Heather Cox Richardson
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🔮 Nonetheless, as Josh Gerstein of Politico reported, the project will likely be completed before the question of its legality is resolved.
🔮 Judge Luttig is sickened at the prospect that The Speaker of the house will fire the Clerk of the House and replace him with a Trump loyalist.
🔮 Still, after the 2024 election, hopeful Republicans set out to redistrict states like Texas to try to guarantee they would hold on to control of Congress after the 2026 election.
🔮 “The nonviolent revolution is saying, ‘We will not wait for the courts to act, for we have been waiting for hundreds of years.
🔮 The push has come in the wake of the rise of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and other naturalized U.S. citizens whose policy positions those like South Carolina representative Nancy Mace consider un-American.
🔮 She is one of the youngest mayors in the city’s history and is the first woman and the first Asian American to be elected to the office.
🔮 The book was written not to reflect the facts of Washington’s life—biographies would not focus on facts for almost a century—but to show virtues the nation’s youth should imitate and to establish a set of attributes against which future voters could judge those vying to lead the nation.
🔮 Still, Smith points out, the apparent proof that Kennedy lied to Congress is a clear opening for hearings into Kennedy’s testimony, history, and conduct in office—including changing the vaccine schedule after promising not to—that would illuminate what has been happening to the U.S. government, information that would likely prove embarrassing to the Trump administration.
🔮 The antennas of Chicago’s Willis Tower—formerly the Sears Tower—lit up pink, too.
🔮 In contrast to MAGA’s performative nonsense, Canadian officials announced today that on September 8 they will begin to impose tariffs of up to 50% on about 700 products worth about $20 billion in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs on Canada.
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