Month: September 2024

WaPo: “The Justice Department on Wednesday charged two Russian media executives in an alleged scheme that authorities say illegally funneled millions of dollars to a Tennessee-based company to create and publish propaganda videos that racked up millions of views on U.S. social media. The 32-page federal indictment accuses Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, employees of…

NY Times: “On a steamy weekend in June, I went to St. Petersburg to report on the race for Congress in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. In a heavily gerrymandered and polarized country, it’s one of the few congressional races that the nonpartisan Cook Political Report highlighted as even vaguely competitive. They described the race as “likely…

AL Political Reporter: “Clean energy is a critical and growing part of Alabama’s energy and economic future. Governor Kay Ivey’s recent proclamation designating September 23–27 as National Clean Energy Week recognizes the immense potential clean energy has to not only power Alabama homes and businesses more sustainably, but also to create jobs, spur economic growth, and improve…

WaPo: “Thomas Stovall grew up in a strict Baptist family in Mississippi and always believed that anyone involved with abortion was destined for hell. But his lifelong conviction crumbled when his wife, Chelsea, was 20 weeks pregnant with their third child. Tests showed a severely malformed and underdeveloped fetus, one that was sure to be stillborn if…

WaPo: “The church leader’s case fits a pattern that has emerged in Texas under Paxton: Aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that upend lives but result in few cases that go to trial and end in a conviction. The Republican attorney general and his supporters believe election fraud is rampant, and point to the…

TX Tribune: “A University of Texas at Austin student has sued the university, President Jay Hartzell and Vice President and Provost Sharon Wood, claiming that the university violated his First Amendment rights when he was arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus this spring. Ammer Qaddumi filed the lawsuit in U.S. federal court Tuesday, which…

WaPo: “A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s murder withheld credible information about people involved in the crime, according to newly discovered documents. William Bradford Huie’s article in Look magazine helped shape the country’s understanding of 14-year-old Till’s abduction, torture and slaying in Jim Crow-era Mississippi. The article…

NBC News: “Chuck Todd, Steve Kornacki and Mike Memoli join Meet the Press NOW to break down the state of the race, as the Harris-Walz ticket campaigns in Georgia, with North Carolina emerging as a presidential toss-up.” [VIDEO AT LINK]

NY Times: “When Democrats flipped Georgia in 2020, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, the leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s Sixth Episcopal District, had been in the state just four years. That was all the time he needed to turn a disjointed operation into a political machine. His success in mobilizing Black voters of faith…

Politico: “Gov. Ron DeSantis — whose pugnacious brand of politics made him a national Republican star — is now finding himself against the ropes at home. DeSantis pulled back a contentious plan this week to add golf courses and hotels at some Florida state parks. The governor acted after his administration’s “Great Outdoors Initiative” faced…