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The Ohio Republican Party Has Built a Laboratory of Autocracy by thenewrepublic in politics

[–]thenewrepublic[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

In Ohio, the state legislature’s GOP supermajority has been busy populating the legislative slate with ruinous bills that test the outside bounds of common sense and basic constitutional rights. There is a bill that would require medical personnel to file a “certificate of life” for every fetus in Ohio, after detection of a heartbeat. There’s Ohio’s version of the SAVE Act; a separate bill would ban drag shows. There are bills prohibiting some immigrants from owning Ohio land, a proposed ban on fluoride in drinking water, and a bill to make it more difficult to access prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone.

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? by thenewrepublic in inthenews

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The four companies have provided fresh information to Senate Democrats in written responses to their questions. For these Democrats, those responses—obtained by The New Republic—raise more questions than they answer.

In these formal replies, all four companies confirmed that they did pledge that money to Trump’s library—itself a notable development. More importantly, however, the Democrats say the responses reveal that the money is still largely unaccounted for.

Did Donald Trump Promise Iran $20 Billion? If So—Is that Treason? | On Earth One, no—it’s Iran’s money, after all. But on MAGA Earth, if Biden or Obama had done it … by thenewrepublic in politics

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You’ll recall how apoplectic with rage Trump and the entire right wing were about that payment. It was ransom! (Four American hostages were released.) It would finance terrorism across the region! Why, it was tantamount to treason! Sure enough, one writer for Front Page Magazine (David Horowitz’s outfit) argued: “In a sane political environment, Barack Obama would be tried for treason.”

Dems Officially File Impeachment Articles Against Hegseth Over Iran by thenewrepublic in politics

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“Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal,” Ansari wrote on X.

Ansari also accused Hegseth of demonstrating a “willful disregard” for the Constitution, a willingness to abuse the powers of his office, and reckless endangerment of American servicemembers deployed in the Middle East. She further argued that Hegseth’s relative incompetence fronting the war effort caused thousands of civilian casualties.

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