US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

Rightwing Trump ally tells Tucker Carlson Israel has biblical right to land from 'wadi of Egypt to the great river'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/mike-huckabee-israel-middle-east-tucker-carlson

 

Canada Just Beat the U.S. — Microsoft’s $7.5B Bet Proves Carney Changed the game

Political stability, quality education, and adherence to rule of law matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUjNo1jcaUw 

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos Continues to Block Postpartum Medicaid Expansion — ProPublica

Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving care for up to a year after giving birth...

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-coverage-robin-vos 

 

Leah Litman on the Grievance and Conspiracy Theories That Run SCOTUS (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

In this episode of ‘Straight White American Jesus,’ host Brad Onishi welcomes Leah Litman, a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School , author of Lawless, and co-host of the podcast ‘Strict Scrutiny.’ 

They discuss the political nature of the Supreme Court. 

Litman highlights conservative grievances, the rise of conspiracy theories influenced by these grievances, and the implications for judicial decisions affecting voting rights, LGBT equality, and reproductive rights. 

They explore the detrimental impact of originalism and the influence of the Federalist Society on judicial appointments. The conversation concludes with potential reforms to democratize the Supreme Court, including court expansion and ethics codes.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/leah-litman-on-the-grievance-and-conspiracy-theories-that-run-scotus/

Robert Iger Wasn't Bluffing, Disney Cancels Lake Nona Town Center Amid Feud with DeSantis

Now Disney is cancelling plans to build a massive nearly $1 billion office complex in Orlando, costing the state more than 2,000 six-figure jobs...

https://www.mediaite.com/news/disney-ceo-wasnt-bluffing-robert-iger-cancels-plans-for-1-billion-office-complex-in-orlando/

Opinion | There is a path to save the Supreme Court from itself - The Washington Post

For those who say expansion would politicize the court, remember that the court has already been politicized. Consider how we got here: Senate Republicans in 2016 refused to fulfill their constitutional duties to render advice and consent on Obama's nominee on the grounds that voters should have a say, and then rushed to install Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 even after early voting for a new president was underway. Court expansion would be simply be a corrective action to return it to its pre-MAGA incarnation.

And for those who caution that Republicans, should they regain full control of Congress, could retaliate and expand the court further: This is a reasonable concern, but as Brian Fallon, co-founder and executive director of the progressive group Demand Justice, tells me, if that happens "we're no worse off than we are now."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/11/supreme-court-reform-expansion-term-limits-ethics/

80% of US Voters Across Party Lines Support Expanding Social Security

"With Republicans threatening to cut benefits—and worse, eliminate the program entirely—Dems need to make clear they're fighting to protect and expand benefits."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/15/80-us-voters-across-party-lines-support-expanding-social-security

Biden’s court commission appointees: We told you so on expanding the court - POLITICO

"It was a place of solidity and rational discourse. It really is not anymore," Gertner said of the Supreme Court. "It really is a set of decisions that they did only because they can. And that is an exercise of pure power, not legal reasoning."

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/07/joe-biden-supreme-court-commission-00044401

DEMOCRATS HAVE A BILL TO EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY. HERE’S WHAT IT WOULD MEAN FOR YOU.

…According to Larson, Mark Meadows, former chair of the House Freedom Caucus and later chief of staff for former President Donald Trump, once told him that if his legislation "makes it to the floor, you're going to find a lot of Republicans are going to be voting for [it]."…

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/19/social-security-expansion-democrats/

Trump keeps bragging about imaginary auto plants in swing states - The Washington Post

We have documented before the president’s “swing-state spin,” in which he claims he has achieved great economic success for states that, coincidentally, are necessary for him to achieve an electoral college victory. According to our database of Trump’s false and misleading claims, the president has mentioned Michigan in 120 false claims, Ohio in 94 claims and North Carolina in 68 claims. South Carolina is not a swing state, but it may have a competitive Senate race, so that may be why it slipped into his spiel on Labor Day
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/10/trump-keeps-bragging-about-imaginary-auto-plants-swing-states/

Trump Didn’t Make This Economy - The Atlantic

The low unemployment rate, decent wage growth, and solid corporate earnings are all artifacts of a long expansion, not signs that a very stable genius in the White House has unleashed American enterprise....

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/trump-didnt-make-this-economy/606115/

Kansas bishops defend support for placing conditions on Medicaid expansion | TheHill

Kansas Catholic bishops are standing by their request to place conditions on Medicaid expansion in the state. The bishops have taken a stance to withhold their support of Medicaid expansion until the state meets some conditions, including passing a bill to allow citizens to vote on a constitutional amendment to remove abortion as a “natural right.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/471843-kansas-bishops-defend-support-for-placing-conditions-on-medicaid

Benefits for Mind, Body and Work Ability Seen in Medicaid Expansion

New findings about low-income adults with behavioral health conditions, mental health and substance use disorders, suggest importance of continuous coverage https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/industry-dx/benefits-for-mind-body-and-work-ability-seen-medicaid-expansion

Why Trump is ignoring a historic economic number and celebrating an iffy one - The Washington Post: Analysis

The economic expansion is the longest in history. Much of it, though, wasn't on Trump's watch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/01/why-trump-is-ignoring-historic-economic-number-celebrating-an-iffy-one/

Hubble Measurements Confirm There's Something Weird About How the Universe Is Expanding - Gizmodo

New results from the Hubble Space Telescope have deepened one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy...
https://gizmodo.com/hubble-measurements-confirm-theres-something-weird-abou-1834339830

Ex-Bush speechwriter mocks Trump Jr. for attacking Obama policy his father just copied - Raw Story

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum called out Donald Trump Jr. for attacking a former Barack Obama policy his father is now copying. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/ex-bush-speechwriter-mocks-trump-jr-attacking-obama-policy-father-just-copied/

Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? - NYTimes

Axions? Phantom energy? Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/science/cosmos-hubble-dark-energy.html

Utah Republicans have officially blocked their state’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion - Vox

The GOP's crusade to scale back Utah's Medicaid expansion puts coverage for thousands of people at risk...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/11/18220721/utah-medicaid-expansion-prop-3-sb96

Medicaid Expansion Finds Grass-Roots Support in Conservative Utah - The New York Times

Utah is one of three conservative states where advocates are trying to outflank Republican lawmakers and get ballot measures approved on Nov. 6.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/us/politics/utah-medicaid-expansion.html

Don't believe the Republican lies: Medicaid expansion is working, two new studies show - Daily Kos

Republicans really want Americans to believe that Medicaid doesn't work, to justify their attacks on it from refusal to embrace the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion to the current efforts to impose work requirements and otherwise kick people off of their health care. But two new studies show that Medicaid is working. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1786776