Four years ago today, the xenophobic promises of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign became a reality. The Muslim ban, signed a week into his presidency, declared that non-American citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen could not enter the United States for the next 90 days; that the …
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) made a fool of himself on national television. Asked countless times by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday if he would admit that the presidential election was not stolen from Donald Trump, the Republican senator refused to tell the truth and blamed the courts, liberal politicians …
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The embattled National Rifle Association is seeking an exit from its financial and legal woes by declaring bankruptcy, with a plan to reorganize in the state of Texas. In a statement to reporters on Friday, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said the NRA had reached a “transformational moment” and that a …
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According to several reports, outgoing President Trump has stepped up the insanity at the White House — so much so that he has even discussed declaring martial law in order to steal the election. The New York Times reported Saturday that Trump has entertained the idea previously suggested by his …
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As the virus continues to kill Americans at a record clip, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy went on national television on Sunday morning and urged citizens not to get caught up in the euphoria of the coming vaccine, and to follow health officials’ guidelines because the coming weeks “are going …
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The 9/11 Commission, in its report on how the United States failed to stop the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, cited the Bush administration’s shortened transition period, the result of a 36-day dispute over the results of the 2000 election. “Given that a presidential election in the United States brings wholesale …
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The dust is settling on the 2020 election, and all eyes are understandably focused on the presidential result — which at last check had President-Elect Joe Biden beating Donald Trump by more than 5 million votes and on track to record a 306-232 victory in the electoral college. But some …
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With President-Elect Joe Biden now the called winner of the 2020 contest, Donald Trump is threatening not to concede the election. Trump’s predicament — a one-term president ousted convincingly during a period of national hardship — is not unprecedented. President George H.W. Bush lost under similar conditions, to Bill Clinton …
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Rep. Katie Porter became a breakout star of Congress’ class of 2018 by wielding a dry-erase marker. The California congresswoman, a former law student of Elizabeth Warren’s, has spent the past two years exposing the arrogance and incompetence of Trump lackeys and American CEOs by asking very simple questions, often …
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There was a fleeting moment, in the beginning of this unprecedented global pandemic, when I was released from the gravity of my skin. Our country was quarantined, isolated, imagining the worst from an invisible enemy. In Seattle, everyone wore masks, myself included. The world had emptied, and for the first …
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