Новости за 03.11.2023

House Republicans have come up with yet another plan to kick brown people out of the country. On Thursday, Representative Ryan Zinke introduced a bill that would revoke the visas and refugee status of a number of Palestinians.

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron has had enough, apparently.

Fellas, is it gay to be obsessed with another man’s feet? Once upon a time, the Republican base would have frowned at it, for sure. But over the past several months, Governor Ron DeSantis’s footwear has increasingly become an object of lurid attention on the internet. Stoked by DeSantis’s Trumpist foes, as well as by Donald Trump himself and his social media team, internet commenters and now some journalists want to know: Is Ron DeSantis wearing lifts in his cowboy boots?

Trump attorney Christopher Kise hasn’t given up on the possibility of having the former president’s New York bank fraud trial thrown out.

Senator Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing blockade of military promotions has united his fellow Republicans around two facts: His actions are wrong, and he might not be all that smart.

Marjorie Taylor Greene got an embarrassing fact check on Thursday: Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Founding Father.

Senator Tommy Tuberville doesn’t think it’s a big deal that military leaders are having to work minimum 18 hours a day because of his blockade on military promotions.

Gerardo Bonilla Chavez shot a short video of himself on his iPhone when he arrived at work at the Capitol on the morning of January 6, 2021. “There are a bunch of MAGA people out there, feels like a coup is about to happen,” he said into the camera from a tunnel underneath the Capitol, after noting with a chuckle that his suit no longer fit him.

Whenever I look at the latest polls and start to freak out about Donald Trump winning the presidency again, I calm myself by remembering that the guy is very likely going to be an at-least-once convicted felon by next November. While that won’t bother his fans, I still think it will bother enough swing voters that he will lose, and maybe spectacularly.

Welcome to the stand, Ivanka Trump.

A New York appeals court ruled on Thursday that the Trump sister must testify in the family’s $250 million bank fraud trial, rejecting Ivanka’s pathetic attempt to waylay her testimony via an appeal.

She is scheduled to take the stand on November 8.

Ivanka Trump was originally cast as a defendant in the case alongside Donald Trump and sons Eric and Donald Jr, but narrowly avoided inclusion earlier this year when an appeals court ruled her actions were outside the statute of limitations. Читать дальше...

Mary Trump delivered an epic burn to her cousin Eric after he was caught lying in court about his knowledge of the Trump Organization’s finances.

Wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Eat the Rich,” United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain recently announced that General Motors had agreed to include workers making its electric vehicle batteries in the UAW contract and allow union representation. “We’ve been told for months that the E.V. future must be a race to the bottom,” Fain said. “And now we’ve called their bluff.” The automakers’ plan was to replace traditional auto work with low-wage jobs, he said, but “we had a different plan.”

Israel has warned that the war against Hamas in Gaza could stretch for “weeks and months.” But if the start of its ground operation has been murky, Israel’s overall aims are not fully clear either: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said the aims are to destroy Hamas and end all Israeli responsibility for Gaza. Few know precisely what these aims mean in practice. But the longer-term fate of Gaza is the most troubling question of all.

Before and after his high-profile Supreme Court case last year, Joe Kennedy became one of America’s most prominent faces of religious freedom. The Bremerton, Washington, high school football coach—whose contract was not renewed because he refused to stop staging public prayers in the middle of the field while serving in his capacity as a public school employee—went on a years-long media blitz, sponsored by his lawyers. He told dozens of outlets, mostly sympathetic but some less so, about his stand... Читать дальше...

Try as we might, to ignore the autobiographical elements of Sofia Coppola’s films requires a formidable, if not counterintuitive, effort in critical restraint. Her screen debut came before her first birthday, in the climactic sequence of her father’s masterpiece, an allegory of American capitalism wherein her staged baptism, as a male heir of the Corleone crime family, reinforces the theme of generational power and wealth, an inheritance doomed by violence and pride. Eighteen years later, playing the beloved daughter of Al Pacino’s Michael... Читать дальше...

A conservative activist has unveiled a fellowship that aims to help “conservative journalists, activists, and opinion leaders” foment a culture war.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is chugging along with jury selection in Donald Trump’s federal election subversion case, despite attempts to delay the proceedings by the former president’s legal team.