20% of Indiana GOP primary voters cast ballots for Niki Haley, who dropped out months ago.

This is consistent with margins from other states and seems to indicate that 20% of Republicans don’t want Trump. We can only hope.

Ted Cruz, GOP Senator and right wing troll, reaches out to Democrats in close election

Truth Social audit firm charged with massive fraud, banned from practice before the SEC.

Accused of operating a sham audit mill. This won’t help the stock price.


https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/03/trump-media-auditor-charged-by-sec-with-massive-fraud-permanently-barred-from-public-company-audits.html

Columbia University 1968 protesting the Vietnam War.

For a flashback, read the Strawberry Statement, a non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen, written when he was 19, which chronicled his experiences at Columbia University from 1966–1968, particularly the April 1968 protests and takeover of the office of the dean of Columbia by student protesters.[1]

It’s worth a read.

Question: is it possible to be concerned about Palestinian civilians without being accused of being anti-Semitic?

I look at the photos of destroyed apartment buildings in Gaza and they look exactly like the ones bombed by Putin in Ukraine.

Question: If a President had a Supreme Court Justice assassinated, would that be an official act?

It seems appropriate that on Hitler's birthday, 112 House Republicans voted against aid for Ukraine.

Once again, a headline causes me to spit my wine on myself...

As Senate race heats up, Ted Cruz pitches himself as the better bipartisan

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/13/2234659/-As-Senate-race-heats-up-Ted-Cruz-pitches-himself-as-the-better-bipartisan

Texas Attorney General Paxton is at it again...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ attorney general filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to stop a guaranteed income program set to start this month for Houston-area residents.

The program by Harris County, where Houston is located, is set to provide “no-strings-attached” $500 monthly cash payments to 1,928 county residents for 18 months. Those who qualified for the program must have a household income below 200% of the federal poverty line and need to live in one of the identified high-poverty zip codes.

The program is funded by $20.5 million from the American Rescue Plan, the pandemic relief law signed by President Joe Biden in 2021.

Federal pandemic funding has prompted dozens of cities and counties across the country to implement guaranteed income programs as ways to reduce poverty, lessen inequality and get people working.

In his lawsuit filed in civil court in Houston, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dubbed the program the “Harris Handout” and described it as a “socialist experiment” by county officials that violates the Texas Constitution and is “an illegal and illegitimate government overreach.”

Georgia Republican official and outspoken election denier caught voting illegally 9 times...

Brian Pritchard, Georgia GOP's first vice chairman, voted while on probation for forgery and other felonies. He was sentenced to pay a $5,000 fine and "be publicly reprimanded for his conduct."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/28/brian-pritchard-georgia-illegal-voting/73135511007/

Meanwhile in another universe:

Ms Crystal Mason, a black woman from Texas, was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison for casting a provisional ballot while on supervised release from prison for tax evasion, believing she could legally vote. She was only just recently acquitted by the Texas Appeals Court.