On Tuesday, at a White House event discussing so-called “sanctuary cities, GOP Representative Martha McSally of Arizona made what seemed to be a serious suggestion: building a wall between California and Arizona.  Most people will agree that McSally’s proposal is “off the wall.† However, in a state with a history of right-wing elected officials…
Never re-tweet, never surrender! Donald Trump took to Twitter to take his critics to the woodshed for the audacity they had to criticize the congratulatory phone call he made to Vladimir Putin after Putin “won” reelection. Congratulations, by the way, that his National Security advisers strongly (in all caps, no less) urged him not to…
“If we’re talking about a foreign government paying for those outcomes, that’s very blatantly illegal,” Maddow said on Wednesday.
Citing multiple sources, The Intercept reports that “Kushner had discussed the names of Saudis disloyal to the crown prince.”
Donald Trump made matters much worse for his already-reeling senior advisers this week, spontaneously telling a group of reporters that he plans to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin “in the not-too-distant future.”
The four areas Mueller plans to focus on when questioning Trump make it clear: The special counsel is going right after Trump’s repeated efforts to lie about his ties to Russia and obstruct any investigation into those ties.Â
The Atlantic reports that “Counselor to the President” Kellyanne Conway is this close to accepting the recently (and repeatedly) vacated White House Communications Director position. Evidently being an enabling, lying sycophant Trump’s being a violator of ethics law. That would make her the 5th person to hold that job in the Trump administration in 1…
Trump went on a Twitter rant in defense of his call to congratulate Putin which should only serve to attract more attention from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump tweeted: I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because…
Our house is divided. Despite Mr. Trump’s continued assault on Robert Mueller, and the investigation he is tasked with, one might be wondering where the Republican profiles in courage are these days. Why the near deafening silence, save the voices such as Senator Flake (R-AZ), Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), or Lindsey Graham (R-SC), or the…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement late Wednesday on the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which has embroiled his company in global controversies and seen a loss of up to $50 billion in market value. “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Zuckerberg said…
A new Pew study found that the Democratic base is growing while Republicans are losing identification with whites and male voters ahead of the midterm. The Democratic base is growing Women and college graduates increasingly align with Democratic Party, according to a new Pew study. The 19 point Democratic advantage with women is up 7…
In an email obtained by BuzzFeed News, longtime Fox News contributor Col. Ralph Peters let his colleagues know that the quit his job at the network out of shame. Peters called out Fox’s blatant propaganda in favor of President Trump — though many are already pointing out that, for years, Peters engaged in spreading the same…
The quiet, home-schooled son of a local couple that sold Amway products is suspected of staging a three-week deadly bombing campaign that gripped the Texas capital of Austin.
How much does Putin know about Trump that we don’t know about? And even more importantly: Is Putin holding something scandalous over Trump and in effect blackmailing him to follow Putin’s wishes?
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc and the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica have been sued in the United States for obtaining information belonging to 50 million of the social media company’s users without permission. The proposed class-action complaint filed late Tuesday night by Lauren Price, a Maryland resident, is the first…
Mic has released a copy of a letter written by Barack and Michelle Obama addressed to survivors of the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The massacre took the lives of 17 students and school staff. Written on March 10, the letter praises the students for comforting each other…
Speaking to a Washington Post reporter on Tuesday, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said he’ll vote in favor of impeaching President Trump if Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the lead investigator in the Russia probe, is fired “without cause.” “We’re begging him: ‘Don’t go down this road,’” he said. “‘Don’t create a constitutional crisis. Don’t force the…
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) filed a discharge petition that would force House Speaker Paul Ryan to call The Special Counsel Integrity Act to the floor for a vote that would protect Robert Mueller from being unilaterally fired by Trump. The Special Counsel Integrity Act would make it nearly impossible for Trump to fire Mueller. The…
Not having a verifiable way to audit election results in some states represents a “national security concern,” the Trump administration’s homeland security chief said on Wednesday, looking ahead to U.S. midterm elections in November.
The White House isn’t mad that Trump ignored his national security team. They are angry that someone leaked the fact that Trump ignored the warning not to congratulate Putin. Video: The White House is mad that someone informed the American people about Trump congratulating Putin. https://t.co/UzRQiyAyyB pic.twitter.com/WtfXfxq20E — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 21, 2018…
Scotland’s three most powerful female politicians have called on Twitter to do more to stop online abuse and harassment of women.
The federal government wants to know if Facebook violated terms of a consent decree signed by the social media giant in 2011 when it transferred private profile data to Cambridge Analytica. If this personal user data was transferred by Facebook, and the company did not obtain consent, then there probably would be a clear violation of the…
Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed early Wednesday that the suspect in a string of bombings in Austin is dead. Manley said that police had tracked down the suspect’s vehicle to a hotel in the Round Rock area of Austin. The law enforcement team began following the vehicle, and as their SWAT team approached it, the suspect…
By Eric Auchard and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – The suspended chief executive of UK-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica claimed in secretly recorded video that his company played a decisive role in the 2016 election campaign of President Donald Trump, Channel 4 News reported on Tuesday. British broadcaster Channel 4 News mounted a “sting operation”…
