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Monday, January 17, 2022

Trump slams DeSantis as Republican feud festers

 

Family of MLK Jr. to lead Washington march for voting rights today

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Trump dogs "dull" DeSantis ahead of potential 2024 matchup

The former president is trashing DeSantis in private as a "dull" ingrate with no chance of beating him in 2024, proving that fealty is the only factor that matters in Trump's GOP.



Bernie Sanders says Manchin and Sinema are imperiling US democracy
"It is a sad day when two members of the Democratic Caucus are prepared to allow the Freedom to Vote Act to fail and undermine the future of American democracy."



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Prosecutor talks Trump getting charged for January 6

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Don't miss this.


China’s Xi rejects "Cold War mentality," pushes cooperation
Chinese President Xi Jinping called Monday for greater world cooperation against COVID-19 and pledged to send an additional 1 billion doses of vaccine to other countries, while urging other powers to discard a "Cold War mentality" at a time of rising geopolitical tensions — a not-so-veiled swipe at the United States.


Trump administration exerted "unprecedented" census engagement in bid for political gain
In news that should shock exactly no one, the former president's team attempted "to hijack an independent system governed by statistical science to serve Trump and the Republican Party."


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MLK III: History to remember Sen. Sinema unkindly over filibuster

Martin Luther King III came to Arizona with harsh words for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, whose refusal to change the Senate’s Jim Crow-era filibuster rules has all but doomed landmark voting rights legislation from becoming law.



Electoral act reform picks up growing bipartisan support
An increasingly broad and powerful array of lawmakers is coalescing around the idea of changing how Congress tallies Electoral College votes, a small-but-crucial step in the decades-long march toward actual free and fair elections.



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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn, and Lauren Boebert's extremism costing them support from their voters

United Rural Democrats: New extremists in Congress are taking their districts for granted while delivering nothing for them. United Rural Democrats are organizing on the ground to shock Republicans by winning back Middle America. But they need your help!


Sen. Tim Kaine: Build Back Better is "dead" but core provisions will pass
Kaine said the legislation's key provisions are education, workforce "and things like reduced child care and education expenses," but conceded that other pieces of the bill would not be revived following months of failed negotiations with West Virginia's Joe Manchin.


French parliament passes COVID vaccine passport legislation
France's National Assembly voted 215-58 on Sunday in favor of pandemic legislation that includes a vaccine pass barring unvaccinated people from venues including restaurants, cafes, and sports arenas.


Prince Harry seeks right to pay for UK police protection when in Britain
Harry's legal team said they had initiated the legal challenge in September of last year but decided to make that information public now "in order to set the facts straight" because of a leak in a British tabloid newspaper.


Celebrated Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102
Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots who had battled racism at home to fight for freedom abroad, died Sunday.


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