An attack ad by Republican candidate for Virginia governor Ed Gillespie that warns Virginia residents of the menacing threat of the MS-13 gang features a photograph taken from a Salvadoran news site without permission, and portrays members of a rival gang photographed inside a prison in El Salvador, not MS-13 members in Virginia. ThinkProgress confirmed […]
“It’s just one after another” this hurricane season, President Donald Trump said Wednesday. Although Trump has denied the science linking hurricanes to climate change, he was unwittingly pointing out one of the most serious consequences of his policies to kill climate action: The rise of simultaneous “unnatural” disasters. “As climate change continues, by any reasonable […]
A pair of new studies is shining a light on the negative mental health outcomes documented in transgender youth. It’s already understood that trans kids face a higher risk of substance abuse and suicidal thinking, but the latest research proves that those outcomes are directly connected to experiences of victimization. The two studies, published in peer-reviewed […]
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Obama administration was within its rights when the Bureau of Land Management issued a 2015 rule to modernize fracking regulations on public lands. The so-called Fracking Rule, which increased safety specifications on oil and gas wells and mandated chemical disclosures, was challenged by two states […]
When Republicans were making an ultimately unsuccessful push to pass a Trumpcare bill in late June, Fox News’ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery criticized progressive “hysteria” about the bill, which would’ve cost more than 20 million Americans their health care, since “we’re all going to die” anyway. Now the former MTV VJ has offered another hot take on the existing […]
Wednesday evening marked the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, and the first of the High Holy Days. But for Jews across the United States, the celebration has been marked as much by fear and precautions as it has by good tidings and well wishes — a sign that rising anti-Semitism and an […]
Morgan Freeman wants us to know the U.S. is at war. It’s not a war against cancer or poverty. It’s not a war against the remnants of the Taliban, or even against ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq. This war, said Freeman earlier this week, is instead against another nation-state: Russia. “We have been attacked,” […]
The new GOP health bill before the Senate — written and largely advocated by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — threatens to devastate the health of millions of women and gender minorities. Technically, the Graham Cassidy Bill, which will be voted on next week, does not repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) […]
President Donald Trump has reportedly decided how to proceed with the Iran nuclear deal — but no one, not even his own top advisers, knows what that decision is. He has repeatedly called the 2015 agreement struck between the P5+1 countries (United States, United Kingdom, Russia, France, China, and Germany) to reign in Iran’s nuclear […]
A federal judge in Minnesota just knocked down another attempt by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an anti-LGBTQ hate group, to justify anti-gay discrimination in the name of free speech. In his decision against a pair of St. Cloud videographers, Chief District Judge John Tunheim, a Clinton appointee, dismantled every argument ADF is making to […]
As Congress continues to debate the last-ditch Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the deadline to permanently renew funding for rural hospitals faced with high costs and limited resources may go unnoticed. Hundreds of qualifying rural hospitals rely on payments provided by the Medicare Dependent Hospital (MDH) and the Low […]
As Republicans try (again) to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a small group of Republican senators are in the spotlight. The bill, spearheaded by Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would block grant health care funding to the states and repeal a number of taxes in place under Obamacare. The grants […]
During a Fox & Friends interview on Thursday morning, Vice President Mike Pence was asked to respond to concerns people rightfully have that the latest Trumpcare bill will make it tougher for people with preexisting conditions to obtain and keep health insurance. “Folks like Jimmy Kimmel, they’re worried about the preexisting condition thing, ’cause this […]
Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-TN) really didn’t want to hold a town hall. The Tennessee lawmaker has served in Congress for almost three decades, comfortably keeping the seat in the conservative Knoxville area that he won in a 1988 special election after the death of his father, John Duncan Sr. Together, the Duncans have held the seat for […]
A Oklahoma City police officer gunned down a man in front of his home, despite neighbors desperately screaming at police that he was deaf and could not understand their commands to drop the metal pipe he was holding. Lt. Matthew Lindsey arrived at Magdiel Sanchez’s home on Tuesday night looking for Sanchez’s father, who had […]
During his first TV interview since his appearance at the Emmys, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday on Good Morning America that he hasn’t “knowingly” lied to the American people. EXCLUSIVE: Sean Spicer says he did not "knowingly" lie in first TV interview since #Emmys appearance: https://t.co/jGJ0mfxdGD – @paulafaris pic.twitter.com/r8gyDlmAwF — Good […]
By Jeremy Deaton In an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson challenged former GM executive — and ardent climate denier — Bill Lutz to make a bet. “You take all the scientists who author these papers, get them to pool their money and invest in companies that would benefit from global warming,” Tyson said. “And take all the […]
In an interview with Fox & Friends on Thursday morning, Vice President Pence rolled out a popular conservative talking point while discussing the existing Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) and Republican plans to repeal and replace it. One problem: The talking point is completely false. “Almost anything would be better than Obamacare. Obamacare is imploding. […]
The latest effort by Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act threatens to make health care unaffordable and inaccessible for millions of older Americans, according to a report from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) released Wednesday evening. The bill, spearheaded by Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), […]
At the end of a Thursday morning appearance on President Trump’s favorite show, Vice President Mike Pence was asked about this week’s bombshell revelation that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was the subject of a FISA warrant, and hence a wiretap, during during stretches of time both before and after the 2016 election, including […]
