After Punishing Primaries, Key Runoffs Could Tilt Texas Legislature Further Right Following the Super Tuesday demise of many enemies of Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton, the GOP civil war still rages, according to Lawrence Wright, author of Mr. Texas. 04/17/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Inside the Late-Night Parties Where Hawaii Politicians Raked In Money After the state passed a law barring government contractors from donating to politicians, fund-raising parties showed just how completely the reform effort failed. 04/16/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Link
Sun/FOX45/UB poll: Trone leads Alsobrooks in Senate race; Hogan favored over either David Trone, a multimillionaire who has spent more than $40 million in Maryland’s U.S. Senate race, has opened a wide gap between himself and Angela Alsobrooks for the Democratic nomination, a new ... 04/15/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
‘My job was to try and kill him’: Oppo research and New York politics The other alternative is to play a game – which is so that consultants can make money – which is: get the person in the race and kill them, so that everybody can, you know, have a gleeful battle like ... 04/14/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Elliott wins Lone Star State shootout Chase Elliott pulled ahead and cleared Ross Chastain on the first lap after the second restart in overtime at Texas Motor Speedway, ending a 42-race winless streak for NASCAR's most popular driver. 04/14/2024 - 12:54 pm | View Link
MAGA world hates Diversity, Equity And Inclusion policies – except when Donald Trump has them. Ditto for Trump, himself. Thanks to MeidasTouch, we now know that Trump Media is officially "committed" to diversity, equity and inclusion:
"The Board is committed to creating and maintaining a culture of diversity and inclusion. The Company will be better able to grow and improve with a diverse Board, management, and team of employees.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy did not have prior experience in his job. Still, he was appointed by former President Donald Trump anyway, maybe because he was a major Republican Party donor and Trump fundraiser. But he can't do the job. Again, DeJoy was the first postmaster general in two decades without prior USPS experience, and it shows!
Georgia Democratic Sen.
Yesterday we posted about the deaths of two Kansas women at the hands of some right-wing nutjobs who call themselves "God's Misfits." Well, it turns out one of them is the chair for the Cimarron County GOP in Oklahoma.
So, besides being in Christian Nationalist/Sovereign Citizen/Republican Party hate groups, Tifany Adams is also now a suspect in the murder of her grandchildren's mother.
Jimmy Kimmel with a rundown of Trump's first day in his criminal trial in Manhattan, and on how the press would have reacted if it was "sleepy" Joe Biden rather than Trump that fell asleep in court.
KIMMEL: All eyes, or at least both of my eyes were on Lower Manhattan today, where the first criminal trial against Donald Trump is officially underway.
Trump attorney Alina Habba made a hideous comparison to Trump and Nelson Mandela, when she was asked by Fox News host if Trump goes to jail for thirty-days for violating the judges orders.
There is no class or dignity within the Trumpverse.
MacCallum: Do you think that this threat of 30 days in jail will change the social media actions of the former president in any way?
During a hearing on President Biden’s 2025 request for the Department of Justice, Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) seemed more interested in MAGA gotchas rather than the less clickbaity but more substantive work of delving into the appropriation request.
Unfortunately for Cline, Attorney General Merrick Garland failed to give him the made-for-Fox-News soundbite that was Cline's likely objective.
First, Cline played the conservative victim card: He claimed there’s “a crisis of confidence” in the Department of Justice “created by the dual treatment of American citizens depending on their viewpoints or their political positions or their political offices.” He was trying to suggest that Donald Trump is being unfairly prosecuted for stealing classified documents and refusing to return them when Biden's completely different behavior was not.