NEW: Harrison Floyd tells Steve Bannon that the reason he sat in jail all weekend is because he’s black, but Fani Willis has an audio recording of a call to him the day he surrendered offering him consent bond and he refused it. https://t.co/O3u3mZyPRY
New: Judge Howell awards default judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defamation and other claims in civil suit brought by Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman.
Remember when Rudy Giuliani tried to "not contest" the facts alleged in Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss's defamation suit while preserving certain defenses/appeal rights? That story did not end well for him today. 1/
It doesn't make any sense for part of any public official's job, let alone the president's chief of staff, to include scheming to steal an election. But that's Mark Meadows' argument to remove his prosecution from state to federal court.
COVENANT MOM: “I’m sick of it! Listen to me! I’m a pleading mother! I don’t want anyone to feel what this feels like.”
The Covenant families left in tears after #KremlinCameron & the @tnhousegop ended #TNSpecialSession in anti-democratic chaos with very little accomplished.
A Christian boarding school in West Virginia has reached a record $100M settlement with dozens of child abuse survivors.
The abuse against the children included rape, assaults, solitary confinement for months, and being denied food and medical care.
This should be bigger news.
Remember: One of the biggest deficit drivers of the past 20 years are GOP tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations. The issue isn't programs that help millions of Americans, it's giveaways to the rich.
Nine million American seniors will benefit from the Biden Administration's announcement today. Nine million.
Meanwhile, every Republican voted against the Inflation Reduction Act that produced this.
The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –
I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.
Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
UPDATE: special session just ended in absolute chaos and the tears of Covenant families as #KremlinCameron@CSexton25 and the @tnhousegop changed the rules and made sure Dems couldn’t speak as they rushed to adjourn.🎪
Democracy dies in the light.
Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets.
Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.
My Republican colleagues just adjourned the special session, silencing any opportunity for us to speak and refusing to pass common sense gun laws.
Their priorities are out of order.
Their leadership is out of order.
The House is out of order.
It’s time for a new Speaker.