Activists protesting the proposed ban against transgender women danced in a womens restroom at the Capitol on Wednesday. Roughly 10 protesters, including biological women and others who identify as transgender and nonbinary, recorded themselves having a dance party while wearing shirts that said, “Flush the hate not our rights.” A subsequent video was set to Klymaxx’s song […]
With Congress on the fence about requiring carmakers to include AM radio, proponents this week are flooding the zone in a huge push to get the sometimes life-saving but old-school technology across the finish line. Several groups, including first responders, are citing the recent Hurricane Helene disaster in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas as the […]
President Joe Biden is reportedly considering issuing preemptive pardons for some current and former elected officials whom President-elect Donald Trump deems his enemies. History has shown that there is some precedent for these types of pardons. The most famous case is likely when President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, after the latter resigned […]
The Washington, D.C., sports bar that was designed to encourage bipartisan political discussions has been silenced by the community for good. Political Pattie’s, which opened in September on 9th and U streets in Northwest Washington, had its final last call Wednesday. Previously, the location was a gay bar known as the Dirty Goose in an […]
An upstate New York judge is facing calls to step down after choosing not to officiate a wedding ceremony between two women. The ceremony in question was held last month when Syracuse City Court Judge Felicia Pitts-Davis was on the bench on Nov. 16 when two weddings were scheduled. The first was between a man […]
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will host the final National Christmas Tree Lighting of their administration on Thursday evening before leaving office next month. The pair will reunite for the annual tradition on the Ellipse after Harris retreated from the public eye following her loss to President-elect Donald Trump in November and […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood and PBS as part of a broader effort to downsize the size of government and reduce spending. During an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Wednesday, Johnson detailed some of his hopes to scale back “the administrative state,” which the […]
President-elect Donald Trump‘s picks to head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, are heading to Capitol Hill on Thursday as they seek to grow bipartisan support for the initiative to cut government waste. DOGE was offered by Trump last month with a goal of a “smaller Government, with more […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) shared a detailed report outlining problems with telework among the federal workforce at the first Department of Government Efficiency caucus meeting. In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Ernst expressed her optimism in the report helping the work of DOGE. “Things are so upside down in the federal government that it […]
The first poll out about President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter has found that people widely reject his action and that it may have sparked the beginning of Democratic anger at the failed presidency. In a Napolitan News Service survey shared with Secrets on Thursday, just 30% of registered voters agreed with the […]
