Examples of Democratic Party leadership
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BudmanTX
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DIY-HP-LED
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It looks like he'll last as long as Jimmy Carter, who is still alive, and Joe should be sharp as a tack for years. Meanwhile Trump is turning into a blubbering idiot, I mean he always was, but has gotten a lot worse lately with the stress he is under. It looks like he might crack up before his spring trial in DC, especially if NY cleans him out financially and exposes what a loser he really is.
People are worried about Joe's mental health and figure Donald would be better for the economy and on foreign affairs than Joe. Overlooking the fact that he is planning a full-blown fascist dictatorship and the destruction of the US constitution and is on track to be a convicted felon over J6, his first coup attempt. Also overlooking what an unmitigated disaster his first presidency was where he killed more Americans with covid than Hitler killed with war. Jesus Christ!
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Schumer ‘pleased’ with House GOP’s ‘far from perfect’ spending bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said he is “pleased” with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avoid a government shutdown.
Schumer noted that Johnson’s “laddered” stopgap spending bill — which funds four bills through Jan. 19 and the remaining eight through Feb. 2 — is “far from perfect,” but indicated the “clean” measure provides a path to funding the government for the next two months.
“For now, I am pleased that Speaker Johnson seems to be moving in our direction by advancing a CR that doesn’t include the highly partisan cuts that Democrats have warned against,” the Democratic leader said on the floor.
“The Speaker’s proposal is far from perfect, but the most important thing is that it refrains from making steep cuts,” Schumer continued, adding that it is important that the deadline to fund defense items would come in February.
Schumer noted that Johnson will need support from across the aisle in order to advance the stopgap plan, and added that the avenue to do that is avoiding “poison pill” riders and deep cuts.
“The next few days will tell all in the House and I hope the Speaker does not buckle to the loud voices on his hard right flank,” Schumer said. “I hope that Speaker Johnson realizes that he will need support from Democrats in both chamber if he wants to avoid causing a shutdown.”
The messaging from Schumer is vastly different from what the White House said over the weekend, having called it an “extreme.”
DEVELOPING.
thehill.com
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said he is “pleased” with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avoid a government shutdown.
Schumer noted that Johnson’s “laddered” stopgap spending bill — which funds four bills through Jan. 19 and the remaining eight through Feb. 2 — is “far from perfect,” but indicated the “clean” measure provides a path to funding the government for the next two months.
“For now, I am pleased that Speaker Johnson seems to be moving in our direction by advancing a CR that doesn’t include the highly partisan cuts that Democrats have warned against,” the Democratic leader said on the floor.
“The Speaker’s proposal is far from perfect, but the most important thing is that it refrains from making steep cuts,” Schumer continued, adding that it is important that the deadline to fund defense items would come in February.
Schumer noted that Johnson will need support from across the aisle in order to advance the stopgap plan, and added that the avenue to do that is avoiding “poison pill” riders and deep cuts.
“The next few days will tell all in the House and I hope the Speaker does not buckle to the loud voices on his hard right flank,” Schumer said. “I hope that Speaker Johnson realizes that he will need support from Democrats in both chamber if he wants to avoid causing a shutdown.”
The messaging from Schumer is vastly different from what the White House said over the weekend, having called it an “extreme.”
DEVELOPING.
Schumer signals openness to Speaker Johnson’s ‘far from perfect’ spending bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said he is “pleased” with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avoid a government shutdown. Schumer noted that Johns…
thehill.com
DIY-HP-LED
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His job is like Joe's, to keep the government functioning while dealing with a bunch of maniacs who are in a cult, Maga Mike's nuthouse. Trump won't want any settlement, he thrives on chaos, it makes Biden look bad and distracts from his court cases. If the SCOTUS doesn't disqualify him, he's got the GOP nomination in the bag, they found their Fuhrer and Cheeto Jesus all rolled into one. He will be going down freaking out and panicking in a DC courtroom right in the middle of their and his primaries under the thumb of an African American female judge. She is likely to sentence him to life in a federal prison before the GOP convention in the middle of July. He is also likely to be tried in Georgia before the election too.Schumer ‘pleased’ with House GOP’s ‘far from perfect’ spending bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said he is “pleased” with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avoid a government shutdown.
Schumer noted that Johnson’s “laddered” stopgap spending bill — which funds four bills through Jan. 19 and the remaining eight through Feb. 2 — is “far from perfect,” but indicated the “clean” measure provides a path to funding the government for the next two months.
“For now, I am pleased that Speaker Johnson seems to be moving in our direction by advancing a CR that doesn’t include the highly partisan cuts that Democrats have warned against,” the Democratic leader said on the floor.
“The Speaker’s proposal is far from perfect, but the most important thing is that it refrains from making steep cuts,” Schumer continued, adding that it is important that the deadline to fund defense items would come in February.
Schumer noted that Johnson will need support from across the aisle in order to advance the stopgap plan, and added that the avenue to do that is avoiding “poison pill” riders and deep cuts.
“The next few days will tell all in the House and I hope the Speaker does not buckle to the loud voices on his hard right flank,” Schumer said. “I hope that Speaker Johnson realizes that he will need support from Democrats in both chamber if he wants to avoid causing a shutdown.”
The messaging from Schumer is vastly different from what the White House said over the weekend, having called it an “extreme.”
DEVELOPING.
Schumer signals openness to Speaker Johnson’s ‘far from perfect’ spending bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said he is “pleased” with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan to avoid a government shutdown. Schumer noted that Johns…
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US, China agree to bolster renewables in effort to replace fossil fuels
China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, reached a climate agreement late Tuesday that includes an effort to replace fossil fuels with renewables.
The agreement says both countries plan to speed up renewable development over the next seven years in order to “accelerate the substitution for coal, oil and gas generation.”
The two parties therefore anticipate their power sector emissions peaking this decade.
The Group of 20, of which the U.S. and China are both part, said earlier in the year that it would hope to see renewable energy tripled globally by 2030, but that language did not explicitly highlight renwables as a replacement for fossil fuels and did not mention oil or natural gas.
The agreement comes ahead of a meeting on Wednesday between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first time the leaders are speaking face-to-face in almost a year amid tensions on a range of issues.
Both countries also agreed to advance five large-scale projects that aim to capture and store carbon that would otherwise be emitted by power plants or other large pollution sources by 2030. Carbon capture is controversial in the U.S., with some opponents arguing that it extends the life of fossil fuels when they prefer a shift toward renewables and have fears about safety issues related to carbon pipelines.
Washington and Beijing also agreed to work together on reducing emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons — greenhouse gases that are less common but more potent than carbon dioxide.
They also said they would advance efforts to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030.
thehill.com
China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, reached a climate agreement late Tuesday that includes an effort to replace fossil fuels with renewables.
The agreement says both countries plan to speed up renewable development over the next seven years in order to “accelerate the substitution for coal, oil and gas generation.”
The two parties therefore anticipate their power sector emissions peaking this decade.
The Group of 20, of which the U.S. and China are both part, said earlier in the year that it would hope to see renewable energy tripled globally by 2030, but that language did not explicitly highlight renwables as a replacement for fossil fuels and did not mention oil or natural gas.
The agreement comes ahead of a meeting on Wednesday between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first time the leaders are speaking face-to-face in almost a year amid tensions on a range of issues.
Both countries also agreed to advance five large-scale projects that aim to capture and store carbon that would otherwise be emitted by power plants or other large pollution sources by 2030. Carbon capture is controversial in the U.S., with some opponents arguing that it extends the life of fossil fuels when they prefer a shift toward renewables and have fears about safety issues related to carbon pipelines.
Washington and Beijing also agreed to work together on reducing emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons — greenhouse gases that are less common but more potent than carbon dioxide.
They also said they would advance efforts to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030.
US, China agree to bolster renewables in effort to replace fossil fuels
China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, reached a climate agreement late Tuesday that includes an effort to replace fossil fuels with renewables. The agreement says both co…
thehill.com
DIY-HP-LED
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It's communism Lord, communism! When they con the base and serve the rich, they support things like nickel and diming Americans to death because antitrust laws aren't enforced and there is too little effective price competition. Put as much of the nation's wealth as they can into the top 1% or less, when wealth imbalance is one of America's fundamental problems. The republicans will never give you a fairer economic and taxation system, they will give you culture wars and government gridlock, they serve the rich and con the base.
DIY-HP-LED
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They were heading in that direction anyway, price drops in solar and anticipated battery production, improvements and cost reductions make it not just viable, but cheaper than the alternatives. There have been several recent reports and studies that noted the drop in PV generation costs and storage is the key to its utility. A fraction of the subsidies given to oil and gas companies should do the job, for most of the planet, especially the tropical and subtropical regions where the least amount of solar capacity and storage are required for year-round operation. Most of the world's population lives in these warmer regions with a regular annual photoperiod and the sun overhead. We quickly moved away from renewables can supply some of our energy needs to them being able to replace nearly all of our energy needs, to solar at least, being the cheapest form of generation and it's getting cheaper. Economics determine what happens and what doesn't and the feasibility of renewables with energy storage increases.US, China agree to bolster renewables in effort to replace fossil fuels
China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, reached a climate agreement late Tuesday that includes an effort to replace fossil fuels with renewables.
The agreement says both countries plan to speed up renewable development over the next seven years in order to “accelerate the substitution for coal, oil and gas generation.”
The two parties therefore anticipate their power sector emissions peaking this decade.
The Group of 20, of which the U.S. and China are both part, said earlier in the year that it would hope to see renewable energy tripled globally by 2030, but that language did not explicitly highlight renwables as a replacement for fossil fuels and did not mention oil or natural gas.
The agreement comes ahead of a meeting on Wednesday between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first time the leaders are speaking face-to-face in almost a year amid tensions on a range of issues.
Both countries also agreed to advance five large-scale projects that aim to capture and store carbon that would otherwise be emitted by power plants or other large pollution sources by 2030. Carbon capture is controversial in the U.S., with some opponents arguing that it extends the life of fossil fuels when they prefer a shift toward renewables and have fears about safety issues related to carbon pipelines.
Washington and Beijing also agreed to work together on reducing emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons — greenhouse gases that are less common but more potent than carbon dioxide.
They also said they would advance efforts to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030.
US, China agree to bolster renewables in effort to replace fossil fuels
China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, reached a climate agreement late Tuesday that includes an effort to replace fossil fuels with renewables. The agreement says both co…
DIY-HP-LED
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A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.
It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.
But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.
I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.
Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.
There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too.
Cobnobuler
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^^^ This up here needed said again.......Thank you. I could never understand how even one person could ever cast a vote for the big orange blowhard. Has he stated any kind of real agenda on what he plans to do as president other than build big cages for everyone who was brave enough to expose him for what he is ?
cannabineer
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I live in a red part of a blue state, and am surrounded by people who have drunk deep of the Kool-Aid. They seriously believe that Biden interrupted the country finally being set on the right course.
It highlights the capacity for otherwise intelligent people to drop into a cognitive rabbit hole, then pull the hole in behind them. It’s distressing to witness.
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OldMedUser
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What really grinds my gears is how people like many of my relatives who would never give a man the time of day who carried on like tRump in their normal business dealings still think this guy has something to offer the country and will likely vote for him next year.
I've always been a left-leaning type when it comes to voting and vote for the NDP up here in Canada always tho my votes go to waste most times up here in the north. I still like a lot of stuff the right used to stand for like less gov't interference, smaller gov't, looser gun laws and individual rights kind of stuff. They have gone so far from their ideals that there is nothing attractive about them any more even up here where the Con party is espousing ideals that tRump spouts.
We watch and listen to mostly left-leaning media so have our own attitudes to everything now evil about the right. I know for myself that I'm not interested on what right-leaning media outlets have to say. I don't get Fox on my TV so don't have to listen to all those lies but those guys feel the same about MSNBC etc so stay in their echo chambers eating up the BS. From what I gather they don't hear much about the reality of all these court cases against tRump because their media outlets don't report much about it and stick to the stuff he wants them to report.
I don't do Xtwitter or any of those other nutty outlets that drive the madness so prevalent in the right.
tRump only got in because too many Dems didn't like Hillary so I sure hope the same issue won't let him back in as many would prefer someone other than Biden in '24. I'm confident he's got another term left in him and with his experience and masterly way of dealing with world affairs compared to the other guy he's the man for the times.
Vote Blue in '24 you guys! Not voting at all is giving up on your country and the rest of the world. We can't let the fascists win!
Boatguy
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Sad to see, but lemmings are similar.
Vaccination fear has helped drop their numbers, maybe the next virus will increase that trend
DIY-HP-LED
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The conservative rightwing ideology is dead and has been replaced by something else, grievance, mostly imagined or spouted by rightwing nuts. They seem pretty much the same across countries, America, Canada, Holland, the list is long and growing. Wealth imbalance and globalization are the causes of much of it. With falling birth rates that can't replace our populations affluent western countries are gonna have to import people and they are mostly gonna be brown, black or Muslim. Liberal democracies give such people equal rights under law, especially when they gain citizenship and that rubs some self-entitled assholes the wrong way. Liberal democracies tend to extend rights to more people over time and include the full spectrum of society participating in politics. First black men got the vote and just 100 years or so ago women got the vote, then other groups including LGBTQ people felt secure enough to live open lives and have similar rights. It's not all roses though, the right just rolled back the basic human rights of half the US population, the right to reproductive freedom. At least according to the SCOTUS and depending on what state a woman is in she is more or less free.What really grinds my gears is how people like many of my relatives who would never give a man the time of day who carried on like tRump in their normal business dealings still think this guy has something to offer the country and will likely vote for him next year.
I've always been a left-leaning type when it comes to voting and vote for the NDP up here in Canada always tho my votes go to waste most times up here in the north. I still like a lot of stuff the right used to stand for like less gov't interference, smaller gov't, looser gun laws and individual rights kind of stuff. They have gone so far from their ideals that there is nothing attractive about them any more even up here where the Con party is espousing ideals that tRump spouts.
We watch and listen to mostly left-leaning media so have our own attitudes to everything now evil about the right. I know for myself that I'm not interested on what right-leaning media outlets have to say. I don't get Fox on my TV so don't have to listen to all those lies but those guys feel the same about MSNBC etc so stay in their echo chambers eating up the BS. From what I gather they don't hear much about the reality of all these court cases against tRump because their media outlets don't report much about it and stick to the stuff he wants them to report.
I don't do Xtwitter or any of those other nutty outlets that drive the madness so prevalent in the right.
tRump only got in because too many Dems didn't like Hillary so I sure hope the same issue won't let him back in as many would prefer someone other than Biden in '24. I'm confident he's got another term left in him and with his experience and masterly way of dealing with world affairs compared to the other guy he's the man for the times.
Vote Blue in '24 you guys! Not voting at all is giving up on your country and the rest of the world. We can't let the fascists win!
OldMedUser
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Next year it's 100 years since native Americans got citizenship too.
Kamala Harris is not the first VP of colour either tho the first female to hold the position.
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Kamala Harris is not the first VP of colour either tho the first female to hold the position.
The complicated legacy of Charles Curtis, first and only Native American vice president
In 1929, Charles Curtis, an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation, became Herbert Hoover's vice president. John Yang speaks with biographer Deb Goodrich and tribal attorney Ken Bellmard about the story of America’s first and only Native American vice president.
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DIY-HP-LED
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Raskin rips GOP for not agreeing to open hearing for Hunter Biden
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) ripped his GOP colleagues for rejecting Hunter Biden’s request for an open hearing on Dec. 13, when the president’s son is set to appear for a closed-door deposition.
In a statement Tuesday, Raskin called the GOP move “an epic humiliation” and “a frank confession that they are simply not interested in the facts and have no confidence in their own case or the ability of their own Members to pursue it,” referring to the Republicans on his committee.
“Let me get this straight,” Raskin said in his statement. “After wailing and moaning for ten months about Hunter Biden and alluding to some vast unproven family conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a subpoena to appear and testify, Chairman Comer and the Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?”
Raskin’s statement comes after Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, responded on Tuesday to a subpoena from the Oversight committee proposing a public hearing on Dec. 13, instead of the committee’s proposal of a closed-door deposition.
In Lowell’s letter, he wrote that he did not trust the committee to provide an accurate account of closed-door proceedings.
“We have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public. We therefore propose opening the door,” Lowell wrote in a letter to Comer on Tuesday. “If, as you claim, your efforts are important and involve issues that Americans should know about, then let the light shine on these proceedings.”
Comer rejected the request Tuesday, saying the committee expects Hunter Biden to sit for a deposition on Dec. 13, but that he should have the opportunity to testify in public at a later date.
“Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else. That won’t stand with House Republicans,” Comer said in a statement.
Raskin argued that Republicans were afraid a public hearing would make clear that House Republicans did not have evidence proving President Biden committed any wrongdoing.
House Republicans have brought public impeachment hearings against Biden in attempts to produce evidence and prove allegations that President Biden is involved in his son’s legal troubles. The first public impeachment hearing, however, came up short, with the GOP key witness admitting there was not yet evidence proving the president committed any impeachable offenses.
“After the miserable failure of their impeachment hearing in September, Chairman Comer has now apparently decided to avoid all Committee hearings where the public can actually see for itself the logical, rhetorical and factual contortions they have tied themselves up in. The evidence has shown time and again President Biden has committed no wrongdoing, much less an impeachable offense,” Raskin wrote.
“Chairman Comer’s insistence that Hunter Biden’s interview should happen behind closed doors proves it once again,” he added. “What the Republicans fear most is sunlight and the truth.”
thehill.com
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) ripped his GOP colleagues for rejecting Hunter Biden’s request for an open hearing on Dec. 13, when the president’s son is set to appear for a closed-door deposition.
In a statement Tuesday, Raskin called the GOP move “an epic humiliation” and “a frank confession that they are simply not interested in the facts and have no confidence in their own case or the ability of their own Members to pursue it,” referring to the Republicans on his committee.
“Let me get this straight,” Raskin said in his statement. “After wailing and moaning for ten months about Hunter Biden and alluding to some vast unproven family conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a subpoena to appear and testify, Chairman Comer and the Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?”
Raskin’s statement comes after Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, responded on Tuesday to a subpoena from the Oversight committee proposing a public hearing on Dec. 13, instead of the committee’s proposal of a closed-door deposition.
In Lowell’s letter, he wrote that he did not trust the committee to provide an accurate account of closed-door proceedings.
“We have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even distort the facts and misinform the public. We therefore propose opening the door,” Lowell wrote in a letter to Comer on Tuesday. “If, as you claim, your efforts are important and involve issues that Americans should know about, then let the light shine on these proceedings.”
Comer rejected the request Tuesday, saying the committee expects Hunter Biden to sit for a deposition on Dec. 13, but that he should have the opportunity to testify in public at a later date.
“Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else. That won’t stand with House Republicans,” Comer said in a statement.
Raskin argued that Republicans were afraid a public hearing would make clear that House Republicans did not have evidence proving President Biden committed any wrongdoing.
House Republicans have brought public impeachment hearings against Biden in attempts to produce evidence and prove allegations that President Biden is involved in his son’s legal troubles. The first public impeachment hearing, however, came up short, with the GOP key witness admitting there was not yet evidence proving the president committed any impeachable offenses.
“After the miserable failure of their impeachment hearing in September, Chairman Comer has now apparently decided to avoid all Committee hearings where the public can actually see for itself the logical, rhetorical and factual contortions they have tied themselves up in. The evidence has shown time and again President Biden has committed no wrongdoing, much less an impeachable offense,” Raskin wrote.
“Chairman Comer’s insistence that Hunter Biden’s interview should happen behind closed doors proves it once again,” he added. “What the Republicans fear most is sunlight and the truth.”
Raskin rips GOP for not agreeing to open hearing for Hunter Biden
House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) ripped his GOP colleagues for rejecting Hunter Biden’s request for an open hearing on Dec. 13, when the president’s son is set to appea…
thehill.com
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
lol Frank Pavone
an excerpt:
Trump relies heavily on right-wing and anti-abortion media figures to get out his message, including spreading false information about his potential opponents, “advising” him on policy positions, officiallypromoting his campaign, and being readily available hires for his team. Pavone’s presence in anti-abortion media largely consists of uncritically praising Trump, pushing churches to support the president, and promoting dangerous rhetoric against abortion providers.