Arizona gov vetoes attempt to protect big farms from being sued over water She won't let GOP lawmakers strip away the attorney general's right to sue owners of corporate farms whose groundwater pumping dries up neighbors' wells. 04/30/2024 - 12:15 pm | View Link
Fox News Rushes to Do Damage Control After Hunter Biden Lawsuit Fox News has quietly pulled The Trial of Hunter Biden, a six-part “mock trial” of Hunter Biden, from its digital streaming service, signaling that the company is taking the “imminently” arriving ... 04/30/2024 - 9:57 am | View Link
Rancher Sues Biden Over 1M Acre Claim, Contends Abuse of Presidential Authority The answer, says sixth-generation rancher Chris Heaton, is not a single acre beyond the law. Heaton’s livestock operation is at risk from the federal government’s latest land appropriation—a near ... 04/30/2024 - 5:04 am | View Link
Distilling the Tornado Cash and Samourai Suits 13:00 UTC (9:00 a.m. ET) Samourai Wallet's Keonne Rodriguez appeared before a magistrate judge in the Southern District of New York, where he pled "not guilty" to one charge of conspiracy to commit ... 04/30/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
Arizona state senator indicted in fake electors scheme and expelled state legislator are tapped for RNC positions A state senator who was charged in Arizona’s 2020 election subversion case and a former state representative who was expelled from office have been elected as Republican National committee members for ... 04/29/2024 - 1:16 pm | View Link
“House and Senate Democrats’ anxiety is spiking as pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses around the country kick into overdrive,” Axios reports.
“The protests are fueling a volatile political dynamic sparked by the Oct. 7 attack and the Israel-Hamas war just as the 2024 election comes into view.”
Said one House Democrat: “The longer they continue, and the worse that they get, the worse it’s going to be for the election overall.”
The leader of Canada’s main opposition party was ejected from the House of Commons after calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “a wacko”, in the latest clash between two men set to fight an election next year, The Guardian reports.
“Fresh bait always finds a fish. Jeffries throwing that out there, it’s chum in the water. Everyone knows what he did.”
— A senior GOP official, quoted by Politico, on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) riling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) by offering to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate.
“Donald Trump just landed another $1.8 billion worth of stock in the corporate owner of Truth Social,” CNN reports.
“Trump Media & Technology Group disclosed the windfall for Trump in a filing Tuesday, saying the former president has received another 36 million shares in the company.”
“That bonus, known as ‘earnout’ shares, was triggered by the company’s share price staying above certain levels.”
Los Angeles Times: “Yucca Mountain is a third rail in Nevada politics… which makes comments by Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown about Yucca Mountain so remarkable. In recent years, Brown supported opening the facility, calling the failure to do so an ‘incredible loss of revenue for our state.’”
“Asked about the comments now, Brown did not reiterate his support but said he favors increased efforts to diversify the state’s economy without sacrificing safety.”
Los Angeles Times: “In the analog days of the 1970s, long before hackers, trolls and edgelords, an audiocassette company came up with an advertising slogan that posed a trick question: “Is it live or is it Memorex?” The message toyed with reality, suggesting there was no difference in sound quality between a live performance and music recorded on tape.”
“Fast forward to our age of metaverse lies and deceptions, and one might ask similar questions about what’s real and what’s not: Is President Biden on a robocall telling Democrats to not vote?