Charlie Kirk murder hits close to home for members of Congress - Roll Call The murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk never seemed to lurk far from the surface of congressional business Thursday. Roll Call · Sep 11, 2025
Utah Republican senator faces backlash over post condemning Kirk’s killing Only months ago, Mike Lee had posted disparaging tweets after Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot The Guardian - US · Sep 11, 2025
‘Run, Run, Run’: Right-Wing Activist Charlie Kirk Shot Dead On Stage, Lawmakers React Charlie Kirk, a right-wing commentator, was shot during a campus speaking event at Utah Valley University today. Pedestrian.tv · Sep 10, 2025
LA Mayor Karen Bass Calls Supreme Court Ruling On Lifting ICE Restrictions 'Dangerous' And 'Un-American' The Supreme Court's decision to lift restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles has ignited sharp criticism from lawmakers and civil rights advocates, who warn it could enable racial profiling and threaten personal freedoms. Benzinga · Sep 9, 2025
Trump to Rebrand Pentagon: Why the Department of Defense Will Be Renamed the Department of War Donald Trump will sign an executive order allowing the Pentagon to use its historic title, the Department of War. The White House says the change reflects strength, but critics call it costly and symbolic. International Business Times UK · Sep 5, 2025
When Can Lawyers Be Punished for "Undignified or Discourteous" Criticism of Judges? "Miss Manners has much to commend her within a polite and respectful society, but we are not her enforcement division." Reason · Aug 30, 2025
Utah judge tosses congressional maps, creating Democratic opportunity - Roll Call Democrats lauded a Tuesday evening order by a judge in Utah directing the state legislature to quickly draw new congressional maps. Roll Call · Aug 26, 2025
Despite Monumental Backlash, Utah's Legislature Still Wants to Sell Public Land Public lands remain the one issue that nearly every American can agree on, in that they should stay in the public's hands. Yet, Utah's legislature remains hell bent on selling them off. RideApart · Jul 30, 2025
Republican Sen. Reportedly Posts And Then Deletes Fake Resignation Letter From Fed Chair Powell Republican Sen. Mike Lee reportedly posted and then deleted what he believed to be a resignation letter from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Latin Times · Jul 22, 2025
Fed chair Jerome Powell resignation letter fake appears to dupe Trump-boosting Republican senator Mike Lee, a Utah MAGA loyalist, posted and then deleted a tweet celebrating Powell’s supposed resignation on Tuesday with a copy of the fake letter The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025
GOP Senator Theorizes That Epstein Was a Federal Asset After FBI Declares No 'Client List': 'The Dots Don't Add Up Cleanly' A Republican senator shared his theory that disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein may have been a federal asset working with the U.S. government. Latin Times · Jul 10, 2025
Elon Musk Backs Warren Buffett's Brutal '5-Minute Deficit Fix' To Ban Congress From Reelection If They Blow the Budget: '100% This Is the Way' More than a decade ago, Warren Buffett said the national deficit could be solved in just five minutes. His plan? "You just pass a law that says that any time there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection." Benzinga · Jul 4, 2025
Sleepless in the Senate: Here’s everything that went down inside the 24-hour ‘vote-a-rama’ From Thom Tillis unchained, to John Thune’s backroom deal with Lisa Murkowski to a pissed-off John Fetterman, Eric Garcia reveals what it’s like during a 24-hour marathon of votes to pass The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2025
California Enacts Sweeping Exemption to Development-Killing Environmental Law Plus: Real rent decreases in New York City, the return of missing middle housing in Virginia, and how everyone's a socialist on housing in New York. Reason · Jul 1, 2025
Cycling Weekly · Jun 30, 2025 The battle for public lands is a reminder: cyclists can’t afford to stay on the sidelines of politics Cycling is a political act. Without a strong, unified constituency, we stand to lose big
Roll Call · Jun 28, 2025 Senate votes to take up 'big, beautiful' revised budget bill - Roll Call The procedural vote was held open for more than three hours as GOP leaders worked to convince holdouts to let the package move to the floor.
Roll Call · Jun 27, 2025 Supreme Court upholds Texas age-verification law for online porn - Roll Call The Supreme Court upheld a Texas law that required pornography websites to verify the age of their users in a ruling Friday.
RideApart · Jun 27, 2025 Revoking the Roadless Rule Isn't About Off-Roading, It's About Timber and Oil The Trump administration says it is revoking the
Reason · Jun 26, 2025 The Problem With Mike Lee's Public Lands Proposal Is That It Doesn't Sell Off Enough Land America's housing shortage is worst in Western states. That's also where the federal government owns the most land.
RideApart · Jun 25, 2025 We're Not Willing to Give Up a Single Acre of Public Land, Senator Lee Utah's Senator Mike Lee has kicked the hornets nest, as folks from across the outdoor industry have come together to fight his public land sale proposal in the budget reconciliation bill. Here's my letter to him.
RideApart · Jun 25, 2025 Senate Excludes Public Land Sales From Budget, New Lee Proposal Puts It Back In After mass public outcry, the Senate's parliamentarian has stricken the provision to sell public lands from the budget reconciliation bill. However, Utah Senator Mike Lee proposed a new plan that puts it back in.
The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2025 Voices: Political violence is becoming the new normal of Trump’s America COMMENT: From assassination attempts on Donald Trump to the murders of Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband, political violence is becoming more prevalent, writes Eric Lewis. But the goading rhetoric that accompanies it is almost exclusively coming from the right – and it must stop
The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2025 GOP plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules A plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules
The Guardian - US · Jun 22, 2025 ‘Our era of violent populism’: the US has entered a new phase of political violence The political temperature is dangerously high – and shows few signs of cooling
The Guardian - US · Jun 21, 2025 The Minnesota shootings illuminate the character of the Trump era The attacks on lawmakers and a US senator’s callous reaction tell a dark tale of modern America