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Jesuit Priest Bluntly Fact-Checks Catholic Group's Claim That Pete Buttigieg Doesn't 'Have A Husband'

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Over the course of 2022, Democracy Docket covered and tracked activity in the courts pertaining to voting rights, elections and democracy. Here are the trends we saw.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/2022-litigation-report-how-republicans-lost-and-voters-won-in-court/
2022 Litigation Report: How Republicans Lost and Voters Won in Court

Over the course of 2022, Democracy Docket covered and tracked democracy-related activity in the courts. Here's what we saw.

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@stopgopfox
They made it come true. They've been trying for decades and finally found the thousands of people they could pay to corrupt our presidency, courts, churches, legislative, law enforcement and security.

Seems we might have an answer for why, on the eve of the 2016 election, someone at the FBI lied to the NYTimes about the links the FBI saw between Trump and Russia.

Because the then-head of counterintelligence for FBI in NY was just indicted for money laundering and helping Russian oligarchs evade sanctions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/nyregion/fbi-money-laundering-charles-mcgonigal.html

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1563476/download

Former Top FBI Official in New York Charged in Money Laundering

Prosecutors say Charles McGonigal, who was chief of counterintelligence, worked secretly for Oleg Deripaska to investigate a Russian rival.

The New York Times

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MAGA radicals are refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless Biden agrees to devastating cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

I was involved in a similar fight over the debt ceiling twenty-eight years ago, which holds some lessons for what happens now. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/back-to-another-horrible-hellish

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1615495006047068160

Back to another horrible, hellish, horrendous, totally absurd battle over the debt ceiling

Friends, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen just announced that the federal government will hit the limit on total federal debt on January 19, just two days from now. After that, the Treasury Department will be forced to take “extraordinary measures” to avoid defaulting on the debt, which would likely trigger a global financial crisis.

Robert Reich
ICYMI: Republican lawmakers in Florida, Missouri and Ohio have introduced bills to restrict citizen-led ballot initiatives. Voters in these states have used ballot initiatives to ban partisan gerrymandering, expand Medicaid, raise the minimum wage and more.https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/lawmakers-look-to-restrict-ballot-initiative-process-in-florida-missouri-and-ohio/
Lawmakers Look To Restrict Ballot Initiative Process in Florida, Missouri and Ohio

Read more here.

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This is an eye-opening graph from @[email protected], both because of the implications of the coming demographic transition and because of how big the COVID-related spike in the past two years...
Award-Winning Director Tracy Heather Strain on Her Doc: ‘Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space’

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space premieres Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 9:00 pm–11:00 pm EST on PBS and streams on PBS.org.

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