Biden is president. Kamala Harris makes history as first woman, first South Asian, and first African American vice president.
Republicans are wasting no time in showing their true colors. McConnell pulls a stunt on Day One to block Democrats from taking over the majority on committees.
Yes, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as president and vice president this past week, but Chairman Sanders stole the inauguration and became an instant internet meme with his winter coat and mittens.
Speaking of Chairman Sanders, he started Biden’s presidency by waving two big middle fingers to everyone’s “unity talk.” Senator Sanders wasted no time threatening Republicans with reconciliation if they do not agree with COVID relief. Sanders stated that Republicans used budget reconciliation to push tax-cuts through for the rich and that Democrats will use the process to help working families.
Earlier today, Biden lifted the Trump ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the military.
As we go LIVE, the House has delivered the article of impeachment against former president Donald Trump to the Senate. Apparently, Chief Justice Roberts was unwilling or uninterested in presiding over a second trial. The Constitution says the Chief Justice is to preside over a sitting president but does not spell out what happens in a trial against a former president. Senator Leahy has been tapped to be the presiding officer.
Joe Biden is making in-roads with labor in ways that previous administrations haven’t. On his first day in office, Biden fired Peter Robb, the former head of the National Labor Relations Board. Robb was a corporate lawyer who helped Rondal Regan fire thousands of air-traffic controllers in the 1980’s. Robb was just replaced with Peter Ohr as interim head of the NLRB. Ohr made waves in a ruling that allowed Northwestern University football players to unionize.
Big Twitter-verse controversy over #ForceTheVote leads to frustrating debate between Sam Seder of the Majority Report and Briahna Joy Gray, former national press secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign. The debate took place on Bad Faith podcast, which Briahna Joy Gray co-hosts with Virgil Texas from Chapo Traphouse.
Documents obtained by Pennsylvania Spotlight showed that Pennsylvania Senate Republicans spent over $1 million in legal fees to disenfranchise Pennsylvania voters. That’s right. They spent your tax dollars to stop you from voting last year.
On Friday night, it was reported in the New York Times that an unnamed Pennsylvania Politician played a key role in trying to stage a coup within the Department of Justice in order to force Georgia to overturn their election results.
It turns out that in a follow-up reporting, it was Scott Perry who aided Trump in trying to fire the senior staff at the Department of Justice to install a Trump loyalist who was willing to overturn the Georgia election results.
The plot thickens in the case against Riley Williams, the 22-year-old Harrisburg area woman who took part in the Capitol insurrection, allegedly stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop, and then tried to sell it to Russia. According to DC-based NBC investigative reporter, Scott MacFarlane, Williams, who was released on bail under the supervision of her mother, hopped on the internet and encourage people involved in the insurrection to destroy evidence. MacFarlane reported on Twitter that the U.S. Justice Department told the judge in the case just that as they sought to prohibit Williams’s internet access.
We’re not out of the woods, but PA saw the lowest number of new cases of COVID-19 and the lowest number of deaths in weeks.
On today’s last call: what’s new at Free Will Brewing; Levante Brewing stout haul; cooking with Sean; and other randomness.
Friday Politics Roundup w/ Amy Knecht. Politics and Dragons and Middle Earth, oh my!
Out d’Coup LIVE | Fascists homeschoolers in OH, ”Hillsdale of the South,” Your thoughts | January 30, 2023
Friday Politics Roundup | Tanks to Ukraine; Memphis police killing; Jeffrey Yass funds new PAC; Central Bucks SD censorship and protest; Pennridge SD imports Hillsdale College curriculum
Friday Politics Roundup | Attack on voting rights; NZ PM Jacinda Ardern; hating edu; anti-abortionists gather; Gov. Josh Shapiro; D&D Open Gaming License controversy; and, more
Out d’Coup LIVE | MLK Day - reflecting on democracy and the future we want
Friday Politics Roundup for January 13, 2023
Out d’Coup LIVE | Easing into to 2023 - Happy New Year!
Friday Politics Roundup for December 23, 2022 - Last show of 2022! Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Out d’Coup LIVE | Cyril Mychalejko, Editor-in-Chief of the Bucks County Beacon. Looking back on 2022 and ahead to 2023.
Friday Politics Roundup for December 16, 2022
Out d’Coup LIVE | Garen Meguerian, Civil Rights and Free Speech Lawyer, on Moore v. Harper
Friday Politics Roundup for December 9, 2022
Out d’Coup LIVE | Raelyn Roberson - Field Coordinator of Stopping Cyber Suppression at Common Cause
Out d’Coup | Friday Politics Roundup for December 2, 2022
Out d’Coup LIVE | Sean Crampsie - Director of Government Relations, APSCUF - Midterm election postmortem. What’s it mean for PA & PA higher ed?
Friday Politics Roundup | Abortion rights wins the day; the youth are coming and they mean business; huge PA victories; and more!
Out d’Coup LIVE | On the Eve of the Midterm Elections - We’re here for your thoughts, hopes, concerns, and plans of action.
Friday Politics Roundup | UN climate report sounds the alarm; C02 emissions to increase over 10 percent by 2030; Musk takes over Twitter; Fetterman-Oz debate; GOP able-ism on display; House of Dragon
Out d’Coup LIVE | Sharon Ward, Senior Policy Advisor for the Education Law Center, on school boards, hostile environments, extremist threats to our schools, and the fight back
Friday Politics Roundup | SCOTUS takes on affirmative action; unions get the goods; PA’s ’Don’t Say Gay’ bill; Proud Boys at Penn State. Rings of Power, House of the Dragon, Wheel of Time.
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