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By Hugh Jackson | Editor
Jolly jokers. Yesterday, acknowledging doubts about his qualifications for “high stakes, hostile negotiations” with Iran, celebrity author turned White House press spokeman JD Vance said "just two days ago I went on The View... Joy Behar is way more hostile than the Iranians and she and I are best friends now.”
The clip only makes the quip more pathetic — you have to listen closely for it, and even then only a couple polite snickers can be detected.
Perhaps Vance was inspired by the comic stylings of Nevada 3rd congressional district Republican candidate and policy neophyte Marty O'Donnell. "If I end up in Congress," O'Donnell said last week, "the thing I believe with all my heart is that nothing can happen in Congress that is as bad as making Halo 2."
Hopefully one of the high-dollar campaign advisers O’Donnell can afford thanks to his personal fortune will talk with him about what congressional actions and/or lack thereof are doing to people who, unlike O’Donnell, did not make millions writing songs for video games.
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The 13th Amendment was the most consequential reform in U.S. history. But "the story for formerly enslaved people continued to unfold in complex ways well after Juneteenth, including when it came to their educational journeys. Juneteenth made clear that freedom was not just confined to someone’s physical enslavement, but mental enslavement as well, bound in the laws that barred enslaved people from receiving an education in Southern states." Via The Conversation: Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery
Ready... set... ohferchrissake. As election officials across the country steel themselves for the midterm elections in less than five months, Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail threatens to upend their preparations. The DC bureau's Jonathan Shorman provides this overview: Local election officials reel over ‘logistical nightmare’ of Trump’s vote-by-mail order
Good Luck
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