The U.S. House of Representatives has been without a Speaker for a week, and GOP lawmakers are anxious that there won’t be another any time soon. Rep. Steve Scalise (R.-La.) clinched the Republican nomination yesterday, but has been unable to sway enough holdouts to be elected on the floor, where he can only lose four GOP votes. “I don’t know who can get there,” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) says.
If Kevin McCarthy wants any Democrats to vote against the motion to vacate the chair that would end his speakership, he had better make some concessions their way, rather than remain ever beholden to the far-right radicals in Congress. One concession I can think of: End the silly “impeachment inquiry” of Joe Biden launched at the request of the MAGA right. It’s a politicized farce with no evidence, and he knows it. No concessions, no support.
There's a dangerous shift happening in Congress, and it comes in the form of a cabal of radicals and a single senator who hold immense sway, jeopardizing our democratic principles. Now, more than ever, the people must remain vigilant and involved: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/mccarthy-tuberville-gaetz-gop-minority
Let’s not forget what Kevin McCarthy and the GOP choose to spend time and resources on this month: a baseless impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden and attacks upon the Justice Department for doing its job.
Instead of passing the budget they already agreed to this spring, they waste time and taxpayer money doing the bidding of extremists within their ranks, all while careening toward yet another government shutdown.
We must vote them out next fall. As many as we possibly can.
Kevin McCarthy decided to proceed with an “impeachment inquiry” without taking a full House vote. But he knows this is illegal. He argued it was illegal back in 2019, and Barr’s DoJ affirmed that any impeachment inquiry begun without a House vote was invalid. But he went ahead with it anyway. Because he’s spineless and hypocritical.
The victory against the anti-democratic Issue 1 in Ohio, which lost by 14 points, shows that voters are on to the GOP’s ways. We won’t stand for rights being stripped away, whether it’s voting rights or abortion rights.
Dumb move. Demonstrating fear in politics is like bleeding in shark-infested waters. It emboldened Democrats, attracted 1st time voters who just want to ‘pile on’, and embarrassed sane Republicans who didn’t want to be seen in public yesterday. #OhiNO
The loss of access to Twitter data under the new pricing plan was a dire blow to our research at the UW-CIP.
Now being forced to delete the data that dozens of people spent years collecting, curating, and studying—outrageous. It’s like burning lab notebooks, an attack on science for the sake of pure malice.
(UPDATE: it appears that the deletion mandates may not apply to us given our data use, but they are still devastating to the groups affected.)