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Expanding on a column he wrote for the Atlantic, former Naval College professor Tom Nichols issued an additional warning that Donald Trump cannot be allowed to win the 2024 election and put his people in place to run the military because, he says, the consequences could be devastating.

Last week, Nichols wrote, "In 2020, the armed forces were a bulwark against Donald Trump’s antidemocratic designs. Changing that would be a high priority in a second term."

Meghan McCain is considering a slander lawsuit against her former co-hosts on "The View."

The panelists were discussing Hunter Biden's alleged influence peddling when co-host Ana Navarro suggested that was common among Washington insiders, including some of their colleagues, reported Mediaite.

Democrats in New York may soon get a more favorable electoral map after the New York State Court of Appeals sent the current map back to the state's Independent Redistricting Commission.

Dave Wasserman, an elections expert for Cook Political Report, has taken a stab at creating a map that he calls the "worst-case scenario" for House Republicans, and it would in theory give Democrats six additional seats — more than enough on its own to flip control of Congress.

Christian Ziegler is reportedly seeking a massive payout to resign as chair of Florida's Republican Party.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and other leading Republicans in the state have called for him to step down in the wake of a rape investigation involving a woman with whom he and his wife – Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler – had allegedly been involved in a sexual relationship — but sources told Florida Politics he wants cash to go away.

Christian Ziegler, the embattled chair of the Florida Republican Party who reportedly is under investigation after being accused of rape by the same woman he and his wife had a three-way sexual relationship with, has refused to resign but now is willing to depart if given a multi-million dollar payout, according to Florida Politics.

"Multiple sources confirm Ziegler has asked for a massive payout — one source said $2 million — to go away. Officials within the state party confirmed emissaries for Ziegler approached the party on his behalf," Florida Politics reported Thursday. "Overtures of a buyout came days ahead of a scheduled meeting of the Republican Party of Florida’s executive board. Party officials on Sunday are expected to launch an investigation of Ziegler and ultimately to impose sanctions, which could include Ziegler’s expulsion from the party."

Donald Trump suffered his second legal loss in one day as he fights gag orders in his New York fraud case.

An appellate court on Thursday denied his attempt to overturn orders barring him from attacking the law clerk of New York justice Arthur Engoron, and later the same day issued a separate ruling denying him leave to appeal a decision reinstating the orders to the state's highest court, reported The Messenger.

The defense spending bill is coming down to the wire, funding for Ukraine is becoming desperate, and the U.S. hasn't passed a bill to send financial aid to Israel since the attack on Oct. 7.

But somehow, Republican lawmakers found time to do a passionate defense of milk, Huffington Post congressional reporter Jennifer Bendery wrote.

A Georgia teacher allegedly threatened to behead a middle-school student for commenting on his Israeli flag.

Benjamin Reese, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Warner Robins Middle School, allegedly became angry Dec. 7 when the girl asked about the flag as students were leaving after class and said she found it offensive.

Michael Gottlieb, the attorney representing defamed election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, delivered a scathing denunciation of Rudy Giuliani's character in the closing arguments of his defamation trial.

As reported by journalist Brandi Buchman, Gottlieb told jurors that Giuliani felt free to baselessly smear Moss and Freeman as thieves who stole the election from former President Donald Trump simply because they are not rich or powerful as he is.

Joe Sibley, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, on Thursday explained that his client decided not to testify on his own behalf to protect two former election workers who he was found to have defamed.

At the start of closing remarks in the defamation trial, Sibley admitted that the testimonies of plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were credible. Following the 2020 presidential campaign, Giuliani made the two women the focus of false conspiracy theories about the election.

Now that the House Republicans have set in motion an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having no obvious evidence of wrongdoing, one long-time progressive writer claimed he welcomes their efforts, believing it will help the current president be re-elected.

In a featured column for the New Republic, editor-in-chief Michael Tomasky pointed to both the historical record on impeachment results impacting partisan voters and the fact that Republicans are living in a confirmation bias bubble.