Новости за 11.01.2023

Two years ago, Kevin McCarthy released a statement “unequivocally” condemning a number of statements made by Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Republican who had made a name for herself as the “QAnon Congresswoman.” It was about as far as McCarthy was willing to go at the time—he didn’t join with Democrats and 11 of his GOP colleagues in a vote to strip Greene of her committee assignments. Even in 2021, McCarthy was playing the long game, seeking to become speaker when his party retook the House no matter the cost. Читать дальше...

Representative Barbara Lee says she’ll run for Senate in California in 2024, setting up a sure to be crowded Democratic primary.

New York Republicans are calling on George Santos to resign, saying he “disgraced” the House of Representatives with his serial lies.

The Internal Revenue Service is finally semi-functional, which House Republicans apparently see as a good time to gut the agency entirely, even though doing so would cost the United States billions of dollars.

Democrats have flipped a crucial state Senate seat in Virginia, ensuring greater protection of abortion rights in the state.

Illinois is now the ninth state in the United States to ban assault weapons. Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill late Tuesday night banning the sale and possession of assault weapons.

Flights have begun to resume Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded planes nationwide earlier in the day due to a crucial information system outage, causing thousands of flight delays and cancellations.

Historically, when the Supreme Court strays too far from what the vast majority of the public wants and starts catering to a white Southern minority, nothing good comes of it. When the Supreme Court decided in 1857 not only that Dred Scott was not a free man but that no Black person could be a citizen of the United States or enjoy the rights afforded them by the Constitution, it doomed the country to civil war. In the process of protecting “states’ rights” for white Southerners, the Supreme Court... Читать дальше...

Conservatives have made libraries a target of extreme ire over the past several years, such as the moral panic over Drag Queen Story Hour events, now common from Idaho to New York. But it’s school libraries that are likely to get an extra level of right-wing scrutiny in the year ahead, thanks to a group borne from Moms for Liberty. Courting a child star, former Trump officials, and a tech billionaire as their north star and potential influencers, “Moms for Libraries” is hoping to entrench itself this year in libraries across the country. Читать дальше...

Who’s against saving tens of thousands of lives every year? The Environmental Protection Agency last week announced a proposal you’d think everyone would cheer: tightening decade-old regulations on air pollution, with massive projected public health benefits.

What’s past is prologue. From 1956 to 1965, the state of Florida underwent a government-led campaign to root out LGBTQ people, civil rights activists, and supposed Communists from state institutions. Halfway through this McCarthyite witch hunt, which purged hundreds of students and teachers from the state’s universities, the chairman of a recently founded college in Sarasota spoke to Time magazine about his school, then aptly named “New College.” The chairman—coincidentally a third cousin of Alger Hiss... Читать дальше...

House Republicans have recommended twice as many men named Michael to chair committees than women in general.