between the Capitol Police and members of Congressverified_publisher CNN - By Whitney Wild, Jeremy HerbWashington (CNN) — In the weeks after the January 6 riot, Capitol Police officers were shell-shocked and wounded, both physically and psychologically. They'd been through hell, they'd sacrificed their...
Venerable BedeU.S. Politics Time to give up on Marco Rubio, who will never do the right thing if there’s any risk | Editorial orlandosentinel.com - Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board So Marco Rubio declared on Twitter he’s a no vote on creating a commission to get to the bottom of the Jan. 6 insurrection. That’s the least …
Venerable BedeU.S. Politics Mother of deceased Capitol Police officer presses GOP senators to back Jan. 6 commissionverified_publisher POLITICO - Melanie ZanonaD.C. police officer Michael Fanone, injured while responding to the Jan. 6 attack, is slated to join Gladys Sicknick in some Thursday meetings with senators to discuss “the importance” of an independent...
Venerable BedeU.S. Politics Corporations are funding Trump-supporting, anti-democratic Republican lawmakers again NBC News - By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College and Dennis Aftergut, former federal prosecutorRemember all those righteous corporate statements from January? “Don’t watch what they say; watch where they spend.” That variation on a popular adage — “I no longer listen to what they say; I watch what...
Venerable BedeTeaching I am a veteran history teacher. Let me teach history. chalkbeat.org - Valencia Ann Abbott A couple of years ago, as I listened to a radio report about how North Carolina’s strict voter ID law “targets African Americans with almost surgical …
Venerable BedeU.S. Politics Videos Contradict State Lawmaker's Claim He Left Capitol While It Was 'Still Peaceful' HuffPost - Josephine HarveyA community of online sleuths placed Pennsylvania GOP state Sen. Doug Mastriano near the Capitol steps well after clashes with police began. A Republican state senator who was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan....
Venerable BedeU.S. Politics Watch Michael Flynn's bizarre rant that Covid was a lie to steal the election and "gain control of society" | Boing Boing boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder Failed former national security advisor to Trump Michael Flynn appeared in a video this week and delivered a paranoid rant without offering a shred …
Venerable BedeU.S. Politics Republicans Are Against Science, Elections, Democracy, Journalism — and You truthout.org - William Rivers Pitt Watching the puddle of cowardice grow under Mike McCarthy and congressional Republicans as they flee the very Capitol sack commission they demanded …
