Politics - Part 23

DOJ IG announces probe to determine if staff attempted to overthrow the 2020 election
he New York Times recently reported that former President Donald Trump, after losing the 2020 presidential election, hoped to pressure the U.S. Department of Justice into challenging the election results — and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has ...[Read more]
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After Donald Trump, the Last Thing We Need Is Unity
Joe Biden has long prized bipartisanship above all, and some of his early actions indicate he simply wants to restore the country to its pre-Trump form. That would be a disaster. ...[Read more]
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GOP in disarray after historic defeat: ‘Political disaster doesn’t begin to describe how bad this is for Republicans’
A new report from Roll Call details some of the many challenges facing the Republican Party as it looks to an uncertain future following former President Donald Trump's electoral defeat. As the party turns its focus to the 2022 midterms, it remains "divi ...[Read more]
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Biden Administration’s ‘New’ Foreign Policy Is The ‘More Of The Same’ Old One
Today a new U.S. administration will come in. On foreign policy issues it will be just as disappointing as the leaving one. U.S. foreign policy is dictated by ingrained interests. The mechanisms of policy making in Washington DC guarantee that it is alway ...[Read more]
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The Real Winston Churchill
Churchill, as a liberal Tory, ought perhaps to have been alarmed by the rise of fascism in Europe. Yet he was overwhelmingly sanguine. He believed Mussolini to be a good ruler for Italy, and fascism a useful bulwark against Communism. His nationalism, mil ...[Read more]
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‘The People Are Demanding Action’: Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders Lays Out Visionary First 100 Days for Biden
With President Joe Biden sworn in and Democrats set to officially take control of the U.S. Senate Wednesday afternoon, incoming Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that the majority party must waste no time pushing ahead with an ambitious ...[Read more]
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Here are 7 actions Joe Biden has already taken as president
President Joe Biden was sworn into office around noon on Wednesday, and by the end of the day, the course of the U.S. federal government had dramatically shifted. Here are 7 things which Biden already has done. ...[Read more]
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The Business Class Has Never Liked Democracy
Today, on Inauguration Day, we shouldn’t forget that the business class has long stoked fears of democracy — and bankrolled the conservative movement that gave us the events of January 6. Elites can never safeguard our freedom. ...[Read more]
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‘A Fitting End’: Hours Before Leaving Office, Trump Quietly Revokes Order Restricting Lobbying by Former Federal Officials
Making one final mockery of his 2016 campaign promise to "drain the swamp," President Donald Trump early Wednesday quietly revoked his own executive order barring administration officials from lobbying the agencies for which they worked for five years aft ...[Read more]
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Trump spent his final moments in the White House raging at Republican leaders on Capitol Hill: report
With no one else to blame for his own election defeat, President Trump has zeroed in on one of his earliest Congressional backers, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-CA.According to the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Trump is spending his fina ...[Read more]
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‘I’m the laughing stock of my family’: QAnon believers implode as they watch Biden getting sworn in
President Joe Biden was sworn into office on Wednesday, and some believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory have apparently realized that they have wasted years of their lives believing in a complete fabrication. As flagged by Jared Holt of Right Wing Watc ...[Read more]
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