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Friday, February 4, 2022

GOP Senate candidates busted in pay-for-play scandal

 


Employers added 467,000 jobs in January even as omicron cases spiked

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Republican primary candidates caught sending payments to their endorsers

Pay-for-play politics is alive and well in the Republican Party.



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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Local TV anchor humiliates Republican lawmaker, laughs in her face on air

"You think it's entirely political that there's an investigation on the attack on the Capitol?"


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Top Arizona congressman on PRIMARYING Sinema

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This could be huge.


Minneapolis police shoot and kill Black man on the couch after no-knock warrant
Amir Rahkare Locke was watching TV under a blanket when the police shot him for reaching for his legal firearm after barging into the apartment, looking for someone else — another life lost at the hands of police, this time for the crime of watching TV while black.



Democrats snag redistricting wins
The previously bleak outlook for the Democrats' House prospects suddenly looks a whole lot brighter.



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Black woman sentenced to six years in prison over a voting error

A 44-year-old activist was thrown in jail after attempting to register to vote with a felony conviction, thanks to a series of "errors" by local election officials. The rarity of voting law prosecutions and the absurdly harsh sentence is a sharp reminder of the disparity in the treatment of white and Black citizens.


Putin and Xi call for halt to NATO expansion in show of unity
The pair of powerful autocrats used the Olympics as a bully pulpit for their geopolitical agendas.


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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 is organizing on the ground to shock Republicans by winning back Middle America. But they need your help!


US accuses Russia of planning video of a fake Ukrainian attack to justify invasion
While there's no evidence the plan was ever approved, even the idea itself is very troubling.


Chicago cop who murdered Laquon McDonald released from prison three years early
The cop who fired sixteen shots into the back of a fleeing Black teen has been freed — another painful reminder that Black lives are not valued in America's justice system.


RNC moves to censure Cheney and Kinzinger
The GOP is making it clear that any pushback against Trump will be punished.



Jacksonville cop keeps job after driving drunk to work
His blood alcohol level was four times the legal limit and he admitted working ‘impaired’ on multiple occasions.


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