Senate Republicans Kill Bipartisan Jan. 6 Riot Commission

By Sam Brodey

There were lots of excuses for why most Republicans blocked the commission, but they all boiled down to politics.

By Matt Lewis

And that’s bad news for Trump, whether he knows it or not, as these attention-hungry creeps are trying to get in on the hustle he’s monopolized over the last five years.

By The Daily Beast

Who would be sent to Gitmo in a Jr. White House? Plus! Voting bills that are way, way worse than Georgia’s and Tom Nichols sh*ts on Democrats and Republicans—and on teenagers.

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By Catarina de Albuquerque, Magdalena Sepúlveda

The “tampon tax” illustrates how deeply gendered legal structures such as the “neutral” tax system actually are.

By Justin Rohrlich

In a new response to a lawsuit brought by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the former New York City mayor engages in several pages worth of Trump-level projection.

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Gov. Newsom expressed his anger at both sides in Washington for enabling a cycle of grief and indifference over gun violence, asking, “What the hell is going on in this country?”

Brad Raffensperger, the GOP secretary of state who stood up to the yuge lie in Georgia, is beginning to roll over for it now.

From Oregon to Arizona, local Republican parties are undergoing a reckoning over Stop the Steal lies. At the hyperlocal level, things are getting even weirder.

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 NO SHAME WHATSOEVER

Gladys Sicknick reportedly wore a necklace containing her dead son’s ashes when meeting with Republican senators on Thursday.

 PLAYING SOLDIER

Having learned precisely zero lessons from the Capitol riot, the troubled congressman whipped up a Georgia crowd on Thursday night.

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