The honey was delicious. The beekeeper and I ate it by the spoonful, scooping it out of a chipped porcelain bowl alongside swigs from a dusty bottle of moonshine he kept hidden under a pile of crumpled newsprint in the cold, crumbling hearth. A swallow flitted around our heads, darting …
Read More »White House Calls Out Manchin for 'Inexplicable Reversal' on Build Back Better
The White House said it was shocked by Sen. Joe Manchin’s public refusal to support Build Back Better after recent conversations between the president and the senator. “Senator Manchin’s comments this morning on Fox are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and …
Read More »MyPillow Guy Thinks Idaho Votes Were Switched Electronically. There Are 7 Reasons He's Wrong
Yet another attempt by Trump buddy and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell goes down in flames. Lindell submitted a document, titled “The Big Lie,” to the Idaho Secretary of State’s office that claimed votes for Trump in all 44 state counties were electronically switched to Biden in the 2020 election. But …
Read More »Apocalypse Now: White House Prepares Plans to Reduce Heat Deaths
The Biden administration is taking action to protect people from the number one weather-related killer: extreme heat. U.N. climate scientists have warned that record-shattering climate extremes will become increasingly common as global warming progresses, meaning extreme heat events that once occurred every 50 years will now happen once a decade. …
Read More »Biden Asks States, Landlords to Act to Prevent Evictions Now That Federal Moratorium Has Expired
Millions of Americans are at risk of eviction, thanks to the eviction moratorium that expired over the weekend while Congress and the White House sparred over who was responsible for extending it. President Joe Biden asked landlords to pause evictions for the next 30 days on Monday as the administration …
Read More »Biden Administration Accuses China of Using Cyberattacks to Extort U.S. Businesses
The United States, along with Western allies officially accused the Chinese government of working with cybercriminals who used ransomware to extort U.S. businesses, and for playing a role in the cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange email server software earlier this year. In a statement released on Monday, the White House said …
Read More »DOJ Says It Will No Longer Use Court Orders to Seize Journalists' Records, Identify Sources
The Department of Justice under former president Trump attempted to seize the email logs from four New York Timesreporters in an attempt to identify their sources, the Times reported Friday. On Saturday, the department announced the Biden administration will end the practice of aggressively pursuing leak investigations by trying to …
Read More »Democrats Are Pathologically Short-Changing America
At first, it was $2,000. That was the message throughout the Georgia runoffs, which Democrats carried in a shocking double victory on the back of a nationwide PR blitz, flooding airwaves with promises that a newly-blue Senate could end Mitch McConnell’s half-decade of tyranny. Then, the number shrunk: $2,000 was …
Read More »Hunter Biden Announces Memoir 'Beautiful Things,' Out in April
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has a new memoir coming out on April 6th. The book, titledBeautiful Things, will center on Biden’s ongoing struggles with substance abuse, according to its publisher Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Although acquired in late 2019, the memoir was reportedly …
Read More »'Everything for Our Whole Family Hinged on This Election': International Students and Graduates Respond to a Biden Win
The afternoon before the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, Parisa Setayesh got word of another blow to her and her husband’s plans to live and study together in the U.S. Setayesh, who is from Iran, was informed that her husband’s student visa was being invalidated. Their plan was …
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