Four United States embassies around the world have requested to fly the LGBTQ flag on their flagpoles for Pride Month, and all four requests have been denied by the State Department, NBC News reported, citing three U.S. diplomats. During the Obama administration, embassies were given blanket permission to fly the …
Read More »It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Is Preparing for War With Iran
No one wanted President Trump to pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal. The agreement signed by President Obama held that Iran would get rid its nuclear fuel in exchange for the U.S. waiving the sanctions that had crippled the nation’s economy. A UN nuclear agency monitored …
Read More »Russian Maria Butina, Who Infiltrated the NRA, Sentenced to 18 Months
Minutes before President Donald Trump addressed the NRA at its annual convention, Russian influence agent Maria Butina was sentenced in federal court Friday to 18 months in prison. Butina had earlier pleaded guilty to conspiring to be an undeclared Russian agent in her work to influence the Trump administration by …
Read More »Is There a Political Reason Twitter Won't Do More to Combat White Supremacy?
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. …
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