Sen. Susan Collins is shocked, stunned, and astounded that two conservative, Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices may have deceived her regarding their position on abortion rights. According to a reported draft majority opinion leaked to Politico, both Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh have voted to overturn established precedent protecting …
Read More »Trump Wanted Black Lives Matter Protesters to Be Shot, Says Former Defense Secretary
Mark Esper is the latest Trump administration official to attempt to cleanse his sins and fatten his pockets with a memoir about his time with the former president. The former defense secretary’s new book A Sacred Oath is due out May 10. The book promises revelations about the Trump White …
Read More »Judge Slaps Down Republican Push to Shield Trump Fundraising Data From Jan. 6 Committee
The Republican National Committee has been trying to prevent the Jan. 6 committee from getting hold of RNC email and fundraising data, as well as similar data from former President Trump’s reelection campaign. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly ruled on Sunday that communications company Salesforce will have to turn …
Read More »Republicans Mount an Anti-Trump Revolution in Michigan, But It May Be Too Late
For former President Donald Trump, last Saturday was the culmination of a yearslong effort to secure a strong foothold in the Michigan Republican Party. Meshawn Maddock, his sherpa in the state handpicked co-chair of the party, presided over a nominating convention that saw two of his endorsees — Kristina Karamo …
Read More »Kinzinger Zings Marjorie Taylor Greene for Playing the Victim: 'It's Insane'
The Jan. 6 committee “in the next week or two” will take next steps on its decision on issuing subpoenas to compel Republican lawmakers to testify about Donald Trump and his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, committee member Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Sunday on Face the Nation. “If that …
Read More »Racist Minneapolis Cops Spied on Black Leaders While Ignoring White Hate Groups
The Minneapolis Police Department turned a blind eye to white nationalists and white supremacy movements online, even as its officers created fake social media accounts to surveil and troll law-abiding Black community members “without a public safety objective.” That’s just one of dozens of shocking revelations from a two-year investigation …
Read More »British Lawmaker to Resign After Being Caught Watching Porn in Parliament
A member of the British Parliament announced he would resign Saturday after he was caught watching porn videos while the House of Commons was in session. Neil Parish, a member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, admitted in a BBC interview that he twice viewed pornography while his fellow …
Read More »Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Almost Came to Blows Over White Nationalist Event: Report
The House Freedom Caucus — the far-right group of conspiracy theorists with members like Reps. Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, and Madison Cawthorn — have long been warring with the rest of the Republican Party, which they feel isn’t sufficiently dedicated to former President Trump and his vision for a MAGA-fied …
Read More »How the White House Correspondents Dinner Broke the Democratic Party
When I was a political reporter in Washington, I used to loathe the White House Correspondents Dinner. I hated how it portrayed Beltway journalism as a game. How it reduced the project of government accountability to performative antagonism practiced daily by reporters in White House press briefings — a performance …
Read More »Leaked Texts Reveal Sean Hannity and Mark Meadows Fantasized About Election Fraud Evidence, Post-Trump Business Plans
CNN on Friday published another batch of texts exchanged between Mark Meadows and Sean Hannity between Election Day and President Biden’s inauguration. Trump’s former chief of staff and the Fox News hosts exchanged over 80 texts in that timeframe. The full lot of them reveals that Hannity once believed the …
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