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It’s a huge deal—people standing up a declaring they want a voice at the table in their workplace, to participate in making decisions about their lives.
It’s a huge deal—people standing up a declaring they want a voice at the table in their workplace, to participate in making decisions about their lives.
Ted Cruz was one of the first members of the resistance against Donald Trump. The Texas senator finished 2nd to Trump during the 2016 nomination race. The competition between the two of them was contentious with Trump belittling Cruz’s wife and making wild accusations about his father. During the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cruz made…
Tucker Carlson has not had an easy time since Donald Trump has been out of office. And with OAN and Newsmax breathing down Fox’s neck, Carlson is willing to say anything for ratings. But he went a step farther than usual during an anti-mask rant on Monday. The Fox host encouraged his viewers to harass…
Not all Democratic lawmakers are on equal footing. Those in blue states could be reelected in perpetuity regardless of what decisions they make. But those who serve in red states have to be much more careful about their choices. This is certainly true of Joe Manchin. Manchin has continued to be elected in West Virginia…
In June of last year, Facebook videos emerged of Marjorie Taylor Greene making racist comments. A spokesperson for Kevin McCarthy said, “these comments are appalling, and Leader McCarthy has no tolerance for them.” Minority Whip Steve Scalise took it a step further, throwing his support behind Greene’s primary opponent. Greene was able to win that…
On Friday, News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch was vaccinated against COIVD-19. The media mogul received the inoculation in England, where due to his age, he qualified to get the vaccine early on. The 89 year-old man receiving the treatment would not be a big deal if Murdoch didn’t own Fox News. He is, however, is…
Recently Republican Congressman Sean Duffy from Wisconsin, in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, framed the looming prospect of Donald Trump’s impeachment as ridiculous. His reason? The economy is supposedly booming. He told Hayes, “They have higher wages, lower unemployment. We’re killing it in Wisconsin. You want to impeach that guy?” Hayes, of course, challenged…
It isn’t just the Mueller investigation. There are at least four different lines of criminal and civil investigation into Donald Trump.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes was stunned as he listened to EPA whistleblower, Kevin Chmielewski, detail how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is robbing the taxpayers blind. Video of the moment that stunned Chris Hayes: Hayes asked, “There were low level, and other reports today, low-level staffers, being asked to charge trips on their credit card and not…
The Presidential Personnel Office is responsible for the vetting and hiring of nearly 4000 government employees with 1200 requiring Senate approval. It is this office which ensures the government functions smoothly and properly under any administration. However, recent reporting by the Washington Post suggests the office is operating with approximately one-third of the normal staff,…
“At the end of the day, they walked out with a package that they could sign off on and their big donors could sign off on. And I don’t care how many sympathetic faces they make, that’s what the process was all about.”
There is no longer any excuse for members of Congress – especially the Democrats – to curb their opposition to this president and his dangerous agenda.
GOP Rep. Mark Walker twisted himself into a pretzel on Wednesday when he tried to defend the Republican tax plan.
Page appeared to have incriminated himself by casually admitting that, yeah, he was on email chains about Russia with George Papadopoulos.
Once again, Trump is perpetuating an offensive lie and stirring up minority resentment to please his base, and GOP members of Congress are too spineless to reject it.
The Trump administration was so desperate to fire the FBI director that they used Clinton campaign material to justify it.
Tapper called it a “bizarre and unfounded conspiracy theory” and that to say Foster’s death was anything but the suicide it was ruled to be by at least six investigations (including one by CNN) is “ridiculous and, frankly, shameful.”
At the MSNBC town hall with Chris Hayes, Bernie Sanders promised to do everything in his power to stop make sure that no Republican gets into the White House.
A major shakeup is coming to MSNBC. It is being reported that every show on the network with the exceptions of Rachel Maddow and Morning Joe is at risk of being canceled or moved.
Multiple outlets have reported over the last few weeks that Chris Hayes is going to be canceled, but the story has taken a new turn with sources inside MSNBC saying that Rachel Maddow will be moving to 8 PM and a new host will be taking over her current 9 PM timeslot.
We’ve been victims of holy war for decades. This just turns attention from our own women, children and poor to Muslim women, children and poor
It is no secret that MSNBC’s Morning Joe is hemorrhaging viewers. Over the past few months, the morning program has seen its audience bail in droves. The solution — book more Republicans.
On Monday, The Smoking Gun published a lengthy report exposing “Witness 40,” a woman who testified before the St. Louis County grand jury who corroborated all of the main details of former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s story regarding his encounter with unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August.
The ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous responded to threats by a Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan to use lethal force against Ferguson protesters by hacking the organization’s national Twitter account on Sunday.
MSNBC has screwed things up so badly with their viewers that the network now has its lowest ratings since October 2007.
MSNBC’s parent company, NBC-Universal has been engaging in a union busting campaign, so the workers asked the primetime hosts to meet with them. So far, only Hayes has sat down with the workers.
MSNBC’s great experiment of putting Chris Hayes at 8 PM has turned into a total disaster as All In is delivering the network’s lowest ratings since 2006.
The reason why Chris Hayes is moving to 8 PM is because MSNBC thinks that they can attract more viewers by not talking about issues that impact the working class.
The most inept and incoherent presidential campaign in history continues to shoot itself in the foot as Romney economic adviser Emil Henry admitted that the Romney tax plan redistributes wealth.
We need to believe in the competence of our public institutions for our society to function. When they don’t function, how should we react?
Meritocracy is in crisis and the potential remedies for this situation are not happening because of the power exercised by our corrupted elites.