Following an ultimatum from President Trump to “take back your city” or “I will,” Seattle’s mayor told the president to go away. On Wednesday night, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan quote tweeted Trump, writing, “Make us all safe. Go back to your bunker,” and added the hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter. The mayor was …
Read More »Trump Signals Roger Stone Pardon: 'He Can Sleep Well at Night!'
With Roger Stone’s report to prison date arriving soon, President Trump took to Twitter on Thursday and strongly suggested he’d pardon his longtime advisor. In response to a tweet from right-wing activist Charlie Kirk that decried Stone’s sentence as an injustice, Trump wrote, “No. Roger was a victim of a …
Read More »What Is Justin Amash Thinking?
Congressman Justin Amash has a penchant for going his own way. He is one of the few unwavering critics, in either party, of government mass surveillance programs and forever wars under the guise of “protecting the homeland.” He was the lone Republican in Congress to conclude that President Trump had …
Read More »Watch the Trump Administration Fumble the Coronavirus Response in Real Time
If you tuned into the Sunday news shows this morning for comfort that the government has the COVID-19 situation well in hand, you were sorely disappointed. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson admitted there is no plan for the passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship plagued with the …
Read More »Farewell to Mike Bloomberg 2020, the Most Colossal Flop of a Presidential Campaign in Modern History
WASHINGTON — Mike Bloomberg took the stage in the early evening on Super Tuesday and made a bold assertion. No matter how the results shook out that night, he told his supporters, “we have done something no one else thought was possible.” In a sense, he was right: He spent …
Read More »Trump Commutes Corruption Sentence of Ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, while also issuing a pardon to the notorious financier Michael Milken, the New York Times reports. Blagojevich earned his infamy back in 2008 when he was caught essentially trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat after the latter …
Read More »What the Hell Is Going on in Iowa?
It’s Thursday afternoon, the Iowa caucuses ended Monday night, and we still do not know who won. Here’s the precious little that we do know: Who won? Like I said, we don’t know. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading in the popular vote, banking …
Read More »Tape Surfaces of Trump Allegedly Firing Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
ABC News has reviewed a recording of what they say “appears” to be President Trump speaking about wanting former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fired. On the tape, the voice that appears to be Trump can be heard saying of Yovanovitch, “Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. …
Read More »When Will Trump Finally Leave Office? Plus: How to Watch Biden's Inauguration
Donald Trump was soundly defeated in the 2020 election and Joe Biden is president-elect. The weeks since the election have been a sickening roller coaster for our democracy. Despite losing by a landslide in both the popular vote and in the electoral college, Trump and his minions sought to undermine …
Read More »Senator Cory Booker Ends Presidential Campaign
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Monday suspended his run for the Democratic presidential nomination, days after failing to qualify for a debate that his campaign had hoped would bolster his campaign’s struggling finances. Booker follows former candidate Julián Castro, who also left the race this month, leaving the Democratic field …
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