After a year of thwarted plans and with little time before the 2022 midterms, progressive lawmakers are throwing a Hail Mary to get their priorities into the end zone: a push for President Joe Biden to take what he can of his stymied agenda and enact it through executive actions …
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President Joe Biden addressed the nation following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the subsequent collapse of the American-backed government in Kabul as the Taliban took over. The president defended his decision to withdraw but admitted that the government’s fall came “more quickly than we had anticipated.” “I …
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President Biden signed an executive order Friday establishing the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a bipartisan group of experts who will make recommendations on reforming the highest court in the country. The panel will analyze issues such as term limits and expanding the court as …
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Donald Trump should be happy that he has presided over more than 390,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the United States instead of over the Flint water crisis. Otherwise, he might some day face legal consequences. Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder was finally brought up on charges Thursday,more than six years …
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With the Trump era about to come to a messy but definitive end, the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast looks back at four years of bizarre and fraught battles over music. Why does Donald Trump think it’s smart to play Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s “Fortunate Son” at …
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Everyone from Spike Lee to Thom Yorke has hit the streets — and Twitter — in celebration of Joe Biden, who was elected the 46th President of the United States Saturday after a lengthy week of vote tallying. https://thisforall.net/OrangePaulp/status/1325129928262742017?s=20 In a video shared to Twitter, movie director and producer Spike …
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Cher gave the finale performance on Sunday night’s I Will Vote livestream concert, reworking an old Hollywood showtune from the 1943 movie musical Cabin in the Sky to show her support for Joe Biden. The song, aptly titled “Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe,” was originally written by Harold Arlen …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper analyze the Jeffrey Toobin story and come up with a few ways to pitch Joe Biden to undecided voters. They also discuss the Hunter Biden story from a few angles: the media coverage, …
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A Joe Biden campaign ad that criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by highlighting a struggling bar and music venue in Ann Arbor, Michigan has been pulled from YouTube after the venue’s owner began receiving threats, the Detroit Metro Times reports. The “Blind Pig” spot — named …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by former Congresswoman Katie Hill, who spoke about life after her resignation from Congress. For Republicans Suck, Matt offers his take on what’s going on with the U.S. Postal Service, mail-in voting, and new Postmaster …
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