A federal judge Monday dismissed 16 lawsuits against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over a delayed gun background check that allowed white supremacist Dylann Roof to buy the handgun he used to kill nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. In dismissing the suits, Judge Richard Gergel, of the U.S. District Court […]
In the summer of 2016, Kelsey Bone was the first WNBA player to join Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police brutality and systemic racism by taking a knee during the national anthem. She heard Kaepernick’s message, and felt passionately about supporting it. She didn’t care if it made people uncomfortable; that was the point. “This was not […]
On Friday, President Trump held an event at the White House intended to stoke fears that undocumented immigrants are violent criminals. At the beginning of his remarks, Trump alluded to the humanitarian crisis he created with his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, but tried to downplay it in comparison with […]
Seven-year old Darwin Mejia-Mejia is likely one of the first kids to be reunited with his parent, after being separated from his mom at the southwest border for more than a month. The scene at Baltimore–Washington International Airport at around 3 a.m. on Friday was heart-wrenching. His mother, Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia, was seen […]
It’s time for a formal investigation into whether or not the administration is actually capable of reuniting the roughly 2,000 migrant families it forcibly separated in May and June, Democratic lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Inspectors General (OIG) of the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Friday. The letter, […]
As Donald Trump basked in his presidential election victory in 2016, white supremacist Richard Spencer unleashed a round of Nazi-inspired praise for Trump’s victory — sentiments echoed by Alexander Dugin, a Russian neo-fascist whose writings reached a broader English-speaking audience thanks to Spencer and his wife, Nina Kouprianova. These three, writes University of Toronto political […]
The Trump administration has laid the groundwork to allow insurance companies to create housing-related rules and policies that discriminate against minorities. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is reviewing and seeking comment about the Obama administration’s 2013 disparate impact rule, which essentially bans housing industries, housing lenders, and landlords from creating policies that […]
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s emails are back in the spotlight after the agency responded to a request for the documents with what watchdogs say is a red flag. Asked for documents over the course of a 10-month period, the EPA sent only one lone email from Pruitt’s official account, leading some to question […]
Conservative lawmakers and media figures have unleashed a wave of racist vitriol in recent days, in a half-baked attempt to defend President Donald Trump’s controversial child separation policy. Although the president signed an executive order this week supposedly ending the practice of separating immigrant families detained at the U.S.-Mexico border, the administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy of […]
To fill key positions in the renewable energy and energy efficiency office at the Department of Energy (DOE), the Trump administration is lifting people straight from the Koch brothers’ numerous anti-clean energy efforts. Next week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will consider the nomination of Daniel Simmons, who spent years working for anti-renewable energy groups […]
There is a powerful scene in the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, where the main character and her husband realize that the United States is crumbling into a authoritarian theocracy. The couple hires a man to help them escape to a safer place, and the man promptly smashes their cell phones. Such devices, […]
Following massive national outcry over the Trump administration’s policies that have separated at least 2,300 children from their families at the southern boarder, the White House is pushing to delegitimize the stories of the people who have been affected by their harsh “zero tolerance” approach. President Trump dismissed on Friday morning the trauma his policies have […]
Despite raging controversies at the White House and an immigration crisis unfolding on the Southern border, conservative lawmakers have turned their attention elsewhere, targeting the National Science Foundation, which they accuse of “propagandizing” the issue of climate change. In a joint letter sent Wednesday evening, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY), James Lankford (R-OK), […]
Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) neglected to pay $11,842 in property taxes, interests and penalty charges on rental properties he owned, according to public records discovered by the Virginian-Pilot. His reason: he was busy and forgot. Asked why the federal lawmaker “apparently ignored accumulating tax bills sent every three months since last fall,” Taylor’s spokesperson told […]
The U.S. government accidentally just admitted it separated more than 3,000 immigrant kids from their families. In a statement to CNN’s Nick Valencia on Friday, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) said that it has reunited “approximately 500 children (over 15%) with their parents who had been referred for prosecution for illegal entry.” BREAKING- U.S. @CBP […]
President Donald Trump torpedoed any hope Congressional Republicans had of passing immigration legislation in the next two weeks, telling lawmakers Friday to stop “wasting their time” and to instead wait for a “Red Wave.” Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just […]
Activists targeted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s home Friday morning, protesting her continued support of President Trump’s family separation policy for immigrants detained at the U.S.-Mexico border, about which Nielsen has repeatedly lied to the public. The crowd of protesters blared audio published by ProPublica earlier in the week, which featured nearly a dozen children […]
President Trump on Friday endorsed a congresswoman who withdrew her support for Trump’s campaign following the release of the “grab them by the pussy” tape during the 2016 presidential election. Congresswoman Martha Roby of Alabama has been a consistent and reliable vote for our Make America Great Again Agenda. She is in a Republican Primary […]
Earlier this week, over 150 survivors of sexual assault at the hands of former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar wrote an open letter to the MSU Board of Trustees, urging them to fire interim president John Engler. The letter — which was timed to coincide with a scheduled Board of Trustees meeting on Friday morning, […]
Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade defended President Trump on Friday by pointing out that while his harsh “zero tolerance” policy may have resulted in thousands of children being separated from their parents at the southern border, at least the kids affected aren’t Americans. “Like it or not, these aren’t our kids. Show them compassion, […]
Flash flood warnings have been issued in Hidalgo County, southwest Texas. At 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a warning for the area, urging people to seek higher ground immediately. The day before, widespread flooding was caused by torrential rain. More than 10 inches of water fell, entering homes and flooding streets […]
On June 23, 1988 NASA’s James Hansen told the U.S. Congress that global warming had begun — and he predicted it was just going to get worse and worse as levels of human-caused carbon pollution kept rising. “Thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other doomsayers were right,” the AP explained this week after […]
The Pentagon is looking into the logistics of how and where to house roughly 20,000 migrant children on American military bases, according to reports from The Washington Post and New York Times. The request comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon, reversing his policy of separating families at the border. As […]
The House of Representatives narrowly passed the farm bill Thursday afternoon 213-211, with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting no. The House version of the farm bill dramatically cuts funding for food stamps, officially known as Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). More than 1 million low-income households, totaling than 2 million people — particularly […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted during a cabinet meeting on Thursday that North Korea will follow through on the Kim regime’s vague promise to denuclearize — otherwise, he reasoned, totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un’s international reputation could take a hit. Trump accidentally admits everything he’s been saying about North Korea’s nukes is a lie […]
