We made you an analysis of the border bill!! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/eme... Itâs late-ish because instead of prewriting based on what we thought would be in the bill, we drew our analysis from bill text. Weâre all exhausted now but it was worth it.
There's a local referendum next week in the Seattle suburbs to increase the minimum wage, to what'd be one of the highest hourly rates in the nation ($20.29 for large employers). One of the key elections to watch in coming weeks: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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A Pennsylvania pastor was fired by his church for a pro-LGTB message. He decided to run for a local office to denounce the deadly conditions in the local jail. He scored a shock upset and flipped a county government, after running a shoestring campaign. boltsmag.org/dauphin-coun...
Pastor and activist Justin Douglas will soon be plunged into an insider role, helping run the stateâs capital county. Can he leverage his new power to change Harrisburg
A Pennsylvania pastor was fired by his church for a pro-LGTB message. He decided to run for a local office to denounce the deadly conditions in the local jail. He scored a shock upset and flipped a county government, after running a shoestring campaign. boltsmag.org/dauphin-coun...
Pastor and activist Justin Douglas will soon be plunged into an insider role, helping run the stateâs capital county. Can he leverage his new power to change Harrisburg
Trying to think of ways the GOP establishment could've handled the current dynamic worse than they did and I'm really coming up empty.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is getting a primary challenger in his reelection race for his House seat representing the stateâs 20th congressional district. David Giglio, who prevâŚ
Mike Johnsonâs first proposal: direct $14B to Israel by cutting $14B in IRS funding. Itâs not a real offset since cutting IRS funding actually costs money. Itâs not a serious proposal: itâs an attack ad in waiting (âCongressman X chose the IRS over Israel!â)
Every $1 invested in the IRS generates a $5-$9 return per the nonpartisan CBO https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
CBO estimates that portions of the Administrationâs proposal to increase funding for the IRS by $80 billion over the 2022â2031 period would increase revenues by approximately $200 billion over those 10 years.
"House Speaker Mike Johnsonâs wife took down the website for her company, Onward Christian Counseling Services, a day after HuffPost pointed to documents on the site that compared homosexuality to bestiality and incest." @jbendery.bsky.social What did Mikey know abt this & when did know abt it?
HuffPost first reported on Kelly Johnson's counseling service that likens LGBTQ+ people to people who have sex with animals and family members.
Lesson 1: donât trust Youngkinâs admin on voting rights. Lesson 2: follow @burness.bsky.social@bolts.bsky.social. Takeaway of both: continue to suspect situation not resolved, as article above suggests # of people wrongly purged would be still higher than 3,000 Youngkin has now admitted to.
Youngkinâs admin a month ago admitted it unlawfully purged 270 voters. But @burness.bsky.socialhttps://boltsmag.org/virginia-erroneous-voter-purge/ This weekend, weeks later, Youngkin finally admitted it was in thousands.