UPDATE: The Department of Health and Human Services is now saying they have halted their plans to end support for coronavirus testing sites to states on Friday, according to a Thursday night report from NPR. The report goes to say that localities will be able to choose whether they want …
Read More »Impeachment Revenge Is Back as Trump Fires Intelligence Community's Chief Watchdog
While you slept late Friday night or decided to escape the hellscape of social media platforms and cable news networks that are deluged with depressing coronavirus reports by binge-watching Tiger King again, the president did something that has now become routine — fire someone who dared speak truth to power …
Read More »John Oliver Blasts Conservatives Touting Markets Over Lives During COVID-19 Pandemic
John Oliver examined the mounting coronavirus catastrophe and President Donald Trump‘s handling of it on a new quarantine edition of Last Week Tonight Sunday. In just a few weeks, the United States has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and as Oliver noted, we still don’t know just how …
Read More »Trump Planned to Kick Hundreds Of Thousands off Food Stamps Until a Judge Blocked Him
While Americans are encouraged to social distance and are stocking up on food in the face of the spreading coronavirus, many food-insecure families will struggle. And the Trump administration sought to make their struggle harder by moving forward with plans to add strict work requirements that could remove three-quarters of …
Read More »QAnon Believers Are Now Running for Congress
Welcome to our modern dystopia where believers in QAnon, a conspiracy theory, are running for elected office. One such follower is congressional candidate Matthew Lusk, who is running unopposed for the Republican nomination in Florida’s fifth district, which is currently represented by Democrat Alfred Lawson. Speaking with the New York …
Read More »Trump Uses Prayer Breakfast to Gloat and Take Shots at Perceived 'Enemies'
President Donald Trump took the stage at the National Prayer Breakfast holding a newspaper for all to see with a headline that read: “ACQUITTED.” When it was time for the president to speak, Trump ignored the tone set by Washington Post columnist Arthur Brooks, who spoke just before him. According …
Read More »Bloomberg and Trump Vie for Votes With Expensive Super Bowl Ads
Both President Trump and Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg purchased valuable Super Bowl air time for their presidential campaigns, and both ads featured an African American woman speaking about each politician. Trump’s ad capitalizes on Alice Marie Johnson’s release from prison where she had served 21 years for attempted possession of …
Read More »'People Do Things. Things Happen,' GOP Senator Says of Trump Soliciting Foreign Election Interference
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who was sworn in as an “impartial juror” for President Trump’s impeachment trial, appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday and ho-hummed the subject of Trump’s solicitation of foreign election interference. Host George Stephanopoulos asked Shelby: “Do you think it was proper for the president to …
Read More »Giuliani Associate Willing to Testify Nunes Met With Former Ukraine Prosecutor to Seek Biden Dirt
After an explosive week of impeachment testimony, we may be in store for more. According to an attorney for Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, Parnas is willing to testify to Congress that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, met with a former Ukraine prosecutor late …
Read More »Anti-Immigrant Trump Supporter Who Went Viral Yelling: 'Respect our Laws' Commits Identity Theft, Says She's Above the Law
Jennifer Harrison, founder of the right-wing group AZ Patriots, was arrested in Arizona this week on suspicion of identity theft. Harrison became a viral sensation back in August after a video surfaced of her wearing a MAGA hat at a Tucson City Council meeting while protesting an immigration proposal that …
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