Kansas has a new border security mission and tougher penalties for killing police dogs Kansas' Republican-controlled legislature has given the state's National Guard a mission to help Texas officials in their dispute with the Biden administration over border security. 05/4/2024 - 6:01 am | View Link
Opinion: Immigration in the US comes full circle for the Bannon family The Bannon Family has come full circle since my great grandfather, James, came to the United States from Ireland late in the 19th Century. Donald Trump might have callously described it as a ... 05/3/2024 - 1:15 am | View Link
5 takeaways from competing Democratic, GOP farm bill plans House Republicans and Democrats have released two dueling visions for the farm bill, the massive $1.5 trillion omnibus that underpins the U.S. food system. The contrasting proposals show the fault ... 05/2/2024 - 10:30 pm | View Link
U.S. House splits on GOP-led Alaska and mining industry bills aimed at Biden agenda The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to counter an Interior Department order canceling oil and gas leases in a section of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, taking aim at the Biden ... 05/2/2024 - 6:05 am | View Link
In a deep red state, Oklahoma attorney general embraces policy nuance, shirking party politics The right thing is not always the Republican thing.” As GOP leaders in Oklahoma embrace politics like religion in public schools, AG Drummond is not. 05/2/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
Rumours have been swirling about Cuellar for over two years, ever since the FBI raided his home in January 2022.
Cuellar maintains his and his wife's innocence and vows to fight the charges. Since he had no challengers, Cuellar will be on the ballot in November for the Democrats in TX-28.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Rudy Giuliani was not only respected, but revered as "America's Mayor." The hero of 9/11 (which he'd tell you every other sentence). He never deserved any of it, of course.
He was always a nasty piece of work, a philanderer, racist and, frankly, an asshole who couldn't get along with anyone.
Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U. S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reducing the size or quantity of a product while selling it at the same price.
At the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
hearing—entitled "Higher Prices: How Shrinkflation and Technology Can Impact Consumers' Finances"—Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) began by acknowledging that "prices today are far too high, and families are having a harder time finding a fair price, seeing more of their paycheck vanish into thin air."
"All of this is happening while corporate profits hit record highs," the senator continued.
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more