Politics

The past month hasn’t given Jon Minadeo II much to be thankful for. But detractors of the man who bills himself as “AMERICAS #1 ANTI SEMITE” have certainly been celebrating a No-Nazi November. Minadeo, 40, runs an antisemitic hate group called the Goyim Defense League — its name and acronym …

New Zealand prime ministerJacinda Ardernannounced that she would be stepping down as leader on Feb. 7 and that the country will hold an election on Oct. 14, the Guardian reported. Ardern said she “no longer had enough in the tank” to do the job during the party’s annual caucus meeting …

This year’s CPAC-AFPAC double feature was a multi-day spectacle that a single 2,000 word article could never describe in adequate detail. Over the course of three days, I witnessed enough absolutely bonkers shit to have leveled critical psychic damage on the most equanimous of monks. No amount of mindfulness meditation, …

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has been granted permission to seat a special grand jury this spring to aid her office’s investigation into former President Trump’s alleged meddling in the state’s 2020 election results, CNN reported on Monday. Willis made the request last week writing in a letter …

When Democrats’ year-long push to protect voting rights failed on the Senate floor Wednesday night, it raised the curtain on the second and likely final act of the president’s sweeping domestic agenda — the massive investments in climate, education, and health care upon which President Joe Biden has hitched his …

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, has shared a lengthy reflection on the virus, writing that it is “no joke.” “For a while I’ve noted the term ‘mild’ is misleading when the bar is hospitalization and death,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Instagram alongside a photograph her negative and positive …

The public feud between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dan Crenshaw is getting ugly. The Trump-loving Republican lawmakers were at each others throats on Monday, with Crenshaw suggesting Greene is either “a Democrat — or just an idiot,” and Greene firing back that Crenshaw is “harassing” her. The two members’ …

UPDATE (1/5): NASCAR has rejected a planned sponsorship between Brandon Brown and LGBCoin, The Washington Post reports. Brown and his team, Brandonbilt Motorsports, publicized the partnership at the end of December, but the sponsorship was reportedly approved by a NASCAR employee who wasn’t authorized to do so. It wasn’t until …

The Capitol Police gained new powers when Biden on Wednesday signed into law a bill authorizing the police chief to “unilaterally” request emergency backup from the National Guard and federal law enforcement, an effort to streamline a process that resulted in delays during the Jan. 6 attack. When the bill …

The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The matter will now move to the Justice Department, which will decide whether to charge Trump’s …