Month: April 2024

Biden Admin Moves To Reclas­si­fy Mar­i­jua­na As Less Dan­ger­ous Drug

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Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion (DEA) is report­ed­ly mov­ing to reclas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na as a less dan­ger­ous drug ahead of the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Attor­ney Gen­er­al Mer­rick Gar­land made the rec­om­men­da­tion to loosen restric­tions on the drug, The Wash­ing­ton Post report­ed. The report­ed change would down­grade mar­i­jua­na from being a Sched­ule I drug along­side drugs […]

 

MSNBC’s Alex Wag­n­er Frets Cam­pus Protests May Lead To Next Rea­gan Era

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While dis­cussing the ongo­ing NYPD clear­ing of the vir­u­lent anti-semi­t­ic protest at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, MSNBC host Alex Wag­n­er and her guest, New York Times colum­nist Michelle Gold­berg, noticed the his­toric par­al­lels between this moment and 1968- and where it ulti­mate­ly led. Watch the afore­men­tioned exchange, which closed the show’s live cov­er­age of the protest clear­ing, […]

 

NY Times: GOP Call­ing Immi­grant Surge an ‘Inva­sion’ Dehu­man­iz­ing, ‘Could Stoke Vio­lence’

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New York Times nation­al pol­i­tics reporter Jazmine Ulloa has dep­u­tized her­self to patrol the para­me­ters of accept­able polit­i­cal dis­course from her lib­er­al per­spec­tive, attacked Repub­li­cans can­di­dates again for dar­ing to call the influx of immi­grants across our south­ern bor­der an “inva­sion,” in Sunday’s edi­tion: “Talk of an Immi­grant ‘Inva­sion’ Grows in Repub­li­can Ads and Speech.” […]

 

Intol­er­ant Nan­cy Pelosi Yells at MSNBC’s Katy Tur, Sug­gests She’s ‘a Trump Apol­o­gist’

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Democ­rats and MSNBC watch­ers – which are pret­ty much the same thing – can­not tol­er­ate any­one mak­ing a con­trary point. On Mon­day after­noon, MSNBC host Katy Tur inter­viewed for­mer House Speak­er Nan­cy Pelosi for almost 15 min­utes. She asked the usu­al between-us-Democ­rats ques­tions, start­ing with how much the Democ­rats can insure untram­meled abor­tion on demand […]

 

Judges reject Louisiana con­gres­sion­al map that would have giv­en state new major­i­ty-black dis­trict

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A bat­tle in the Supreme Court appears like­ly after three fed­er­al judges reject­ed Louisiana’s new con­gres­sion­al dis­trict map that gave the state a sec­ond major­i­­ty-black House dis­trict. The three-judge pan­el ruled 2–1 on Tues­day that the state can­not use the vot­ing dis­trict map that was drawn up in Jan­u­ary. The judges agreed with the plain­tiffs, […]

 

Demo­c­rat Tim Kennedy wins New York spe­cial elec­tion and nar­rows House GOP major­i­ty

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Demo­c­ra­t­ic state Sen. Tim Kennedy won the New York spe­cial elec­tion in the state’s 26th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict to replace for­mer Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep. Bri­an Hig­gins, nar­row­ing the House Repub­li­can major­i­ty even fur­ther ahead of the 2024 elec­tion. Kennedy defeat­ed Repub­li­can Gary Dick­son, a West Seneca super­vi­sor who is an Army and FBI vet­er­an, on Tues­day night. Kennedy has been […]

 

Trump tri­al: Stormy Daniels lawyer tes­ti­fies on deal­ings with ‘hos­tile’ Michael Cohen

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A lawyer tes­ti­fied in for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump‘s tri­al in New York on Tues­day about his expe­ri­ences nego­ti­at­ing deals in 2016 to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump. Kei­th David­son, a Los Ange­les-based attor­ney known for his work with nondis­clo­sure agree­ments, spoke about his frus­trat­ing inter­ac­tions with Michael Cohen, Trump’s for­mer […]

 

CNN Frets ‘Esca­la­tion’ by Police Dis­rupt­ed ‘Peace­ful’ Stu­dents ‘Danc­ing’ for Hamas

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Dur­ing a rare moment Tues­day when CNN wasn’t obsess­ing over the first Trump tri­al, cor­re­spon­dent Dianne Gal­lagher used a live shot from the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na at Chapel Hill to fret police caused “a very intense esca­la­tion” with pro-Hamas stu­dents, whom she said were mere­ly hold­ing a “ral­ly and silent vig­il” with “danc­ing and […]