Thomas’ illegitimate court forced many Americans to realize that they are actually pro-choice: “Net opposition has increased by 6 points since late June (from net -35 to net -41).”
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah announced that after seven years behind the desk, he will be leaving the Comedy Central program.
If these hateful Christian nationalists want to secede and form their own fascist state to tyrannize over themselves, why don’t we let them?
We can’t really judge or evaluate Biden’s meeting with MBS without properly assessing the outright and serious threats to democracy and to overall global well-being and survival the world is now facing.
The media showed its bias by trying to fact check the ten-year-old girl in Ohio who required an abortion after being raped.
The doctor didn’t make up a story to justify being against Dobbs; it’s the other way around. There are way too many stories to tell that justify being against Dobbs.That is why medical and human rights experts are against it.
The ultimate question going into today’s hearing is whether there is evidence that Trump communicated into the “war room” and whether the war room directed Trump’s instructions to the people on the ground.
President Biden’s contempt for Trump is real as he privately calls the former failed one-termer the worst president in history.
Less attention has been given, in discussions and analysis in the media, to the actual text of Alito’s opinion, especially the heinous cultural assumptions and curiously faulty historical analysis and reasoning
Trevor Noah made plenty of jokes about Joe Biden, but his strongest message was reserved for the media in attendance.
The perception has been that Tucker Carlson is leading Fox News viewers to more racism, but it turns out that it is the viewers leading Carlson.
The US Census Bureau released its report on the undercount/overcount, and 19 million minorities were undercounted while white Americans were overcounted.
Republicans know that they can tell the media something is “politically-motivated” and the media will conflate that with the facts of why Trump is being prosecuted because “both sides” are equal to our modern-day media.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) showed her support for Putin by lying and saying that Ukraine was the top donor to Hillary Clinton.
If Biden is strong, or if the Democrats are strong and Biden chooses – on his own – to step aside to allow someone with a possible two more terms have a go at it, why would Trump risk a second injury from which he would never recover?
Asst. Speaker Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) was talking about what is in infrastructure and Build Back Better, only to be interrupted by Joe Scarborough asking how she will get the message out.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hammered the mainstream media for not covering what is in the legislation.
One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world’s largest communications company.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said that President Biden’s vaccine mandate would save lives and called out his own party for playing politics with vaccinations.
If any American was curious about how far afield from reality Republicans will go to placate the MAGA crowd and reinforce their authoritarian worldview, they need look no farther than Florida and Texas.
If any American was curious about how far afield from reality Republicans will go to placate the MAGA crowd and reinforce their authoritarian world view, they need look no farther than Florida and Texas
Sometimes we have to give republican pundits and lawmakers credit. They’re really good at herding their right-wing hate media flock away from the issues. Seeing how effective their principal currency of fear, outrage, and xenophobia (FOX) is on their audience, they have manufactured a system designed to repackage irrelevant”fluff” into “need-to-know” national security stories the “biased…
The only way to stop the next Trump administration is to prosecute the last one.
What is not normal is Republican Senators begging the Democratic Administration to undo the catastrophic damage their alleged man-turned-god inflicted because Republicans abdicated their sworn duties to a fascist madman.
For the past four decades, this country has slogged under a system promoting the discredited theory that if we give more tax breaks to rich people, they will generously dole out more to the rest of us, and the country will be more prosperous.
The USCCB position reveals them as a massive hypocritical outfit operated by patriarchal men who do not even follow their biblical Jesus Christ’s teachings on any level.
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Donald Trump actually said that white supremacist extremists are “the most persistent and lethal threat†in America.
One of the reasons why the Republican criticisms of President Biden have been so muted is that he is using his experience to woo Congress.
The call to get teachers back into schools has been more insidious than earlier Republican calls to re-open the economy even though it meant loss of life, especially because teachers are in fact working and teaching, often harder and longer hours than ever.
In listening to workers and science, Biden is providing an example of how we properly value lives and protect and practice democracy.
While reports from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Moody’s all link a Biden presidency to a healthier economy and more powerful recovery, Donald Trump continues to peddle lies that the economy will collapse under Biden, stoking fears that people’s 401Ks will evaporate. He persists in these lies despite inheriting an economic recovery from Biden…
Caroline Rose Giuliani urged the country to end the Trump nightmare and vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
When he first signed up to be Donald Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence had somewhat of a spine. When the Access Hollywood tape came out, the former Indiana Governor reportedly gave serious thought to leaving the campaign. He infuriated his wife by choosing not to. At this point, Pence is all in with the Trump…
The stories we tell ourselves, especially the ones we tend to repeat over and over and that circulate throughout our political and cultural discourses, matter. They impact us. They carve neural pathways, so to speak, in our collective cultural mindset, in our political nervous system. They set expectations for us about the future, map out…
Trump came unhinged as he falsely claimed that Democrats are anti-COVID-19 vaccine, then started babbling about football.
Mitch McConnell is about as inspiring as a wet piece of cardboard, but he sure knows how to spew propaganda.
Donald Trump was handed another loss in court this week after a judge ordered him to pay tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
In 2016, we were introduced to a carefully-crafted image of Donald Trump’s third wife, Melania, as a private, family-oriented wife and mother. We read about her self-consciousness over her ability to speak English. So many people felt sorry for her, as a reserved former model married to the bombastic Trump, who is 20 years older….
It is highly likely that most Americans understand that terrible Trump’s only regard for religion is pandering to his evangelical cult because they are dedicated to keeping him in the Oval Office. When Trump made a big deal about opening up the country so the plague-infected faithful could celebrate a pagan holiday Christians changed to…
Trump spent Memorial Day, not remembering the fallen, but throwing a fit over getting busted for golfing during the pandemic.
For some people, opinion is a point of view about an issue, while analysis interprets the significance of events or the quality of a policy. Ideally, opinion should be as fact-based as analysis. That’s especially important when the levers of power rely on lies, illusion and propaganda to survive. So it is with the Covid-19…
As the coronavirus outbreak in the United States continues to get worse by the day, Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to lash out at the media.
Trump attacked the press’s coronavirus coverage for sourcing after he spent years planting fake news as his own pretend press secretary.
Trump throws a tantrum over coronavirus coverage and declares America’s biggest non-Fox news organizations enemies of the people.
Trump is requiring all health officials to get approval from Mike Pence on any statements about the Coronavirus.
I had my green card renewed this past Monday, without incident. The entire process took 15 minutes. That’s privilege at work. I’m a college-educated white woman and I was processed in Virginia by a staff who did more to promote the greatness of America during those fifteen minutes than the entire Trump administration has done…
If you’re enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends, that in itself is something to be thankful for. There are many people who won’t be spending the day that way. Some of them will be working, providing service to people getting the forgotten “must-haves†for their Thanksgiving dinner. There are children who will be…
The longer Tulsi Gabbard remains in the race, the more unclear it is why exactly she’s running for the Democratic nomination.
Children are increasingly suffering anxiety and grief about climate change, British psychologists said on Thursday, advising parents to discuss the issue in an age-appropriate way.
Children cannot give consent to so many things under the law. Whether it’s when someone rapes children, when children get medical treatment, or when children escape violence, their stories are framed as if they can give consent. We see this with the Jeffrey Epstein case, with medical deferments of deportation, and with asylum cases. This…
Trump’s latest Saturday spewings only confirm what we’ve already known about him: He is intimidated by strong women of color.
Donald Trump truly believes in privilege and it’s very possible that the intent of his Inalienable Rights Commission is to replace human rights with a hierarchy of privileges. The higher you are on Trump’s organization chart of human beings, the more privileges you get. Even if that isn’t his objective, Donald Trump is the last…
The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy drug makers, feckless doctors and lax regulators. But there’s another group that has contributed to the depth and duration of the catastrophe: judges.
President Donald Trump and his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, have both used Twitter to spar with enemies over the last decade. Cohen, 52, is due to report to federal prison in New York state on Monday to begin serving a three-year sentence for crimes including illegal hush payments to women on Trump’s behalf.
Actress and activist Patricia Arquette argued for the ERA on Tuesday, saying women do not have equal protection under the law and laying bare with chilling examples how women today are often treated as sub-humans in America and do not have the same value as men.
The Daily Beast published a new poll this morning that appears to prove the existence of a frightening “Fox News Bubble.†It shows that nearly eight in 10 Republicans — 78 percent — who watch the right-wing news network believe Donald Trump is the most successful president in history. The poll also shows that Republicans…
After the House voted 420-0 in favor of releasing the Mueller report, Trump claims that he told House Republicans to fake supporting transparency.
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO(Reuters) – Some things you might know about Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just entered the race for president: * The Democratic contender raised a record amount for a U.S. Senate race in 2018 and almost beat the incumbent in a Republican stronghold, without hiding his support for gun…
North Korean state media on Sunday broadcast an editorial blaming Democrats and U.S. intelligence officials for undermining this week’s planned summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. They also issued a veiled threat, saying the U.S. could face “security threats” if criticism of the summit continued. The state news agency KCNA accused…
The Trump White House held a meeting Friday on human trafficking. Before you get excited that this could be a sign of missing-in-action humanity on the part of the Trump administration, Trump is using this issue to advance his wall and try to paint Speaker Nancy Pelosi as someone who is advancing human trafficking.
BuzzFeed News hit back at Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday night, publishing a massive treasure trove of documents proving the president’s involvement in detailed plans for a Trump Tower Moscow. Giuliani now claims the Trump Tower Moscow project was barely more than a notion. But hundreds of pages of biz documents,…
Trump’s shutdown is nearly five weeks old, and as millions of Americans are going without pay, a potential crisis is hitting America’s airports. Millions of people traveled over the just-concluded holiday weekend, and it was reported that the percentage of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screeners missing work has hit 10 percent. The TSA workers…
On Monday, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who wants to reopen the government and has taken part in discussions trying to broker a compromise, issued a threat. If talks to end the shutdown don’t work, she told Erica Werner from the Washington Post, “We’re not just going to sit back and do nothing.” “Murkowski,…
President Donald Trump began the weekend by going on Twitter and attacking the New York Times for publishing a bombshell report yesterday which implied that he might be working as a Russian asset. The Times report revealed a secret FBI investigation into Trump’s many close ties to Russia that began shortly after he fired former…
The following is an editorial by PoliticusUSA‘s co-publisher Sarah Jones. The day before a judge admonished Trump‘s former National Security Adviser for selling out his country, suggesting that Flynn committed treason, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone admitted to spreading lies on Alex Jones’ conspiracy oriented InfoWars. Stone made the admission during the settlement of…
The chairman of the House Progressive Caucus, Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, went to Tijuana, Mexico and joined the caravan of migrants who traveled from Central America. The congresswoman arrived in Tijuana on Friday after saying that she was going there because she wanted to see first-hand the conditions asylum seekers face at the…
In 2007, while in the Mississippi state Senate, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith co-sponsored a resolution that honored a Confederate soldier for his efforts to “defend his homeland.” The resolution also promoted a revisionist, pro-confederacy view of the Civil War. This is just the latest in a series of racially-charged stories that have come out concerning the…
By Amanda Becker NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Reuters) – First-time political candidate Jahana Hayes has a simple explanation for why she – and a record number of other women – ran for seats in the U.S. Congress this year. “Many women like me are just tired of waiting for someone else to do it,” said Hayes,…
The organization formerly known as The Republican Party does not exist anymore. Donald Trump has destroyed it. With his appeal to racism, white supremacists and white nationalism he has transformed the Grand Old Party. It is no longer a conservative organization of affluent and educated voters. It is now a party of angry white people…
Trump can huff and puff all he wants, but the American people saw with the beautiful protests play out before their eyes on Tuesday night.Â
The mainstream media was given the Trump family was involved in racketeering during the 2016 election, but they refused to cover it until the lawsuit was filed today.
President Trump tweeted Thursday that the “mainstream media†is to blame for the anger and incivility in the country’s political discourse. As his words were posted on social media, packages sent by a likely serial bomber continued to target Trump’s critics. “A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is…
President Donald Trump is hitting back after being criticized for knowingly using an unsecured cell phone even after he has been warned by aides that Chinese and Russian hackers are listening in. The president is clearly upset about a New York Times article about his improper use of an unsecured iPhone to call people outside…
Tensions are running high between CNN and the White House. On Wednesday CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker issued a strong statement denouncing the White House after the outlet’s New York headquarters was evacuated due to receiving a bomb in the mail. “There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about…
Hours after a bomber targeted CNN, Trump waged a fresh attack on the media and blamed them for the toxic level of politics he has ushered in.
A Facebook prank in North Carolina has proved that Trump supporters are terrified of the anti-fascist group Antifa. On Saturday several dozen right-wing, pro-Trump protesters gathered at a North Carolina Outdoors store due to a rumored violent Antifa event that was going to take place there. They brought their Confederate flags and pro-Trump regalia, and…
The Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee has unveiled a series that are designed to appeal to people outside of traditional politics. The ads feature people telling their life stories and are designed to get minorities and millennials out to vote.
The second woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, Deborah Ramirez, has provided the FBI with a list of witnesses that support her accusation.
Ever since it was announced that the FBI would do a further investigation of Brett Kavanaugh it has been difficult to figure out the exact scope of that investigation. And the events that unfolded last night made the situation even more confusing. It started yesterday afternoon with an NBC News story saying that Trump had…
The GOP is gone. There are no responsible Republicans anymore. There is no moral wing of the party preparing stand up for what’s right.
With about seven weeks until election day on November 6th, Republicans are in full panic mode. Almost every recent poll shows the president’s unpopularity falling to record low levels, while at the same time congressional generic ballots show Republicans facing a bloodbath in the midterms. Almost every GOP leader, pollster or candidate has expressed fears…
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska is a guy who talks a lot but never does anything. He loves to issue vague statements saying that he might be unhappy with something that the criminal President of the United States has done. But his words never go anywhere. Yesterday, he was outspoken once again on a variety…
Last night Lanny Davis made an announcement that sent shockwaves throughout Trump World: Michael Cohen was with Donald Trump when they met with Don Jr. to plan the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian operatives, and he’s willing to talk to Mueller about it. Davis confirmed during an appearance on CNN that Michael Cohen…
Artem Klyushin, a Russian billionaire who serves as a government advisor to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, tweeted a veiled threat to President Donald Trump on Thursday. ‘Russian oligarch tweets threat to Trump: This ‘will be his last term’ if he doesn’t ‘extinguish Russophobia’ Russian oligarch tweets threat to Trump: This ‘will be his last…
By Joshua Schneyer and Andrea Januta FORT BENNING, Georgia (Reuters) – Army Colonel J. Cale Brown put his life on the line in two tours of duty in Afghanistan, earning a pair of Bronze Stars for his service. In between those deployments, Brown received orders to report to Fort Benning, the sprawling Georgia base that…
Donald Trump called the news media “the enemy of the American people†just one month after taking office. In the following year, according to CNN, he used the phrases “fake news,†“fake stories,†“fake media†or “fake polls†— over 400 times. And now a major newspaper has organized a coordinated response from editorial boards…
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned after his actions led to 18 different federal investigations, and Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, is close behind with a dozen investigations of his own. “Scandals Pile Up For Interior Chief Ryan Zinke†https://t.co/VzhqT3lK4Q Scandals Pile Up For Interior Chief Ryan Zinke [CLICK=HERE] pic.twitter.com/k1hkDRwbBw — newslink7.com (@Newslink7com) July…
The Republican president then directed his national security adviser, John Bolton, to invite Putin to Washington in the fall, the White House said, four days after Trump held a summit with the Russian leader in Helsinki.
In early morning tweets on Thursday Donald Trump continued his assault on “fake news,†saying stories appearing in the media about him and his staff are “total fiction.†He also said he would keep complaining about the media even though doing so would “just give them more publicity.†“The Fake News Media is going Crazy! They…
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed forces within the United States on Thursday for marring what they called the success of their first summit, with Trump saying he looked forward to their second meeting.
House Republicans spent the day after Treason Trump Helsinki debacle whining at Facebook, Google and Twitter about conservative content being discriminated against content for political reasons.
When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin, he sits down with a disciplined, detail-oriented and experienced Russian leader who has played on the world stage for more than 18 years, in contrast to the U.S. president’s 18 months in office.
Richard Painter, the former White House Ethics Attorney for President George W. Bush, has come up with a way to delay hearings for a new Supreme Court justice to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Â According to Painter, there should be no hearings on a replacement for Kennedy until there is a full and complete investigation…
After taking a break for a few days Rep. Maxine Waters of California was back in the public eye on Saturday, responding to death threats she had received earlier in the week by saying if anybody comes after her they “better shoot straight.†Speaking at an immigration rally she said: “I have no fear. I’m…
Avenatti said his time visiting families inside those camps has been among the most difficult of his career.
Whenever President Trump needs a distraction from real news he starts tweeting about his favorite topics: Barack Obama, Democrats, and the Russia investigation “witch hunt.” So that’s what he did Saturday morning as part of a tweetstorm where he combined his normal lunacy with his typical self-promotion. And none of it made much sense. For…
MSNBC cut off a Trump immigration event to fact check the false claims and statistics he was using to criminalize immigrants.
In an Op-Ed column for the Los Angeles Times Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, tells of the disturbing short- and long-term effects the Trump era policy of separating children from their parents can have.
Cybersecurity experts have recently discovered a new website operated from Russia that was created for the express purpose of interfering with and disrupting the 2018 midterm elections in the United States. They say that the website is part of a new Russian influence operation which has been operating in the same way as a previous…
If you’ve been reading our recent stories about Donald Trump Jr. you know that the noose is tightening around the president’s son and namesake. It is very possible that these stories have caused panic in the White House and they may be an explanation for some of the president’s increasingly erratic behavior. Every day or…
