“Castrate, kill, remove voting rights,” the soon-to-be Georgia sheriff's deputy wrote in a text found by the FBI. “The only problem is you can’t expect to get them all that way.”

Very disturbing report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
ajc.com/news/castrate-…
"I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote," read one text. One text described beating up a Black person as "stress relief." (!)
The deputy and ex-Marine was found with an arsenal of weapons, pled guilty to a weapons charge and will be sentenced in August, AJC reports.
I'm having a flashback to this story last year.

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You'd have to be deaf not to have known Democrats were going to seek a reconciliation package too.
I've been speaking to Republican and Democratic senators on this very point. Rs oppose the reconciliation package, but they weren't pretending it doesn't exist. It was part of the deal from the first Biden-Capito & Co meeting that Ds/Biden would pursue a follow-on package.
Central tension here is Rs want to kill and/or shrink the reconciliation package, & Ds/WH have been trying to make it essential. The new part was Biden explicitly saying no signing this package w/o reconciliation too. But a little redundant after Pelosi said she'd hold the bill.
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This one person’s Roth IRA is about 14 times larger than the police budget for the entire city of Detroit.
Congress could have prevented this from happening with a single sentence but … didn’t.
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All pizzas should have pineapple.
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Republicans tried to turn the ACA Medicaid expansion into a kind of block grant in 2017 via reconciliation. You can defund Planned Parenthood programs in reconciliation. You can set the Medicare age to 100. You can nix food stamps etc.
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It's going to take a while: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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AOC has pointed out House can simply hold up the Senate's GOP-friendly infrastructure bill until the much broader Democratic package is ready and vote on both near simultaneously.

(This is similar to how the ACA ended up passing in 2010.)
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