Новости за 03.04.2023

Donald Trump headed to the airport Monday to fly to New York for his arraignment in a motorcade that was 11 cars long.

The Florida Senate passed a bill Monday banning abortion after six weeks, a measure that is expected to quickly and easily become law.

On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis quietly signed a bill to allow people to carry concealed loaded guns without any permits, training, or background checks.

Thousands of students in Nashville staged a walkout Monday to demand stronger gun control laws, a week after a shooter killed six people at a grade school.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for a “national divorce”; lied about the 2020 election; spread conspiracy theories about 9/11, the 2018 Parkland shooting, and Jewish space lasers setting forests on fire in California; and repeatedly expressed support for fatal violence against Democrats.

I don’t have an opinion about the Trump indictment because I haven’t seen it. You haven’t seen it either; neither has anyone among the cast of thousands who beat their gums about it all weekend long. The thing won’t be unsealed until April 4.

Another day, another of Elon Musk’s Twitter ideas going exactly according to plan.

FREE-FOR-ALL HELLSCAPE.

This term was written in black marker on a small whiteboard, held—as whiteboards in House Oversight Committee hearings often are—by Representative Katie Porter. The words FREE-FOR-ALL were scrawled in lower case; HELLSCAPE was rendered in dramatic capitalization, accentuating its apocalyptic connotations.

The early February hearing on Twitter’s response to the Hunter Biden laptop story was a priority for the new Republican majority. But Porter, typically known for her pointed grilling of hapless witnesses... Читать дальше...

This week’s vote to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force, or AUMFs, wasn’t overwhelmingly lopsided, but it was startingly bipartisan given the times: Nineteen Republicans joined the Democrats to retire some of the deadliest pieces of legislation since the Civil War. (Though, in a reminder that we can never have it all, the 2001 AUMF remains in effect.)

If the Republicans were not so busy proving their addiction to a deranged—and now criminally indicted—former president who threatens “death and destruction,” Democrats in Washington might be more alarmed over the tepid reaction to a second term for Joe Biden.