5 Takeaways From Ron DeSantis’s First Campaign Trip
He swung back at Donald Trump. He vowed to vanquish the “woke mob” and turn the country into mega-Florida. He had normal encounters with voters that didn’t become memes. Powered by WPeMatico
DeSantis Relied Heavily on Big Donors in Initial Money Haul
The Florida governor’s campaign said it had around 40,000 donors in May, an average of more than $200 per donor — a figure far higher than is typical for a campaign heavily funded by grass-roots support. Powered by WPeMatico
Trump Lawyer’s Notes Could Be a Key in the Classified Documents Inquiry
M. Evan Corcoran recorded recollections of his legal work last year for Donald Trump. The recording is now in the hands of prosecutors, unnerving some aides to the former president. Powered by WPeMatico
Two Black Members of Native Tribes Were Arrested. The Law Sees Only One as Indian.
A Supreme Court ruling barred Oklahoma from prosecuting crimes committed by Native Americans on tribal land, but some Black tribal members are still being prosecuted because they lack “Indian blood.” Powered by WPeMatico
Republican Presidential Candidates Attend Iowa Roast and Ride
Eight presidential hopefuls, with Donald Trump absent, spoke at an annual political rally in Des Moines to highlight their conservative bona fides. Powered by WPeMatico
North Carolina Republicans aren’t just anti-freedom, but they’re openly racist as well
Ah, North Carolina, lean-red battleground state that we win only when we don’t need it. Or put another way, if we’ve gotten North Carolina in a presidential contest, we already got everything else we need to win. It doesn’t have to be that way. By demographics, North Carolina is a lean-blue to blue state. And as of now, it’s the only realistic pickup opportunity for Joe Biden in 2024. He only lost it by a single point in 2020. The…
Cartoon: Targets
Many extreme Republican right wingers are outraged at Target and accuse them of “targeting” children with Pride merchandise during Pride Month, but approve of gun nuts targeting children during the daily mass shootings we are expected to endure. Powered by WPeMatico
YouTube changes policy to allow false claims about past US presidential elections
YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches,” the platform announced Friday. The change is a reversal for the Google-owned video service, which said a month after the 2020 election that it would start removing new posts that falsely claimed widespread voter fraud or errors changed the outcome. YouTube said in a blog post that the updated policy was an attempt to protect the ability to “openly debate…
Trump’s big mouth is finally getting him in (legal) trouble
Donald Trump’s charmed stretch defying legal gravity in spite of his penchant for self-incrimination finally came to an end last month, when he sunk himself in the E. Jean Carroll rape case deposition. He claimed he had never seen Carroll before in his life and even if he had, she most certainly wasn’t his type. Those twin defenses were hilariously blown apart when he was shown a picture of himself interacting with Carroll—and mistook her for his ex-wife Marla Maples….
As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage
By Hannah Recht June 1, 2023 More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork. Under normal circumstances, states review their Medicaid enrollment lists regularly to ensure every recipient qualifies for coverage. But because of a nationwide pause in those reviews during the pandemic, the health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans…