Latest News on Trump, the Republican Party and Politics
Feb 22, 2022 | Opinion
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Motherjones.com
- by Alexander C. KaufmanThis story was originally published on the author’s substack, Field Notes with Alexander C Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. Last week, Greenlanders trudged through snow and ice to cast ballots in their most closely watched parliamentary elections in modern history—possibly ever. Just two months earlier, Donald Trump had returned to power, vowing to achieve what American presidents […]
- by Jackie Flynn Mogensen and Sam Van PykerenRebecca Denison expected to have a short life. She’d acquired HIV as a college student in the 1980s, she told the audience at an infectious disease conference in San Francisco earlier this month, and got an official diagnosis in 1990. “Back then,” she said matter-of-factly, “It was understood we were all going to die.” Within […]
- by Julianne McShane and Julia MétrauxRobert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remaking of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) entered a new phase on Thursday, when officials announced that the department’s workforce would shrink by another 10,000 staff to comply with President Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s orders to drastically shrink the federal government. HHS announced that the “dramatic […]
- by Henry CarnellAn employee at one government-run national research lab spent half a day this week cancelling orders for equipment—time that, as a technician, he could have spent running experiments. That worker is one of many whose “PCard,” or purchasing card, will be revoked at the end of the month—part of an internal order by the Department […]
- by Akielly HuCities looking to eliminate fossil fuels in buildings have notched a decisive court victory. Last week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by plumbing and building trade groups against a New York City ban on natural gas in new buildings. The decision is the first to explicitly disagree with a previous ruling that struck down Berkeley, California’s […]
- by Serena LinOn the night of the Oscars, the long line outside of a lower Manhattan nightclub snaked around the block. Young and fashionable, the crowd was hoping to get into an unusual political fundraiser—a combination panel discussion, DJ set, and award show watch party—benefiting the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old socialist. It […]
- by Julianne McShaneOn Tuesday night, the Senate voted 56–44 to confirm Dr. Martin Makary as President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Three Democrats—Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire—joined Republicans in the confirmation vote to appoint Makary, formerly a surgeon and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, […]
- by Noah Lanard and Isabela DiasOn Friday, March 14, Arturo Suárez Trejo called his wife, Nathali Sánchez, from an immigration detention center in Texas. Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela, explained that his deportation flight had been delayed. He told his wife he would be home soon. Suárez did not want to go back to Venezuela. Still, there was […]
Feedburner.com
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Democracynow.org
- by Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country’s racist apartheid laws. Musk’s family history reveals ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics. We speak with Chris McGreal, reporter for The Guardian, to understand how Musk’s upbringing shaped his worldview, as well as that of his […]
- by After spending over a quarter of a billion dollars on Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign, Elon Musk is pouring money into a Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. Musk has spent more than $18 million to support Trump-backed candidate Brad Schimel over liberal Susan Crawford and has been paying Wisconsin voters $100 to help flip the […]
- by Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Surveillance video shows agents approaching her on the streets near her home Tuesday evening and handcuffing her while she screamed for help. Tufts University’s […]
- by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has fired at least five members of its social impact team, including its artistic director, the renowned artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The team aimed to expand the art center’s reach to diverse audiences and to commission new works by Black composers.
- by ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student in Escalating Crackdown on Anti-Genocide Campus Protests, ICE Detains Iranian Ph.D. Student in Alabama and Farmworker Union Leader in Washington, Israel Kills Another 25 Palestinians in Gaza, Threatens to “Seize Territory”, 17-Year-Old Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad Dies in Notorious Israeli Prison, South Sudanese Vice Pres. Machar Is Arrested in […]
- by Mass demonstrations are continuing in Turkey, where Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has been arrested on corruption charges. Since protests broke out last week, Turkish authorities have detained more than 1,400 people, including students and journalists. İmamoğlu is the main rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the 2028 presidential election and was recently nominated for […]
- by Democratic lawmakers are calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Michael Waltz to resign, after they discussed bombing Yemen in a group chat that also included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Waltz had set up the chat on the messaging app Signal and appeared to accidentally add Goldberg, who […]
- by The Social Security benefits of millions of people in the United States are at risk as the Trump administration institutes drastic changes billed as “anti-fraud” measures, but which critics say are aimed at weakening the popular program and potentially laying the groundwork to privatize it. The Social Security Administration has already shuttered dozens of offices […]
Crooksandliars.com
- by Steve GreenbergOpen thread below… read more
- by Julia ConleyAlong with raising alarm about a massive national security breach—and questions about the competence of top officials in the Trump administration who "inadvertently" added a journalist to a Signal group chat about plans to bomb targets in Yemen—the incident that Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg publicized this week included an apparent "confession" of at least one […]
- by Conover KennardTwo days after The Atlantic published a shocking report about top Trump administration officials recklessly using Signal to coordinate a military strike in Yemen, the nonpartisan watchdog group American Oversight sued members of the chat for allegedly breaking federal laws requiring officials to preserve records during their time in office. Donald unleashed a post on […]
- by Conover KennardWe are living in a new era of kakistocracy, and to further prove that, handsy controversial Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert came up with a thoroughly stupid idea and, by the way, she's upset that people are making fun of her Trumpy bear for the co-president renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. […]
- by Susie MadrakLook, this isn't earthshattering news. But anyone who's into guitars did wonder exactly where Trump has his guitars (from which he almost certainly took a cut) manufactured last year. Well! You guessed it. Mr. "America First" had his guitars made… in China. Here's a picture from the Facebook page of a veteran-owned company named 16 […]
- by John AmatoTrying to defend his class of clowns on the group chat leak, Trump denigrated the Signal platform by claiming it may be defective and they will investigate. Trump used his pet name, "witchhunt" to describe the ongoing single gate debacle and then transitioned into blaming the app itself. TRUMP: Look, it's all a witch hunt. […]
- by Ed ScarceThese billboards will show up in about a dozen red states, including Ohio, and will be seen from some of the busiest highways in the country. Source: WCPO NORWOOD, Ohio — It looks like Canada wants to get the attention of Cincinnati residents. A billboard spotted right off the Norwood Lateral Wednesday morning says, "Tariffs […]
- by John AmatoLongtime Fox News contributor Britt Hume blasted the Trump administration for handling SignalGate and, at the same time, attacked journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who did nothing wrong. Apart from Jessica Tarlov, Fox News rarely has anyone on to contradict Demented Donald Trump. BAIER: You know, this story, 24 hours, 48 hours, do you think it continues […]
Medium.com
- by Left WisdomThis is James Garman a voter from New Orleans, Louisiana and I am writing to Rep Troy Carter to urge, no demand that he step up for the American people against the illegal occuptation of the White House by a man who organized and is known to have organized a coop to overturn the government […]
- by Left WisdomThis is the emailed note I sent to my Representative and the 2 senators for my state. I am pretty sure the rep will vote correctly because he is a democrat and cares about the people at least enough to be elected again by us. The two senators are likely a waste of time, but […]
- by Left WisdomDear President Zelenski:As a normal everyday citizen of the United States, I have great concern for your nations future as an independent democratic nation. However, the United States has fallen into a horrible abyss in the last few months. We have fallen for the lies of one of the most anti-democracy men in the Western […]
- by Left WisdomI have absolutely no intention of being “polite” in this blog. I intend to tell the truth and let it all hang out. We are in a horrible situation right now and if we don’t get it together and fight for what America supposedly stood for at one time, no matter how imperfectly, we are […]
- by Left WisdomAxios this is in Israel(bear in mind, this is the sharing of a personal opinion although it is backed up by history and my personal observation which I insists has relevance…I am NOT a spelling or grammar expect, although if I get a sign that a word is misspelled, I will try to correct it. Just […]
- by Left Wisdoma picture from the internet from Jan 6, 2021’s insurrectionWell, violence is not far away when MAGA gets “owned” by things that make no difference in the scheme of life. If you have spent any time “listening” to right wing media or reading the missives they publish to see where their minds are, you know […]
- by Left WisdomLook at this!!!! This is what we are likely going to have to look at if the MAGA cult manage to win this election….or we don’t get our nation to stand for the right thing. Sadly, although Biden has tried to do something about this atrocerity, the Congress has drug its heels and still insists […]
- by Left WisdomAre Mammoth coming back — science, really?found at freepixOk, I am currently reading a science fiction novella about a sometime in the near future time when the Wooly Mammoth, or at least some version has been brough back to life. Apparently the humans of that time have NOT managed to do a good job of saving the Earth from […]
