Month: November 2024

WaPo: “The House Ethics Committee was set to vote this week on releasing a report about Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being picked as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, according to four people familiar with the matter. The Ethics Committee is still expected to meet and could release the report as…

WaPo: “Florida school districts axed about 700 books from school libraries in the 2023-2024 school year, according to a Florida Department of Education list. PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, estimates that 4,561 books have been removed from Florida school libraries since July 2021. …The book removals follow a law that allows parents or local residents to…

NY Times: “A federal judge in Louisiana blocked a state law on Tuesday that would have required the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The legislation, passed by state lawmakers this year, has been closely watched, because Louisiana was the first state to enact this kind of mandate in more than…

Axios: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a request from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his Georgia election interference case to federal court. Why it matters: The decision keeps in place a lower court’s ruling that Meadows’ case would remain in Fulton County, where he was charged as a co-conspirator in now-President-elect Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the state’s 2020…

NY Times: “What I offer instead is a way forward. I won re-election 12 months ago by five points in a state that Donald Trump just carried by 30 points. And I did so at a time when inflation and illegal border crossings were higher than they are now. So how was it possible? Because the people of…

Alternet: “U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz Friday evening revealed the chilling details of an apparent potential assassination plot he says has endangered his life and his family. The Florida Democrat says police arrested a suspect who is a former felon, had body armor, a rifle, an antisemitic manifesto, with “only my name on the ‘target’ list.”…

WaPo: “House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) was charged with being drunkin public at Dulles International Airport, according to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The incident, first reported by Semafor, occurred about 9 p.m. on Nov. 4, a day before the presidential election. He was released on a summons to a…

Like many of you, Yellow Dog has had a tough week. The return of Trump to the White House is a frightening prospect, and emotions are running high. The next four years will test our resolve, our political institutions, and whether a government of the people, by the people and for the people can persist…

WaPo: “The FBI and authorities in several states are investigating racist text messages sent to Black people nationwide this week saying they would be brought to plantations to work as enslaved people and pick cotton. People in at least a dozen states and D.C. have received the messages, according to authorities and local news media….

WaPo: “Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia), a longtime liberal voice for Northern Virginia in Congress, announced Thursday morning that he has esophageal cancerand will continue working while he receives treatment. “Cancer can be tough. But so am I,” he said in an open letter to constituents. “I will attack this the only way I know how —…