"Congressional Democrats are slated to introduce legislation on Thursday that would add four more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, boosting the number of justices on the bench from nine to 13.

"Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York, Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia and Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts are backing the legislation and are slated to participate in a press conference about it on Thursday.

"'Supreme Court expansion is infrastructure,' Rep. Jones tweeted."

"A Monday New York Times front page headline on the explosion at a key Iranian nuclear facility claimed the 'Attack May Hurt Efforts to Reboot 2015 Deal.' On Tuesday, also on the front page, the paper declared that 'Israel's Role in Iran Blast Casts A Shadow on U.S. Nuclear Talks'.

"Get it? Making a new deal with Iran is a very good thing, anything that hurts the chance is a very bad thing, including Israel.

"Here's an alternative view: the Times is still drinking the Kool-Aid that the original Iranian nuclear pact was a success and is worth saving. To committed dead enders, Iran's violations of the terms and spread of regional terrorism are irrelevant."

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"Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., admitted to signing off on false information in a third-party advocacy group's email that went out about the Georgia voting law after it passed.

"The Washington Post flagged an email Warnock signed from the liberal nonprofit 3.14 Action as an example of Democratic misinformation about the sweeping Georgia voting reforms, as it claimed the new law restricted weekend early voting and ended no-excuse mail voting.

"'Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, one of two new Democratic senators representing Georgia, signed an email sent out by the advocacy group 3.14 Action after the law passed, which claimed it ended no-excuse mail voting and restricted early voting on the weekends -- also early proposals that did not become law,' the Post reported. ...

"Biden has also disseminated false information about the law, getting Four Pinocchios from The Washington Post's Fact-Checker for claiming the law limits voting hours."

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"Job growth exploded in March, with 916,000 nonfarm positions added, far outpacing projections. Under ordinary circumstances, politicians would be rushing to microphones to tout the good news.

"But President Biden never mentioned it. And when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said economic projections looked great, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly contradicted him.

"Why? Because telling the truth about the booming economy puts a lie to the idea that Biden's $2.3 trillion 'infrastructure' package is necessary, or even responsible."

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"Oddly, after dedicating his inauguration to national unity, Biden has abandoned the pursuit entirely. ...

"It's not clear what changed so drastically for Biden since his inauguration. Reporters say he now envisions himself as the next FDR -- changing our country through massive government intervention. In a nation as divided as ours, this sort of aggressive left-wing movement is sure to increase the already gaping political fault lines. It's also likely to boomerang. People did not vote for change of this nature. Just because it may be possible to squeeze through these changes doesn't mean it's smart. The political backlash could be severe.

"The saddest part is Biden never even gave a unity agenda a chance. Our country needs the healing he promised. Biden delivers the opposite."

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains confident that she can pass major items through her chamber even though she leads the Democrats' most fragile majority in the House of Representatives since the 1940s.

"'It's not going to be a problem,' Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters a month ago when asked about advancing her party's agenda through the House without the help of the minority Republicans.

"But the task facing Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., isn't getting any easier.

"The death Tuesday of 84-year-old Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida further reduces the Democrats' already perilous majority. What started out at the beginning of the year as a slim 222-213 margin is now temporarily down to 218-212. That means the Democrats can currently lose just two votes and still be able to pass legislation along party lines."

"The first dishonest aspect of President Joe Biden's latest massive multitrillion spending proposal was its claim to be an 'infrastructure' plan. In reality, less than half of the spending goes to transportation infrastructure. Much of the rest goes to waste and unrelated partisan spending.

"But the misleading narrative didn't stop there: Top Biden officials repeatedly pushed an objectively false statistic about the number of jobs their plan will create. 'The American Jobs Plan is about a generational investment [and is] going to create 19 million jobs,' Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Meet the Press. 'It would create 19 million jobs,' White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese claimed on Fox News Sunday. The liberal Center for American Progress similarly asserted that the Biden plan would 'help create 19 million jobs.'

"Wow! A whopping 19 million jobs created! Who could oppose that!?

"There's just one problem: This 19 million figure is based on a gross distortion of an economic report. The claim that Biden's spending bonanza would create 19 million jobs has no basis in reality. The figure comes from Moody's Analytics, a respected economic analysis firm, albeit one often very generous and favorable to big government spending plans. However, what the Moody's report does is map out projections for several different scenarios.

"In the scenario where Biden's infrastructure proposal is passed, Moody's projects that the economy will create 18.96 million jobs over a decade. Yet as Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler aptly explained, that's compared to a baseline projection of 16.3 million jobs being created without the infrastructure proposal. (But with the already-passed stimulus legislation). So the real number of jobs Biden's plan would create, according to this Moody's report, is 2.7 million. That's a far cry from the '19 million jobs created' in Biden's initial telling. Indeed, the White House and Buttigieg have had to retract their objectively false claim publicly.

"Oops."

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"Major League Baseball is reportedly planning to move the All-Star game from Atlanta, Georgia to Denver, Colorado, over Georgia's recent election bill, meaning they will be moving the game from a city with mostly black citizens to a city with mostly white citizens.

"Atlanta, Georgia, is 51% black and 40.9% white, U.S. Census data from 2019 showed. Denver was 80.9% white and 9.8% black in 2019, according to U.S. Census data. ESPN reported Monday that the All-Star Game would take place at Coors Field.

"Numerous sources reported that the MLB's decision to move the 2021 All-Star game could cost black-owned businesses. Nearly 30% of businesses in Atlanta are black-owned, and Georgia will face an estimated lost economic impact of more than $100 million due to the MLB's boycott of Atlanta, according to the president and CEO of Cobb Travel and Tourism Holly Quinlan."

"She's the queen of Twitter -- but less successful at lawmaking.

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the least effective members of the last Congress according to a new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking -- a joint project of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.

"AOC introduced a total of 21 bills which the center defined as 'substantive' -- but that is where the story ends. Her legislation received no action in committees, no floor votes, and none ever became law, according to the center, which takes its data from Congress.gov.

"'She introduced a lot of bills, but she was not successful at having them receive any sort of action in committee or beyond committee and if they can't get through committee they cannot pass the House,' Alan Wiseman, a Vanderbilt political scientist and co-director of the center, told The Post."

"After President Biden outlined his proposal for a massive $2 trillion spending bill on Wednesday, a bevy of Senate Republicans are speaking out against the plan in harsh terms.

"The opposition is coming even from moderates who attempted to work with Biden on the coronavirus stimulus bill. This makes it even more likely that Democrats will be forced to invoke budget reconciliation yet again if they want to pass what Biden called 'the largest American jobs investment since World War II.'

"'I support improving America's aging roads, bridges, ports, and other infrastructure. And we can do so in a bipartisan way,' Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said Wednesday. But, he said, Biden's plan is far too expensive and does not focus on infrastructure, as the White House is framing it.

"'At its core, the president's plan calls for a $620 billion investment in transportation infrastructure. However, the total soars to $3 trillion with its inclusion of these broad policy priorities that are a far cry away from what we've ever defined as infrastructure,' Portman said."