The Continuing Crisis
- Arizona GOP lawmaker who advocated for new election faces backlash for contradictory remark about traitors (alternet.org)
- Biden’s Antitrust Team Signals a Big Swing at Corporate Titans (nytimes.com)
- Arizona audit “director” kicked out of recount building as chaos escalates: report (salon.com)
- Louisiana GOP fails to override Democratic vetoes of voting restriction bills (feeds.dailykosmedia.com)
- House Republicans beg Kevin McCarthy to try to remove
highly effective‘authoritarian’ Nancy Pelosi as speaker (alternet.org)
- NRA and Republicans out to hobble Biden’s choice for top gun law role (theguardian.com)
- Greg Abbott promised “transparency” for border wall funding — but donors clearly using fake names (salon.com)
- Sierra Leone abolishes death penalty (theguardian.com)
- Attorney in Gaetz case smears young victim for decisions made after she was allegedly sex trafficked (rawstory.com)
- ‘You falsely smeared by wife’: Eric Swalwell reveals furious text exchange with Tucker Carlson (rawstory.com)How Fox News Could Be Held Liable for Tucker Carlson (slate.com)
- Skilled in Strategy (and Grudges), Top Biden Adviser to Depart White House (nytimes.com)
- The dark truth behind the White House’s sham investigation of Brett Kavanaugh (alternet.org)
- GOP lawmaker defies Trump by defending Capitol cop who killed Ashli Babbitt (alternet.org)
- WATCH: Angry constituent curses out Rand Paul during town hall meeting (rawstory.com)
More News
- Lil Nas X raises funds for bail relief with jaw-dropping, prison-themed ‘Industry Baby’ music video (nydailynews.com)
- Cleveland’s baseball team has a new, non-racist name (cbsnews.com)The inside story of how Cleveland Indians became Cleveland Guardians (cleveland.com)Right-wingers really seem to care about the Cleveland Indians all of a sudden following name change (salon.com)'FORMER' fan Trump flips out over Cleveland Indians name change: 'The people will not take it anymore!' (rawstory.com)
- The U.S. military strikes a Qaeda affiliate in Somalia for the second time in a week (nytimes.com)
- Disastrous ‘Fyre Fest’ of summer camps closed down after only 6 days (rawstory.com)
- India floods: rescuers search for survivors among mud and debris (theguardian.com)
- US set for punishing temperatures as huge ‘heat dome’ to settle over country (theguardian.com)
- Search for bodies in Florida condo collapse ends, with death toll at 97 (theguardian.com)
- ‘Stand up for our culture!’ GOP lawmaker touts Aunt Jemima and Confederate statues in bizarre rant (rawstory.com)
- Right-wing Catholic moralists outed a Catholic official as gay (rawstory.com)
- ‘This is really serious’: Legal expert says Trump ally Barrack is in more trouble than we’ve been led to believe (rawstory.com)
- Trump ally Tom Barrack released on $250 million bond (cbsnews.com)'This is really serious': Legal expert says Trump ally Barrack is in more trouble than we've been led to believe (rawstory.com)
- Mario Batali and business partner to pay $600,000 in harassment investigation (theguardian.com)
- Air Force finally boots prominent white nationalist months after he was exposed (rawstory.com)
- Tech firm hit by giant ransomware hack gets key to unlock victims’ data (theguardian.com)
Insurrection Watch
- Bumbling MAGA rioter busted after boasting of his violent exploits on popular dating app (rawstory.com)
- A veteran police chief has been tapped to lead the Capitol Police, half a year after the Jan. 6 riot (nytimes.com)
- Conservative Maryland governor calls out ‘absurd’ Republican efforts to ‘whitewash’ the Jan. 6 insurrection (alternet.org)
- FBI Report Shows Explosive Components Allegedly Found in Home of Ex-Cop Charged in U.S. Capitol Breach (lawandcrime.com)
- ‘Chaos is coming’: Proud Boy insurrectionist who yelled ‘break it down’ outside door where Ashli Babbitt was shot is pleading guilty (rawstory.com)
- ‘Like OJ looking for the real killer’: Republicans’ bid to conduct their own 1/6 investigation gets scorched on Twitter (rawstory.com)
- Woman spewing Trump’s anti-media rhetoric violently attacks reporter at Colorado Statehouse (rawstory.com)
- FBI informants’ role in Michigan kidnapping plot could backfire as agency cracks down on right-wing terror groups (rawstory.com)
COVID Watch
- Vaccinated America Has Had Enough (theatlantic.com)
- BLOOD ON HIS HANDS: Meet the Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online (nytimes.com)
- 34-year-old who joked on Twitter about not being vaccinated dies from COVID-19: report (rawstory.com)
- Inside a Tennessee hospital grappling with Delta and vaccine hesitancy (theguardian.com)
- Fox News backs Covid vaccination – a pity no one told Tucker Carlson (theguardian.com)
- Conservative vaccine skeptic radio host now hospitalized, family begs others to get vaccinated (nydailynews.com)
