Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation is reportedly coming to a close, everyone is wondering what information in the report will be made public by President Donald Trump‘s Attorney General William Barr. House Intelligence Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) went on This Weekto discuss how Democrats plan to find …
Read More »Roger Stone Shares a Photo of Judge With Crosshairs Near Her Head
Update: Roger Stone has formally apologized to the court for his earlier actions. In a filed statement, Stone wrote: “Please inform the Court that the photograph and comment today was improper and should not have been posted. I had no intention of disrespecting the Court and humbly apologize to the …
Read More »Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Debunks Conservative Conspiracy Theories About Her
Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has never shied away from correcting her detractors, and in a late-night tweetstorm, the congresswoman addressed recent conspiracy theories that she has a poor credit score and history of evictions. “The right has gotten increasingly desperate [with] spreading targeted rumors about me lately,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter …
Read More »2019 State of the Union: What Time Is It? How Can You Stream It? Does It Even Matter? Is This Real Life?
This is a State of the Union unlike any other. First, the government shutdown prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to ask President Trump to reschedule his annual address to Congress. Trump then sent a blustery letter, insisting Pelosi stick to the original plan: “It would be so very sad for …
Read More »Mitch McConnell, Enemy of the Vote
Suppressing votes is not merely a racist act, nor it is simply the last resort for a party out of ideas. Voter suppression is traitorous. Intentionally restricting access to the ballot is a violation of the ideals that we have been told are inherently American. The United States government is …
Read More »Four Volunteers Found Guilty for Leaving Food for Migrants Near Mexico Border
Four women volunteers were found guilty of misdemeanors in federal court for leaving food and water in the Arizona desert for migrants coming to the United States by walking across the border. The volunteers are affiliated with No More Deaths, ahumanitarian aid group. According to No More Deaths,155 migrants have …
Read More »The Oceans Are Warming Fast, and Our Lives Are About to Change
Climate deniers want you to believe otherwise, but the basic physics of climate science is as solid as the basic physics of gravity (or maybe even more solid, since the graviton, the elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity, still has not been detected). But there are plenty of …
Read More »Kamala Harris Teases Presidential Run Announcement on 'Colbert'
California Senator Kamala Harris remained coy about her presidential hopes on Thursday’s Late Show, but the Democrat did tease the possibility of a 2020 run. “Many people who put out books two years before a presidential election do so to introduce themselves in a broad way to the American people,” …
Read More »Incoming House Judiciary Chair Says Trump May Have Committed Impeachable Offenses
Appearing on CNN’sState of the Union Sunday morning, incoming House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who would be in charge of any impeachment hearings, made clear that if the allegations in the Michael Cohen sentencing memo are true,“They would be impeachable offenses.” On Friday, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and …
Read More »Is It Possible to Separate George H.W. Bush's GOP From Trump's?
At his death, George Herbert Walker Bush is suffering the unkind fate of being celebrated as an anti-Trump. A man of Yankee-style dignity and prudence, who at his core believed himself to be a patriotic public servant, Bush would have been honored to have his career measured according to a …
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