Listen to an audio version of this story below: When the shimmering, state-of-the-art, $1.3 billion Levi’s Stadium opened its doors in Santa Clara, it was hailed as the pinnacle of technological innovation. Concessions delivered to your seat at the touch of a button! Bluetooth beacons to navigate you with pinpoint …
Read More »Steve King Devised an Insane Formula to Claim Undocumented Immigrants Are Taking Over America
DES MOINES, IOWA — The day before Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) questioned whether humanity would exist if it weren’t for rape and incest while speaking to a conservative group in Des Moines, he held two town halls, one in Charles City and one in Boone. Both were dominated by King’s …
Read More »Trump Goes After El Paso Native Beto O'Rourke in Bizarre Tweet
On the eve of his visit to memorials in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, and hours before he would declare his rhetoric “brings people together,” President Trump went on Twitter to attack Democratic candidate and El Paso-area native Beto O’Rourke. O’Rourke, has for days been criticizing Trump for white …
Read More »Trump Botches Address to Nation, Says 'Toledo' Instead of 'Dayton'
President Trump addressed the nation Monday morning about the shooting in El Paso and Dayton that left at least 31 dead over the weekend. Squinting at a teleprompter, Trump spoke in monotone about the need to “condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy,” while blaming video games and the internet for …
Read More »Tom Barrack Pushed for Saudi Nuclear Deal — and Planned to Profit From It
President Donald Trump’s inauguration chairman, Tom Barrack, lobbied the new administration to share nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia while, at the same time, making plans to team up with the Saudis to buy a company that would benefit from the policy change, according to documents obtained by a House …
Read More »The Trump Campaign Is Duping People Into Thinking Models Support His Re-election
President Trump’s entire political career has been built on deception, from criminal efforts to cover up his alleged affairs, all the way down to his campaign’s advertising. The latest example comes by way of Facebook commercials featuring an array of attractive, racially diverse people professing their love for the president. …
Read More »Pentagon Warns That America Is Enabling Putin's Plan for Global Dominance
Donald Trump is a fan of Vladimir Putin. The president praised him effusively during the 2016 campaign, when a deal was in the works to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, and has continued to praise him while in office. Though the U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Russia interfered …
Read More »Trump Administration Proposes Rollback of Transgender Rights
A formal proposal from the Trump administration Friday would roll back Obama-era protections for transgender people, which LGBT advocates warn could prompt health care providers to discriminate against transgender and gender-non-conforming people. Roger Severino, the director of the Department of Health and Human Services, said the proposal would remove “gender …
Read More »Republican Congressman Destroys Arguments That Trump Didn't Obstruct Justice
On Saturday, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) became the first Republican lawmaker to publicly express a belief that President Trump deserves to be impeached. In a string of tweets, Amash wrote that the president “engaged in impeachable conduct,” and that Attorney General William Barr deliberately misrepresented the contents of the report …
Read More »Trump's Most Blatant Lie Is His Lie About Tariffs
President Donald Trump has galaxy brained himself into a something of a quagmire with China. For the better part of the past year, he’s been imposing and subsequently escalating tariffs on goods imported from the nation in an effort to force them to renegotiate what he considers unfair trade practices. …
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