Climate change is a global problem that requires cooperation between all nations. That’s why today more than 30 newspapers and media organizations in more than 20 countries have taken a common view about what needs to be done. Time is running out. Rather than getting out of fossil fuels and …
Read More »MAGA Media Is Melting Down Over Kari Lake's Loss
Kari Lake lost her bid to become Arizona’s governor to Democrat Katie Hobbs, reiterating the national rebuke Republicans received from voters in last Tuesday’s midterms. Despite a poor showing by conservatives in Arizona, Lake, an avowed election denier, is insinuating foul play is responsible for her loss, and MAGA pundits …
Read More »Texas Lawmakers Are Gearing Up to Make Life Miserable for Trans People
Multiple bills have been submitted to the Texas state Senate that would make providing or consenting to gender-affirming care for a minor a form of child abuse under Texas’s Family Code. The bills are just a handful of the more than 800 legislative proposals submitted to the Texas legislature in …
Read More »Biden Says Missile That Fell in Poland 'Unlikely' Fired From Russia
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that it was “unlikely” that a missile that killed two people in Poland was fired from Russia, the Associated Press reports. After an “emergency” meeting of the Group of Seven and NATO leaders, President Joe Biden was asked by reporters if it was too early …
Read More »Trump's Money Man Just Linked Him to Tax Fraud Scheme
Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified Tuesday that Donald Trump personally green-lighted untaxed benefits that are the center of a Manhattan criminal trial against several of the ex-president’s eponymous companies — including a gratis residence in New York City. “The rent was authorized by Donald Trump,” Weisselberg …
Read More »'My Son Used to Dream of Football, Now He Dreams of Hand Grenades'
KYIV – Amid hundreds of joyous civilians pouring onto the streets of Kherson to welcome the soldiers who liberated them from Russian occupation, there is a man named Mykhailo. A former soldier whose son has been serving in an elite unit in the Ukrainian military since 2016, Mykhailo – whom …
Read More »Clarence Thomas Probably Shouldn't Be Ruling on Jan. 6 Committee Cases
The Supreme Court has denied a request from Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to block the Jan. 6 committee from accessing her phone records as part of their investigation, according to a brief decision released Monday. In the short decision, the court clarified that Justices Clarence Thomas and Sammuel Alito …
Read More »Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Other Foreign Governments Balled Out at Trump Hotel, New Docs Reveal
You can still see the faint outline of Trump’s name on the facade of Washington, D.C.’s Old Post Office, which from the year of the former president’s election to this May was home to the Trump International Hotel. Sitting just down the street from the White House, it was the …
Read More »Trump's Lawyers Compare Him to Galileo in New Filing
Galileo was persecuted for daring to claim that the Earth revolved around the sun. Nearly 400 years later, Donald Trump was ruthlessly mocked online for staring directly into that same star. In a court filing related to the former president’s lawsuit against Twitter, his lawyers claim that the two men …
Read More »After a Senate Loss in Wisconsin, Democrats Turn on Each Other
In the weeks leading up to Election Day, Mandela Barnes’ supporters felt frustrated. They believed in Barnes as the best Democrat to take on Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), and election forecasts all but guaranteed a Johnson victory. That frustration gave way to fury, however, once the ballots were counted on …
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