By Noah Berlatsky In what has become an almost annual ritual, the Republican Party is once again threatening not to raise the debt ceiling. If they follow through, they would destroy the US economy, immiserating millions of their own voters. The fact t…
‘Pretty troublesome’ highly contagious subvariants could drive this winter’s ‘COVID wave’: report
By Alex Henderson When Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on the BBC’s “HARDtalk” in mid-October, host Stephen Sackur grilled him about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and President Joe Biden’s statement, during a September appearance o…
‘Cesspool of hate’: Jake Tapper explores Gab’s digital netherworld of ‘hideously racist’ posts and ‘Nazism’
By David Badash,The New Civil Rights Movement CNN’s Jake Tapper says the far-right social media platform Gab, run by an antisemitic Christian nationalist, has “hideously racist” posts and embedded “Nazism” as part of its “popular” offerings – and says …
How Herschel Walker’s debate ‘blunders’ reveal the ‘diseased state’ of the Trumpified GOP: conservative
By Alex Henderson Before former football star and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Hershel Walker debated Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock on Friday, October 14, he set the bar low with some self-deprecating comments — saying “I’m not that smart…
‘How democracy self-destructs’: Why Kari Lake’s candidacy may harbinger a future right-wing dystopia
By Brandon Gage Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has fully aligned herself with former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement and become an unapologetic proponent of Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was sto…
Utah Senate candidate Evan McMullin says he will not caucus with Democrats or GOP as polls tighten
By Brandon Gage Independent United States Senate candidate Evan McMullin said on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press that if he unseats incumbent Republican Senator Mike Lee, he has no intention of giving one party an edge over the other. Conservative c…
Supreme Court denies Donald Trump’s request to intervene in Mar-a-Lago documents case
By David Badash,The New Civil Rights Movement The U.S. Supreme Court, via Justice Clarence Thomas, has just denied Donald Trump’s emergency motion to intervene in his case against the United States government. Trump had requested the nation’s top justi…
‘Storm the gates!’ This ‘Stop the Steal’ Republican has been hired to recruit poll workers in Michigan
By Alex Henderson In Michigan, MAGA activist and far-right conspiracy theorist Genevieve Peters has been a major promoter of the Big Lie — falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and posing for photos with memb…
‘Disgusting and unproductive’: Maine Republican chided for comparing lobster regulations to child rape
By Alex Henderson At a rally in Portland, Maine on Wednesday, October 12, Republican Ed Thelander — who is trying to unseat incumbent Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree in Maine’s 1st Congressional District — spoke out against federal regulations that he …
Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million to Sandy Hook families in unanimous jury verdict
By David Badash,The New Civil Rights Movement Conspiracy theorist, falsehoods promoter for profit, and Infowars founder Alex Jones will have to pay families of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting at least $965 million in damages after a jury returned a u…