Washington, D.C. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), along with Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), today led a group of 19 senators in a letter to Jeffrey Bezos questioning why
Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, a documentary about the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was removed from Amazon’s streaming service. The film’s removal came during Black History Month.
In part, the senators wrote, “The film’s popularity aside, Amazon’s decision to pull this documentary came during Black History Month-a time when Amazon was celebrating its own effort to ‘Amplify Black Voices’ with a ‘collection of titles to honor Black History Month across four weekly themes (Black Love, Black Joy, Black History Makers, and Black Girl Magic).’”
Report: Pentagon needs to improve business practices
At a hearing, the Department of Defense was said to have a culture that s resistant to change. GAO stated the military is vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse. Author: Mike Gooding Updated: 5:34 PM EDT April 27, 2021
WASHINGTON The Pentagon spends billions of dollars each year to maintain key business operations and defense-wide agencies and programs intended to support the warfighter.
The Department of Defense has long sought to improve its processes to manage contracts, finances, and supply chain.
But, the Government Accountability Office says the DOD is limited by the lack of reliable information, hampering its ability to monitor and inform its reform efforts.
“I am proud to once again introduce the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,”
Graham said. “There are only seven countries that allow wholesale abortions at the 20-week period, including China and North Korea. The United States should not be in that club.”
“I don’t believe abortion, five months into pregnancy, makes us a better nation,”
said Graham. “America is at her best when she’s standing up for the least among us, and the sooner we pass this legislation into law, the better. We are on the right side of history.”
The legislation is cosponsored by U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Roy Blunt (R-Missouri), John Boozman (R-Arkansas), Mike Braun (R-Indiana), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Montana), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), Josh Hawley
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Historian of coups and right-wing authoritarians here. If there are not severe consequences for every lawmaker & Trump govt official who backed this, every member of the Capitol Police who collaborated with them, this strategy of disruption will escalate in 2021 Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) January 7, 2021
ABOVE: She is right. I remain hopeful that the insurrectionists will be brought to justice.
Inhofe being sworn in by Pence (Image via video still)
HUFF POST: Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) has shared a private conversation with VP Pence, quoting Pence enraged by Trump s betrayal as saying:
After all the things I ve done for him!
CNN: Holy shit! William Barr, Trump s ex-AG, accused Trump of “orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress,” calling it “a betrayal of his office.”
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Dec. 23, 2020
Not everyone was thrilled with the latest, and possibly last, foreign policy coup pulled out by the Trump foreign policy team: a normalization agreement between Morocco and Israel.
While Israelis and many Republicans cheered on the announcement, some Democrats weren’t joining in. That was in line with their previous form: the anti-Trump camp mostly ignored, rather than explicitly criticized, the Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as well as the subsequent deal with Sudan. So with Morocco: the deal was dismissed as a merely yet another Trumpian quid pro quo rather than real peace.