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Shortly after confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, less than two weeks before the 2020 presidential election, a gloating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stood on the floor of the Senate to spike the football. “We’re a constitutional republic,” McConnell said. “Legitimacy does not flow from their feelings. Legitimacy is not the result of how they feel about it. You can’t win them all, and elections have consequences.”

Joe Manchin’s last-minute support for hundreds of billions of dollars in climate programs this week came as something of a surprise. Manchin has repeatedly killed climate proposals over the past year in party negotiations—most recently only weeks ago, when it seemed like he’d walked away from climate spending talks for good.

Earlier this year, the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service updated its nondiscrimination policies to cover sexual orientation and gender identity for the department’s nutritional programs, including the National School Lunch Program. A coalition of 22 Republican-led states sued USDA this week to reverse the update. In the lawsuit, the states sought to assuage the court about their intentions. “To be clear, the states do not deny benefits based on a household member’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” they insisted. Читать дальше...

Eric Greitens didn’t expect to be here. Years ago, when he was a Democrat, Greitens didn’t expect to be a former Republican governor, reviled by the state legislature, who was ousted from office after a sordid and shocking sex scandal. A few months ago, Greitens, when he was the front-runner in the Republican primary for Senate in Missouri, thought his quest for redemption had reached a new phase. It seemed clear, then, that he would be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate for Missouri.

A MILF, an influencer, and a doll-faced, baby-talking 26-year-old are lolling around together, long hair and limbs strewn across pillowed surfaces, for their version of story time. The mother, Marilyn (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is recounting for her two daughters, each in turn, their origin stories: the pregnant model she picked up at a furrier’s on Wiltshire and took in as her comrade, who gave birth to Treina (Taylour Paige) before moving on with a guy she met at a Scientology meeting; the personal... Читать дальше...

After spending most of 2022 getting little done and watching their already slim chances of holding on to their even slimmer congressional majorities slip away, Democrats finally have some momentum.