According to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, the president’s political opponents are engaging in “dangerous” rhetoric — and her boss is a paragon of civility who represents all Americans. This supreme example of gaslighting happened during an interview on Fox & Friends Wednesday, when Conway was asked about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had […]
In a statement posted to his website, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) attacks stage 4 cancer survivor Laura Packard as a “Democrat political operative” while falsely claiming he’s “stood up for Nevadans for pre-existing conditions.” In reality, as ThinkProgress detailed, Heller and every other Senate Republican with the sole exception of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) voted […]
On Saturday, the city of Las Vegas was host to a fight — and not just any fight. Mixed martial artists Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov faced off in front of 20,000 fans in what was one of the most highly-anticipated fights in the recent history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC. But what should […]
A group of extremist anti-LGBTQ pastors in Texas has filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the city of Austin’s nondiscrimination law violates their religious liberty. The law, they argue, should be unenforceable for anybody unless they are given an exemption. The so-called U.S. Pastor Council, which is almost exclusively based in Texas, explains in the […]
Law students are going on strike for three days beginning on Wednesday to demand that anyone who wants to be elected to Congress commit to impeaching Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh was sworn in to the highest court in the land on Saturday after multiple women made allegations of sexual assault against him. The students participating in […]
Law students are going on strike for three days beginning on Wednesday to demand that anyone who wants to be elected to Congress commit to impeaching Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh was sworn in to the highest court in the land on Saturday after multiple women made allegations of sexual assault against him. The students participating in […]
Effective Wednesday, the Trump administration will suspend nearly 30 laws, most of which focus on environmental protections, in order to proceed with construction on border wall gates and infrastructure in South Texas, despite outcry from environmental groups in the state. In an announcement Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it would waive […]
A Minnesota court on Tuesday acquitted “valve turners” Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein of all charges, in a landmark jury trial that permitted the use of a climate “necessity defense” — until a last-minute change of mind by the trial judge. After the prosecution had made its case against the two activists, Clearwater County, Minnesota District […]
Protecting people with pre-existing conditions isn’t a priority for Republicans — lowering insurance premiums is. Senate Republicans said as much when they voted Wednesday against blocking the Trump administration’s expansion of health plans that can deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. In a 50-50 vote, Republicans defeated Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) resolution to overturn […]
A national nonpartisan group has turned BrettKavanaugh.com into a website dedicated to supporting survivors in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s conformation to the high court, amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him. The homepage has a picture of the court and proclaims, “We believe survivors.” “The start of Brett Kavanaugh’s tenure […]
The mystery of what happened to dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi deepens by the day. The 59-year-old has been missing for over a week after he walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, with an appointment to line up the paperwork he needed to marry his Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz. Cengiz waited for him […]
If it seemed liked the rapid intensification of Hurricane Michael into a Category 4 storm caught forecasters by surprise, that’s because it did. On Sunday evening, the Tallahassee Democrat warned residents, “Destructive Michael on track to bring Cat. 2 hurricane fury to North Florida.” The same day, the forecasters at WeatherUnderground also predicted Michael would be […]
President Donald Trump took a break from Twitter Wednesday to rail against Medicare for All in a falsehood-ridden op-ed for USA Today, despite promising voters on the campaign trail in 2016 that health care for all is “just human decency.” The op-ed, which editors clearly didn’t bother to fact-check, contained dozens of lies about the […]
While President Donald Trump’s high-profile supporters use the sexual assault allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to fret about mob rule and the purported end of the presumption of innocence, the president’s fans chanted for the extrajudicial imprisonment of a female senator who played a central role in the Kavanaugh scandal during a rally […]
The Hawaii Supreme Court last week became the latest state court to rule that legal presumptions of parentage apply equally to same-sex couples. While many other cases have involved separated couples in which one partner is seeking custody of the child they raised together, this case involved a parent trying to avoid parental responsibility. The […]
The Trump administration released hundreds of asylum seekers in Arizona this week without following protocols to ensure they can reunite with relatives or get to their court date, NBC News reports. “This is the start of a dam breaking,” a senior officials in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told NBC News. “You’ll start to […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs won’t give Congress records that could show the undue influence friends of President Donald Trump have over agency policy, MilitaryTimes reports. A bombshell investigation by ProPublica in August revealed that three close Trump associates — Ike Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Entertainment; Bruce Moskowitz, who works in concierge medicine; and Marc […]
The Trump administration has so far refused to be drawn into a debate on the findings in an alarming new U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that concludes the world will cross a key threshold of dangerous climate change by 2040 on its current greenhouse gas emissions path. Unless governments around the globe undertake […]
