r/politics • u/PoliticsModeratorBot • 4h ago

Discussion Discussion Thread: Senate votes on cloture for bipartisan infrastructure bill

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Joe Manchin Makes $500K a Year From One of the Dirtiest Coal Plants in West Virginia | That’s more than twice his salary as a U.S. senator.

vice.com

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r/politics • u/Twoweekswithpay • 6h ago

AOC on Sinema blocking $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill: 'Good luck tanking your own party's investment'

businessinsider.com

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r/politics • u/MrDonMega • 5h ago

Turns Out Mo Brooks Was Wearing Body Armor to Trump’s Very Peaceful Jan. 6 Rally

slate.com

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r/politics • u/Bonboniru • 11h ago

Retired US general says the Trump White House 'was complicit in the planning' of January 6 insurrection

businessinsider.com

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r/politics • u/skl692 • 10h ago

It Sure Seems Like Jim Jordan Just Admitted He Spoke With Trump on January 6th

rollingstone.com

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r/politics • u/dingo8yobb • 7h ago

Covid spreading twice as fast in Republican counties than Democrat ones, report says

independent.co.uk

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r/politics • u/DeanSmartin • 7h ago

Kyrsten Sinema Blocks Democrats' Plan to Spend $3.5 Trillion on Infrastructure

businessinsider.com

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r/politics • u/Ice_Burn • 12h ago

Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Confirm They’re Cowards With No Souls on First Day of 1/6 Hearing

vanityfair.com

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r/politics • u/amnesiac7 • 10h ago

Why Jim Jordan should probably expect a subpoena from Jan. 6 panel

msnbc.com

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r/politics • u/Oleg101 • 9h ago

Lauren Boebert throws face mask back at House staffer after reintroduction of Covid rules

independent.co.uk

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478 comments

r/politics • u/malarkeyfreezone • 9h ago

Tempers flare as some in GOP ignore new House mask mandate

thehill.com

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330 comments

r/politics • u/MoreGull • 15h ago

Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual.

washingtonpost.com

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321 comments

r/politics • u/Cjoseph08 • 12h ago

Tucker Carlson Keeps Interviewing a Congressman Who Is Also His Son's Boss

vice.com

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r/politics • u/updatesforassholes • 15h ago

'Donald Trump Bled Tonight in Texas:' Reaction As Trump Pick Defeated in House Runoff'

newsweek.com

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r/politics • u/xRipleyx • 13h ago

Pelosi: McCarthy a 'moron' for opposing mask mandate

thehill.com

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399 comments

r/politics • u/830resat_dorsia • 3h ago

Companies have legal right to require vaccinations, new federal guidance says

thehill.com

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r/politics • u/visjn • 12h ago

AP Fact Check rates GOP claim Pelosi blocked National Guard on Jan. 6 'false'

thehill.com

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212 comments

r/politics • u/wonderingsocrates • 8h ago

Opinion: Jan. 6 police officers give a master class on the dangers of right-wing extremism

washingtonpost.com

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55 comments

r/politics • u/sanantoniosaucier • 17h ago

Cop Shares Voicemail Threat He Received During Testimony About U.S. Capitol Riot

huffpost.com

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r/politics • u/KymeStar • 13h ago

The ‘Audit’ Trying to Steal Arizona for Trump Just Got Suspended From Twitter

vice.com

4k Upvotes

219 comments

r/politics • u/Fr1sk3r • 14h ago

Greene and Gaetz forced to flee pro-Jan. 6 event, chased off by noisy protesters | One GOP staffer at far-right presser was triggered by protester with "auditory weapon," also known as a whistle

salon.com

5k Upvotes

460 comments

r/politics • u/newfrontier58 • 6h ago

The Obscene Hypocrisy of Republicans Blaming Everyone But Themselves: The COVID Edition

motherjones.com

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r/politics • u/nosotros_road_sodium • 12h ago

The new mask logic | The Biden administration is essentially asking vaccinated Americans to help save the unvaccinated from themselves.

axios.com

3k Upvotes

925 comments

r/politics • u/qkfb • 10h ago

The biggest threat to democracy isn’t coming from China. It’s coming from within.

vox.com

2k Upvotes

120 comments

r/politics • u/PoliticiansAlwaysLie • 15h ago

Capitol insurrection hearing exposes Trumpworld delusions

thehill.com

5k Upvotes

313 comments

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