President Trump really doesn’t want the public to know any details about how he conducts his business. During the 2016 campaign, he defied tradition by refusing to release his tax returns, claiming he couldn’t release them because he was under audit (which isn’t true). This was fine by Republicans, but …
Read More »Midwestern Towns Prepare to Navigate More Flooding (and a Climate-Denying President)
As mayors from towns along the Mississippi River huddled over their phones on March 22nd, they cautiously awaited answers from members of the National Weather Service and emergency agencies across the federal government: “How bad is the flooding going to be? And what can we do to stop it?” Flooding …
Read More »Extremely Chill Trump Doesn't Even Care If the Mueller Report Goes Public
Last week, the House of Representatives voted 420-0 for a measure calling for the Justice Department to release Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s final report to the public. The resolution made its way over to the Senate, where Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blocked it from being brought up for a vote, …
Read More »How to Blow $700 Billion
According to a study led by Michigan State University professor Mark Skidmore, some $21 trillion in Pentagon accounting transactions, made over a 17-year period, lack supporting data. This doesn’t mean the money is gone — the Pentagon only received roughly $9.2 trillion in budget money during that time — but …
Read More »Trump's Sensitivity Boils Over in Twitter Rant Over 'SNL' Rerun
Whether or not President Trump realized he was watching a rerun from December of a Saturday Night Live episode last night may not have mattered. As we know, it doesn’t take much to get under his skin. Trump took to Twitter this morning to bellow loudly about what he sees …
Read More »Hillary Clinton and Democratic Hopefuls Make Powerful Remarks in Selma
Hillary Clinton along with Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Julián Castro gathered with civil rights leaders including Jesse Jackson to commemorate the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”—the day in 1965 when peaceful marchers were battered and teargassed by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge …
Read More »Michael Cohen Congressional Testimony: What Time It Starts, How to Watch
President Donald Trump‘s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to offer damming testimony about his former boss during a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. ET and will be available on most cable news and broadcast networks including CNN, …
Read More »A Historian Dismantled Tucker Carlson, But Fox News Didn't Broadcast It
Income inequality isn’t typically a big issue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But it was this year, partly because Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) proposed a 70 percent marginal tax rate on income over $10 million shortly before the conference began last month. Though the millionaires and billionaires …
Read More »How Do You Impeach a President? Like This
The possibility that President Trump will face impeachment no longer seems far-fetched. Congressional investigations — on the Trump organization, the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team and the Trump administration — are ramping up, while Special Counsel Robert Mueller seems ever closer to releasing his report on the depth of …
Read More »Another Government Shutdown Is a Real Possibility
With Friday’s deadline approaching, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney hit the Sunday morning news shows to let the American people know that the nonsensical and hurtful government shutdown they just endured might be back for another round. Mulvaney told Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Pressthat “you …
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