Month: January 2024

WaPo: “The incident underscores how Middle East deployments, long defined by the potential for danger, have grown even more perilous and unpredictable for those stationed far from a typical battlefield. Evolving tactics by U.S. adversaries, aided increasingly by inexpensive technology, have given rise to a wicked, widening array of threats that are hard to predict…

Political Wire: ““Catherine Templeton (R) next week will announce her plans to run for Congress against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), setting up what is expected to be a crowded, contentious and dramatic clash in the GOP primary for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District,” the Charleston Post & Courier reports.”

HuffPo: “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton requested the medical records of Texas trans youth who sought gender-affirming care from a Georgia-based telehealth clinic last week, escalating an invasive campaign that has alarmed many advocates. The Georgia clinic, QueerMed, confirmed last week to the Houston Chronicle that it received Paxton’s request for data well before the clinic stopped providing care for youth when…

Political Wire: “Politico: “A national Democratic operative, granted anonymity to speak freely about the 2024 race without angering the party, said Florida has lost its battleground status, and Democrats are coming to the state simply to raise money — not campaign for Florida Democrats or attempt to flip the state.””

WaPo: “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is defying the authority of the federal government just as other Southern governors did before the Civil War and during the fight over school desegregation. Like presidents before him, Joe Biden has the right — and, ultimately, the duty — to uphold the Constitution, including by force…. In a jaw-dropping statement last week, Abbott echoed…

truthout: “Right-wing lawmakers in Georgia are advancing two bills that would erode free speech and protest rights in the state. HB 30 would categorize criticism of Israel as antisemitic hate speech and SB 359 would significantly expand the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law, enhancing sentencing based on “political beliefs.”… “In the name of advocating against antisemitism,…

FOX5: “Two activists locked themselves to construction equipment at a construction site near 12th and Juniper streets in Midtown Atlanta early Monday morning to protest the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Atlanta police responded to the scene and the activists were eventually taken into custody. The incident, which also included a protest on the street,…

FIRE: “Residents of Belleair Beach in Florida can now gather on public property for “political” events — even if the group is larger than nine people. FIRE wrote the Belleair Beach city council last March concerning its now-repealed ordinance banning “commercial, political, or organized” events of 10 or more people on public property. In other words, the…

Wired: “A retired US Army lieutenant colonel is organizing an armed convoy next week to the Texas border to, he says, hunt down migrants crossing into the US from Mexico. Hundreds of people already say they are coordinating travel plans for the convoy on Telegram as tensions continue to rise between the state and federal government over…

AR Advocate: “Arkansans in November will vote on whether to enshrine abortion rights into the state Constitution if supporters can collect enough signatures in the next five months. Arkansas’ attorney general on Tuesday certified a third draft of a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee a limited right to abortion in the state. The Arkansas Abortion…