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https://twitter.com/OpinionToday/status/1575474222704500736Texas country legend Willie Nelson will perform at an event Sunday for Democrat Beto O'Rourke
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1575482817995235328https://twitter.com/statesman/status/1575228896907231246
Judge Allows Venezuelan Businessman To Move Forward With Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News, Lou Do
This lawsuit is separate from claims filed by Smartmatic and Dominion.
https://twitter.com/TonyHussein4/status/1575480598264975361
https://deadline.com/2022/09/fox-news-defamation-2020-election-lou-dobbs-1235128655/
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton rejected the defendants efforts to dismiss the case, finding that the businessman, Majed Khalil, adequately alleges that Fox may be held liable for the defamatory claims. Read the opinion here.
Stantons decision means that the case can proceed, with a jury ultimately left to decide on the merits if it goes to trial.
In his lawsuit, Khalil cited a Dec. 10, 2020, tweet on Dobbs account in which he wrote that the election was a Cyber Pearl Harbor. The tweet included a document in which Khalil is named as the effective COO of the election project, under Chavez and Maduro. Khalil is a liaison with Hezbollah.......
Khalils lawsuit is separate from claims filed by two elections systems companies, Smartmatic and Dominion, which have sued the network and other defendants for billions of dollars over claims amplified by hosts and guests that they were involved in election rigging. Khalil filed his lawsuit last year, seeking $250 million in damages
Hurricane Ike hit 14 years ago. Here is a look back at the storm that changed Galveston forever
I remember Ike well. Ike destroyed Galveston and hit Houston hard. I was lucky in that I was only without power for 40 hours. I had law partners who did not have power restored for a month. They would take showers at the YMCA or health club and eat out. Galvestn was hit hard. These photos are hard to look at
https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1575504448230551553
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2022/visuals/hurricane-ike-galveston-photos/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow
'Dumpster fire' Libertarian Party in turmoil over accusations of helping Republicans
Both the Green Party and the Libertarian Party have helped to elect GOP candidates
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1575448720107343873
https://www.rawstory.com/libertarian-party-chaos/
Central to the descent into chaos is the growth of the Mises Caucus which has taken control of several state committees and pushed far-right policies more in line with Donald Trump than traditional Libertrain sympathies.
As Weill wrote, "In the few years since its 2017 founding, this socially conservative group has swept state and national Libertarian organizations, officially taking control of the LP at the partys convention this May. Mises Caucus supporters say the group is rebooting Americas third-largest political party. Critics say the caucus promotes bigotry, helps Republicans, and is driving everyone but Mises acolytes out of the organization."
According to the report, the few Libertarian candidates who have made inroads with voters have been moderates like former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, but with Mises Caucus driving the policy debate, voices like his are being shoved to the side.
"The caucus has come out in support of 'national divorce,' the notion of breaking the U.S. into multiple smaller nations. The theory is controversial among libertarians, as are recent tweets from Mises-led state Libertarian parties," the report states. "The MC-led Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, for instance, has repeatedly called for repealing the Civil Rights Act, and tweeted '6 million dollar minimum wage or youre antisemitic,' in reference to the Holocaust. A recent tweet by the national party, called for the immediate firing and prosecution of educators who teach 'queer theory or critical race theory.'"
The Lincoln Project-Voters in Pennsylvania will begin to hear our ad, "Tide,"
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1575531145927839744The Lincoln Project-Voters in Pennsylvania will begin to hear our ad, "Tide,"
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1575531145927839744The Lincoln Project-Voters in Pennsylvania will begin to hear our ad, "Tide,"
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1575531145927839744Dangerous new threats from Trump loyalists require Democrats to act
The MAGA nut cases want to use the debt ceiling to shut down the federal government
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1575532931812048896
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/29/trump-maga-house-2022-elections-debt-limit-democrats/
Consider these two developments. On one front, a top House Republican is threatening to use future debt-limit fights to force concessions from Democrats. Relatively sane Senate Republicans are taking this seriously, warning of a nightmare.
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On another front, a very competitive GOP Senate candidate is insisting that Republicans must block FBI investigations into Donald Trump. This echoes other GOP demands, which are only growing.
Put all this together, and what do you get? An ugly picture of how a GOP-controlled Congress will stoke governing turmoil, to nefarious ends, including but not limited to placing Trump above the law.
If Democrats dont use their power to act against this threat, it will be a serious dereliction of duty. Heres a start: Pass legislation in the lame-duck session that will disable coming GOP threats to default on the nations borrowing limit (causing financial havoc), which Republicans will try to use as leverage to extract major concessions from them.
Yes, Democrats can do this; more on this below. But first, heres how real the threat has become: With the nation set to hit the debt limit in early 2023, Axios reports that Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri a front-runner for Banking Committee chair in a GOP House is openly declaring that Republicans should use it to reverse the Biden administrations radical policies......
Democrats can avert this scenario. In the lame-duck, they can use the reconciliation process to pass a 2023 budget outline (with only Democrats and no Republicans), which would allow them to raise the debt limit (again without Republican support) to an amount unlikely to be reached for President Bidens full term and well beyond.
Thats because the reconciliation process allows measures on spending, taxes, and the debt limit, notes Georgetown University law professor David Super, a specialist in congressional procedure. This is probably doable without setting the debt limit at a hard number that Republicans would attack.
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