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48.7%
“Turkey’s official inflation rate reached the highest level since Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party came to power almost two decades ago, as global inflationary pressures combine with the president’s unorthodox economic management to fuel a surge in prices,”The Financial Times reports.
73
After 73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021, there are now 723 left in the US, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The findings were announced Tuesday during the group’s news briefing on the release of the third edition of “Whose Heritage?” The report is part of the organization’s efforts toward “eradicating hate and white supremacy” in collaboration with activists nationwide.
$12.8 million
Montana’s recreational cannabis market topped $12.8 million in sales its first month, putting the state on pace to meet the state’s projections of $130 million in sales in 2022, the Helena Independent Record reports.
“Lindsey’s a nice guy, but he’s a RINO. Lindsey’s wrong …. Lindsey Graham doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”
— Former President Donald Trump ripped Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of his staunchest supporters, telling Newsmax that the senator is a “RINO” for saying that pardoning the Capitol rioters would be “inappropriate.”
“Former President Trump has been a prolific fundraiser for himself. But in a sign of his diminishing influence within the Republican Party, Trump isn’t seeing his endorsements translate into campaign cash for his most high-profile allies on the campaign trail. It’s becoming clear Donald Trump’s popularity isn’t easily transferable to candidates who aren’t named Trump.”
100-plus
“More than 100 far-right candidates are running for political office across the country as Republicans this year according to the Anti-Defamation League, a non-profit that monitors hate groups,” The Guardian reports.
“Don’t go anywhere near the court. Don’t meet with anybody. If you’re getting a haircut or having your nails done, don’t say a word to anybody, and reserve your comments for the hearing. Somebody will have heard it.”
— Former GOP lobbyist Tom Korologos, quoted by the New York Times, offering advice to President Biden’s Supreme Court pick.
“With America on the wrong path, the stakes are too high to double down on failure.”
— Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is warning Republicans in a Fox News interview against supporting former President Donald Trump for president again.
“This is an admission, and a massively un-American statement. It is time for every Republican leader to pick a side… Trump or the Constitution, there is no middle on defending our nation anymore.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on Twitter, about Donald Trump’s first public admission that he sought to “overturn” the 2020 election.
70%
A new Monmouth poll finds 70% of Americans agree with the sentiment that “it’s time we accept that Covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives” – including 78% of those who report having gotten Covid and 65% of those who say they have not been infected. The main difference in the sense that it is time to move on is due to partisanship – ranging from 89% of Republicans and 71% of independents to 47% of Democrats.
