Piers Morgan has been one of Donald Trump‘s most vocal advocates in the United Kingdom for years. Those years may now be over. The consistently insufferable British TV host interviewed the former president for his new show Piers Morgan Uncensored. After the interview, Morgan on Wednesday tweeted out a very …
Read More »A Guide to the Right's Unhinged Conspiracy Theories about Jan. 6
The surface-level facts of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 are not very complicated. Trump hosted a well-attended rally in Washington, D.C. to stoke anger over Congress certifying the results of the previous November’s election. After weeks of telling his supporters that the election had been stolen, he gave a …
Read More »GOP Senators Sign On to Hawley's Effort to Subvert Democracy
A number of Republican congressional elected officials announced their intent to vote against certifying the results of the Electoral College on January 6th. While this will not change the results of the election, it will lengthen the process of certifying them. The group of Republicans who released a joint statement …
Read More »How Donald Trump Talks About Black People
The first question in Thursday night’s discussion about American racism is about “The Talk.” As moderator Kristen Welker tells both the 63 million viewers nationwide and the two white men running for president of the United States, this is the training black parents put their children through for survival. She …
Read More »Joe Biden Triumphs in the South Carolina Primary — Can He Capitalize On The Momentum?
My brain: Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Me: JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEMENTUM!!! Sound the starting pistol, the former vice president of the United States has secured his long-prophesied victory in the South Carolina primary, according to network projections, may now begin his classic car cruise to the Democratic nominating …
Read More »The Useful Idiots New Guide to the Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign
Since we released the first edition of this list in early December, the news cycle has taken several hectic turns. The president was impeached, and responded by issuing “official movement permits” to Santa Claus and his nine reindeer, so they could legally enter the United States (not a joke!). The …
Read More »Warren's Medicare for All Funding Plan Asks Rich People, Companies and the Military to Pay for Poor People Not Dying
As Elizabeth Warren has risen in the polls, pressure has built on the on-again, off-again frontrunner to explain how she would pay for the Medicare for All system she’s co-signed. Those attacks ramped up in recent weeks, with rival Amy Klobuchar going after Warren by calling Medicare for All “a …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren: Trump's Student-Loan Watchdog Pick Is 'Revolving Door Corruption'
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blasted the chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for appointing a high-ranking officialfrom a scandal-plagued loan servicer to be the Bureau’s new student-loan watchdog. On Monday, Warren’s office released three fiery letters the senator had sent to Trump-nominated CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger, Treasury …
Read More »Winners and Losers of the First Night of Democratic Debates
The 2020 Democratic primary debate season is officially underway. The first batch of 10 candidates hashed it out onstage in Miami Wednesday night, and though the back-and-forths may not have been as contentious as those from some of the similarly large Republican primary debates in 2016, the night still provided …
Read More »Democratic Candidates Focus on Racial Wealth Gap at Economic Forum
Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former congressman Beto O’Rourke attended the Black Economic Alliance Presidential Forum on Saturday in South Carolina. Candidates spoke with journalist Soledad O’Brien and covered a range of topics including inequality, the racial wealth divide, jobs, with a particular …
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