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Trump Might Pick Sarah Palin To Lead The VA And Social Media’s Response Is Priceless
We laugh, but leading the Department of Veterans Affairs – the government’s largest agency – is serious business.
Monthly Archives: November 2016
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GOP Senators Wage War Against Trump’s Plan To Deport Young Undocumented Immigrants
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Some Republicans in Congress are working to prevent Trump from carrying out a top campaign promise.
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Ohio GOP Pushing Measure To Allow Guns On College Campuses, In Day Care Centers
If approved, it would also allow firearms in police stations and airports.
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PFAW Condemns White Nationalist FAIR’s Racist Immigration Proposals
“FAIR’s newly laid-out immigration priorities are directly from the xenophobic, far-right movemen…severely limiting legal immigration.”
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Carrier Still Plans To Move 1,100 Jobs To Mexico As President-Elect Trump Got Played
Carrier played the president-elect by getting tens of millions of dollars in incentives, while still outsourcing 1,100 jobs to Mexico.
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7 Senate Democrats Urge Obama To Declassify Information About Russia Meddling In US Election
Seven Senate Democrats, who all sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee, have sent a request to President Obama asking him to declassify all materials related to Russia interfering in the US presidential election.
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Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren Team Up To Tear Into Trump Over Treasury Nominee
Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren called Donald Trump a hypocrite today for his decision to nominate a Wall Street insider to head the Treasury Department.
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Jill Stein Points To Suspicious Blank Votes While Filing for a Recount in Michigan
Green Party candidate Jill Stein followed through on her promise by filing for a recount in Michigan Wednesday afternoon, citing a high number of blank votes as the reason.
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US Veterans May Be Screwed As Trump Eyes Sarah Palin To Head Veterans Affairs
In what could be devastating news for US veterans, Sarah Palin is under consideration to head Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration.
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The White House Just Obliterated Trump’s Jobs Carrier Stunt With A Giant Fact Bomb
The White House responded to Donald Trump keeping 1,000 jobs in the US by dropping a huge fact bomb that showed just how little Trump has accomplished compared to President Obama.
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Democrats Refuse To Panic as Nancy Pelosi Wins Re-election as House Democratic Leader
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fended off a challenge from Tim Ryan by a vote of 134-63 Wednesday morning, in a closed door caucus meeting.
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe Outed As Pro-Trump Propaganda Outlet
MSNBC has a major conflict of interest as Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough is advising Donald Trump and has not disclosed this fact to viewers. In essence, the MSNBC morning program is giving viewers a dose of pro-Trump propaganda, without providing adequate to disclosure of their relationship with the president-elect.
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Ethics Lawyers Urge Trump To Be As Ethical As Bill Clinton On Conflicts Of Interest
Why won’t Donald Trump do as much as Bill Clinton did to separate himself from his business interests? For all of Donald Trump’s smearing of Hillary and Bill Clinton and their foundation, it’s telling that when it comes down to it, once again Donald Trump doesn’t even try to uphold the most basic of standards.
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Trump’s Carrier Stunt Is A Loser Compared To The 1.2 Million Jobs Obama Saved With Auto Bailout
President-elect Trump is hyping the PR stunt of saving 1,000 jobs in Indiana, by giving Carrier a package of tax cuts and incentives, but it is nothing compared to the 1.2 million jobs that President Obama saved with the auto bailout.
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Trump’s Homeland Security Prospect Portends a Real Constitutional Crisis
About a million people should be scooped up, “charged with treason, and under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo.â€
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Donald Trump is Poaching the Worst and Dimmest for His Administration From Fox News
Donald Trump has moved Fox News’ “whole roster off of Rupert Murdoch and onto the taxpayers of the United States.”
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Donald Trump Announces He Will Be Leaving His Business to Avoid Conflict of Interest
“I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses”
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Trump Turns Inauguration Into Pay-For-Play Scheme, Sells Access To Highest Bidder
As power players in D.C. jockey for influence over the incoming president, Trump appears to be happy to give it to them.
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Trump And Pence Bribe Carrier With Massive Taxpayer-Funded Giveaway To Score PR Win
Pence served up a huge, taxpayer-funded handout to Carrier so the company would keep jobs in Indiana.
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Latest Cabinet Picks Are Proof That Trump Never Intended To ‘Drain The Swamp’
Sorry, Trump voters. The swamp your man promised to drain is only getting deeper.
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If Republicans Don’t Investigate Trump-Russia Connection, They’re Un-American
The most alarming story of the campaign was the successful effort by a ‘hostile’ foreign power, Russia, to interfere and influence this election.
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Bernie Sanders Goes On The Warpath As Trump Nominee Signals Cuts To Social Security
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blasted Donald Trump for lying about protecting Social Security after the president-elect nominated a man who is dedicated to killing Social Security and Medicare to run HHS.
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Democracy Under Assault As Trump Considers Kicking Press Out Of The White House
Journalists are warning that President-elect Donald Trump is considering not having a White House press office, doing no press briefings, closing down the White House press room, and only having a single pool reporter covering the president. In other words, Trump is kicking around the idea of removing the press from the White House.
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Senate Republicans Kill Trump’s Dream Of Throwing People In Jail For Flag Burning
After Donald Trump suggested that people be put in jail for burning the flag, top Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and John McCain reminded Trump that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, as McConnell signaled to reporters than any legislation banning flag burning would be DOA.
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Ethical Disgrace Newt Gingrich Calls Jill Stein the “Nut Wing” of American Politics
Ethics violator and Chief Clinton conspiracy monger from the 90s Newt Gingrich called Jill Stein the “nut wing of American politics” today in an effort to defend Donald Trump from her recall.
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Trump Moves Toward Impeachable Offenses By Signaling Intention To Violate His Oath Of Office
President-elect Donald Trump has been attacking the First Amendment for days via his Twitter account. If Trump acts on his stated feelings about free speech, he will violate his oath of office and there is a school of Constitutional thought that believes that such a violation would be an impeachable offense.
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Mika Brzezinski Suggests Flag-Burning is a Form of Hate Crime
Scarborough relished the idea of “putting Democrats in the position…to come down on the side of flag burning” but what we’d be coming down on is the side of the First Amendment
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Trump Uses Constitution Like TP But Proposes Loss of Citizenship for Flag Burners
“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!”
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Bill O’Reilly Says ‘White Power Movement’ is a ‘Storyline That Simply Doesn’t Exist’
“Summing up, the press is trumping up…a white power movement storyline that simply doesn’t exist. It’s vile to suggest that it does.”
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Trump Shows How Mentally Unstable He Really Is By Attacking The Free Press
Trump’s attack on the free press had an underlying message for America. The man that they have elected to be the next president is showing signs of mental instability.
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Pro-Trump Woman Goes Full Racist On African-American Craft Store Clerk
If this is how Trump voters are behaving after their candidate won an election, just imagine how they would be acting if he had lost.
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Nate Silver Destroys Kellyanne Conway’s Ridiculous Claim That Trump Won In A “Landslide”
Not only was Trump’s victory not a “blowout,” but it was actually pretty unimpressive.
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Editorial Cartoon – E Trumpus Corruptus
America will become a subsidiary of Trump Corporation…
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Jill Stein Sues Wisconsin Election Commission For Refusing To Order Hand Recount
Jill Stein goes all in to make sure votes in Wisconsin are recounted by hand.
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White House: No evidence has emerged about U.S. voting fraud
There has been no evidence of widespread election fraud in the Nov. 8 presidential contest, the White House said on Monday in reaction to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet over the weekend alleging millions of illegal votes and fraud in three states.
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Bernie Sanders Calls For A National Movement To Stop Trump’s Threat To Democracy
Sen. Bernie Sanders is urging Americans to stand up and come together in a national movement to stop Donald Trump and the GOP’s undemocratic vision for America.
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The 3 States Trump Accused Of Voter Fraud All Denounce His Fact Free Conspiracy
President-elect Donald Trump accused New Hampshire, Virginia, and California of voter fraud. Officials in all three states have released statements denouncing the President-elect’s baseless conspiracy theory.
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Democrats Demand Trump’s Tax Returns And An Investigation Into His Conflicts Of Interest
House Oversight Committee Democrats are demanding that President-elect Trump releases his tax returns and that an immediate investigation is launched into Trump’s conflicts of interest
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Trump Transition Team Cites Debunked 2014 WaPo Study as Evidence of Voter Fraud
The study Trump spox Jason Miller cites as evidence of voter fraud has been repeatedly debunked as providing no evidence of voter fraud
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Recount Steams Forward As Green Party Files Request In Pennsylvania
Jill Stein is following through on her promise to request recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, as the Green Party presidential candidate has filed for recounts in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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The Battle Begins As Wisconsin Denies Jill Stein Request For Statewide Hand Recount
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has denied a request by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein for a hand recount of all ballots.
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Shelter In Place Lifted As Suspect Dead and 8 Injured In Attack At Ohio State University
Local media in Columbus, Ohio are reporting that one suspect is dead after an attack using a knife and a car left at least 8 people injured at Ohio State University. The University has lifted the shelter in place order, but all classes are canceled.
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Lewandowski’s Lie Is Probably Preparation For Trump’s Greatest Con on Americans
Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald Reagan in 1984.â€
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Ana Navarro Destroys Trump’s Secretary of State Brouhaha With Single Tweet
“Let’s stop obsessing over who’ll be Secretary of State. We don’t need one. Our Twitterer-in-Chief can set foreign policy in 140 characters”
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NBC News: Donald Trump Will Claim Success Without Needing to be Successful
“So there’s your Trump presidency in a nutshell. Thin-skinned rants. Feuding aides. Conspiracy theories. And all a distraction from the bigger issues out there.”
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Trump Sources Say Kellyanne Conway ‘Went Rogue’ Attacking Mitt Romney
Trump is ‘furious’ at Conway’s comments on Sunday suggesting he “betrayed his supporters by even considering Mitt Romney for a position in his cabinet.”
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Trump Won With One of the Lowest Percentages of the Popular Vote in History
Trump has 46.5 percent of the popular vote and dropping. Bill Clinton received only 43 percent in ’92 but unlike Trump, he received more votes than his opponent.
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Paul Krugman Cites the Real Outrage in Trump’s Infrastructure Scam
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.
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In His Most Unpresidential Moment Yet, Trump Claims Millions Illegally Voted For Clinton
In his most unpresidential moment yet, President-elect Trump took to Twitter to push a conspiracy theory with no evidence to support it, that millions of people illegally voted for Hillary Clinton.
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In A Chilling Moment Marco Rubio Refuses To Say That He Trusts Trump With Nuclear Codes
Sen. Marco Rubio, who supported Trump during the presidential election, refused to say that he trusts the president-elect with the nuclear codes during an interview on Sunday.
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Trump Threatens To Prosecute Hillary Clinton If She Pursues An Election Recount
Trump Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway delivered a threat to prosecute Hillary Clinton if she pursues the recount during an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union.
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Bernie Sanders Busts The Media For Pushing Trump Lies About The Recount
When ABC News’s Martha Raddatz pushed a Trump lie about the recount to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sanders shot back with the facts and set the mainstream media straight.
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An Unhinged Trump Flies Into A Rage Over Recount That He Planted The Seeds For
President-elect Donald Trump is enraged and viewing the recount as a personal insult. The problem is that it was Trump himself who raised doubts about the integrity of US elections by complaining that the election was going to be stolen from him.
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Still Reeling: Blockbuster Hit or Disturbing Documentary
If only this were a movie and not a metastasizing reality threatening the deepest values of our democracy, the welfare of every citizen, and our standing in a globalized world.
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Anti-pipeline protesters told to leave North Dakota camp area by December 5
Protesters opposed to an oil pipeline planned to run beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota must vacate an area where thousands of demonstrators have been camped by Dec. 5 or face prosecution, according to U.S. authorities.
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Trump’s Education Secretary’s “School Choice” Movement Undermines Public Education
Efforts to undermine unions diminish democratic operations in our schools and disempower those who are most attuned to what our children need.
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Trump turns to Washington lawyer to navigate legal, ethics issues
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose Washington insider Donald McGahn to be his White House counsel, giving him the job of untangling potential conflicts of interest that the New York businessman’s presidency may present.
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Noam Chomsky Calls Donald Trump’s Unpredictability ‘Very Dangerous’
“Do you vote against the greater evil if you don’t happen to like the other candidate? The answer to that is yes, if you have any moral understanding”
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Mexicans very negative on Trump, but back talks with him: poll
An overwhelming majority of Mexicans hold a negative view of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, but most believe their own president should meet with him to defend the country’s interests, an opinion poll showed.
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Vladimir Putin Throws Water on Trump’s Condemnation of Fidel Castro
Trump loves Putin, hates on Castro, while Putin points out “Castro was a sincere and reliable friend of Russia.â€
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Trump Appoints Public School Enemy Number One To Decimate Education Department
DeVos has the potential to undermine progress by diverting resources and failing to uphold government’s responsibility to protect the needs of students.
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Trump Throws A Tantrum And Calls Election Recount A Green Party Scam
“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein…to fill her coffers with money…a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded”
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Jill Stein Says Her Campaign’s Goal is a Transparent Election Process
“My campaign’s goal: Transparent election processes to ensure election results can be verified—that every vote counts”
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Donald Trump Offers Empty Self-Praise After Death of Fidel Castro
“I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me…”
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Election Fraud Complaint Filed As More People Voted Than Total Voters In 4 Wisconsin Precincts
An election fraud complaint has been filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission after it was uncovered that more people voted in the presidential race than the total number of votes in 4 precincts in Wisconsin.
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Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Will Participate In Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania Recounts
Hillary Clinton’s campaign will participate in the election recounts in three critical swing states that have been and will be filed for by Jill Stein. However, the Clinton camp doesn’t expect the recounts to change the election results.
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A Distant Trumpet: Army Celebrates Thanksgiving by Ordering Sioux Camp to Disperse
For the Sioux, this is being treated like trespassers on their own land, and according to the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties, this IS their own land
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Pro-Putin GOP Congressman Emerges As Another Potential Trump Secretary Of State Pick
The man has been dubbed “Putin’s favorite congressman.”
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Report: Trump’s Margin In Wisconsin Shrinks By Thousands Of Votes Ahead Of Recount
If this pattern remains consistent across the state, it’s feasible – though unclear how likely – that Clinton could end up on top in the state.
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Friday Fox Follies – Happy Trumpsgiving!
This week Friday Fox Follies exposes the 2 biggest lies told on Fox, interesting internal internecine insurgencies, and the usual hypocrisy.
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Millions Of Middle-Class Families Will See Tax Increases Under The Trump Plan
Spoiler alert: The richest 1 percent of Americans would benefit most from Trump’s proposal.
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A Black Friday For Trump As Jill Stein Officially Files For A Recount In Wisconsin
Jill Stein and the Green Party have officially filed a request to have the ballots in the 2016 presidential election in Wisconsin recounted.
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Blue-collar Democrats to party: It’s still the economy, stupid
By tapping into those economic worries, Trump captured about two-thirds of whites with no college degree, exit polls showed. That helped him gain the razor-thin margin of victory he needed in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan – all picked up by President Barack Obama in 2012 – to win the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote.
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Concerns Grow As Jill Stein Is Tinkering With The Fine Print Of Her Recount Fundraiser
After easily passing her initial fundraising goal to pay for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the Green Party’s Jill Stein has upped the amount of money she says she will need, and changed some of the fine print on her fundraising page.
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Want To Boycott Trump While Christmas Shopping? There’s An App For That
A new app allows consumers to boycott the 250 companies that have connections to Donald Trump while they do their Christmas shopping.
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Donald Trump Owns a Stake in the Dakota Access Pipeline
Since the project is worth $3.8 billion, you can bet the Sioux of Standing Rock are not going to get a fair shake from the president-elect
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Coming Soon: Vengeance Against NLRB For Ruling Against Trump in Union Fight
“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.”
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Let’s Wink to the War on Christmas
“Unless a Starbucks cup is
A) Threatening to murder you &
B) Somehow seems to have the ability to do so
Then some of you are overreacting
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Move Over Trump: Adolf Hitler Said He Would ‘Make Germany Great Again’
“He told people that he would make Germany great again. He blamed Jews, Socialists, Communists, and others for the troubles of the land.”
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Indifferent Trump Has Avoided Intelligence Briefings Since Winning Election
This is especially troubling given Trump’s utter lack of knowledge when it comes to foreign affairs.
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Not Over Yet: Over $1 Million Raised In Five Hours To Cover Costs Of Swing-State Recount
The money already raised is enough to secure a recount in at least one state – Wisconsin – whose filing deadline is Nov. 25.
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Trump Picks Head Of Education Department After Promising To Eliminate It During Campaign
In one choice, Trump managed to abandon yet another campaign promise, while upsetting teachers unions and his most loyal supporters.
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Trump Hit With Thanksgiving Surprise As Green Party Files For Recount In WI, MI, and PA
With calls from election security experts growing, the Green Party has announced that they will be filing for a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to help Hillary Clinton win an election that they believe was hacked.
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Trump Surrogate Jeffrey Lord Tells CNN Black Lives Matter to Blame for Nazis
“The left, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or La Raza…Groups that identify themselves by race provoked this group to identify by race”
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America Gets A Reminder Of How Good A President Obama Is During Turkey Pardon
President Obama did his last ever turkey pardon today in the Rose Garden, which also served as a reminder of how good this man has been as the nation’s commander in chief.
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Neo-Nazi Found Guilty of Murdering Anti-Brexit British Lawmaker Jo Cox
“Our parents’ generation made huge sacrifices to defeat those ideas and values in the Second World War. What you did…betrays the sacrifices of that generation.”
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Election Security Expert Explains Why Hillary Clinton Must Challenge Election Results
Election security expert J. Alex Halderman makes a compelling case for why Hillary Clinton needs to challenge the election results to ensure the integrity of our voting system.
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As President, Trump Plans To Raise Taxes On 26 Million Low Income Americans
Not only will 47% of Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts go to the top one percent, but his tax plan will raise taxes on 26 million Americans who are part of 8.5 million low-income families.
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Elizabeth Warren Calls For Federal Investigation Into Trump Transition
Citing various conflicts of interest, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) are calling for a federal investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the use of taxpayer funds to pay for Trump’s presidential transition.
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If It Walks, Talks, and Acts Like Nazis – Call “Alt-right†Nazis, Not Racists
“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.”
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Donald Trump Chooses South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador
There is a method to Trump’s madness, of course. If Haley becomes UN Ambassador, a Trump ally, Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, will replace her.
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At Standing Rock #NoDAPL Protesters Face ‘Blunt Trauma and Open Wounds’
Attack dogs, mace, pepper spray, beatings, bullets, water cannons, and arrest have all been used on pipeline protesters at Standing Rock
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Trump Changed Positions Six Times During A One-Hour New York Times Interview
In one hour, Trump walked away from many of the themes central to his campaign.
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Democrats Promise To Stand Up To Trump And Investigate Comey’s Campaign Meddling
Democrats are prepared to stand up to the huge threat that a Trump presidency represents.
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Trump Facing Major Backlash From Supporters Over Broken Promise To Imprison Clinton
Trump never had any intention of locking Hillary Clinton up because he knew she broke no laws.
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Computer Scientists And Election Lawyers Urge Hillary Clinton To Challenge Election Results
A group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers have found irregularities in results in at least three swing states, and they are urging Hillary Clinton and her campaign to challenge the results of the 2016 presidential election.
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Non-Partisan Experts Say Trump Is Wrong: The President Isn’t Above The Law Or Constitution
The non-partisan experts at Issue One, a non-partisan, non-profit dedicated to reducing the issue of money in politics are calling out President-elect Trump from placing himself above the law and the Constitution during his interview with The New York Times.
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Donald Trump Booed In Public As He Leaves Meeting With The New York Times
The media sold the reaction to leaving his meeting with The New York Times as cheers, but the video shows Trump being booed in public in New York City.
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Trump Just Laid The Groundwork For Corruption By Declaring Himself Above The Law
During his interview with The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump inaccurately declared that he would have no conflicts of interest because”The President can’t have a conflict of interest.”
