This was expected by almost all intelligent Americans ::

I enjoyed listening to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson answering questions from Senators the last 2 days. She's a Miami girl & I'm rooting for her  It got me looking at Justice Amy Coney Barrett & her lack of experience while asking the question "How the hell did she get on the Supreme Court?"

She spent 2 years in private practice. (OK, I guess.)

Never tried a case. (Now, wait a minute.)

Never argued an appeal (HUH?)

Never argued before the Supreme Court. (Really? OK, give her the benefit of the doubt she didn't get that opportunity)

Never served as a Judge until 2017. (What did she do before that? Drive a school bus?")

From what I saw of Judge Jackson, she's over qualified for the Supreme Court.

I forgot to add...The GOP’s attack on Jackson for being soft on crime is a bold strategy for a party led by a criminal.

Jackson is one of the most qualified candidates to be nominated to the Supreme court in decades.  She has more judicial experience in US court of appeals and US district court than 4 Supreme court judges combined.  Out of over 600 decisions, only 14 have been reversed which is excellent.  She would be the first judge in US history with expertise in public defending and US sentencing commission.  But sadly, GOP is obsessed with character assassination instead of honest inquiry in Supreme court nominee hearings.

Republicans have sought to blame high gas prices on
Biden's decision to kill the Keystone XL pipeline.
While numerous fact checkers have pointed out that the pipeline
was only 8% finished when Biden revoked the permits for the
project, Knittel said U.S. politicians routinely overstate the impact
its completion would have had on oil prices...

A crime boss.

Definitely.

That's what the republicans voted into office in 2016

Anyone who blames Biden for high gas prices is a total moron.

Seeing which way the political winds are now blowing strongly, today, Trump is spinning his praise of Putin's war on Ukraine, and claiming he did not say Putin was a genius, even though he did.

“It would have taken YEARS to build Keystone XL, the portion
of the pipeline that goes into Canada. Even if we could
magically build it in a decade and Canadian oil would have
been flowing through that pipeline, it’s not clear how much *MORE*  
Canadian oil would have been produced *BECAUSE OF* the pipeline.
And that’s the only number that matters — not how much the
pipeline could theoretically carry, but how much additional oil is
processed in Canada *because of* the existence of the pipeline,"
Knittel said.

Diehard Fox News viewers transformed
after watching CNN for 30 days,
research finds

THE INDEPENDENT -
“Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans,
we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their
media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of
issues’ importance, and overall political views,”
the authors of the study said.

They found that participants became more likely to agree
that if Trump made a mistake, Fox News would *NOT* cover it!

Trump's Truth Social app
branded a disaster

BBC via YAHOO NEWS -

Truth Social might look like Twitter, but it isn't available on Android phones, web browsers or, apparently, to most people outside the US.
"It's been a disaster," Joshua Tucker, director of NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics, said.

A recent study found downloads of his app have fallen by as much as 95%.

Only the best people!

Stock tied to Trump social firm
plunges on report of turmoil

NEW YORK (AP) —
Shares in a company planning to buy Donald Trump's
new social media business plunged Monday on a news
report that two key staff members left, deepening losses
from last week when it said it would miss a deadline
to file its annual financial statements.

Digital World Acquisition Corp. closed Monday down 10%
following a Reuters report that the chief technology officer
and chief products officer had quit the company.

fux news refuses to cover chump blunders ???

i  for one  am shocked      

Thanks to Thirdperson for first bringing this story to light

If brains were dynamite you Biden backers couldn't blow your nose...

The US imported about 209,000 barrels of crude oil each day from Russia in 2021, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers trade association. Kenney said the Keystone XL pipeline could be built by the first quarter of 2023 if the Biden administration gives the go ahead, according to Global News.

EXAGERATED LIES AS USUAL. 

You people think the laptop is fake, the Steele dossier is real and that men should be allowed to compete in women sports...

Crt is not taught in schools,  defunding the police, no bail, teach 5 year olds about sexuality and gender ... identity politics instead of qualifications....inflation is good... I d for everything else except voting...

More research needed.

awww         but i hope those two guys that quit  will b ok

The Economist/YouGov Poll
April 2 - 5, 2022

Q83. Approve of Biden Appointing a Black Woman to SCOTUS?

MODERATES said:

64% ...APPROVE!
17% ....DISapprove

REPUBLICANS said:

35%  .... Approve
47% ... DISapprove!

Not too sure what to make of this.  Amibiguous?  Racism seems to be implied in those stats but it may not be as it seems.

Republican Issues Dire Warning
About Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

A retiring Republican lawmaker says the extremist members of
his party could make it difficult for the GOP to govern if they retake
control of the House in November with a slim majority.

“It will be very hard to govern for Republicans if we’re under 230,
knowing that we’ve got the MTG element that’s really not a part
of a governing majority,” Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said on NBC.

Upton was referring to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.),
a far-right conspiracy theorist who’s spoken at a white nationalist
event and has a history of spreading racist and anti-Semitic talking points.

He's right but I don't think it will make any difference in the hearing happening today.

Greene will escape unscathed. Then with cameras in her face after, she will gloat and launch attacks on Democrats vehemently  despite the truth her fellow republican said about her above.