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Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’ A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More
Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Democrats condemn GOP inaction on immigration reform Democratic U.S. Reps. Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico and Andrea Salinas of Oregon talk about their resolution in the House of Representatives condemning Republican inaction on the ongoing humanitarian ... 04/15/2024 - 9:06 am | View Link
Donald Trump has flipped the power relationship with Rupert Murdoch The ex-president is so popular among viewers that Fox News will be compelled to promote him, despite a falling out with the network’s proprietor. 04/11/2024 - 8:01 am | View Link
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats’ vice presidential pick in 2000, dies at 82 The longtime force in Connecticut politics died Wednesday following complications from a fall, his family said. 03/27/2024 - 10:47 am | View Link
Manhattan prosecutors identified seven new violations by Donald Trump of the gag order against him in the “hush-money” criminal case.
The judge is expected to take up the violations next Wednesday when the trial is on recess.
“Jury selection is set to resume Friday morning in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York,” the Washington Post reports.
“Twelve jurors have been picked to hear the case, along with one alternate. Five more alternates are still being sought, and opening statements are expected to begin Monday.”
Associated Press: “One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound.
Republican voters should be absolutely furious with their elected leaders.
As I wrote in 2013 on the fight over Obamacare:
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“Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden bid to deliver aid to Ukraine came days after fresh intelligence described the U. S. ally at a true make-or-break moment in its war with Russia,” Politico reports.
“It was exactly the kind of dire assessment that President Joe Biden and the White House had spent months privately warning Johnson was inevitable.”
“The Biden administration is considering more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel including tank ammunition, military vehicles and mortar rounds, U. S. officials said, at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of American-made weapons in the war in Gaza,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The proposed weapons transfers—which would be in addition to those in a military aid deal currently before the Congress—would be among the largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on Oct.