Politics

Sheriff Jeff Lyde, of Clay County Texas, prefers a thin-blue-line gaiter instead of a covid mask. And he shares right-wing memes on Facebook that express contempt for the federal government. In October he posted, “LET’S GO BRANDON!” — the right’s G-rated code for “fuck Joe Biden.” He posted meme in …

Glenn Youngkin has spent the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s Virginia gubernatorial election distancing himself from Donald Trump, as well as the idea that the 2020 election was rigged. Youngkin has, anyway. His campaign surrogates are not. State Senator Amanda Chase, perhaps Virginia’s most vehement election fraud conspiracy theorist, has …

“No, we’re not going to do it.” That was the reply a San Marcos police officer gave a 911 dispatcher who informed him that the 2020 Biden campaign was requesting an escort for their bus while a caravan of Trump supporters was trying to run them off the road, according …

Former President Trump is launching his own social media app called “Truth Social,” which is part of his newly formed media and technology company, according to a press statement. Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) and Digital World Acquisition Group have entered a merger agreement and are already listed on …

Meghan McCain is no stranger to controversy, tough questions, and being put on the spot. And so while we’ve been best friends for years, I’ve rarely come to her defense publicly because, frankly, she doesn’t need me to. But in advance of the release of her new Audible memoir, Bad …

WASHINGTON — Headed into one of the most important votes of Joe Biden’s presidency, a small band of moderate Democrats with corporate backing are demanding the House plow ahead with a $1 trillion infrastructure deal even if it casts doubt over the sweeping $3.5 trillion bill that would enact much …

Current and former U.S. presidents marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with speeches as memorial events took place in New York City, Shanksville, Penn. where Flight 93 crashed, and the Pentagon. Former president George W. Bush — who was president on the day of the attack and started two subsequent …

Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves said southerners are “a little less scared” of Covid-19 because they “believe in eternal life.” “I’m often asked by some of my friends on the other side of the aisle about Covid… and why does it seem like folks in Mississippi and maybe in the …

The House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol will seek electronic communications records of several hundred people, including members of Congress, according to the committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). According to CNN, which was first to report on the committee’s planning, the notices to …

President Biden delivered remarks about the ongoing crisis and evacuation in Afghanistan caused by a Taliban takeover and the swift collapse of the American-backed government following the withdrawal of U.S. troops. “This is one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history,” Biden said in a speech from the White …