Ruben Gallego’s Battle Against Kari Lake Could Decide the Fate of the Senate—And Our Democracy
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by Abby Vesoulis
8m ago
n the afternoon of January 6, 2021, as election deniers armed with Tasers and tomahawks overran the US Capitol, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) handed his colleague and close friend Eric Swalwell a pen. “Here,” he said to the California Democrat. “Stick this in their neck if they get close to you.” The Marine veteran, who’d seen combat in Iraq, leaped on a table and began issuing instructions to other panicked lawmakers, showing them how to don the gas masks secured under their chairs: “Tear gas will not kill you. But it’s important to remain calm. If you hyperventilate, you may pass out.” If ne ..read more
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They Make Viral Gun Videos—With Hardline Christian Values
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by Lila Hassan
8m ago
At the start of a slickly produced 19-minute YouTube video titled “How T.Rex Arms Got Started,” Lucas Botkin, the company’s 30-year-old founder, runs through an obstacle course. A guitar-­heavy soundtrack plays as Botkin, decked out in tactical gear and filtered through overwrought video effects, picks off targets with a variety of handguns and rifles. We briefly see the course from his eyes, first-person-shooter style. When the drums bang to a halt, the video cuts to an interview where Botkin explains his company’s mission. “We try to produce thought-provoking content and educational content ..read more
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What to Know About Donald Trump’s New $60 Bible
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by Inae Oh
14h ago
One month after releasing a line of gilded high-tops for $399, Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday a new item: the Bible. “All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I have many,” the former president explained in a video promoting the country singer Lee Greenwood’s version of a King James translation, the “God Bless the USA Bible.” “It’s my favorite book,” Trump added. Throughout the rest of the clip, as if daring us into a collective disgust, Trump swerved through random opportunities to rail against bureaucrats and a country under threat—all while hawking a holy text. But his latest sa ..read more
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Will RFK, Jr. and Other Third Party Candidates Help Doom Democracy?
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by David Corn
1d ago
In the summer of 2000, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the Democratic Party dynasty, took time out of his schedule as an environmental attorney to write an op-ed for the New York Times. In the piece, Kennedy hailed consumer advocate Ralph Nader as his “friend and hero,” but he lambasted him for mounting a third-party run for president. Nader could “siphon votes” from Vice President Al Gore, who was running against Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Kennedy warned, saying it was “irresponsible” for Nader to argue that there was “little distinction” between the Democratic and Republican nominees. A vo ..read more
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America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
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by Annie Jacobsen
1d ago
This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world could end in the next couple of hours,” Gen. Robert Kehler, the former command ..read more
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Ken Paxton Is Going to Take Some Classes on How to Be More Ethical
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by Tim Murphy
2d ago
On Tuesday, nine years after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted for securities fraud, and just a few weeks before he was finally set to go on trial, prosecutors struck a deal with the powerful Republican to call the whole thing off. Under the terms of the pre-trial agreement, as reported by Texas Tribune, Paxton will avoid any admission of wrongdoing but will have to do 100 hours of community service and pay $300,000 in restitution to the people who made investments at his encouragement—including his former roommate. He will also have to go back to school. Specifically, Paxton has ..read more
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Justice Samuel Alito Falsely Implies Mifepristone Could Cause “Very Serious Harm”
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by Julianne McShane
2d ago
Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the biggest abortion case since Dobbs“—may cause “very serious harm.” But there’s just one problem: more than scientific 100 studies show that abortion pills are safe and effective, as my colleagues and I have reported. Alito made the comments this morning during oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone. The drug was made more ..read more
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Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Roll Back Access to Medication Abortion
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by Pema Levy
2d ago
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard its most consequential abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. This time, the question facing the justices was whether to significantly restrict access to mifepristone, a drug commonly used in medication abortions. Though the Republican-appointed majority clearly does not approve of abortion, most of the justices appeared unwilling to adopt the farfetched legal theories that would justify cutting off access to medication abortion—at least for now. This case should never have reached the Supreme Court. In order to sue, a potential l ..read more
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Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake.
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by Nina Martin
2d ago
As the Supreme Court prepares for arguments in a wide-ranging case over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, it’s hard to fathom what might happen if the abortion pill, which now accounts for 63 percent of abortions in the US, becomes largely unavailable. But then again, for a very long time, it was hard for the vast majority of Americans to believe that Roe v. Wade might be overturned. Or for all but the most apocalyptic-minded to imagine that ultra-right justices in Alabama, inspired by Christian Nationalism, might someday declare frozen embryos created in a fertility clinic to be children ..read more
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New York Appeals Court Gives Donald Trump a $300 Million Break
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by Russ Choma
3d ago
Donald Trump received mixed legal news in New York Monday morning, with an appeals court handing the former president an enormous financial break in his civil fraud case. At nearly the same time, however, a different New York judge scheduled an unrelated criminal case against Trump to go to trial next month. The appeals court slashed Trump’s bond to just $175 million. In the civil case, Trump had been found liable at trial for defrauding banks and insurance companies of more than $464 million (including interest and penalties) by giving them falsely inflated values for his properties ..read more
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