Новости за 24.05.2023

Maxwell Frost deconstructed a central conservative talking point against relieving millions of people from student debt—and apparently offended an absurdly bought-out Republican representative while doing so.

A 44-year-old Florida native known for attacking LGBTQ people and local schools has formally launched his candidacy to become the Republican nominee for president of the United States.

Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz roasted his Republican colleagues for prioritizing small culture wars over major social issues.

Republicans are refusing to raise the debt ceiling—something they did three times under twice-impeached criminally indicted and liable-for-sexual-abuse former President Donald Trump—unless Democrats agree to cut programs that millions of Americans benefit from.

Governor Greg Gianforte has signed an extreme and vaguely worded bill that aims to ban drag performances in front of minors, but actually goes much further than that,.

On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts complained about justices being heckled and said that the Supreme Court—of which nearly half has been found to be embroiled in suspicious activity—does not need to be held accountable by other branches of government.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld praised statutory rape on air, saying that he would have loved for an older woman to have sex with him when he was a teenager.

On Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will announce that he is running for president. It will undoubtedly come at one of the lowest points he could have possibly chosen since his name began being bandied about as the future of the Republican Party during the Covid summer of 2020. For two years, DeSantis was feted by mainstream, conservative, and right-wing outlets as not only Trump’s natural successor but as a one-size-fits-all Republican for the post-Trump era. In their telling, there was something for everyone... Читать дальше...

On Tuesday in London, Shell held its annual general meeting, a place for corporate shareholders to hear speeches and vote on the company’s leadership and direction. Climate activists managed to gum up the works for about an hour, protesting Shell’s failure to adopt more stringent climate targets with chants of “Go to Hell, Shell,” sung to the tune of “Hit the Road Jack.” Eighty percent of shareholders nevertheless proceeded to reject a resolution, brought by the Dutch campaign group Follow This... Читать дальше...

In the early 1970s, ranchers in the Southwest began to share strange reports of cattle mutilations—carcasses discovered with organs missing, and with no obvious physical explanation for the deaths. A variety of culprits were suggested—secret government programs, satanists, cults, or extraterrestrials—despite multiple forensic investigations that turned up nothing suspicious about the deaths.

As President Joe Biden and House Republicans continue to engage in plodding negotiations to raise the nation’s borrowing cap, social safety net programs are on the line. Democrats insist that they will not accept additional work requirements for benefits like Medicaid or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but Republicans seem to consider it a red line—and the president may be open to their point of view.

During the two years they spent holding power in Washington, Democrats failed to disarm the debt ceiling time bomb that Republicans have repeatedly wielded over the past decade. Now they are wrestling with the potential consequences of the latest and greatest standoff over raising it. President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy are reportedly making little progress in negotiations over the trillions in unpopular spending cuts and new restrictions that the House GOP wants to enact in exchange for not blowing up the economy. Читать дальше...

The South Carolina Senate passed a bill Tuesday banning abortion at six weeks, before many people even know they are pregnant, and wiping out abortion access in the final southeastern state.

Representative Lauren Boebert admitted Tuesday that she only had her third son because birth control was too expensive.