A suspicious “glitch” by a third party company prohibited Twitter users from sharing links to a fake Trump Hotel site for much of Monday. Amid the continued fury at the Trump administration’s family separation practice — implemented under the “zero-tolerance” immigration policy announced in April, which refers anyone detained at the U.S-Mexico border to prosecution […]
During a White House event on Tuesday, President Trump said that while construction of his border wall has already “started up in San Diego,” he plans to “ask for an increase in wall spending so we can finish it quicker.” Those comments came a day after the president claimed during a rally in South Carolina […]
Ivanka Trump reportedly donated $50,000 to a virulently anti-LGBTQ church in Texas, in response to her father’s own family separation policy, CBN News reported Friday. Ivanka’s donation to the Prestonwood Baptist Church was made around the same time lead pastor Jack Graham announced Español ministry pastor Gilberto Corredera would be “working to provide solutions to care for […]
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Alex Azar told lawmakers on Tuesday that every parent has “access to know where their child is” after the Trump administration forcibly separated them at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of its zero tolerance policy. But various lawyers who met with these parents over the weekend […]
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Alex Azar told lawmakers on Tuesday that every parent has “access to know where their child is” after the Trump administration forcibly separated them at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of its zero tolerance policy. But various lawyers who met with these parents over the weekend […]
Energy Secretary Rick Perry touted natural gas as an environmentally friendly fuel in a speech Tuesday, kicking off an international gathering of natural gas industry officials in Washington, D.C. Perry’s pep talk at the triennial World Gas Conference, attended by thousands of industry representatives from around the world, came less than a week after the […]
Nearly 50,000 people have been displaced since the Syrian government and its Russian allies escalated an offensive in the southern province of Deraa last week, prompting concerns at the United Nations over where these displaced civilians have to run. Airstrikes, mortar shells, and barrel bombs have pounded the area, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The goal of […]
On Tuesday, five Supreme Court justices — Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch — upheld Trump’s blanket ban on travel into the United States from several majority-Muslim nations. The policy was Trump’s best effort to make good on his campaign pledge promising “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The majority […]
One of the centerpieces of the Supreme Court’s First Amendment decisions is that the Constitution does not permit “viewpoint discrimination.” The government may, in certain limited cases, enact laws that place restrictions on speech — but discriminating between two opposing sides of a debate is a big no-no. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court created an […]
Why is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) so rife with ethical disasters? One reason may be that Administrator Scott Pruitt was getting hiring assistance from the most ethically dubious sources, such as the American Petroleum Institute (API). The API is Big Oil’s biggest lobbying group — and one of our country’s biggest funders of anti-science disinformation. Just […]
Chief Justice John Roberts is either a very stupid man, or he believes that the rest of us are very stupid. In the first paragraph of Roberts’ opinion in Trump v. Hawaii, handed down on Tuesday, the Chief writes one of the most literally unbelievable lines to appear in a Supreme Court opinion: “the President concluded that […]
Two California cities suffered a major setback in their fight to make fossil fuel companies pay for costs associated with climate change after a federal judge threw out their lawsuit Monday evening. While the judge acknowledged that the risks of climate change are real and ongoing, he argued the courts were not suited to take […]
Newly leaked audio released by MSNBC Monday night appears to feature staff at a detention facility for immigrant children threatening the kids against speaking to reporters. The audio and companion video, captured by a former employee at the facility and sent to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, is the first footage not vetted or released by the federal […]
A trio of young progressives are attempting to beat three longtime Democratic incumbents in New York on Tuesday, something no challenger has done so far this primary season. In Queens, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is challenging Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY), who has served in the House since 1999 and who is widely considered as a possible next […]
President Trump issued a thinly veiled threat to Harley-Davison on Tuesday morning, tweeting that if the company follows through on plans to shift some of its production to Europe, “it will be the beginning of the end — they surrendered, they quit!” “A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country – never!” Trump tweeted. […]
In 2013, just weeks after the Supreme Court gutted the landmark Voting Rights Act, North Carolina passed one of the worst voter suppression laws in the country. As part of a long list of new requirements, the law forced voters to show one of a short list of acceptable forms of photo identification to cast […]
In the the Age of Trump, media elites are using a new coping mechanism to deal with the bottomless supply of administration outrages: public handwringing. The latest example of this emerging — and disturbing — trend found the chattering classes clucking last weekend, after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ declared on Twitter (where else?) that she’d been asked to […]
A gay middle school English teacher, Amy Estes, said she had to take a mental health leave after student harassment grew more and more intense and her school did little to mitigate the problem. It all began when a former student asked to stay in touch with her and followed Estes on Instagram. After Estes […]
The nation’s immigration debate took a sharp turn Monday as right-wing figures called on Trump administration officials to start carrying firearms and encouraged their supporters to stake out a controversial restaurant. The calls came after a week of heavy criticism over the administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents when they cross the border […]
