House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) did not shy away from previous comments he’d made while comparing President Trump to some of the most brutal totalitarian rulers the world has ever seen. During an appearance on CNN Sunday morning, host Dana Bash asked the congressman about a Friday interview with …
Read More »So Long, Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions represented white people in Alabama in the U.S. Senate for 20 years, from 1997 to 2017. But after a brief, controversial stint as U.S. attorney general, the 73-year-old found himself on the wrong side of President Trump, and on Tuesday he couldn’t even manage to win his party’s …
Read More »In a Disturbing Rant, Trump Says Protesters 'Would Have Been Greeted With the Most Vicious Dogs'
Instead of quelling some of the outrage expressed by demonstrators near the White House who were protesting the killing of George Floyd, President Trump instead went on a derisive and threatening rant that might only stoke further violence. On Saturday morning, Trump took to Twitter and praised the Secret Service …
Read More »Here's What We Know About Tara Reade's Allegations Against Joe Biden
In 1993, Tara Reade was a 28-year-old junior staffer in the office of U.S. Senator Joe Biden. Reade alleges that Biden pushed her up against a wall, put his hand under her skirt, and penetrated her with his fingers. The assault, she said, occurred in a hallway somewhere in the …
Read More »Watch Vegas Mayor Advocate Survival of the Fittest Reopening Strategy, With Total Disregard for Human Life
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has made news of late for calling Nevada’s coronavirus shutdown “total insanity,” but following a Tuesday cable-news interview, it’s Goodman’s sanity that should be questioned. The Independent mayor made wild health assertions while making her case for a reopening of Vegas during an interview with …
Read More »State Supreme Court Rules Wisconsin's Election Will Go on in a Pandemic
Despite Gov. Tony Evers’ attempts to stop it in the name of public safety, the Wisconsin state primary will be held on Tuesday, the state supreme court ruled. On Monday, citing the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country, Evers, a Democrat, issued an executive order to delay the state primary scheduled …
Read More »Biden Says His Vice President Will Be a Woman
Joe Biden has committed to making a woman his running mate should he win the Democratic nomination. The former vice president made the announcement Sunday night during the latest Democratic debate in Washington, D.C. “If I’m elected president, my cabinet, my administration will look like the country and I committed …
Read More »'It's Going to Get Worse': Federal Disease Expert Warns Congress About Coronavirus
Though President Trump insisted on Tuesday that COVID-19 will “go away,” the government’s top expert on infectious diseases warned lawmakers on Wednesday that not only is the virus not going away anytime soon, the worst is yet to come. “I can say that we will see more cases and things …
Read More »Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Progressive PAC Rolls Out First Slate of Endorsements
Last month, a Fox News reporter trumpeted a “SCOOP” on Twitter — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was “withholding” $250,000 in dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Ocasio-Cortez confirmed the report: “DCCC made clear that they will blacklist any org that helps progressive candidates like me. I can choose not to …
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