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Dem Rearview Mirror Is Cracked. So Is Windshield Source link

In the first round of the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Texas on March 3, John Cornyn, the incumbent, prevailed over his closest competitor, outgoing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, by about two points. But in the second round on Tuesday, Paxton trounced Cornyn, winning 64 percent of the vote in the head-to-head match. Since the candidates disqualified in the first round received less than 17 percent of the vote in total, that is a pretty striking reversal. The only factor that can plausibly explain it is President Donald Trump’s last-minute endorsement of Paxton, which he announced one week before…

Ken Paxton’s 28-point primary win over Sen. John Cornyn wasn’t about Trump’s endorsement – it was voter frustration with a do-nothing GOP Senate. Source link

Sen. Chris Murphy has a sense of what ails America, and he wants to restore its spiritual core. Source link

Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Toward Palestinians and Internationals. It has been only 72 hours since our colleagues on the Gaza flotilla arrived in Istanbul, Turkiye to tell of the rape, assaults and abuse they endured from the Israeli military on their sailboats, security personnel on the prison ship, civilian police at the Ashdod processing center and guards at the notoriously abusive Ktzi’ot prison. Shezaf, Hagar (August 5, 2024). “Torture, Sexual Abuse and Humiliation | Dozens of Testimonies From Palestinian Prisoners Describe Conditions in Israeli Jails During Gaza war”. Haaretz.  Criminal Abuse Orchestrated and Ordered at the Highest Level of…

And a few Republican senators admitted it-for a moment. Source link

This month, American moviegoers will watch Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in “Pressure,” alone in a storm-lashed Portsmouth headquarters in June 1944, weighing weather reports, casualty estimates, and the fate of the free world. The film’s power lies in what Eisenhower refuses to do: Narrow the decision, delegate the doubt, or pretend the problem is smaller than it is. Eighty-two years later, as America approaches its 250th birthday, we are doing precisely the opposite. In Philadelphia this spring, interpretive panels describing the enslaved people who labored in George Washington’s President’s House were quietly removed, then partially restored, then…

SoCal Man Dies After Attack Outside Trump-Themed Home Source link

Anti-tech extremists are beginning to worry federal law enforcement authorities. Wired obtained “more than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers” that detail plans to keep an eye on this new category of supposed domestic threat. It’s hard to know where to begin here. Maybe with that meme about the Leopard Eating People’s Faces Party? You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. For years, the federal government and politicians from both parties have been stoking broad and…

The psychological tactic known as “Rally Around the Flag” was in full effect in the aftermath of 9/11 to galvanize a scared and angry public into launching the “War of Terror” in the Middle East. There has not been much public support for the newest war of aggression launched by the bloodthirsty American Empire and the Greater Israel Project Zionists, but that could always change. Absent a catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor, it is difficult to get the public to support another war, so expect just such an event in the near future. The planned famines…