Politics
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Elizabeth Warren Reportedly ‘Courting’ Andrew Gillum as Possible VP Pick
Could a Warren-Gillum ticket be in the works? An election 2020 ticket featuring Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Gillum, the Democratic former mayor of Tallahassee, Fla., who came thisclose to being the Sunshine State’s first black governor? The Massachusetts senator’s camp says that’s not at all in the cards. But the Daily Beast…
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Donald Trump’s All in His Feelings as Fox News Poll Finds Majority of Americans Want Him Impeached and Out of Office
Donald Trump was apparently feeling some kind of way Thursday after his “friends” over at Fox News released new polling showing most of the country definitely want him to be impeached. In fact, the Fox News poll released Wednesday showed that 51 percent of Americans not only want Trump to be impeached, they want him…
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Rudy, Russians and Weed: The Giuliani/Ukraine Corruption Indictments Explained via The Wire
Have you seen that TV show about the cops who were investigating a drug operation? You know the one I’m talking about. There was money laundering, corrupt politicians, street-level crime and a mysterious foreign drug dealer? The Wire? No, I’m talking about the Trump administration. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have…
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8-Year-Old Girl Climbs Replica of Border Wall Trump Claimed He Tested on ‘World-Class’ Climbers
Donald Trump is a terrible liar. Some people misunderstand that statement because they believe it means that lies are terrible; therefore, Donald Trump tells a lot of terrible lies. Others think it means that Donald Trump is a terrible person who lies. While both of those things are true, Donald Trump is a terrible liar…
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Biden Calls for Trump’s Impeachment, Openly Aiming for His GOP Rival’s Head for the 1st Time
After almost daily pointed attacks by Donald Trump as he tries to wiggle his way out of the Ukraine scandal, Joe Biden is finally striking back, making a direct call Wednesday for Trump’s impeachment. As Politico explains, it’s the first time the Democratic presidential hopeful and former vice president has clearly and unequivocally said that…
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All the Evil, Racist Things You Feared About Donald Trump Will Come True This Week
They called it “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Among America’s greatest historical achievements is the fact that this country has so successfully gaslit its stolen African tenants that we exist in a constant state of paranoia. We are accused of projecting racism on all white people because—for most of the history of this country—white men enslaved, raped,…
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White Domestic Terrorism as a National Security Threat Presents Challenges for 2020 Presidential Candidates
U.S. national security conversations have traditionally focused on perceived foreign threats, such as a nuclear-ready Iran or North Korea. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have resulted in discrimination against brown people of Middle Eastern descent with law enforcement subjecting them to intense—and often illegal—surveillance. But recent mass shootings carried out by white supremacists…
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A Long Time Coming: Montgomery Elects Its First Black Mayor, Steven Reed
In more than 200 years, Montgomery, Ala.—the first capital of the Confederacy and the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement—has never had a black mayor. That changed Tuesday night, with voters decisively electing county probate judge Steven Reed to office. Reed secured 67 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s runoff election, beating his opponent, local…
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A Defiant Donald Trump Tells House Impeachment Investigators That He and His Peeps Won’t Be Talking
Donald Trump appears to have thrown down the gauntlet before House Democrats, announcing Tuesday that he and his administration will no longer cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry into Trump’s actions. The writing was on the wall Tuesday morning when Trump abruptly yanked his permission to have the U.S. ambassador to the E.U., Gordon Sondland,…
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How Trump Got Punk'd Into Running From Syria, Explained
Military leaders, politicians and the U.S. allies were shocked by Donald Trump’s decision to side with brutal dictators and turn his back on one of America’s staunchest allies in the fight against Islamic State forces. But the president’s stunning departure from U.S. policy, historical precedent and the code of the streets appears to have been…