17 staffers from various offices occupied Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office with large banners, apparently hoping to pressure him to pressure Manchin to continue pursuing climate negotiations. The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz was live tweeting from the scene, where the staffers held signs and sang together. The sit-in follows a letter signed anonymously by more than
With the Supreme Court poised to reduce or even eliminate affirmative action in college admissions, a recent study has offered a unique window into the magnitude of racial preferences in America’s elite colleges. The paper, part of a series of studies conducted in the wake of high-profile litigation against Harvard and the University of North
The court left in place a lower ruling that stopped the Biden administration from setting new enforcement priorities for illegal immigrants, delaying the issue until early December when it will hear oral arguments. According to NBC News: The court denied an emergency request from the Justice Department to put a hold on a ruling issued by
Bloomberg News retracted a story that appears to have been entirely fabricated. The agency reported that executives and talent at Fox News failed to turn over documents as part of ongoing litigation against Dominion Voting Systems. According to The Hill: “Bloomberg retracted a story published today saying that some Fox News executives and hosts had failed
Recent polls asking voters about their priorities have steadfastly avoided directly asking about, or even mentioning, the January 6th hearings. Instead, some pollsters use terms similar to the left’s rhetoric surrounding the events at the Capitol in order to avoid embarrassing headlines about the apparent lack of interest. As David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner notes, there
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, who has a history of suspiciously timed stock moves, has given critics one more to scrutinize. Just ahead of a vote next week to deliver billions in subsidies to boost chip manufacturing, Paul Pelosi bought 20,000 shares of Nvidia. Pelosi purchased the shares for roughly $5 million dollars less than
The Washington Post first cast doubt on the story of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio whose pregnancy was deemed three days too late to be terminated under the state’s new abortion laws. It went viral and has been cited by abortion advocates and even President Joe Biden himself, but the story appears to be
Horror author and prominent liberal Twitter keyboard warrior, Stephen King, went viral for blasting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over a false news story. “I deleted a tweet about Ron DeSantis requiring notice of political views of students and teachers,” King tweeted on Saturday. “That really was fake news. Sorry.” In King’s initial post to his
The protest group ShutDownDC is asking service industry workers in the DC area to alert them if they spot conservative Supreme Court justices, offering up to $300 in cash for confirmed sightings. The group is specifically targeting the six conservative Justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. It posted a tweet with the details of
After a disastrous month of press coverage, the Biden administration abandoned its original plans to regulate speech online. Now, it’s quietly bringing them back in an equally Orwellian manner. In mid-June, the administration issued a memo establishing a new task force to address online harassment and abuse. It represents a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security
