The House GOP’s sham hearings are fizzling before they even begin

[Daily Kos Morning Roundup]( A morning roundup of worthy pundit and news reads, brought to you by Daily Kos. [Click here to read the full web version.]( - [The House GOP’s sham hearings are fizzling before they even begin]( The House GOP’s sham hearings are fizzling before they even begin, Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post In an actual hearing, unlike an interview with a captive right-wing media host, one has to explain the alleged scandal in a way that is comprehensible to those who haven’t spent hours soaking up bogus talking points. Democratic committee members will be able to channel what average voters are thinking: “What in the world are you talking about?” - [Republicans’ 2024 Magical Thinking]( Republicans’ 2024 Magical Thinking, McKay Coppins, The Atlantic Lots of Republicans want Donald Trump to disappear from politics. Their main strategy is hope. The scenarios Republicans find themselves fantasizing about range from the far-fetched to the morbid. In his recent book Thank You for Your Servitude, my colleague Mark Leibovich quoted a former Republican representative who bluntly summarized his party’s plan for dealing with Trump: “We’re just waiting for him to die.” As it turns out, this is not an uncommon sentiment. In my conversations with Republicans, I heard repeatedly that the least disruptive path to getting rid of Trump, grim as it sounds, might be to wait for his expiration. - [Bad news: Daily Kos revenue is down, and we might not be able to do all we do. Good news: You are a big part of the solution, and small donors have never let us down. Donate $5 TODAY.]( - [Liz Truss Crashes the (Republican) Party]( Liz Truss Crashes the (Republican) Party, Alexander Burns, Politico The former British prime minister, banished from office after a disastrous rollout of her tax-cut plan, finds new allies in American conservatives. Truss conceded she had made mistakes: She had not done enough to build support for her ideas and had moved too abruptly on an agenda that shocked the country. Truss did not put it this way, but she had tried to transplant American-style anti-tax politics onto British soil and she had failed. If Truss had reconsidered the soundness of a program that sent the pound plunging, triggered emergency actions by the Bank of England and drew open scorn from the Biden administration, she did not say so. To the contrary, she seemed to believe her defective strategy of borrowing Republican ideas could be improved by borrowing more Republican ideas. - [As Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone]( As Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone, Max Burns, The Third Degree Twitter's terminally-online CEO has kicked up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive. As you may know, Europe takes hate speech pretty seriously — and nowhere in Europe is the issue of antisemitism more incendiary than in Germany. The Germans not only passed laws that criminalize engaging in Holocaust denial and pro-Nazi speech, the government has strengthened those laws over the past three decades. Holocaust denial now falls under anti-incitement law, and in 1994 the German government upped the penalty for engaging in Holocaust denial to a maximum of five years imprisonment and a hefty fine. It shouldn’t surprise you that, because these laws are so sensitive, social media companies like Meta, Google and (formerly) Twitter go out of their way to police Nazi-themed content. Back in 2018, Meta — then Facebook — made headlines for deleting 362 instances of antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts from its platform after Germany extended its hate speech laws to cover the Internet. Facebook’s rush to clear out Nazi content was an abrupt about-face after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stupidly opined that maybe his company wouldn’t police Holocaust denial. Zuck found that position impossible to maintain. Other tech companies chose to avoid his mistake and follow the law. - [Tyre Nichols should still be alive. Donate $3 to help Memphis, TN grapple with this senseless death and organize to end police terror.]( - [Tyre Nichols' Killing Is The Result of a Diseased Culture]( Tyre Nichols' Killing Is The Result of a Diseased Culture, Goldie Taylor, TIME DeSantis and Lee would be among the first to tell you that government overreach is something to be abhorred. That is, unless it’s a band of right-wing extremists doing the reaching. Across the country, their acolytes are winning school board seats, declaring a war on “woke,” then promptly firing superintendents and anyone else standing in the way of their march to re-colonize America’s school rooms. As prosecutions from the Jan. 6 insurrection shows, they are in the ranks of our nation’s law enforcement officers. And, yes, some of the people supporting those ideologies are Black. I am under no delusion that a book would have stopped those officers from killing Nichols. Knowing one’s history did not stop a gang of undercover cops—some Black, some white—from accosting my son. What I do know is this: We can either choose to educate a new generation of children who will perpetuate the systems and beliefs that increase the likelihood of another Black man dying as he cries out for his mother. Or, we can choose to continue working to perfect this nation and preserve this republic by honoring the diverse perspectives that built it. - [The Durham Fiasco Is a Warning of What’s to Come]( The Durham Fiasco Is a Warning of What’s to Come, Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Thank goodness Speaker Kevin McCarthy has created a House subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government! Last week, The New York Times reported on an outrageous example of such weaponization, the flagrant use of federal law enforcement powers to target an administration’s political enemies. I’m talking, of course, about the John Durham special counsel investigation, which was meant to root out the ostensibly corrupt origins of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and quickly came to embody the sins that Donald Trump and his allies projected onto the F.B.I. ICYMI: Major stories from the past week you won't want to miss: - [‘I’m sorry’: March for Life attendee is stumped into silence by one question about the Bible]( - [Lawmaker tells Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to 'educate' herself and it goes as well as you'd expect]( - [Greene humiliated in surprisingly fun House amendment vote-a-rama]( Want even more Daily Kos? 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