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Kevin McCarthy created this "crisis"

At least Mitch McConnell admits the obvious: There will be no default, and everyone knows it. So WTF is going on?

Salon

DOJ gets "damaging" Trump docs evidence

“Jack Smith is taking direct aim at Trump’s ‘declassification by mere thought’ defense,” ex-prosecutor says

Salon

Feinstein just the latest example of an old problem: Politicians have long been able to evade questions about their ability to serve

California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently returned to the Senate after an almost three-month absence that – because she could not vote remotely and the Senate is closely divided – left the Democrats’ agenda in limbo.

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Schiff ‘not backing down’ in face of Republican bid to expel him from Congress

California representative targeted after the release of the Durham report, which investigated FBI inquiry into Trump and Russia

The Guardian - US

The return of Donald Trump to prime-time television

“Well, that was a disaster, a politically historic one,” said Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal. CNN had the bright idea last week of hosting Donald Trump for a live, prime-time town hall question-and-answer session with a studio audience. If the network thought this would allow it to subject the…

The Week

The US debt ceiling crisis is more proof of Republicans’ cynicism and bad faith

Republicans want to force spending cuts by threat instead of legislating – and the cuts they’re asking for are appalling

The Guardian - US

George Santos bizarrely compares himself to a Mean Girls character: ‘I’m Cady’

Santos faces a potential expulsion vote in the House

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Conspiracy theorists to address US House subcommittee, watchdog warns

Representative Jim Jordan will call on Covid truthers and January 6 sceptics in his inquiry into the politicization of federal law enforcement

The Guardian - US

Boebert's divorce exposes GOP women

Lauren Boebert's divorce is funny — it also reveals why GOP men are doubling down on the misogyny

Salon

Looking back at Tuesday’s elections

Welcome to the Thursday, May 18, Brew.

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Biden's reelection campaign sees 'viable pathways' to 2024 election win

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020 but also compete in places it lost like North Carolina and Florida, providing what it says are “a number of viable pathways" to victory

The Independent UK

A Trump victory against DeSantis — in KY

"The Trump culture of winning is alive and well in Kentucky" claimed Daniel Cameron after his GOP primary win

Salon

Internal skepticism emerges on Democrats’ debt ceiling tactic

Rep. Jared Golden said the Democrats' discharge petition is not a "real strategy."

Axios

Inside the Biden campaign's plan to win back Latino voters

Democrats aim to build on the playbook they used with surprising success in last year's midterms.

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The Independent UK

Aide to embattled Republican George Santos resigns: ‘You never took one point of professional advice’

‘I am honored to tender my resignation,’ Woomer says

The Independent UK

Death row inmate challenges new Tennessee post-conviction law

A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general over some capital punishment proceedings

The Guardian - US

Texas doctors depart as attorney general investigates hospital’s gender-affirming care

An investigation by the state into adolescent transgender care resulted in the curtailment of treatment for transitioning children

The Independent UK

New Hampshire House voting on whether parents who ask must be told about transgender talk at school

The national debate surrounding transgender students and parental rights is up for a vote in New Hampshire

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Philadelphia's likely next mayor could offer model for how Democrats talk about crime

The Democrat who will almost certainly become Philadelphia’s next mayor wants to hire hundreds of additional police officers and says officers should be able to stop and search pedestrians if they have a legitimate reason to do so

The Independent UK

Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US states

Hundreds of measures targeting transgender people have been proposed in statehouses this year, and several have moved forward this week

Reuters

South Carolina advances 6-week abortion ban

South Carolina's Republican-controlled state House of Representatives late Wednesday passed a "fetal heartbeat" bill to ban abortions about six weeks into pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant, moving it to the state Senate where its fate is less certain.

The Independent UK

Democratic Minneapolis City Council candidate says he doesn't condone violence, days after melee

Days after chaos erupted at a Democratic nominating convention for a Minneapolis City Council seat, one of the candidates says he does not condone violence

Reason

The Chief Judge of the Northern District of Texas Responds to Senator Schumer

The majority leader, and everyone else, should listen to the voice of Godbey on single-judge divisions.

The Independent UK

FACT FOCUS: Videos of empty store aisles are unrelated to Florida’s immigration bill

A sweeping immigration bill recently signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sparking fears of deserted workplaces – and barren grocery shelves

The Independent UK

North Carolina Republican apologises for ‘thinly-veiled racial’ attack

‘Would you have not been able to achieve these if you were not an athlete or a minority?’

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