In another blow to civil rights under the Trump administration, the Department of Justice’s civil rights division has reassigned all managers working in the department’s voting section and suspended all active investigations being handled by the unit. According to a Monday report from The Guardian, last week Tamar Hagler, chief …
Read More »Trump's War on the Vulnerable Has Now Reached Military Families
The family residential section of U.S. Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, is usually a very pleasant place, with military families from the Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps enjoying the sunny respite of a golden duty station like Key West. At least it was until the Department of Homeland …
Read More »Trump Assures Nation That Pete Hegseth Will Eventually 'Get It Together'
President Donald Trump is confident that Pete Hegseth is going to “get it together” any day now — which, to be frank, is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the scandal-plagued former Fox News host he put in charge of the entire United States military. In an interview with The …
Read More »Bernie Sanders: Americans Know What 'Oligarchy' Means, They Aren't 'Dumb'
Sen. Bernie Sanders has faith that the American people understand what “oligarchy” means, defending his use of the term from fellow Democrats Sen. Elise Slotkin and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who have argued that it doesn’t resonate with voters. “I think the American people are not quite as dumb as …
Read More »Trump Says He's 'Bringing Columbus Day Back.' It Was Never Gone
As part of his attempts to Make Colonizing Great Again, President Donald Trump says he is “bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.” “The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much,” the president wrote Sunday on Truth …
Read More »J.D. Vance's Best Friend, the Canadian Politician, Has No Comment
J.D. Vance’s best friend has no comment. In truth, J.D. Vance’s best friend really doesn’t want anyone to know he’s J.D. Vance’s best friend — not now that he’s running for Canadian Parliament in an industrial city on the shores of Lake Ontario. For three consecutive days in late April, …
Read More »Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Its Attack on Union Rights
A federal judge filed a preliminary injunction late on Friday that temporarily blocked the Trump administration from removing the bargaining rights of two-thirds of the federal workforce, which was widely considered retaliation against unions for challenging his power. Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C. wrote in his …
Read More »Trump's Approval Rating Hits New Low, Capping Week of Dismal Polling
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dipped below 40 percent, according to a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey also found that about four in 10 Americans say Trump has been a “terrible” president during his second term, with about one in 10 …
Read More »Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Are Sitting in to Stand up for Medicaid
Sen. Cory Booker and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are holding a livestreamed sit-in on the Capitol steps in protest of a forthcoming Republican budget they say will gut Medicaid — a federal and state program that helps to cover medical costs for people with limited income as well as …
Read More »Trump Claims He's Made 200 Deals on Tariffs. His Cabinet Members Can't Name One
President Trump bragged that he had made “200 deals” on trade and tariffs in a recent interview, but when pressed for details, two members of his cabinet could not name a single country that has agreed to one of Trump’s alleged deals. Two weeks after he announced a 90-day pause …
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