In Marcellus Williams’ clemency package, his mother describes him as the only mistake she’s ever made. His father left him, too, unwanted. Now, on the brink of execution for a murder he says he did not commit, 55-year-old Williams has a legion in his corner. No one wants him to …
Read More »Trump's Pick for NC Gov. Called Himself a 'Black Nazi,' MLK 'Worse Than a Maggot'
North Carolina Lieutenant Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican Party’s controversial candidate for governor, is under new scrutiny for several admissions he appears to have made on a message board for the porn site called “Nude Africa” before his political career began. CNN reported on Thursday Robinson referred to himself as …
Read More »Trump Grasps for Votes in New York: 'What Do You Have to Lose?'
Donald Trump vowed to “win New York” in the 2024 presidential election during a campaign stop in Uniondale on Wednesday. The former president has lost his state of birth twice, once in 2016 and again in 2020, and in every presidential election since 1984, New York has voted Democratic. In …
Read More »Teamsters Won't Endorse a Candidate, So Local Unions Back Harris
After the International Brotherhood of Teamsters broke with tradition and announced that it would not endorse a candidate for president this election, several joint councils in the battleground states of Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin have since publicly pledged their support for Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. “After reviewing six …
Read More »Florida Doctors Describe Dystopic Horrors as DeSantis Tries to Tank Abortion Measure
Amid a brazen, state-sanctioned disinformation campaign against a ballot measure to restore abortion rights in Florida — including visits to voters’ homes by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election goon squad — doctors say the state’s ban is putting their patients’ lives at risk, forcing them to confront unfathomably dark medical …
Read More »An Oil Field, an Explosion, and a Man's Fight for His Life
R ight around noon on Oct. 10, 2019, just outside Pecos, Texas, in the Permian oil patch, Jeff Springman bends down to the desert floor, grabs some dirt, tosses it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. At this site there are a total of seven …
Read More »Republicans Are Livid About … the Fed Lowering Interest Rates
After months of complaining about the crippling burden of high interest rates and expensive borrowing, Republicans for some strange reason don’t seem too happy that the Federal Reserve has moved to do something about it. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced it is cutting interest rates by half a percentage …
Read More »Uncommitted Movement Refuses to Endorse Kamala Harris
The Uncommitted movement has announced though it opposes another Donald Trump presidency and doesn’t recommend voting for a third party in November, it will not be formally backing Kamala Harris’ bid for the presidency. The move is a sharp rebuke to the vice president’s refusal to endorse more aggressive policies …
Read More »Over 100 Former GOP Officials Sign Letter Endorsing Harris
Since Vice President Kamala Harris took over the Democratic ticket, she’s received support from plenty of prominent conservatives — who are largely endorsing Harris out of their opposition to Donald Trump. They have said that the former president is amoral, crude, and “simply untenable” — so much so that they …
Read More »The All-Consuming Chaos of Trump
Donald Trump’s politics of chaos and division are sucking America into a dark vortex, just seven weeks before an Election Day that could propel him back to the profound, and perilous, powers of the presidency. Trump is at his most dangerous when he’s in a bind. Months after president Joe …
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