Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the #SupremeCourt Justice to Luxury Travel
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The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
Morning! Republicans are playing games with words like "ban." Don't be fooled. They are applying Stasi tactics to teachers, making them so afraid to teach that many will give up.
The end goal? Destroying public education.
When will (a lot of) people understand that the national broadcaster isn't supposed to be a mouthpiece for their political views? And if you were living in a country where it was, then you could be in a failed state!
(Just posted this on Twitter and people thought I meant Uganda. No, I mean Australia 😂)
Last week I wrote about how red state governments have been testing the limits of federal authority and patience. Among the examples I discussed were Texas’s illegal use of buoys and razor wire along the Rio Grande and its intentionally inhumane treatment of migrants, and Alabama’s planned defiance of a Supreme Court order mandating a second majority Black or near-majority Black congressional district.
Especially if your school district is getting more diverse.
You can’t say you support the military, and then stand by while one man, one senator, prevents the military from having its senior leadership in place. But that’s where we are. As of today, there is no longer a Senate-confirmed Commandant of the Marine Corps. Top level military positions require Senate confirmation, and Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is blocking it. This isn’t because he has an objection to the candidate. The nominee, General Eric Smith, is
For decades, right-wingers told us same-sex marriage would lead to a war on Christianity.
7 years after marriage equality, the consequences have been so boring that Republicans literally had to make up a case where they imagined they were victimized to justify more bigotry.
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