Phil Jensen has long courted controversy. As a state senator in South Dakota in 2014, he sponsored a bill, SB 128, that would have greenlighted discrimination against LGBTQ people by enabling state businesses to turn away customers, and even fire employees, on the basis of sexual orientation. The measure failed …
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Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the January 6th Select Committee and the National Archives in his latest desperate attempt to prevent the committee from acquiring White House records related to the insurrection, Politico reportedon Monday. The lawsuit, which was filed in D.C. district court on Monday, called the …
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Remember the pee tape? Donald Trump sure does. During a private speech at a Republican retreat in Palm Beach on Thursday, the former president assured the crowd full of wealthy donors, lobbyists, and elected officials that getting doused in urine is not one of his sexual proclivities. “I’m not into …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci sounded cautiously optimistic about the nation’s battle against Covid-19, saying that the stats are “going in the right direction” as case numbers decline across the country.Still, the doctor urged caution, telling CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview Sunday morning, “We have to just be careful that we …
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About $11 million a minute. That’s the amount of direct and indirect subsidies the International Monetary Fund calculates the global fossil fuel industry receives to ensure that cooking the planet remains profitable for them. If you do the math, it comes to about $5.9 trillion a year. As The Atlantic’s …
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President Biden announced a swath of new vaccine mandates for millions of Americans on Thursday. In a speech from the White House, the president said that vaccinations will be mandatory for federal employees and contractors, businesses with more than 100 workers and healthcare practitioners in institutions that accept Medicare and …
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As the summer of 2020 was winding down, the United States was bracing for the third, and hopefully final, wave of Covid-19 that experts warned would come with temperatures dropping in the fall and winter. Then the vaccines would be ready. Then everything would return to normal, to the extent …
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In a polarized and fractured society, the truth can be a subjective thing. In this panel, Rolling Stone Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief Andy Kroll talks to Vice journalist Anna Merlan (Republic of Lies), writer and producer Billy Ray (The Comey Rule), PBS News Hour White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, former …
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Covid-19 is obliterating Florida. The Sunshine State comfortably leads the nation in average daily cases, average daily hospitalizations, and average daily deaths, according to The New York Times. This isn’t just because of its large population. Florida also leads the nation in hospitalizations per capita, and trails on Louisiana and …
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) disclosed this week that in February 2020, his wife purchased stock in a company that makes an anti-viral once thought to be a treatment for Covid-19. The disclosure comes sixteen months later than is required under the Stock Act, a 2012 law banning insider trading by …
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