Новости за 07.04.2023

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas thinks he doesn’t have to disclose his vacations funded by a billionaire Republican megadonor because the two of them are “close personal friends.”

Just days after being arrested on criminal fraud charges and attacking the family of the Manhattan judge hearing his case, former President Donald Trump reportedly is now looking to hire far-right Islamophobe Laura Loomer.

Not a full day has passed since the Republican-led Tennessee House’s shameless expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, and already it looks like the Democratic representatives have a path to regaining their seats.

As it turns out, California cannot cut ties with pharmacy chain Walgreens.

Just over a week ago, North Dakota lawmakers voted to prevent giving free school lunches to low-income students. Then, on Thursday, they voted to increase the amount of money they get to spend on their own lunch.

There was a time, not long ago, when a rhetorical slip could sink a presidential campaign. Whether that remains true in the post-Trump world is now being put to the test by Republican candidate Ron DeSantis’s batshit-crazy comments about the Federal Reserve at a conservative event this past weekend, wherein the Florida governor proposed that states band together to fight a (nonexistent) Fed plan to restrict how much gas you can put in your car and how many guns you can own. Before we dive into those, though, let’s review some history. Читать дальше...

While all eyes were on former President Donald Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan this week, there was a different sort of circus playing out upstate, as the state of New York blew past its April 1 deadline to agree on a budget. While progressives and Governor Kathy Hochul have publicly sparred over issues like bail reform, climate had emerged in recent months as one area where there might be more common ground. Hochul’s office seemed open to passing legislation that would implement the climate bill the state passed in 2019... Читать дальше...

One thought in particular has dominated my mind this week amid the media frenzy of the Trump indictment: Do you remember when every week was like this?

On January 6, 2021, I slept in and planned to go into the Capitol late in the day because the certification of 2020’s electoral votes was expected to last through the night. But when it became clear that the peaceful transition of power was to be superseded by an insurrection, I hurried down, arriving just as the red-hatted crowd was smashing the windows.

“People do not give it credence,” Mattie Ross recounts in the marvelous opening paragraphs of Charles Portis’s True Grit, “that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.” It’s a voice that could define almost every Portis protagonist—a self-taught, partly untamed individual of weather-roughened accomplishments striving to articulate the story of their... Читать дальше...

The Republican-led Tennessee House of Representatives voted Thursday to remove two Democratic lawmakers from office for breaking “decorum” by interrupting the chamber’s proceedings to draw attention to gun reform.

The Biden administration proposed a rule Thursday to prevent schools from flat-out banning transgender students from playing on the sports team that matches their gender identity.