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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
BY SARAH LAZARUS & CROOKED MEDIA


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While House Republicans contemplate how best to undermine Democrats’ high-profile investigation of the January 6 insurrection, yet another vocal GOP election denier has sullied the party’s impeccable honor with his ties to racist extremism. What are the odds?

* House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has declined to say ([link removed]) whether he intends to seat Republicans on the newly announced January 6 select committee, but in the meantime, some of the House’s biggest MAGA dipshits have begun angling for spots on the panel ([link removed]) to sabotage the investigation from the inside. While McCarthy will have input on five of the 13 appointments, if he opts to participate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the final say on who makes the cut.

* As even the House Republicans who supported Donald Trump’s second impeachment prepare to vote against ([link removed]) the creation of the committee because it’s more partisan than the independent commission that their own leadership torpedoed, one of the caucus’s most pro-sedition members has been hard at work boosting the GOP’s outreach to white nationalists. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is once again slated to speak alongside white-supremacist Nick Fuentes ([link removed]) at a fundraiser, after the two appeared together at an America First PAC event back in February.

* Gosar defended his renewed alliance with Fuentes ([link removed]) —who has endorsed segregation and called the insurrection “awesome”—by invoking the Different Strokes Doctrine: “Not sure why anyone is freaking out. I’ll say this: there are millions of Gen Z, Y and X conservatives...They will not agree 100% on every issue. No group does.” Conservatism’s a big tent! C’mon in, Holocaust deniers! McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise have of course [DEL: pledged to strip Gosar of his committee assignments :DEL] mumbled ([link removed]) that they don’t know anything about it.

After all, it’s not like Gosar stepped over some sort of uncrossable line like “agreeing to investigate an attack on Congress” or “talking to Joe Biden.”

* Fresh off of his unfortunate return ([link removed]) to the Big Lie Rally Circuit, Trump has released a statement ([link removed]) berating Republican senators for negotiating an infrastructure deal with the White House (and needling Addison “Mitch” McConnell ([link removed]) for losing the Senate, natch)—another big dent in the bipartisan bill’s chances of passing. And as Trump aggressively campaigns against Republicans who challenged his election lies, a far-right super PAC has dumped $300,000 ([link removed]) into recent ads attacking Republican lawmakers who supported a bipartisan January 6 commission.

* The GOP’s adherence to Trump’s lies might be exciting his racist base, but it doesn’t seem to be playing well with key voters. A new poll found that roughly half of Arizona voters oppose Maricopa County’s audit-shaped clusterfuck ([link removed]) , and that the independent voters who decide Arizona elections oppose it by an 18 point margin. They’ll have to foot the bill anyway: County officials notified Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Monday that they will throw out and replace ([link removed]) all of the voting machines that wound up in the custody of Cyber Ninjas.



It’s no coincidence that House Republicans would rather rail against schools teaching kids about American racism than investigate the racism-fueled attack on their institution, or hold their own extremist-adjacent members to account. Top Republicans don’t have to actively spew hatred to speed (and benefit from) the party’s radicalization: They can just leave the door wide open for those who do.
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The thing to know right up top is, if you are fully vaccinated, you are—with the possible exception of some immunocompromised individuals—well-protected against the Delta coronavirus variant. That said, its rapid climb to the top of the U.S. coronavirus charts may necessitate some extra caution. Los Angeles County health officials have reinstated a mask recommendation for indoor spaces ([link removed]) , after the WHO urged fully vaccinated people to continue masking as the more contagious Delta variant spreads. The variant has now been identified in at least 85 countries, and prompted new lockdowns ([link removed]) in Asia and Australia. It’s also heightened concerns about potential outbreaks in unvaccinated pockets of the U.S., so hopefully the same folks who refuse to take the Bill Gates Mind Control Vaccine will see the wisdom in wearing
a mask for a few more months.
* The Supreme Court’s conservative bloc ruled that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants ([link removed]) who had previously had been deported and returned to the U.S. out of fear of persecution in their home countries—with no bond hearing. There’s (probably) another rough one still ahead: The voting rights decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee will drop on Thursday.

* In better news, the Court declined to lift the CDC's eviction moratorium ([link removed]) , which will now stay in place until July 31.

* Less than three months before the Surfside, FL, condo building collapsed, a condo official warned residents that the damage in the building had “gotten significantly worse” ([link removed]) since an engineer’s 2018 evaluation, to explain why estimated repair costs had gone up. The Bidens will travel to Surfside ([link removed]) on Thursday.

* Eric Adams is still leading the New York City Democratic mayoral primary after a preliminary counting of ranked-choice preferences ([link removed]) , but he’s now ahead of Kathryn Garcia by just around two percentage points. The tabulation of absentee ballots could still shake things up.

* Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) announced that she was deploying National Guard troops to the border in Texas ([link removed]) , a political stunt funded by a billionaire GOP megadonor. We are delighted to learn that billionaires can now rent out armed troops and send them wherever, a marvelous idea with no imaginable downsides.

* Former NFL player Herschel Walker will run for Raphael Warnock’s Georgia Senate seat in 2022 ([link removed]) , according to Donald Trump.

* Pennsylvania Republicans are looking to create a voter ID requirement via an amendment to the state constitution ([link removed]) , as a way to circumvent Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D-PA) promised veto on their voter-suppression bill.

* The Justice Department has been investigating whether Rudy Giuliani improperly lobbied Trump for Turkish interests ([link removed]) , in an entirely separate pickle from the DOJ probe into his activities in Ukraine, the suspension of his law license over his election fraud lies, the lawsuits he’s facing from voting machine companies and members of Congress, and that time he farted.

* Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) failed to properly disclose dozens of stock trades worth as much as as much as $17.53 million ([link removed]) —including large purchases and sales of stock in Boeing, a defense contractor that Fallon oversees as a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

* The Biden era has been particularly rough for right-wing media outlets ([link removed]) . Executive competence slowly murdering outrage-based publishers and platforms: You hate to see it.

* Today's main character of Twitter is the IKEA Bisexual Pride Couch ([link removed]) , which sure is trying its best.

Twelve GOP-led states still refuse to expand Medicaid through the ACA ([link removed]) , even with supplemented financial incentives included in the American Rescue Plan, and sometimes in spite of voters passing ballot initiatives to do so. Democrats haven’t yet reached a consensus on when and how the federal government should intervene. Some Democratic House members from holdout states are pushing Congress to pass Medicaid expansion legislation to fix the coverage gap, but spending billions to make up for the failings of GOP governors and legislatures doesn’t have the political appeal of, say, expanding Medicare. The “how” is also tricky: Health-policy aides in Congress are studying how legislators could either expand Medicaid or subsidize private coverage in those 12 states, without giving states that have already expanded Medicaid an incentive to switch to a new federal program.
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It's time to fully fund true community safety and health in Black communities that helps bring the era of racist and violent policing to an end. Are you with the ACLU?

Our country needs to re-examine public safety to save Black lives and reduce racist police violence – and the critical solutions to do so are straightforward: from training civilian professionals as first responders in mental health crises to dealing with low-level offenses through tickets instead of force, arrests, and preventable death. Sign the ACLU's petition ([link removed]) and urge President Biden to use the power and purse strings of the federal government to make sure these proven alternatives are embraced by every city across America.

We know that real justice will only be achieved when no more Black lives are harmed or taken by the police – and the ACLU will fight to make sure that day comes. Click here ([link removed]) to add your name today to join the fight.


The House ([link removed]) has passed a bill to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.

Fair Fight Action ([link removed]) has launched a new website to help Georgia voters check if they’re about to be purged from the rolls.

New Jersey ([link removed]) has agreed to adopt several major policy changes to help protect trans, intersex, and nonbinary people in its prisons.

Kataluna Enriquez ([link removed]) will become the first openly transgender Miss USA contestant.
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