Georgia runoffs

"We want to give more poeple voice in the process ind eciding whent o add context, and deciding what that context says," Coleman said, underscoring that there is more trust behind a community-based approach "than when it is done by any singular institution or tech company."  … [Read more...] about Twitter unveils ‘Birdwatch,’ a ‘community-driven approach’ to combat misleading information

Meanwhile, Democrats have to worry about the interim senators who won in two highly competitive states in 2020: Arizona’s Mark Kelly and Georgia’s Raphael Warnock. But, in an echo of Ohio, Republicans in Arizona and Georgia are divided over the rejection of Trump’s effort to overturn Joe Biden’s election by the states’ Republican governors, Doug Ducey (who is term-limited in 2022) and Brian Kemp (who was threatened repeatedly by Trump with a MAGA primary challenge). Ducey has ruled himself out as a challenger to Kelly. In Georgia, the future plans of former congressman Doug Collins, the close Trump ally who challenged and lost a runoff spot to Kelly Loeffler in the Senate race ultimately won by Warnock, will bear watching; he could run against Warnock or against Kemp. There’s also early speculation about freshman congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has received a lot of statewide and national attention for her extremist views, her support for … [Read more...] about Republican Senator Rob Portman to Retire in 2022

The claim that America has lost its innocence, its ability to lead and its capacity to set an example for the world is itself a myth. America’s greatness rests on no such claim. We are not innocent. We do not always lead. We do not always set a good example. We are not a shining light to humanity on every issue. But we have saved the world from repression and continue to be committed to a level of freedom that is difficult to manage but gives us great strength. We know we have work to do, and most of us are ready to pursue what is right, including a program to respond to the divisions that have caused the current crisis.     … [Read more...] about A better response to political violence in America

“That book isn’t just about the synagogue and my Jewish background,” Ossoff told the newspaper before his swearing-in this week. “It’s also about the necessity of reanimating the spirit of the civil rights movement and building alliances to pass landmark civil rights legislation.” … [Read more...] about Ossoff sworn in on Hebrew Bible from synagogue bombed by white supremacists in the 1950s