As the one-year anniversary of the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia passed over the weekend, Rep. Tom Garrett (R-VA) hinted at one of the reasons last year’s tensions spiraled out of control so quickly: Russia. As Garrett told CNN, he learned during a briefing with the FBI director that Russian meddling efforts played […]
President Donald Trump didn’t know that Nepal and Bhutan were countries until an adviser told him, according to a new report from Politico. Before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the White House last June, Trump met with national security aides and seemed confused by the two countries’ existence, according to two people briefed on […]
President Donald Trump didn’t know that Nepal and Bhutan were countries until an adviser told him, according to a new report from Politico. Before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the White House last June, Trump met with national security aides and seemed confused by the two countries’ existence, according to two people briefed on […]
FBI agent Peter Strzok, who for a time worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and who quickly earned the ire of Donald Trump and his allies after a series of text messages critical of the president came to light, was fired from his post on Monday. Hours […]
The past two weeks have taken a toll onTurkey, a country trying to find itself on stable ground after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan survived an uncertain re-election in June. Things got tense when President Donald Trump threatened sanctions against the country, with the Treasury Department slapping them on two Turkish officials on August 1. The Trump […]
Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the reality show villain who, for some inexplicable reason, was given a senior position within the White House, has a new book out. It’s called “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House,” so it doesn’t take a very stable genius to figure out that the book isn’t terribly complementary to Manigault-Newman’s […]
On his current two-day visit to California, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke dismissed climate change as a reason for the increasing number and growing intensity of wildfires in the state. The real issue, insisted Zinke, is the proper management of forests and making sure there aren’t too many trees in them. “I’ve heard the climate change […]
The Department of Labor issued a directive Friday that makes it easier for federal contractors to claim their religious beliefs as a defense against anti-LGBTQ discrimination charges. On August 10, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued an enforcement directive that says investigators should consider recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and […]
Voters in Illinois’ 3rd congressional district will have an alternative to incumbent Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski and Republican nominee Arthur Jones, the former head of the American Nazi Party — and his name is Justin Hanson. Hanson, a write-in Independent candidate, says on his website that the “campaign was formed to take a stand against an avowed member of the […]
Under the Trump administration, arrests of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record have tripled, according to new analysis from NBC News. The numbers appear to contradict the Trump administration’s claim that only “bad hombres” are being targeted by immigration law enforcement. By looking through Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data from the first 14 months of […]
Jared Golden, a Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives who is running for Congress, supports Medicare-for-All. As made obvious by the very phrase “Medicare-for-All,” Golden wants to extend Medicare-style health coverage to every American. If you currently have Medicare, Golden thinks you should keep Medicare. If you don’t currently have Medicare, Golden thinks […]
During an appearance on Monday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends, President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, tried and failed to defend President Trump from accusations of potential obstruction of justice regarding the Russia probe. Giuliani said that Trump never asked then-FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation into Trump’s former national security adviser Michael […]
Karen Monahan, a former girlfriend of Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison (D) who has accused the congressman of domestic abuse, told ThinkProgress Monday that she did not plan on going public about the texts and the video that allegedly shows Ellison abusing her. “I didn’t want to mention the video or the texts,” she said. “I’m […]
Before Cynthia Nixon and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there was Zephyr Teachout. It’s been four years since Teachout, a Fordham law professor with a long history of anti-corruption work, mounted a primary challenge to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. She criticized the governor for being too corporate-friendly, for cutting taxes for the wealthy, and for not […]
On Friday, ongoing environmentalist resistance efforts dealt another major setback to two pipelines under construction in Virginia when a federal agency demanded an end to all work on one of the pipelines. In a letter sent to Dominion Energy last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said that the company would need to stop […]
On Friday, August 10, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) overwhelmingly passed a resolution, sponsored by DNC Chairman Tom Perez, that reverses its recently adopted ban on accepting donations from fossil fuel companies’ political organizations. The original resolution was widely hailed by environmental and climate activists as a positive — albeit small — step for the […]
Alex Jones is trying to find a new home for his crumbling Infowars empire, but his latest encampment lasted mere days before he was banned from yet another digital platform. Late last week, Jones posted several videos on Vimeo, but by Sunday he and his videos had been removed from the service. Vimeo told Business […]
On Monday morning, Omarosa Manigault-Newman released a secret recording of a conversation with President Trump she says took place the day after she was fired from her role as assistant to the president last December. Assuming he wasn’t pretending to be out of the loop, the tape indicates Trump — who forged a reputation for […]
With pre-season games for the National Football League now underway, we’re picking up where we left off with one of last year’s big sports-adjacent storylines: The continuing efforts of NFL athletes to protest the extra-judicial killings of black people and other sundry instances of police brutality. As CNN reported, there were several instances of sideline […]
Hawaii’s governor survived a scare from his Democratic challenger – and moved beyond a potentially career-ending political jeopardy over a false nuclear missile alert earlier this year – to win his state’s Democratic primary late Saturday. Governor David Ige officially becomes his party’s standard-bearer for the November election in his bid for a second term. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Police in Washington, D.C., succeeded Sunday in ensuring Jason Kessler and about 20 fellow white supremacists could arrive to, meet in, and depart quietly from the large park opposite the White House, unmolested by thousands of anti-racism, anti-fascism, and anti-Trump counter-protesters. Kessler had scheduled the rally for the one-year anniversary of a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the end, Sunday’s Unite the Right rally in Washington, D.C. could only be described as a dud. After months of arguing over permits, fundraising failures and persistent infighting within the far-right, lonely white supremacist Jason Kessler finally got his wish to hold a “white civil rights” rally outside the White House. […]
