Latest News on Trump, the Republican Party and Politics
Feb 22, 2022 | Opinion
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Motherjones.com
- by Juanpablo Ramirez-FrancoThis story, a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News, and Chicago-area public radio station WBEZ, is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lead pipes are ubiquitous. At this point, no state has gotten rid of all of its toxic lead service lines, which pipe drinking water to homes and businesses. But some cities like Chicago, New York […]
- by Schuyler MitchellHours after being sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump used his constitutionally vested powers to define “man” and “woman.” In an executive order, he said his administration would recognize only two immutable, biological sexes, determined at conception, in the name of “defending women” from a rising scourge: “gender ideology.” It was the […]
- by Eamon WhalenOn their first day guarding a mall in Minneapolis, the men met in a warehouse on the outskirts of town at 4 a.m. to get “kitted up.” They put on flak jackets and masks. Some had military fatigues. Their boss, Nathan Seabrook, wore a walkie-talkie headset. He packed two pistols and a weapon that dangled […]
- by Julianne McShaneOn Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives will finally vote on the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act. If passed, the bill would force the Department of Justice to release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors, including flight logs, names of people and entities with ties to Epstein, sealed settlements, and […]
- by Julianne McShaneThere was a time when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) compared President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ and called him “the greatest President of my lifetime.” Those days are over. As I wrote back in July, Greene has been increasingly critical of Trump’s second term in office: She has railed against his decision to launch […]
- by Schuyler MitchellPresident Donald Trump, who ran in 2024 on the promise to bring down prices “on day one,” has finally admitted that his tariffs do the opposite. On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it would exempt a broad array of groceries—including staples like beef, coffee, and bananas—from the tariffs the president proudly implemented in April. […]
- by Schuyler MitchellFor months, President Donald Trump begged America to forget about Jeffrey Epstein. But this week a House committee released a trove of the late sex offender’s emails, and Trump’s name was all over them. Now, he’s suddenly once again very interested in figuring out who enabled or even partook in Epstein’s prolific sexual abuse of […]
- by RevealChris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and two black eyes. But it wasn’t just guards who attacked him. Mack said a group of inmates joined […]
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Democracynow.org
- With negotiations in their second week here at the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, we get an update on the United Nations talks from Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth. He says COP30 is taking place against a backdrop of rising far-right authoritarianism, climate denial, and genocide in Gaza, which are […]
- Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotiations. The gathering comes 33 years after the Rio Earth Summit, which created the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Countries are […]
- To kick off our week of coverage from the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, we play video of a major protest that took place Saturday, when tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the host city Belém to demand urgent climate action. The Indigenous-led action was the first major climate protest at […]
- Bangladesh Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sentenced to Death, Israeli Forces Kill at Least 3 Palestinians Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, U.N. Security Council to Vote Today on U.S. Proposal to Establish International Stabilization Force in Gaza, Trump Open to Talks with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Tens of Thousands March Outside COP30 Demanding Climate Action, Protests Erupt […]
- Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is less than two months away from taking office in New York City. Mamdani’s history-making campaign, grounded in community organizing, propelled the little-known Assembly-member to victory. Candidate Mamdani famously began the campaign polling at just 1% and overcame the intense scrutiny, Islamaphobic attacks, criticism for his support for Palestinian rights, and more. […]
- Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit” and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements. “We haven’t won a war in this century. […]
- 252 Venezuelan immigrants in the United States were flown to El Salvador in the dead of night and indefinitely imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center. The detainees had no ability to communicate to the outside world before they were finally released to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange. The men were “subjected […]
- “Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches "Operation Southern Spear"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the launch of Operation Southern Spear to target suspected drug traffickers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The U.S. now has 15,000 military personnel in the region. Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. […]
Crooksandliars.com
- by Chris capper LiebenthalAre you allergic to racism? Does antisemitism make you break out? Does greed give you hives? Then you might be afflicted with TDS, you lucky devil! Go out and contaminate as many people as you can with vaccines of knowledge, caplets of wisdom and a big heaping healthy spoonful of truth! And alwasy remember, Trump […]
- by HeatherSaturday Night Live had a field day with both Trump spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt and Trump himself over their response to the newly released Epstein emails during the cold open on this weekend: The episode opened with Padilla, as Leavitt, in the White House Press Briefing Room, greeting reporters and telling them, “I am just so […]
- by Red PainterYet another edition of FAFO. This time a family owned sawmill in North Carolina, ravaged by Trump. Oh and they voted for Trump. They LITERALLY voted for the leopards eating faces party and are shocked that the leopard ate THEIR face. Bloomberg did a whole podcast about this and conducted in depth interviews to talk […]
- by NewsHound EllenI’ll bet you that Alan Dershowitz is the guy Megyn Kelly (a former lawyer) was referring to when she said recently that “somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything” essentially persuaded her that Jeffrey Epstein is not a pedophile because his sex-trafficking victims were the “barely […]
- by HeatherTrump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an appearance on Fox's Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo this weekend, and was asked about Americans' concerns over affordability, and Bessent did his best to deflect and blame all of their problems on the Biden administration rather than accepting responsibility for their part in contributing to inflation and […]
- by Conover KennardUFC Chief Executive Dana White, a friend of Donald J. Trump's, might not like how the idea of a White House cage fight is turning out so far. White, who introduced Trump at last year’s convention, told his 10.7 million social media followers, “The White House fight is on. We got it done today.” Finding […]
- by HeatherRepublicans have had fifteen years to come up with a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and all they've done in the meantime is undermine it and do their best to destroy it. Their replacement is the same as it ever was — go back to the days where insurers could deny coverage and force […]
- by Conover KennardTrump and his Republican enablers have been alleging that former President Joe Biden used an autopen, and that, to them, is a bigger scandal than the current president's staggering corruption. House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer went so far as to vow that they would try to use the fake ass autopen scandal to […]
Medium.com
- by Left Wisdom**horrible things will happen if the SC continues to reject his playing with tariffs**Everybody by now knows that trump has been playing with tarrifs; as far as anybody observing can tell, getting up in the morning and suddenly yelling with great enthusiasm that he hopes will convince the nation that THIS is the salvation for […]
- by Left WisdomImagine you are in the Jungle. The night is far advanced and the Jungle is nice and calm. The lions have had a good meal and are settled in. The villagers have made sure that the lions have enough. They even went out and killed some smaller animals and left them in a central part […]
- by Left WisdomMamdani ran for mayor on the promise to make sure rent control in the city takes account of the finincial straits of young people just starting out. As we have heard frequently, especially since trump got into the White Houise, while promising to bring costs down and immedately caused most prices to go speedily in […]
- by Left WisdomQuestion: what is the difference bet Fuentes and Maga? And yes, I am happy about the Mayor of New YorkMAs we all know, or should, the same die hard MAGATS didn’t learn a damn think about the rebuke they got in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City. I would say that this outcome may have […]
- by Left WisdomThe right wing lunatics are out in force. The last time these types of lunatics were hot and bothered was in 1957 or so, when John F Kennedy was running for President. What was the upset? Well, he was a Catholic by faith. He was born and raised in that Church and still attended and […]
- by Left WisdomMan in White House with forked tongue throws fit because Doug Ford tops him with Reagan’s free trade policy because ultimately tariffs hurt the consumer most (I DON’T HOLD BACK)Since this disasterly tempermental unstable POS has been in office, lets look at the evil he has wrecked on the American population. He said he was America […]
- by Left WisdomI am 71 years old and have heard what I have always kind of thought were arrogant phrase from my fellow citizens. many in this country seem to worship the flag itselt and consider it something worthy of worship. I never have, the flag to me is a piece of cloth. Not that original a […]
- by Left WisdomI Thank the Nobel Peace Prize pickers for Not Giving the Toddler in the White House an award for nothingWe have heard about trump wanting the Nobel Peace Prize. I had hoped that the question had been resolved when I never heard that he had managed to get his name on that list. Well, yesterday evening […]
