Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
8th November 2022
This Democratic leader just broke the first rule of politics (CNN)
Clyburn draws parallel between US today and Germany before Nazis (The Hill)
Civil rights organizations sue over 1,000 unsent absentee ballots in Atlanta-area county (The Hill)
Chicago principal suspended over student’s Nazi costume (N.Y. Post)
Corporate America gears up for a new wave of investigations by Congress (Financial Times)
Hear Jordan Klepper describe what surprised him about interviewing election deniers (CNN)
Report: Far-right social media site users claim they’ll be poll workers (Politico) Oddly enough, they don’t seem bothered by the prospect of far-left social media site users being poll workers. (For Politico, there is no right but the far-right.)
Republicans hope Michigan is proof-of-concept for an LGBT backlash (Semafor) As if David Weigel knows anything about what Republicans hope for.
MAGA Candidate Slapped With Cease-and-Desist Over ‘Racist’ TV Spot (Daily Beast)
Putin Insiders Pray for ‘Frightening’ GOP Election Sweep (Daily Beast) Does anybody seriously believe that some arrested adolescent writing for the Daily Beast has any accurate knowledge of what ‘Putin insiders’ are praying for? I suppose it doesn’t really matter if you get paid for just making shit up….
CBS Scares Voters: Midterms Could Be Marred by Far-Right ‘Violence’
Meet the ‘Black Robe Regiment’ of Extremist Pastors Spreading Christian Nationalism (Vice)
CBS Panel FLIPS OUT After Mulvaney Notes Polarizing Dems Are Election Deniers