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Humza Yousaf confidence vote: What does it mean for first minister and SNP leader? Humza Yousaf, Scotland ’s first minister and the SNP leader, has spent little over a year in the job but could find himself ousted from office as he faces a no confidence vote following the collapse ... 04/26/2024 - 2:14 am | View Link
The Tories’ poisonous anti-culture politics has crushed the arts. Bring on election night Museums have closed and festivals lost funding – but Labour will restore Britain’s creative superpower status, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee ... 04/25/2024 - 10:06 pm | View Link
Britons Wake Up to Smell the Brexit Bacon Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union. 04/25/2024 - 6:10 pm | View Link
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.
Politico's magazine did a cover story on the New York Times and their feud with the Biden White House, and boy, was it enlightening. Well, maybe not. There wasn't much we didn't already guess, it was just weird to hear them say it out loud.
I find it so puzzling when the people who work there don't understand how much bad faith coverage it took to lose the support of liberal Democrats.
During the Supreme Court hearing that will likely determine whether or not Donald Trump is tried before the next presidential election over his attempt to steal the last one, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a question that should alarm everybody.
Speaking of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kavanaugh correctly noted that it was “very controversial in the moment” and probably why Ford lost the 1976 presidential election.
The Just Waiting For Another Kent State Shooting Edition
A. L. Katz makes some interesting claims. What is w/ Melania Trump?
Dispatches From A Collapsing State has another long one, against the neo-liberal order. Good luck w/ that, optimist.
Public Notice also goes on at length about Don Snorleone.
And someone not in love w/ the sound of his own typing, the mercifully short Politicalprof.
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After 15 months of trying to pull a Biden family crime spree out of thin air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his dreams of MAGA glory crumble into dust. Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, told a Republican colleague that he’s ready to be “done with” the whole fiasco, according to CNN.