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White House Response to Scandal Allegations: Let Them Eat Cupcakes

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Scandal allegations are piling up for President Joe Biden. What’s the White House response been? Let them eat “Pride” cupcakes. Instead of answering difficult questions, White House staff decided it’s time to ignore or outright mock journalists looking for answers. White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates tweeted out a picture of “Pride” rainbow cupcakes directed at Fox News. Cupcakes in solidarity with @FOXCorp, which @FoxNews is attacking w/ a malicious, still-not-retracted digital article.@CNN: “The preposterous story failed to mention that Fox Corporation’s own logo had been wrapped in the very…

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One Year Since Dobbs: 18 Vulnerable House Republicans Side With MAGA to Attack Abortion Access

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With this week marking the anniversary of the disastrous Dobbs decision, we wanted to share new research which documents the abortion stances of every Complicit Caucus member. Since last year, support for abortion rights has grown, even and especially in red states, which puts the Complicit Caucus’s collective stance on abortion even further out of step with a vast majority of Americans.  Despite running as moderates, the entire Complicit Caucus positions itself among the extreme right on abortion. These members of Congress, who vote lockstep with Republican leadership, represent constituents…

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A Supreme Court Ruling That Could Tip the House

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A decade’s worth of disappointment has conditioned Black Americans and Democrats to fear voting-rights rulings from the Supreme Court. In 2013, a 5–4 majority invalidated a core tenet of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Subsequent decisions have chipped away at the rest of the law, and in 2019, a majority of the justices declared that federal courts have no power to bar partisan gerrymandering. So this morning, when two conservatives joined the high court’s three liberals in reaffirming a central part of the Voting Rights Act, Democrats reacted as…

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Sports no sure respite from politics when title-winning athletes visit the White House

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President Calvin Coolidge wasn’t as big a baseball fan as his wife, Grace. But even Silent Cal got swept up in the excitement of the Washington Senators’ unexpectedly successful season in 1924. After the team clinched the American League pennant, the players swung by the White House to shake hands and pose for pictures with Coolidge. The Washington Times stories: White House

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