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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Her lawsuit stemmed from an editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was wounded in 2017 when a man with a history of anti-GOP activity opened fire on a Congressional baseball team practice in Washington.

    In the editorial, the Times wrote that before the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that severely wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed six others, Palin’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.

    The Times corrected the article less than 14 hours after it was published, saying it had “incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting” and that it had “incorrectly described” the map.




  • Not a bad idea, but I can’t help but be pessimistic. It’s clearly not an emergency. There’s no single event anyone can point to that caused this “emergency” and it wasn’t an emergency the first time Trump was president. If Congress won’t push back on this at all, why wouldn’t they shamelessly vote for a fake emergency like this one?