While many Republicans continue to try to minimize the severity and breadth of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, the Justice Department released graphic new police bodycam video footage that proves once again just how violent Trump’s mob was. According to CNN, the DOJ released new footage of the …
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The Supreme Court rejected a major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, dismissing an attempt by Republican states to end the law that, according to the Biden administration, is providing insurance coverage to 31 million Americans. In a 7-2 ruling issued Thursday, the justices decided that the Republican states challenging …
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Governor Larry Hogan posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in Maryland between the years 1854 and 1933. The governor made the announcement on Saturday at a signing event honoring Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old boy who was dragged from Baltimore County Jail and hanged from a sycamore tree by a …
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Heat-seeking cameras that see you in the dark, sometimes even through walls. Firepower and vehicles for “dealing with crowd management security and potential civil disturbances.” “Specialized crime scene mapping technology,” encrypted radios, and data-collection software for “gathering intelligence and enhancing surveillance.” Using federal funds earmarked for Covid-19 relief, these and …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared racism a “serious threat” to public health. In a statement announcing a health equity initiative on Thursday, the agency acknowledged that racism “negatively affects the mental and physical health of millions of people, preventing them from attaining their highest level of …
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The mass shooting at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store Monday night followed less than two weeks after a state judge overturned the liberal city’s ban on assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 10 bullets. The National Rifle Association had bragged that the judge had given gun enthusiasts “something …
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One by one, the witnesses described the stench, a rancid odor that befouled the air and ruined your clothes, made you close your windows in the summer and run from your car into church on Sundays lest you bring that smell into God’s house. They talked about undrinkable tap water …
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President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in Texas as millions of residents continue to suffer repercussions from a winter storm that has left the state in crisis. Biden’s move frees up additional federal funding that will be available to 77 counties across the state. The Federal Emergency Management …
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With just one day to go before the crucial Georgia runoff elections, Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff spoke with rapper Rasheeda for Rolling Stone’s Georgia Talks series about what the Democrats can achieve if he and Rev. Raphael Warnock are elected to the United States Senate. As Ossoff reiterated, if …
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Karl Rove had some advice for the man who consistently claims to “not like losers” – Americans do not like sore losers and Trump “is on the edge of looking like a sore loser.” After Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked the former deputy chief of staff to George W. Bush …
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