Let’s not overcomplicate this:

Republicans passed a $2 trillion tax cut for billionaires and corporations.

And now they’re refusing to pay for it.

It’s really that simple.

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 22, 2023

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I think religion in America has infected many American’s with a belief system based on rewards and punishment.

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“Everywhere there’s globes”: Georgia GOP chair goes full flat-earther in wild rant

A recently elected Georgia GOP district chair revealed that she believes the world is flat and that the proliferation of globes is part of a conspiracy, Rolling Stone reports. During an interview on Kandiss Taylor’s podcast “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” with David ” Flat Earth Dave” Weiss and Matt Long, the trio discussed what they deemed the biblical evidence that the planet is flat.

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Inside The Apocalyptic Christian World Of Doug Mastriano And The GOP

PENNSYLVANIA – LifeGate Church is nestled in a wooded area of Elizabethtown, 6 miles from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant that partially melted down in 1979, almost rendering this pretty patch of central Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River a radioactive wasteland.

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A quote I picked up in reading/listening to Medhi Hasan’s new book Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking via my Audible account (Great stuff!)

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Joseph Joubert

and from John Stuart Mill’s treatise On Liberty…

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion… Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them…he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”

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Geraldo Rivera: “…You are my favorite person Washington. i think the most honest person in Washington and the question i have, given that i trust you so, is Donald Trump,… a lot of my friends say he made mistakes and ok January 6th, this and that, but it is his policies we would be voting for. Given the pragmatic side also, do you think he is emotionally fit to be President of the United States? i disagree. i think Trump and Biden will be the candidates, whatever that says about the United States. Is he fit to be President of the United States?

Bill Barr: “This is the way i will answer that. If you believe in his policies, what he is advertising, he is the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them. [laughter] He does not have the discipline, he does not have the ability for strategic linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system. It is a horror show when he’s left to his own devices. You may want his policies, Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He would deliver chaos and if anything, lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.”

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Analysis | Fine, here’s why Trump keeps talking about Biden and Chinatown

There’s no question that D.C.’s Chinatown neighborhood still bears cultural markers reflecting its once-large Chinese American population. The city has been assiduous about preserving them, about maintaining aspects of Chinese culture in the area, even carving out part of it to house the distinctly non-Chinese sports arena that hosts the Washington Wizards and Capitals.

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Trump Suggests He Knowingly Took Documents From White House

The former president, in his appearance on CNN, misstated the law governing presidential records, saying he was allowed to take the material now at the heart of a Justice Department investigation. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.

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George Conway ⚖️ on Twitter: “I’m no media expert, but it seems to me that interviewing a narcissistic psychopath in front of a packed house of his flying monkeys is not the best format for television journalism / Twitter”

I’m no media expert, but it seems to me that interviewing a narcissistic psychopath in front of a packed house of his flying monkeys is not the best format for television journalism

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Why the 14th Amendment Is Being Cited in the Debt Ceiling Debate

Some Biden administration officials believe a constitutional clause prevents the United States from failing to make payments even if it means breaching the debt limit. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.

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These Trump Supporters Are Completely Detached From Reality

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The Cause of the Crime Wave Is Hiding in Plain Sight

When the speed of repercussions drops, society loses a key deterrent against unlawful behavior. This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and ProPublica. On December 31, 2020, a 40-year-old man named Leon Casiquito walked into Kelly Liquors on Route 66 in Albuquerque and tried to shoplift a bottle of tequila.

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Opinion | This is how fascism comes to America

The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative” principles, all would be well. Make sense of the news fast with our daily newsletter ArrowRight But of course the entire Trump phenomenon has nothing to do with policy or ideology.

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