Don’t forget about Russia. President Trump’s scheme to hold 800,000 federal employees hostage over border wall funding has dominated news coverage since the government began operating under a partial shutdown on December 21st, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still busy looking into his campaign’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir …
Read More »Republicans Are Only Pretending to Care That Steve King Is a Racist
Update 1/15/19:Late Monday, House Republican leaders removed Rep. Steve King (R-IA) from the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Agriculture. “That is not the party of Lincoln,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said of King’s comments. “It is definitely not American. All people are created equal in America, and …
Read More »Will Trump's New Attorney General Interfere With the Mueller Investigation?
When it was reported on Wednesday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will leave the Justice Department once William Barr is confirmed at the new attorney general, many took it to mean that Rosenstein has faith that Barr will protect the integrity of the Mueller investigation. This may be true, …
Read More »Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Keeps Firing Back at Her Haters
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is not your typical member of Congress. After just a few days in office, she is already exchanging barbs with the Republican leadership and pundits on social media, defending herself against their criticisms. It started with a dance. Conservatives began circulating a video of Ocasio-Cortez dancing …
Read More »Once Again the Trump Administration Feeds Its Conspiracy-Loving Base
Vice President Mike Pence tweeted, and soon deleted, a photo on Friday showing him with a police officer who wore a patch with a “Q” patch, signaling belief in the QAnon conspiracy, prominently displayed on his uniform. QAnon is an internet-based baseless anti-government conspiracy theory that has been pushing the …
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