Mediaite: “Rep. Dan Crenshaw and his staff were violently confronted at the Republican Party of Texas convention a short time ago, when far-right social media activist Alex Stein and others whom witnesses described as Proud Boys began shouting “eyepatch McCain” at him – an attempted insult coined by Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson. A witness to the incident tells Mediaite that in…
Month: June 2022
“Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn over gun talks”
TX Tribune: “The convention reinforced the extent to which former President Donald J. Trump’s unfounded claims of a stolen election continue to resound among the party faithful — even though his claims have repeatedly been debunked, including by many of his own former aides, and after a week of televised hearings about the Trump supporters who…
“Federal Judge Will Draw New Louisiana Maps”
Political Wire: “A federal judge will draw a new Louisiana congressional map with a second Black district after the Legislature failed to draw new boundaries of its own in a Special Session that ended Saturday without the passage of any bill,” the Lafayette Daily Advertiser reports.
The Southern Roots of Juneteenth
History Channel: “Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States…
Profile of Chairman Bennie Thompson (MS-2)
NY Times: “It was here, in this majority-Black town of 441 people, that Representative Bennie G. Thompson attended a segregated junior high school. It was where his father spent a lifetime working as a mechanic and paying taxes, but never enjoying the right to vote. And it was where the future congressman, in the early 1970s,…
Gov. DeSantis Makes FL Only State to Not Order Children Vaccines, Quickly Reverses
WPTV: “The White House on Friday announced Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has “reversed course” and is now allowing health care providers to order doses of the vaccine for their youngest patients. “We believe it is critical to allow parents everywhere to have the choice to get their kids vaccinated and have a conversation with their…
“2 Alabama Men Fighting With Ukraine Are Missing, Could Be First U.S. POWs”
HuffPo: “Two Alabama men who joined Ukraine’s fight against Russia have gone missing, according to statements made by their families amid fears they might have been captured by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces. The men missing are Alexander John-Robert Drueke, a 39-year-old from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who served as a U.S. Army staff sergeant, and Andy…
“Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina”
WUNC: Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws will have their sentences posthumously vacated Friday, more than seven decades later. “While this judicial action is taking…
Herschel Walker, Who Has Bemoaned Fatherless Households, Admits to Three More Children Than Previously Acknowledged
NY Post: “Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker acknowledged Thursday he has two more children the public doesn’t know about — just one day after it was revealed he has a “secret” 10-year-old son. Walker, 60, confirmed to the Daily Beast that he has a total of four children — three sons and a daughter. Until this week, the…
Uvalde Police Attempting to Prevent Public from Viewing Bodycam Footage of Their Failed Response
Vice: “The Texas Department of Public Safety has asked the state’s Office of the Attorney General to prevent the public release of police body camera footage from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in part because, it argues, the footage could be used by other shooters to determine “weaknesses” in police response…