Ahead of Martin Luther King Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family’s role in authorizing government surveillance ofthe civil rights leader. The presidential hopeful told Politico on Sunday that his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who authorized the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. while attorney general, and President John …
Read More »High-Profile Attorney Withdraws From Trump's Defense Team
High profile — and deeply polarizing — attorney Joseph Tacopina is no longer representing Donald Trump in the ex-president’s cases in New York City. Tacopina had previously represented Trump in a criminal hush money case as well as in E. Jean Carroll‘s sexual abuse and defamation civil suit last year. …
Read More »Bill Ackman Says Martin Luther King Would Be 'Opposed' to 'DEI Movement'
Billionaire hedge fund chief and burgeoning Internet Main Character Bill Ackman used the afternoon of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to claim the civil rights leader would have been against the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and businesses. It’s a claim that MLK’s daughter has previously …
Read More »Trump Says We Should 'Keep the Oil' When 'We Obliterate Somebody'
Donald Trump is making his final plea this weekend leading up to the Republican Iowa caucuses on Monday, but the weather has been uncooperative. His two planned Iowa rally stops on Saturday in Sioux City and Atlantic instead turned into a tele-rally featuring Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird held that …
Read More »Texas 'Physically Barred' Border Patrol From Accessing Migrants Who Drowned
Days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott complained that Texas can’t shoot migrants attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border, three migrants — a woman and two children — drowned in the Rio Grande river while Texas National Guard “physically barred” U.S. Border Patrol from accessing the area. It’s unclear whether …
Read More »Trump Ends Bromance With Vivek Ramaswamy: He 'Is Not MAGA'
Looks like the MAGA tables are starting to turn against Republican presidential hopeful and frequent Trump defender Vivek Ramaswamy. This weekend, Donald Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that “a vote for Vivek is a vote for the ‘other side.’” Trump publicly targeted Ramaswamy for the first time …
Read More »Protesters Crash Trump Rally, Call Him 'Climate Criminal': Watch
Climate activists twice interrupted Donald Trump‘s Sunday rally, calling the former president a “climate criminal” on the day before he faces off against his Republican opponents in the Iowa caucuses. While Trump made his closing arguments to supporters before they head to the caucuses, a handful of climate activists heckled …
Read More »Supreme Court to Review Case on Homeless Residents Sleeping in Public
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to weigh in on whether homeless individuals have the right to camp on public property. The issue is the biggest SCOTUS case in decades on the rights of the homeless, and the decision has the potential to impact how cities across the U.S. handle …
Read More »Texas Just Took Its Border Battle With the U.S. Government Up a Notch
The tension between the state of Texas and the federal government over the border escalated on Thursday when the Texas National Guard seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, denying entry to federal authorities. The seizure followed Gov. Greg Abbott signing an emergency order granting the state guard …
Read More »Fox News Has Kicked My Pillow Out Of Its Advertising Bed
Fox News appears to have cut ties with the conservative bedding brand My Pillow, once one of the network’s largest and most prominent advertisers. My Pillow Founder and CEO Mike Lindell announced that the right-wing news network revoked their advertising deals with the brand on Thursday during a broadcast of …
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