Month: November 2024

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 —…

Alternet: “Several top elected officials in Mississippi’s most populous county are now all defendants in a federal bribery probe. HuffPost reporter Sam Levine tweeted an announcement from the Department of Justice, stating that an indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Mississippi in which three high-profile officials have officially been charged with…

The Assembly: “The efforts of Valerio, Leibman, and other legions of canvassers were supposed to make the difference here. Kamala Harris was always going to win Mecklenburg, and if she could win it by enough she might even take North Carolina. “Mecklenburg has the most registered Democrats in the state,” said Asher Hildebrand, a Duke…

WaPo: “The signs of a political shift in the reliably blue counties that line Texas’s southern border with Mexico had been coming. Local GOP offices were emerging in places like Starr County that had not voted for a Republican for president in a century. Party workers were actively reaching out to residents who felt forgotten…

WaPo: “The Northern Virginia suburbs shifted slightly toward President-elect Donald Trump in Tuesday’s election, defying conventional wisdom about the D.C. area’s status as an increasingly blue bulwark, according to unofficial returns. In a state where Democrats rallied heavily around Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, some in the party were caught off guard by a GOP surge that…

NY Times: “I can’t overstate how much Democrats wanted to win North Carolina. How much hope they invested in my state. How many reasons they found to argue that Vice President Kamala Harris could emerge victorious, succeeding where every Democratic presidential candidate this century — with the sole exception of Barack Obama in 2008 —…