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...Writing for The New Republic, Jeet Heer explained how the GOP's anti-intellectual bent softened the brains of its base, making them more susceptible...

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stripped the Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation of its liquor license Friday for allowing children to attend a Christmas... ...DeSantis, who has been cracking down on LGBTQ rights, filed an administrative complaint through the state department of business and professional... ...of Tyre Nichols, the Miami Police Department unveiled its latest expense: a Black History Month-inspired cop car.... ...Civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo pointed out that DeSantis couched the administrative complaint in language about morality, at one point...

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...of Tyre Nichols, the Miami Police Department unveiled its latest expense: a Black History Month-inspired cop car.... ...precinct--a separate station that closed in 1963--and the officers who served there, reported the Miami Herald.... ...A supermajority of the YouTube Music workers, members of Alphabet Workers Union-CWA, filed for union recognition from the National Labor Relations... ...Former President Donald Trump paid homage to that phrase in the aftermath of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's murder by the Minneapolis and Louisville...

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...Semafor reported Gaetz has been garnering "a very positive reception" to his pitch, including from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.... ...The Florida representative told Semafor that he's been pitching the idea of tightening Medicaid eligibility on "able-bodied working age adults" as... ...A supermajority of the YouTube Music workers, members of Alphabet Workers Union-CWA, filed for union recognition from the National Labor Relations... ...The strike joins other action from the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA nationwide....

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...A large white balloon was spotted over Montana earlier this week, just days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken was supposed to make his first... ...Republicans are lashing out at President Joe Biden, urging him to shoot down what is believed to be a Chinese spy balloon that has been spotted in... ...nuclear missile silo fields, located near the Malmstrom Air Force Base.... ...Either way, Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon's press secretary, said the balloon is high enough that it will not interfere with commercial...

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...police beating Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man.... ...At nearly every commercial break MSNBC host Ari Melber reminded viewers of how appalling the footage was and that the network would show it.... ...Ed Obayashi, a northern California sheriff's deputy described the video as "worse than Rodney King."... ...As activist and professor of African-American studies at UC Irvine, Frank Wilderson III says, "white people know they are white because they know...

newrepublic.com —  1+ day ago

...This week, the Biden administration moved toward approving an $8 billion ConocoPhillips project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, located... ...Despite Democrats" much-vaunted climate victories in the past year, the Biden administration has been a lucrative time for the oil and gas industry... ..."Now, given the Biden administration's commitment to the Alaska congressional delegation, we can expect to receive that [decision] in the first week...

newrepublic.com —  2+ day ago

...interest in dual citizenship, said Temple University law professor Peter Spiro, an expert on dual citizenship and a German American dual citizen... ...The advent of the Trump administration and the rising political instability in the United States that's followed in its wake have spurred increased...