The polls are suggesting a huge shift in the electorate. Are they right?

Or something’s wrong in the polls — and the mirage of an “age inversion” is really a warning sign of a structural problem in the 2024 election polling.

Politico

Oregon lawmakers aren’t the only ones reversing course on progressive drug policies

On Monday, Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) rolled back a 2020 measure that decriminalized drugs after the state’s opioid overdose rate tripled since it was enacted. The measure offered those found in possession of hard drugs treatment over jail time. Before 2020, there were 280 opioid-related deaths in the state, and in 2022, there were 956, according to Oregon Health Authority statistics. 

Still, state lawmakers said the problems were not with legalizing the drugs, but rather the law’s implementation. Kotek’s move to recriminalize drugs follows a string of other blue states and cities across the country that are beginning to backpedal on Democratic crime and drug policies, opting for more aggressive solutions to combat a surging fentanyl crisis and an influx of violence plaguing inner cities. 

Washington Examiner

Donald Trump says he would go to jail for free speech rights but stops short of gag order

“If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the “clink” for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela — It will be my GREAT HONOR,” Trump wrote in the post.

USA Today

Democrats score victory with No Labels’s decision to call it quits

“Big news. And good to see,” said Doug Gordon, a Democratic operative and political strategist. “It shouldn’t have taken 30 people turning them down, and tens of millions of dollars spent, for them to realize what was clear all along, they had no path to winning and would only play the role of a spoiler.”

The Hill

A conservative appeals court in the South seems to be exasperating the Supreme Court

If there is a down-to-the-deadline scramble at the Supreme Court to intervene on a hot-button case with far-reaching implications, there is a good chance that the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is the source of the legal fracas.

CNN

Trump promises a ‘deal’ on abortion that will please everyone. It likely doesn’t exist.

Should Trump appear vague or duck the issue, some of his supporters fear it will allow the Biden campaign to tie him to the more extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement.

Politico

Yes, Biden is really running in November. But a lot of voters say they doubt it

In November, President Biden and Former President Donald Trump will be at the top of the ballot, just like they were in 2020. But among voters, there is an undercurrent of disbelief that this rematch is really happening.

NPR

A conservative group is suing to stop a San Francisco basic income program that gives 55 struggling trans residents $1,200 a month

A conservative activist group is suing officials in San Francisco to block a guaranteed basic income program that gives no-strings-attached cash to a small group of low-income trans people.

Business Insider

GOP Rep. Turner: Republicans Have ‘Uttered’ Russian Propaganda ‘on the House Floor’

The congressman said it is “absolutely true” that Russia’s anti-Ukraine messaging has “infected” his party’s base

Rolling Stone

The Government Isn’t Ready for the Violence Trump Might Unleash

The Biden administration should be preparing for the worst.

The Atlantic

The Chicano Movement and the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943

California is one of America’s largest states and also one of the most unique. During the 1940s, it had a culture all its own and some tried to push back against the state’s multiculturalism with what became known as the “Zoot Suit Riots.”

War History Online

Journalist removed from Colorado Republican event for ‘unfair’ reporting

Sandra Fish, who has covered politics since 1982, was asked to leave by security about an hour into the state party assembly

The Guardian

2 women who say abortion restrictions put them in medical peril feel compelled to campaign for Biden

A Texas woman who went into premature labor, developed sepsis and nearly died and a Louisiana woman who said restrictive abortion laws prevented her from getting medical help for a miscarriage are now campaigning for President Joe Biden as the Democrat highlights how women’s health is being affected by the overturning of federal abortion protections.

AP News

Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association

Louisiana continues these efforts in an ongoing move by politicians in the state to damage public libraries with House Bill 777. HB 777 was introduced March 25 by Representative Kellee Dickerson, who helped fund the Louisiana Freedom Caucus. The bill would criminalize library workers and libraries for joining the American Library Association.

Book Riot

Biden will again test the limits of student loans to reach younger voters

“From day one of my administration, I promised to fix broken student loan programs and make sure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity,” Biden said on March 21. “I won’t back down from using every tool at my disposal to deliver student debt relief to more Americans and build an economy from the middle out and bottom up.”

Washington Examiner

Key House Democrat says US is ‘not abandoning Israel’ while upping pressure on Netanyahu

“Fundamentally, with President Biden who’s making the decisions right now, I think it’s true we are not abandoning Israel; we recognize the threats that Israel faces from Hezbollah, from Iran, also from Hamas,” he said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt.”

The Hill

Democrats fear Netanyahu may have undermined Biden’s image among voters

The domestic problems stemming from Gaza extend beyond anger within the progressive base.

Politico

Elon Musk will sue Australia for ordering X to remove a hateful post by an anti-trans activist

The billionaire owner is backing anti-trans provocateur Billboard Chris in a battle over “free speech”.

LGBTQ Nation

WCK founder condemns Israeli ‘war against humanity’ in Gaza

The founder of the charity, whose workers were killed by Israel, says the Gaza conflict has become a “war against humanity,” as he compared Netanyahu to Putin.

The New Arab

Rwanda marks 30 years since 1994 genocide of Tutsis

More than 1 million people — mostly from the Tutsi minority ethnic group, but also moderates from the Hutu majority who tried to protect Tutsis — were systematically murdered by Hutu extremists during a 100-day killing spree that started on April 7, 1994.

Deutsche Welle

Ecuador faces outrage after storming Mexican embassy to arrest former VP

Ecuador is facing outrage after storming the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, a controversial figure who had been seeking asylum there.

CNN

The Vicuñas and the $9,000 Sweater

Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.

Bloomberg

Ukraine appeared to strike a Russian tank equipped with a makeshift electronic warfare system — but that may worry Ukraine

Electronic warfare uses the electromagnetic spectrum, including signals like radio, infrared, or radar, to disrupt an enemy’s ability to use those signals itself, according to defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

Business Insider

Populist, pro-Putin candidate wins Slovakian presidency

Peter Pellegrini’s run-off victory further aligns a central European bloc against military support for Ukraine

The Telegraph

Uganda cited Dobbs to back an anti-LGBTQ crackdown. Americans should be worried too.

The ruling shows “how easily it might be deployed in our country for the same thing,” one expert said.

LGBTQ Nation

Israel withdraws most offensive troops from Gaza; Hamas, Israel to engage in talks

The Israeli military said Sunday it has withdrawn most ground troops from the Gaza Strip after completing a withering offensive in the southern city of Khan Younis, leaving just one brigade in the battered enclave six months after the war began.

USA Today

Does Erdogan’s defeat signal hope for Turkish diaspora?

The political landscape in Turkey experienced a significant shift as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP), suffered a historic defeat in last week’s local elections.

Deutsche Welle

Over 100,000 Israelis displaced by October 7 unable to return home

Six months after October 7, over 100,000 Israelis have refused or been unable to return to their homes near the border with the Gaza Strip

The New Arab