Since President Trump took office, Republicans have accused social media platforms of bias against conservative users. But according to a new report from Motherboard, Twitter has avoided censoring white supremacists out of fear that it could impact the accounts of Republican politicians. The report cites a March 22nd meeting at …
Read More »More Top Democrats Are Making the Case for Impeachment
The release of the redacted Mueller report last week confirmed what many already knew: President Trump is a pathological liar, a serial criminal and woefully unfit to occupy the most powerful office in the world. One of the many questions that has emerged as Americans continue to parse the special …
Read More »Is This the Fastest an Administration Official Has Been Investigated for Ethical Misconduct?
Whenever President Trump nominates someone to take over for whichever administration official was most recently forced to leave office, ethical concerns about the successor are soon to follow. But it’s unlikely anyone has been investigated as quickly as David Bernhardt. On Thursday, the former oil lobbyist was confirmed as Trump’s …
Read More »Rep. Jerry Nadler: Trump Has 'No Moral Authority' to Talk About 9/11
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) appeared on CNN’sState of the UnionSunday morning and discussed Donald Trump‘s recent attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). On Friday, Trump released an edited video of Omar’s remarks to the Center for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) where she was talking about how many Muslims were discriminated …
Read More »What Did Mueller Find in Michael Cohen's Emails?
WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller‘s Russia investigation had been up and running for just two months when the special counsel set his sights on Michael Cohen, the self-described consigliere and (former) brash personal lawyer to President Trump. According to newly released court documents, the special counsel’s office first got a search …
Read More »Muslim Student Confronts Chelsea Clinton at Vigil for Mosque Shooting Victims
Chelsea Clinton was attending a New York City memorial for the victims of the Mosque shooting in New Zealand when a college student came up to her and criticized Clinton for remarks she made on Twitter a few weeks earlier directed at Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Omar had been …
Read More »Trump Starts Twitter Beef With Ann Coulter
It appears as though the divorce is final. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday and blasted former ally and extreme right-winger Ann Coulter. Trump reverted back to a tried and true diss method of his that has come to signal there is no going back–the dreaded demeaning nickname. …
Read More »Police Who Shot Stephon Clark Will Not Be Charged, District Attorney Announces
The two police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark while he was unarmed will not face criminal charges. In a statement on Saturday, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the officers “acted lawfully under the circumstances.” Schubert said the officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who shot …
Read More »Journey to Antarctica: Reckoning With Uncertainty
This is the eighth dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who is in Antarcticainvestigatingthe effect ofclimate changeon Thwaites Glacier. Rob Larter was 23 when he made his first visit to Antarctica. The son of a public health inspector and a secondary-school teacher, Larter grew up in the gentle green …
Read More »Trump's 'National Emergency' Has Already Become a Legal Nightmare
Legal challenges to President Trump’s national emergency declaration are starting to pile up. Days after multiple advocacy groups filed lawsuits challenging the president’s “national emergency,” 16 states have sued the Trump administration over the president’s scheme to use executive privilege to build a border wall without the approval of Congress. …
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