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George W. Bush Says We Need an Independent Media to Hold Powerful People to Account
“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account…it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.â€
Articles by Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
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Trump Will Have to Look for Another Rich White Guy as Navy Secretary Pick Withdraws
The decision has set twitter a-crowing over Trump’s failure and sent him scurrying to find another suitable rich white guy to run the government
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Trump Declines WH Correspondents Dinner So Twitter Demands Alec Baldwin as Replacement
“I will not be attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner this year” = “Oh pleeeeeez Alec Baldwin go as trump at Correspondents Dinner!!!!”
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Wanted: Barack Obama as President of France
“Barack Obama has completed his second term as President of the United States on January 21, why not hire him as President for France?”
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Actor Robert Davi Bizarrely Claims Roman Law Would Protect Trump From Criticism
Davi is wrong, not only about the law but about who is guilty of spreading false and malicious rumors. It is his hero who is liable, not his critics
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Darrell Issa Calls for Special Prosecutor to Investigate Trump-Russia Contacts
Issa said Sessions must recuse himself: “You cannot have somebody, a friend of mine Jeff Sessions, who was on the campaign and who is an appointee.”
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CPAC Turns into Anti-Globalist Hate-Fest and Alex Jones Wants You to Kill Yourself
So far at CPAC we have seen nonstop attacks on “globalists” and “globalism” – and this from a president who makes money from all over the globe. On the whole, this makes as much sense as liberals being cast as the elites when it’s Trump who uses a golden toilet as his throne.
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What Trump and Bannon Are Displaying at CPAC is Not About Ideals But Skin Color
The Trumpean agenda is the polar opposite of Obama’s inclusiveness, of an America unified not by shared race, but shared values and ideals
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Sean Spicer Lied: Only Contact Trump Had With Standing Rock Sioux is Armed Invasion
“Spicer claimed that the Trump administration has been ‘constantly’ in contact with our tribe. That claim is absolutely false.”
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Trump’s Attacks on the Judiciary Can Give Religious Right the Victory Voters Won’t
“[Stephen] Miller’s language about ‘judicial supremacy’ comes straight from the mouths of Religious Right leaders” who view “federal courts as obstacles”
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CNN Invites Nativist Bigot on New Day to Preach Gospel of ‘Reclaiming Our Schools’
Reclaiming our schools for the American people is a politically correct way of saying “making our schools white again”
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Ana Navarro Calls Out Trump’s Unwillingness to Offend Anti-Semitic Supporters
“Forget President Trump, forget relying on him. He’s not going to fix this, he’s not going to be full-throated about it, it’s up to us folks.”
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Muslim-Led Crowdfunding Campaign Triples Goal to Restore Vandalized Jewish Cemetery
The American people are not without the power to denounce hate and to respond to Trump in the most powerful and self-affirming way possible.
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‘Alt-right’ Media Troll Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns from Breitbart
Fox News says he won’t work in journalism anymore, which should be easy since harassing and trolling people online isn’t really journalism.
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CNN Gives Air Time to Rick Santorum So He Can Blame Anti-Semitism on Obama
Santorum claimed “President Obama said and did nothing in response to rising anti-Semitism” but in fact, Obama spoke out strongly against it
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Donald Trump Channels Adolf Hitler to Attack the ‘Lying’ Press
Hitler used to refer to the lying press of his enemies, as in the “Marxist Lügenpresse,” while today Trump, disturbingly, does the same
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Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Dis-invited from CPAC for Advocating Pedophilia
“Anti-Semitism, ok. Racism, ok. Alt Right, ok. Advocacy of pedophilia? Is THAT the bridge too far?â€
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Carl Bernstein: ‘We’ve Never Seen Such Open Authoritarian Moves and Rhetoric’
“We are the last resort of the American people to a dictatorial and authoritarian inclined president.”
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Trump Wants You to Believe Lie About a Massacre in Sweden Wasn’t About a Massacre
“Give the public a break – The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!”
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The Inexcusable Republican ‘Soft-Response’ to Trump’s Russia Scandal
“Honest Q for conservatives who aren’t just working with or around Trump, but rationalizing him: In your heart, don’t you know you’re wrong?”
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KKK Leader Who Made Terrorist Threats Against Ferguson Protesters is Dead
Frank Ancona once told Anonymous “You’ll be strung up next to the chimps” was shot as he slept and his body dumped on the banks of a river
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Scott Lively Warns of a Gay-Led ‘Obama/Soros/Media Shadow Government’
Lively says “Obama’s personal priorities” mean “Today’s alphabet soup of intelligence agencies could easily be condensed to just four letters: LGBT”
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Trump’s Completely Unnecessary Rally Was All About Getting Cheers for His Lies
The only difference between then and now is that before Election Day he lied that he would do the things he is now lying about having done.
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Pat Robertson Says People Who Oppose Trump Are Revolting Against God
The First Amendment says “there is no…infringing on the freedom of the press.” Not by Donald Trump. Not even by God.
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Bill Maher Slaps Down the Magic (R) Republicans Use to Forgive Their Own Sins
“If you have one of those, you can get away with pretty much anything when it comes to selling out, cursing out, or compromising your own country.”
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J.K. Rowling Destroys Donald Trump’s Attack on the Free Press
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong…is morally treasonable”
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The Press Reacts to Trump Calling Them ‘The Enemy of the American People’
“On Planet Trump, the MSM is the enemy of the American people, but Russia — which hates us & has thousands of nukes pointed at us — is not”
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Trump Sends Out ‘Poor Donald is Being Bullied by the Media’ Survey to Supporters
“Do you believe that our Party should spend more time and resources holding the mainstream media accountable?â€
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Bill to Investigate Activities of Russia in 2016 Election Gains First GOP Sponsor
The bill would establish a commission is to examine “activities by the Russian government…to interfere with” the 2016 elections
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Evan McMullin Condemns Republicans Who Put Conservative Agenda Above National Security
McMullin says “Republicans are now responsible for protecting the nation from its dangers.” Sadly, we can’t expect them to do that.
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Fact Checkers Tear Apart Trump’s ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Rant-n-Rave Press Conference
NBC’s Peter Alexander’s point to Trump was “Why should Americans trust you on big things if they can’t even trust you on little things?”
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Trump’s Crazy Presser Has Left Smart People Grasping for Words to Describe it
“Reminder: the same jerks who call liberals “snowflakes” elected the whiniest petulant motherf*cker in the entire history of the presidency”
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Eminent Psychiatrist Says it’s an Insult to Mentally Ill to Call Trump Mentally Ill
“He can, and should, be appropriately denounced for his ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity and pursuit of dictatorial powers.”
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Michael Flynn Has Had His Security Clearance Revoked ‘Pending Review’
The only question now will Donald Trump be able to get a new NSA in place before yet further disasters overtake his administration.
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Paul Krugman Says Thanks to Trump America is ‘Deep Into a Legitimacy Crisis’
Listing Trump’s offenses, Krugman says “If he were a Democrat, impeachment hearings would already be underway…Our whole system is now tainted”
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Malcolm Nance Says Trump aides ‘Need to Start Getting Lawyers and Cutting Deals’
“These people need to start getting lawyers and cutting deals because when we have both sides of the conversation, you are gonna get caught.”
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Jason Chaffetz Called Out by Salt Lake City Tribune For Refusing to Investigate Trump
“Opening this line of questioning could be a first step toward some real congressional oversight of the administration.”
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Questioned About Anti-Semitism Trump Answers by Bragging About Electoral Win
“I just want to say that we are very honored by the victory we had, 306 electoral college votes. we were not supposed to crack 220. you know that right?”
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Bernie Sanders Wants an Investigation. Republicans Only Want to Talk About Tax Cuts
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tweeted today that he will ask the Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate the Trump-Russia connection: Today I will be asking the Senate Intelligence Committee to thoroughly investigate if Russia coordinated with Trump and his campaign. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 15, 2017 The trouble is, this is what he is up…
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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski Says She Will No Longer Book Kellyanne Conway
“Kellyanne Conway does not need to text our show, as long as I’m on it. It’s not happening here.â€
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Rep. Steve King Claims Trump’s Russia Scandal is a ‘CNN Narrative’
In 2012, eyeing Hillary Clinton, King did not need facts or a chronology. Now, with all eyes on Donald Trump, he positively demands them.
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Desperate Putin Puppet Donald Trump Insanely Claims Obama Was Soft on Russia
In response to Times assertions Trump says, “Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?”
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Sen. Chris Murphy Seeks Trump Tax Returns to Explain ‘Bizarre Positioning’ on Russia
“Either…the Russians have something on Trump or…there are financial ties that require Trump to behave in this way or…perhaps the Russians helped him in the election and this is some sort of quid quo pro.”
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As Trump Blames Hillary for Scandal, Remember: She Warned Us About Trump and Putin
We were warned by Hillary Clinton about Trump and Putin. She warned us. She persisted. She did not sit down and shut up. We must do the same
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Jason Chaffetz Asks White House to Provide Info on Mar-a-Lago Security Breach
“Accounts and photographs from other diners seem to indicate these communications occurred in the presence of other guests.”
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Paul Krugman Says Trump is a Horror but a Horror Made Possible by GOP Corruption
“The point is that the sickness runs deep; Trump is horrible, but a horror made possible by GOP corruption and lack of conscience.”
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Sean Spicer Claims Trump Acted Decisively on Flynn – 17 Days After Being Told
Spicer claimed that talking about a 17-day delay “assumes a lot of things that aren’t true,†but what it actually involves is a suspension of reality.
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Evan McMullin Says in Dodging Investigation Chaffetz is Shirking His Duties
“The WH ignored DOJ warnings and clearly has troubling ties to Moscow. Jason Chaffetz & Congressional Republicans are shirking their duties”
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As Demands for Investigation Grow, Jason Chaffetz Says ‘No need to investigate Flynn’
Amid a growing chorus of demands for an investigation into who knew what, Chaffetz claims “I think that situation has taken care of itself”
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John McCain Says Flynn Scandal Raises Questions About Trump’s Intentions Toward Putin
“At the same time, General Flynn’s resignation is a troubling indication of the dysfunction of the current national security apparatus.”
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CNN Puts Trump On Notice That There is Zero Chance Press Will Move on From Flynn Scandal
“Congressman, there is zero chance that we are going to move on until answers to the questions that present themselves at least get notice from the White House.”
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John Oliver to Provide Helpful Information to Trump Via Commercials on Fox News
“We’ve actually created a series of commercials in an attempt to bring him up to speed on some information he may lack.”
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Democrats Must Go on the Offensive and Topple Trump’s Rotten, Treasonous Regime
Michael Flynn led the chants of “Lock her up!” Well, we know who should be locked up, and Flynn is only the first. He should be far from the last.
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In Joint Press Conference, Trump and Trudeau Artfully Dodge Immigration Differences
Trudeau said it was not for Canada to lecture the U.S. but rather to continue to reflect Canada’s approach and stay true to its own values.
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Donald Trump Doesn’t Think He Has Enough Social Media Staff in White House
Do we really need more photos posted to FB by Trump guests of the man holding the nuclear football as Trump performs for the camera?
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Sen. Chris Murphy Says if Michael Flynn Lied ‘He Probably Has to Go’
“If there’s evidence that makes it clear that Flynn lied to the Vice President and others…he can’t continue to be national security adviser.”
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Stephen Miller Gets a ‘Pants on Fire’ From PolitiFact for Lie NH Busses in Voters
PolitiFact concluded that “there is no evidence this occurs, and Republicans and Democrats in New Hampshire say it does not.”
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Sean Hannity Wigs Out Over Morning Joe Criticism of Stephen Miller
“Steve Miller works 18 hour days serving the country and the @POTUS What do you do? Basically talk to yourself & @morningmika Nobody watches!”
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Sen. Angus King: Trump Lacks ‘A Gut-Level Understanding of Checks and Balances’
“John Marshall settled that question in 1803. This is Mr. Trump meet Mr. Madison. Division of powers, independent judiciary, fundamental principals of our Constitution.”
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Morning Joe Reacts With Horror to Claims Trump’s Power Will Not be Questioned
“(They are) questioned, my young, little Miller. They will be questioned by the court — it’s called judicial review.â€
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Donald Trump’s ‘Yuge Image Problem: He’s a Walking, Talking Joke
“What the actual f*ck is up w these Trump Admin ppl. They are the most smug, smarmy, cartoon villain-y ppl I’ve EVER seen. EVER.”
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Lindsey Graham Mansplains That Elizabeth Warren’s Silencing ‘Was Long Overdue’
“The bottom line is,” said Graham, “it was long overdue with her. I mean, she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020.”
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Trump Ignores Quebec Terrorist Attack But Whines About Nordstrom’s Treatment of Ivanka
Trump says Nordstrom’s treatment of Ivanka is terrible! No, “Terrible” is Muslims murdered by a Trump supporter in a terrorist attack.
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Armored in Willful Ignorance, Trump Claims Nobody Opposes Keystone and DAPL
“As you know, I did the Dakota pipeline and nobody called up to complain, because it was unfair. Years of getting approvals, nobody showed up to fight it.”
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These Are The Republicans Who Voted to Strip Elizabeth Warren of Her Right to Speak
“Think about it: Senator Warren was silenced in the U.S. Senate for reading the words of Coretta Scott King. We are losing our democracy.”
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A Defiant Elizabeth Warren Reads Coretta Scott King’s Letter Outside Senate
“Mitch McConnel and the Republicans came to the floor to shut me down…what I’d like to do outside the Senate, I just want to read the letter.”
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Anderson Cooper Destroys Trump Terror Lies: ‘I know we covered attacks, I was there’
“Not only did we cover many of the attacks on that list, we covered them heavily. I know, because I was on the ground reporting a number of them.”
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Ralph Reed Attacks Democratic Opposition to Betsy DeVos as ‘War on Religion’
Ralph Reed cites ‘War on Religion’ but as Al Franken has said, “She is fundamentally incompetent” to lead the Department of Education.
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Trump Claims He Doesn’t ‘Know Putin’ But He Bragged About Their Relationship in 2013
Donald Trump claimed this morning ‘I don’t know Putin,’ but in 2013, he said proudly, ‘I do have a relationship with him.’
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Trump’s List of Attacks Were Covered Extensively by the Media He Says Ignored Them
“Worth noting,” CNN’s Jim Acosta observed with great relish. “WH was able to assemble this list… from media reports.”
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CNN Considers Banning Kellyanne Conway While Conway – Naturally – Lies About it
CNN says they rejected the offer of Conway due to her lack of credibility. She lied about it, but Mika Brzezinski told CNN “you are not the first.”
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Paul Krugman Warns Against Media Normalization of Trump
“The big risk is still that the media will start to normalize, and worse, become intimidated and obsequious. Don’t let it happen!”
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Trump Will Make State Visit to UK But He Will Not Be Allowed to Address Parliament
“I feel very strongly that…our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons.”
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Bipartisan National Security Experts File Brief Against ‘Ill-Conceived’ Muslim Ban
“In our professional opinion, this Order cannot be justified on national security or foreign policy grounds.”
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Washington Attorney General Says Trump is ‘A Bully and Can’t Take Defeat Like a Man’
Ferguson pointed out that the president’s actions are not above challenge: “That is not the law and frankly, it cannot be the law in our country.â€
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Admiral Mike Mullen Says Steve Bannon Does not Belong on National Security Council
“Putting aside for a moment Mr. Bannon’s troubling public positions, which are worrisome enough, institutionalizing his attendance threatens to politicize national security decision making.”
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America’s Embrace of Diversity Was Center Stage at The Super Bowl Last Night
“Some expected Gaga to go off on a politcal riff during half-time show. Instead, she let her music send message of unity. She was spectacular”
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Stung by Steve Bannon Rumors, Donald Trump Claims ‘I Call My Own Shots’
“I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!”
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Donald Trump Turns on TV Then Rants That ‘Fake News’ Lies About Negative Polls
CNN had just reported on Donald Trump’s new low approval numbers when presto! He tweeted that “negative polls are fake news”
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Trump’s Justice Department Files Notice it Will Appeal Muslim Ban Ruling
The Justice Department issued notice it will appeal Trump’s Muslim ban ruling, calling it an executive order, giving the lie to Trump’s claim that it was a DHS ban
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Now Donald Trump is Claiming His Muslim Ban is From Homeland Security
“What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?”
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The Economist’s Editors Calls Donald Trump ‘An Insurgent in the White House’
“The bleak cadence of last month’s inauguration was still in the air when Donald Trump lobbed the first Molotov cocktail of policies and executive orders”
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Robert Reich Suggests Breitbart, Bannon and Trump Were Behind Berkeley Agitators
Reich says Berkeley’s “made-for-TV images of a riot” were too much of a good thing for Milos Yiannopoulos, Breitbart News, and Steve Bannon
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Trump’s Amateurish White House Thinks Poland Invaded Belarus
Trump was not the least bit interested in news about Russian incursions into Ukraine, which are anything but the product of overheated White House imaginations.
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Fox News Loses it Over Nancy Pelosi Telling the Truth About Steve Bannon
“It shows the depths that they will go to try to disparage someone and the desperation, really, of the liberals,” whines Kimberly Guilfoyle
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Kellyanne Conway Plays the Victim of Media Bullying for Inventing Massacre
Factchecker Daniel Dale called her excuse “highly dishonest – links to old story about fears there were more refugee terrorists. There weren’t”
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Kellyanne Conway Gets Caught Lying About a ‘Massacre’ That Never Happened
Conway speaks of the Bowling Green massacre“ that ‘Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered,’ when it actually never took place
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In ‘Special Interest Giveaway’ Senate Republicans Kill Anti-Corruption Rule
“One of the top priorities of President Trump…was to allow oil and gas companies to cover up payments and bribes to foreign dictators”
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Under Trump Women’s Reproductive Rights Reeling Under Onslaught of Anti-Choice Bills
Indiana SB 118 “Removes provisions allowing a pregnant woman to decline to view the fetal ultrasound imaging and hear the fetal heart tone.”
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Trump Lashes Out on Twitter at ‘Professional Anarchists’ With Hilarious Results
“wait there are people being paid?? did my check get lost in the mail. also how do u become a professional anarchist? do u need a degree”
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If Twitter Rants and Phone Calls are a Foreign Policy, Donald Trump’s Sucks
A short list of Trump attacks include China, Germany, Mexico, Iraq, and Iran, always without bothering to have studied the details first
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Trump Adds Hanging Up on Australian Prime Minister to Foreign Policy Disasters
Trump called Turnbull, berated him on an agreement he hadn’t even studied yet, then abruptly hung up on him 25 minutes into a 60-minute call
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Trump Ally Roger Stone Goes on Russian TV to Defend Russia From Hacking Allegations
“I think it’s pretty established that the Russians did not hack the DNC. That’s a falsehood.”
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PFAW Says Gorsuch an ‘Unacceptable Nominee Who’d Put Ideology Above the Constitution’
“Gorsuch is an ideological warrior who puts his own right-wing politics above the Constitution, the law and the rights of everyday people.”
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A Flustered Trump Gives Up: ‘Call it What You Want’ it Keeps ‘Bad People’ Out!
“Everybody is arguing whether or not it is a BAN. Call it what you want, it is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of country!”
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Mark Cuban Calls Trump Muslim Ban ‘Half-A**ed and Half-Baked’
“It wasn’t thought out, it was rushed, it was ridiculous. And…it calls into question the management skills of the guy in charge.”
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Trump Blacklists CNN Because it Won’t be Another Fox and Promote His Agenda
A White House official told Politico “We’re sending surrogates to places where we think it makes sense to promote our agenda.â€
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Fox Debates Jesus’ Refugee Status and Determines He Was a Good Taxpayer Instead
Asking “Is Al Sharpton right that Jesus is a refugee?” the Fox crew somehow bizarrely concludes his family fled Judea to pay taxes in Egypt
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Mark Cuban Hilariously Trolls Sean Hannity’s Airport Protest Conspiracy Theories
“It’s me Sean. I had the TriLateral commission pitch in, then i went to the Illuminati. They were really cheap, so Stewie covered the rest”
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Paul Krugman Warns Either Trump or the Republic Will Be Gone Within a Year
“Either he or the republic, in any meaningful sense, will be gone quite soon. I have a hard time seeing one year, let alone four”
