Editorial Cartoon: Chicago Weeps
Guns. Chicago ends 2016 with more than 700 murders and over 4,000 people shot – the worst bloodshed the city has seen in 18 years.
Guns. Chicago ends 2016 with more than 700 murders and over 4,000 people shot – the worst bloodshed the city has seen in 18 years.
Trump has only two equally detrimental choices in dealing with the effects of President Obama’s sanctions against Russia. and they’re both damning.
The evangelical fundamentalists, all 13.2 percent of them, are appealing to vice president-elect Pence by petition and demanding that he, as head of domestic policy, inform president-elect Trump that it is crucial to immediately issue an executive order in”definitely banning†the teaching of evolution as science.
For the second time in a week Charles Schumer aligned himself with Trump in a portent the Democrat’s opposition to Trump is faltering.
Freedom of religion isn’t just about the right to practice religion. It’s about the right to have your own views about religion including being agnostic and atheistic.
Washington business interests are “shocked and alarmed†that Trump’s transition team is “defending new tariffs” Trump pledged to impose.
The U.N. reaffirmed its consensus that settlements have no legal validity. The United States has been sending a message that settlements must stop.
Largest police union “expects” Trump to militarize the nation’s police and legalize racial profiling within his first 100 days.
“Because of new and legally inventive strategies, Mr. Obama… may well have built firewalls around environmental policies that could hold off his successor.”
If you’ve been feeling vaguely hysterical, what I like to call hysterical-adjacent, at the idea of Donald Trump running the U.S., you’re not alone.
Rex Tillerson not only runs ExxonMobil, he is also the director of a Russian oil company registered in the Bahamas, a secretive tax haven.
Trump did project his real intent to run for president saying, “I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”
The growing consensus is that Putin’s espionage and FBI-created “October surprise†gave Russia and FBI rogues what they wanted; a Trump White House.
“EPA’s report confirms what experts and the science show: that fracking operations put our drinking water at risk. “
Speaker Ryan’s spokeswoman never disputed that the material used against Democratic candidates was “stolen as an act of Russian espionage
No American patriot will ever accept or defend a leader aligned with a foreign “aggressor that consistently undermines American interests.”
It’s not surprising that anyone close to Trump’s campaign would have knowledge of attacks perpetrated at the hand of a foreign government.
The latest outrage, one that should alarm every American alive, is a call from a Trump acolyte in a Trump-related newspaper. The call to action was a summons for FBI Director James Comey, to use the authority of the Bureau to act as “official state police†to repress Americans exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.
Trump demanded names of every Energy Dept. employee and contractor who worked on Obama climate policies or attended any U.N. climate meetings.
Trump’s choices are unqualified, but they were chosen for their desire to eradicate federal agencies, not their level of competence or expertise.
It would be a mistake to talk about Medicare specifics now. It’s an important issue, but we can’t do everything at once, and we shouldn’t try.
It’s part of a larger trend that’s occurred over the last eight to 10 years to manipulate state supreme courts to maintain political power.
No matter what Ivanka says, daddy Don’s W.H. “is shaping up to be a bleak wasteland of climate denial and Koch-funded fossil fuel cronyism.”
Fake news is getting so bizarre…
Too many media outlets had difficulty attributing the Indiana corporate payoff to Pence and it’s a sign they’re still pimping Donald Trump as a hero.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Over the course of the last several years no small number of pundits and commentators have trumpeted the demise of the religious right and their masters at the Vatican. As the recent election appeared to look bleak for Trump, and by extension the Republican Party…
Trump routinely made vague proposals to limit basic elements of press and internet freedom. His intent and disregard for the constitutional free press principle are clear.
“The bill has a giveaway to the gun lobby, cuts Medicare, raids the Affordable Care Act, and makes it harder for people with disabilities to get Medicaid.”
If anyone in America warrants having their citizenship revoked, it is Donald Trump; but like all Americans who aren’t naturalized, once a always a citizen, and it is too bad in Trump’s case.
About a million people should be scooped up, “charged with treason, and under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo.â€
The most alarming story of the campaign was the successful effort by a ‘hostile’ foreign power, Russia, to interfere and influence this election.
America will become a subsidiary of Trump Corporation…
Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald Reagan in 1984.â€
Trump’s plan calls for huge tax credits: billions of dollars in checks written to private companies that invest in ‘approved’ projects which they would end up owning.
DeVos has the potential to undermine progress by diverting resources and failing to uphold government’s responsibility to protect the needs of students.
“The question for us is will Trump as president use the power he has to interfere — given that he has a financial interest in the outcome of these matters.”
“What, if anything, distinguishes the alt-right from more hidebound racist movements such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. The answer is very little.”
“Donald Trump promised to change Washington’s culture of self-dealing, and if he wants to succeed he’s going to have to make a sacrifice and lead by example.”
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
These Trump appointments of extreme racists and religious bigots do not bode well for any Americans who are not white and not Christian.
Trump advisor completely dismisses “the well-established existence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a myth conjured by anti-chemical activists.”
“Russia has perfected political warfare using cyber assets and apparently decided to apply these tactics so American democracy itself was hacked.”
“Trump supporters are sending messages threatening to send me and my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers and ‘get ready for the trains.’â€
Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows “modernization” with a Paul Ryan coupon.
Trump’s economic plan will confer vast monetary gains on the very wealthiest Americans while leaving Trump’s electoral base further behind.
Economic growth, declining deficit, lower taxes, and historical record of job creation means “the country going in the wrong direction.”
Racist David Duke reacted jubilantly to the electoral victory of Donald Trump and thanked foreign criminal Julian Assange for his assistance.
The Defense Authorization bill should be about making our country safe; not about codifying evangelical Republican hatred and intolerance.
Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress’ disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist with a rubber stamp.
Turning back the clock.
California voters beat back an assault on their intelligence and social consciousness by Republicans and corporations to promote the general welfare of the people.
Since Donald Trump won his bid for the White House, the women of America have been suffering Trump Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I wish I were kidding. But I’m not. This is real and it’s serious.
There are “several lines of evidence that the earthquakes in the areas are directly related to the disposal of wastewater deep undergroundâ€
The same media that trolled Obamacare for six years, never really grasping that people’s lives were on the line, is now telling you that the creation they helped power to the White House is a function of “regular people” being angry at the elites.
“You have to take all of this incredibly seriously. We are the oldest political party and we are under constant attack from Russia and/or maybe others.”
The blatant expression of hatred for all things not white, not Christian, and not conservative over the past year brought shame on America.
This has been a painful election to cover.
At times I haven’t been sure I could continue. I know I’m not alone in those feelings because I read your messages and tweets, and I could feel the horror and outrage growing into an eventual numbness, which manifested in a choked silence.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Over the past eight years it has been glaringly apparent that Republicans are opposed to democracy and their attempts to either obstruct or suppress voting have resulted in several federal court rulings ordering them to stop; to absolutely no effect. Fascist Donald Trump’s takeover…
Trump is breaking federal law and Trump Hotel Las Vegas is operating illegally. He should accept the federal government’s order and treat his workers with respect.
Trump told Americans that if elected, Hillary Clinton will import 650 million immigrants into America a week and lose control of the country.
F.B.I. directors are supposed to be above politics, not in them. Mr. Comey has to do the right thing – resign.
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.â€
The voter suppression tactic is right out of the GOP [election rigging] playbook to suppress the Black vote in North Carolina.â€
“The archdiocese holds the matter among its highest priorities. If passed, the law would have significantly detrimental impacts on our parishes, our ministries”
The F.B.I. has a solemn obligation to remain neutral in political matters; the faintest appearance of using the agency to influence our election is deeply troubling.
“If the party doesn’t learn lessons and change based on what’s gone on for the last year and a half, I think it’s going to be just catastroph[ic].”
He is taking the conspiracy theories and obstruction that dogged his presidency from day one and throwing them back in Republicans’ faces.
To avoid climate-ending global temperature rise, it is critical for the world to transition off fossil fuels and embrace renewable, clean energy sources.
“Everyone deserves to be able to trust the police in their community, It’s horrible to imagine how much more damage [law enforcement’s] endorsement of Trump will do.”
The fault lines among evangelicals that the election of 2016 has exposed are likely to reshape national politics for years to come.
Trump represents the greatest threat ever to federal policy-making and implementation of animal protection laws, and a threat to animals everywhere.
Our values, national identity and enduring power of the Constitution, even democracy itself are in question; it is a frightening aberration.
Trump supporter will seek out the “Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American and go right up behind them and make them a little bit nervous.â€
“What made America great in the first place? America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.”
“I was watching that blond man on TV, on the news — and he says the most violent, awful things. When we talk about Trump it’s a sad reality.”
“’I know it (obscenity) when I see it.’ Likewise, this Court knows disenfranchisement when it sees it and it is obscene.â€
“It’s going to create a disturbance and, played out in polling places across the country, it has the potential to destabilize the election which is very, very dangerous.”
This combination of failure and fruition has made the Trump campaign coverage hard to watch and stomach.
It all came together. Lots of employment and wage gains, particularly in the lowest-paying jobs, combined with minimum-wage increases that hit some very large population areas.
“He turned sideways to be sure that we would see that he has an open carry gun, which is legal but it’s intimidating. Don’t come here and stare into the office all day.”
“There is also probable cause to believe that many, if not all, of the statements were made to obstruct any inquiry into their further wrongdoing or negligence.â€
“I wanted to call them out. Paul Ryan, the Mitt Romneys, the Reince Priebuses, they don’t want Trump to win – they’re sabotaging the campaign.”
Embracing extremism delivered what the base wants and GOP attempts to distance themselves from their creation is inciting a rebellion against party defectors.
“I wouldn’t vote for anybody that does something like that. The logic, I just can’t figure it out at all. It’s not comprehensible for me. It’s just too stupid.â€
Drudge said he and Trump’s supporters “wondered if the government was lying about the intensity of the hurricane†and legitimacy of National Hurricane Center data.
“Scientists are confident that as we continue to heat up the oceans, we’re going to see more of these high-end perfect storms.â€