Stephen Miller, a senior White House policy adviser and chief speechwriter, who was likely gleefully tasked with defending President Donald Trump’s most recent racist remarks, was a guest on Fox News Sunday. But host Chris Wallace was determined not to make things easy for the administration’s chief architect of brutally …
Read More »Sen. Sherrod Brown Explains Why Electability Is a 'Myth'
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who won a third term in the Senate representing Ohio in 2018, told the progressive crowd gathered at Netroots Nation on Saturday that the concept of “electability,” which many use to justify support of candidates like former vice president Joe Biden, is a myth. “The electability …
Read More »How We Left the Door Open for Trump to Do This to Children
House Democrats, voting nearly in unison Tuesday night, countered human rights abuses worthy of the Hague’s attention with more words and money. I won’t waste space with the words, because it isn’t all that courageous to cuss out an administration for arguing in court to deny migrant children in government …
Read More »Trump Just Pardoned a Guy Who Wrote a Book Calling Him a 'Genius'
Though Donald Trump has found ways to subvert most of them, when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution they made sure to include several checks to the president’s power. In regard to pardons, however, the president’s authority is all but absolute. “The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves …
Read More »415: The Most Dangerous Number
Last week, an exquisitely sensitive instrument located in a metal shack on the top of Mauna Loa, a 13,679-foot-high volcano in Hawaii, recorded a terrifying human achievement: Thanks to our ever-increasing addiction to burning fossil fuels, the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has risen to 415 parts …
Read More »Kim Jong-un Reportedly Demanded 'Famous Basketball Players' for Denuclearization Talks
Kim Jong-un loves basketball. The 35-year-old North Korean leader grew up on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s, and his fascination with the sport has persisted well into his tenure as Supreme Leader. He even made a point to strike up a friendship with former Bulls forward …
Read More »'SNL': 'The View' Goes After 'The Princess of Arizona,' Meghan McCain
Saturday Night Live hilariously mocked this week’s viral spat over immigration between The View hosts Meghan McCain and Joy Behar. https://thisforall.net/notcapnamerica/status/1115285058502516741 Kate McKinnon’s Behar and Aidy Bryant’s McCain played up the recent tiff between the two with Bryant interrupting the conversation and stating, “Can I just say something as the …
Read More »Trump Thinks George Washington Could Have Done More to Promote His Brand
If President Trump knows anything, it’s how to promote a brand. He thinks George Washington could have done himself a favor. On Wednesday, Politico published a story about a trip the president and first lady took to Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte. …
Read More »Presidential Candidate Julian Castro Calls 'Bullsh-t' on Bill Maher's Defense of Joe Biden
On Friday night HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher defended former vice president Joe Biden, who has been hit with multiple allegations from women who’ve accused Biden of acting physically inappropriate with them in the past. During his monologue Maher joked, “Biden is still at large. Women are being urged …
Read More »Democrats Make Moves Toward Obtaining the Unredacted Mueller Report
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee teed up a set of subpoenas Wednesday morning with an eye toward obtaining a full, unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s final report on 2016 election interference and any conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign. The subpoenas would also cover …
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