Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) received a profanity-laced voicemail, criticizing his support for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week. The longtime Congressman representing Kalamazoo, Michigan is one of 13 House Republicans who voted in favor of the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure package. In the call, the caller wished death upon Upton, his family and his staff. Upton…

Gwen’s picks for Friday, September 24 include: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announces re-election campaign at age 88. Twitter sounds off. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) get in a yelling match on the capitol steps over a House bill. Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) announces articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden, or…

On New Year’s Eve, just minutes before the dawn of 1992, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time. Arguably the Cold War had been over for a few years already. Glasnost and perestroika had defanged the thorny grip of the KGB and made Soviet citizens less afraid of their own…

Gwen’s picks for Tuesday, August 10 include: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces his resignation. Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul will become New York’s first female governor. The Senate passes the infrastructure bill. View Shannon’s story on budget reconciliation here. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gets suspended from Twitter for a week.

Update (Jan. 3, 2021): Twitter announced Sunday it had permanently suspended the personal account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Her congressional Twitter account is still up. Twitter had previously suspended Rep. Greene’s personal account for periods ranging from 12 hours to a full week. According to the platform’s “strike” system, which uses artificial intelligence to identify…

#HIPPA has been trending on social media after U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed her HIPAA rights were violated when asked if she’d been vaccinated. But her comment, and the trend on Twitter, show there’s some misunderstanding about what HIPAA is… and how it’s spelled. Let’s Get This Straight.

Gwen’s picks for Tuesday, July 20 include: Jeff Bezos successfully makes it to space and back. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s twitter account gets suspended. The Delta variant is rapidly spreading through the U.S. Canada to open border to Americans next month. CDC says to avoid UK travel.

Twitter announced late Monday night it suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account for 12 hours, saying some of Rep. Greene’s tweets violated the site’s policy on COVID-19 misinformation. “We took enforcement action on the account @mtgreenee for violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically the Covid-19 misleading information policy,” the company said in an email. One of…

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) walks outside the U.S. Capitol following a private visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, U.S., June 14, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein (REUTERS) Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly apologized on Monday for her remarks last month comparing COVID-19 mask requirements and vaccinations to the Nazi Holocaust that killed 6…