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“Everywhere there’s globes…and that’s what they do to brainwash… For me, if it is not a conspiracy, if it is, you know, ‘real,’ why are you pushing so hard? Everywhere I go, every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere—every movie, every TV show, news media, why?”

Republicans are behaving so wildly off-base, so clearly uninterested in actually getting something done, even billionaire conservative media mogul Logan Roy would come out and say it: you are not serious people.

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed a bill Monday banning abortion after 12 weeks and gender-affirming care for minors, a one-two punch of losing human rights.

The college student known for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet on Twitter has now set his sights on Ron DeSantis, days after the Florida governor signed a bill blocking public access to his travel records.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is running for president. The longtime South Carolina politician made his announcement Monday at a rally in his hometown of North Charleston, after officially filing last week with the Federal Election Commission.

Eight more women joined a lawsuit against the state of Texas on Monday, arguing that the state’s extreme abortion restrictions endangered their health or their lives when they experienced pregnancy-related medical emergencies.

The center of Democratic efficacy is not in New York or California—it’s in the Midwest. Minnesota has spent its entire legislative session notching progressive win after win, from becoming the first state to codify abortion rights after the fall of Roe, to guaranteeing free meals for every Minnesota public and charter school student.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has gone out of her way to attack drag queens, is now defending her drag-wearing boyfriend.

“They know that if they go down that road with this Fourteenth Amendment argument, we will blow crap up,” Texas Republican Chip Roy said last week, referring to Democrats’ proposal to sidestep debt ceiling negotiations via the Constitution’s provision protecting “the validity of the public debt.” Roy threatened “open warfare” if “these SOBs” take that option. Debt ceiling talks are set to resume Monday with a meeting between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

If Ron DeSantis had spent the past few years positioning himself as a quote-unquote normal conservative, I’d be seriously worried about the presidential candidacy he’s set to announce this week. By “normal” conservative, I mean someone running basically on the free-market economy, tax cuts, and deregulation, with the usual sprinkling of sops thrown to the culture warriors. This would be a formidable DeSantis.

Earlier this month, Dallas-area Democratic congressman and former professional football player Colin Allred announced his plan to run against Ted Cruz and replace him as Texas’s junior senator, prompting the sexennial ritual of Democrats assuring each other that Ted Cruz can be beat. “Ted Cruz is beatable”—this very phrase is what Allred’s campaign picked as the first sponsored return when you google Allred’s name! But is it true? I can pull out the charts showing Texas’s drift leftward in the city centers to buttress this claim. Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it would dismiss the litigation over the Title 42 orders, ending a years-long legal battle over pandemic-era border restrictions. The Trump administration invoked the statute in 2020 on public health grounds to expel thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers at the southern border. With the Trump-era policy set to expire later this month, the court recognized that any further consideration would be moot.

There’s a scene in The Sopranos where Carmela visits a psychiatrist to discuss her marriage to a mob boss, but what she gets isn’t much of a discussion. The shrink simply tells her to “take only the children—what’s left of them—and go.” He calls her an “enabler” and says he won’t take her “blood money.” And he leaves her with this: “One thing you can never say: That you haven’t been told.”