As right-wing rhetoric increases, so do threats and violence
Despite that threat, a day later, when the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News published the warrant underlying the Mar-a-Lago search, it did not redact the names of the FBI agents in the document. Almost immediately afterward, posts on a pro-Trump chat board referred to them as “traitors.” According to the FBI, there are now about 2,700 domestic terrorism investigations open, a number that has doubled since spring 2020, and that does not include smaller but still serious incidents that do not rise to the level of a federal investigation. Last year, threats against members of Congress hit a record high…
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Americans have increasingly negative views of the other political party
The Trump era has been intensely polarized in a country that was already seeing its social fabric stretched. A a big Pew poll this week shows how bad it has gotten. (Pew interviewed 6,174 Americans. For context: most good national polls only interview about 1,000 people.) The survey’s biggest finding? Democrats and Republicans agree: They really don’t like Republicans and Democrats. Since 2016, a growing number of people in each party simply don’t like people in the other party. They increasingly see people with different political views as closed-minded, dishonest, unintelligent and even immoral. Among Democrats, 63% see Republicans as…
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Americans have increasingly negative views of the other political party
The Trump era has been intensely polarized in a country that was already seeing its social fabric stretched. A a big Pew poll this week shows how bad it has gotten. (Pew interviewed 6,174 Americans. For context: most good national polls only interview about 1,000 people.) The survey’s biggest finding? Democrats and Republicans agree: They really don’t like Republicans and Democrats. Since 2016, a growing number of people in each party simply don’t like people in the other party. They increasingly see people with different political views as closed-minded, dishonest, unintelligent and even immoral. Among Democrats, 63% see Republicans as…
Read More »Political animals! These stars are proud supporters of the Republican Party
Several celebrities have shared their political views with the world, with some in the US proudly supporting the Republican Party and, in some cases, controversial former President Donald Trump. Here are 10 such stars! Vote Republican! Updated 2 hours ago Several celebrities have shared their political views with the world, with some in the US proudly supporting the Republican Party and, in some cases, controversial former President Donald Trump. Here are 10 such stars! Melissa Joan Hart Updated 2 hours ago The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star is a proud supporter of the Republic and is happy to be open…
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As Jan. 6 probe widens, officials fear DOJ resources at breaking point
WASHINGTON – It’s the “broadest investigation” in the history of the Justice Department: the unprecedented hunt for hundreds of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in the name of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, and the criminal investigation into efforts to stop the peaceful transfer. of power It’s also a logistical nightmare. As the cases against the Capitol rioters make their way through the court system and a federal grand jury hears testimony about Trump’s role on Jan. 6, some federal officials are expressing concern that the already sprawling investigation could take from January 6 to a breaking point….
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Salman Rushdie, whose writing prompted the Iranian death fatwa, stabbed on stage
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) – Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing drew death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed to the stage when he was about to give a lecture in Western New York. A bleeding Rushdie, 75, was taken to a hospital. His condition was not immediately known. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator on Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye he was likely to lose. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man…
Read More »“Unfortunately, we knew it would come”: more than 300 people have already died this year on the streets of La Vall
PHOENIX – At least 337 homeless people have already died this year on the streets of the Valley and the numbers seem to be growing at a record pace. “It’s devastating, shocking, unfortunately we knew it was coming,” said Phoenix’s spokesman Marty Hames. Circle the City. Hames said homelessness is on the rise and the valley’s higher housing costs are fueling it. “They don’t have anywhere else to turn other than the street,” Hames said. Troy Kallhoff had been homeless just over two weeks ago, forced to live in a friend’s yard. “Not knowing where I’m going to eat or…
Read More »Growing political power of women on display in Kansas abortion vote
BDN’s opinion section operates independently and does not set editorial policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or bangordailynews.com. “What’s wrong with Kansas?” After that state’s vote to keep abortion protections in the state constitution, many might respond that “there’s nothing wrong with Kansas.” Unless this vote was a fluke, what happened in Kansas has sent a signal about the future of American politics. The Kansas question was first asked by William Allen White in an 1896 classic editorial. He criticized the populism of the state and attacked men who talked about large public spending…
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