AvatarScout LeeAvatarAvatarTrump's niece tries to sabotage his Waco rally by flooding the 2024 campaign with bogus ticket requestsverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Warren RojasMary L. Trump is working to deflate the turnout for her uncle's upcoming 2024 campaign rally in Waco, Texas by booking fake seat requests from expected no-shows. "Let's fill this venue with empty seats," the estranged niece of the embattled former president urged her followers online. The rally …
AvatarScout LeeAvatarAvatarJimmy Carter embodies the ‘road not taken’ by many White evangelical ChristiansCNNCNN — Long before he was called a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a humanitarian and the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was known as something else: a “Goddamn n***er lover.” That’s the racial slur a White classmate of Carter’s at the US Naval Academy assigned to him right after World …
AvatarScout LeeAvatarAvatarThis Is the Fight of Our Lives. It’s Time Progressives Act Like ItMs. Magazine - Jim GrossfeldI was 17, bisexual, and like a lot of LGBTQ teenagers, nothing mattered more to me than getting away from my parents. And I did—hitchhiking to a …
AvatarScout LeeFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoKetanji Brown Jackson Cleverly Turned the Right’s Own Judicial Theory Against Ittruthout.org - Marjorie CohnDuring the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, a case that could deal a severe blow to the Voting Rights Act, Ketanji Brown …
AvatarScout LeeFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWatch: Chart-armed Katie Porter proves that corporate greed is behind inflationalternet.org - Brandon GageDuring a House of Representatives hearing on Wednesday, United States Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-California) grilled Mike Konczal, the director of …
AvatarScout LeeAvatarAvatarKetanji Brown Jackson takes the Supreme Court's conservative majority to schoolMSNBC - Chris GeidnerAs Tuesday's oral arguments over Alabama's new voting map showed, none of the other justices have begun their careers as impressively as …
AvatarScout LeeAvatarAvatarBeautiful Portraits Celebrate First Nations Boys and Their Braidsverified_publisherMy Modern Met - Jessica StewartIn many Indigenous cultures, men grow their hair and wear braids as a way to feel connected to their ancestors. But, unfortunately, this way of showing respect for their culture can sometimes make them the targets of bullying. In fact, for one First Nations mother in Quebec, the start of the school …
AvatarScout LeeAvatarAvatarLoretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country queen, diesAssociated Press - By KRISTIN M. HALLNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn’s family said she died …
AvatarScout LeeFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOne of the most generous billionaire of our times – Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife Mackenzie Scott has donated a Beverly Hills Estate worth $55 million to charityluxurylaunches.com - Ekta JoshiWhile celebrities and entrepreneurs are busy buying lavish properties and homes, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife Mackenzie Scott has decided...The post One of …
AvatarScout LeeAvatarAvatarBiden's speech worked: MAGA is now on noticeverified_publisherSalon - By Amanda MarcotteLast week, President Joe Biden gave a speech warning that "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." Since then, Republicans have been performing umbrage. This, in turn, led to a great deal of media worrying about whether …
AvatarScout LeeFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIt's Time for Democrats to Take the Gloves Off and Ban Seditious Republicans From Congresscommondreams.org - Thom HartmannIt's time to enforce the Constitution, and a judge in New Mexico just kicked off the process. Democrats need to jump on this with the vigor of Trump …