Donald Trump in the final days of his presidency repeatedly threatened to out government sources involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, an anti-Deep State revenge fantasy he still obsesses over to this day, according to two former senior Trump aides and another person familiar with the matter. One of these sources …
Read More »You Can Hand Out Condoms on This Campus — Just Not If They're to Prevent Pregnancy
Just eight miles of rolling Palouse hills separate the college towns of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, but for decades they’ve existed as fiefdoms with rival laws. Back in the Eighties, when the drinking age in Idaho was still 18, students from Washington State University in Pullman would cross the …
Read More »Pro-Trump Georgia Officials Plotted to Swipe Voting Data. We Caught Them
Weeks before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Donald Trump’s legal team went to Georgia in a last-ditch effort to find election fraud. Led by lawyer Sidney Powell, the team copied data from voting machines in Coffee County. The effort represented a new front in the MAGA assault on elections, with Trump’s …
Read More »Margo Price Says Biden's Marijuana Pardons Don't Go Far Enough: 'Release Every Federal Cannabis Prisoner'
Joe Biden took a step towards marijuana decriminalization last week when he granted a mass pardon to anyone convicted of a federal crime for simple possession of the drug. He also asked governors to take similar steps, and directed his administration to review marijuana‘s status as a Schedule I substance …
Read More »President Biden's Weed Pardons Leave Thousands of People Behind
After continued pressure from Democrats, the Biden administration has taken a stance on what they want the future of American drug policy to look like. Announced Thursday, the president’s executive order pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana, and announced new efforts to pressure larger state reforms. …
Read More »'Steps to End our Failed Approach': President Biden Pardons Federal Marijuana Convictions
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that his administration would take sweeping measures to pardon marijuana-related drug offenses and take steps to reevaluate the drug’s federal classification, a step that could weaken how the drug is criminalized. The administration announced a pardon of all prior federal offenses of simple possession of …
Read More »Biden Pardons Weed Convictions, Fulfilling the 'Dank Brandon' Prophecy
With the news that President Joe Biden has pledged to end the United States’ “failed approach” on cannabis, thousands of people who were incarcerated for possession of the drug are poised to receive pardons. “Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives — for conduct that …
Read More »Biden Asks Where Dead Congresswoman Is
President Joe Biden asked if late Rep. Jackie Walorski was present during an event at the White House on Wednesday. Walorski was killed in a car crash along with two staffers and a driver on Aug. 3. She had been a champion of a bill that established the White House …
Read More »Biden Declares Pandemic Over as Hundreds of Americans Still Die From Covid Every Day
President Biden has declared the Covid-19 pandemic over, despite hundreds of Americans still dying from the disease daily. “The pandemic is over,” he told 60 Minutes from the Detroit Auto Show. “We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic …
Read More »One in Four Republicans Think MAGA Is a Threat to Democracy, Poll Finds
A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the days following President Joe Biden’s blistering speech in Philadelphia found that a majority of Americans, including one in four Republicans, consider Trump’s “Make America Great Again movement a threat to America’s democratic foundations.” While the poll also found that “fifty-nine percent of respondents said …
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