Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 12:49 PM click to enlarge Congress Jared Huffman. There’s a growing rift in the Republican party and North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman, never one to be confused for a political wallflower, has joined the fray. Tensions between the GOP establishment and a new wave of politicians who have ridden to prominence on a wave of populism and Trumpism have been growing for years but have bubbled over in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and Trump’s departure from office.
At the forefront of this rift are freshly sworn in House members Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), both outspoken gun rights activists who have expressed support for and p
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Chris Wallace Calls Out Republicans for More Visible Outrage at Cheney Than at Greene Newsweek 1/31/2021 Jason Lemon © ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) shouts at journalists as she goes through security outside the House Chamber at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on January 12
Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace called out Republican lawmakers for showing more visible outrage at GOP Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump than at Georgia s freshman GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene s promotion of bizarre conspiracy theories.
Some pro-Trump Republicans in the House of Representatives have called for Cheney s removal from her No. 3 leadership position as chair of the House Republican Conference following her January 13 impeachment vote. Meanwhile, few GOP lawmakers have expressed public outrage following multiple reports on Greene s past promo
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A study of the “Greta Thunberg Effect” finds that those familiar with the young Swedish climate activist “have higher intentions of taking collective actions to reduce global warming.”
On January 27, a day the White House declared to be Climate Day, President Joe Biden signs a raft of executive orders to address climate change, focusing on jobs and environmental justice and centering climate change in every aspect of the federal government. One of them halts all new oil and gas leases on federal land and offshore waters.
Another executive order signed by Biden commits the United States to protecting 30 percent of US land and coastal waters by 2030.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a campaign event on January 26, 2020, in Perry, Iowa.
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During an interview on
MSNBC Wednesday night, Chris Hayes asked Ocasio-Cortez how it felt to see Republicans call to âjust move onâ after the violent Capitol breach incited by former President Trump earlier this month. Ocasio-Cortez explained that, although Trump had lost his re-election bid in November, Republicans still posed a major threat.
âIt really felt that, last term, the Republican caucus was one of extreme fealty to Donald Trump. There were some that were true believers, others that simply remained quiet out of cowardice and out of fear of the presidentâs retribution,â Ocasio-Cortez said. âBut this term there are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican caucus in the Ho
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