Everything about Michael Bloomberg’s candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nominee makes me furious, but one moment during last night’s debate, in particular, really set me off. In response to Elizabeth Warren’s story of pregnancy discrimination, the former New York City mayor said: “If she was a teacher in New York …
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Bankers like numbers. Numbers tell the story. No emotion gets in the way. So let’s look at the numbers: Over the past three years — that is, in the years after the world came together in Paris to try to slow climate change — JPMorgan Chase lent $196 billion to …
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A federal judge Thursday sentenced Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Trump, to 40 months in prison. Stone was convicted in November on seven counts, including lying to Congress and witness tampering. “There was nothing unfair, phony, or disgraceful about the investigation or the prosecution,” U.S. District Court Judge …
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There was panic on the streets of Des Moines, Iowa, as Democrats wondered: Could life ever be sane again? Even before the state bungled the results of its all important caucus vote, internecine beef within the Democratic party was beginning to boil. The night before the caucus clusterfuck, while the …
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Following a testy interview, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dropped F-bombs at an interviewer and also questioned her knowledge about the region she was asking him about. NPR National Security Reporter Mary Louise Kelly pressed Pompeo on Friday about whether he owed the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that President Donald Trump will not be impeached because Democrats went ahead with the process for “made-up reasons.” Putin made the remarks during his annual press conference in Russia on Thursday. He said that since the Democrats “lost the election” in 2016 and were not …
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“Read the transcript!” has been a mantra of President Donald Trump ever since he released a summary of his call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky over allegations he withheld aid to the nation unless its president agreed to manufacture dirt on the son of his political rival, Joe Biden. But, …
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Jay Inslee is no Greta Thunberg. The 68-year-old governor of Washington state is a founding father of the climate movement, a man who speaks with the wonky wisdom of experience, not the moral outrage of a 16-year-old girl who sees her future stolen by greedy and corrupt politicians. And whereas …
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At a time when our nation is facing an epidemic of mass shootings, supporters of President Donald Trump, at a conference held at one of the president’s resorts, showed a violent depiction of a fake Trump massacring members of the news media using a gun and other weapons, The New …
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“Its not a lie…if you believe it.” So said George Constanza while coaching Jerry on how to trick a polygraph during a 1995 episode of Seinfeld. But little did Americans cackling at the pathetic piece of advice know that in less than 25 years it would define the entire existence …
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