Facebook, Google and Microsoft announced Monday they won’t be giving out any political donations on the heels of the capitol siege, while a growing number of businesses said they will cut off campaign contributions to Republicans who voted to challenge the Electoral College count. HALLPAC, Hallmark’s political action committee, told Popular Information’s Judd Legum that it … Read more
Republican Senator Pat Toomey revealed on Saturday he believes President Donald Trump has ‘committed impeachable offenses’. In an interview with Fox, he claimed that Trump was no longer fit to serve after the president this week called on his supporters to ‘fight’ the election results, causing them to riot on the U.S. Capitol in violent … Read more
Democratic congressman Sen. Mark Warner is asking Facebook and other Big Tech social media and telecom companies to save digital evidence from Wednesday’s deadly Capitol riot. On Saturday, Warner, the incoming Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tweeted out a letter he’d sent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. ‘After Wednesday’s insurrectionist attack on our nation’s Capitol, … Read more
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton sparked outrage by calling the enslavement of millions of African people in the early years of the United States a ‘necessary evil’. Cotton, an outspoken Republican, made the jarring remark in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Sunday as he promoted a new bill that would defund schools that teach … Read more
Sen. Tom Scott questioned why the New York Times backpedaled on his recent op-ed calling for troops to be sent in to quash rioting seen in recent days connected to the George Floyd protests. The paper posted a mea culpa yesterday over its decision to publish Cotton’s incendiary commentary calling for the use of military force … Read more