Politics
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Robert Mueller Wrote a 'Bish, What?' Letter to the Attorney General After Barr Remixed the Special Counsel's Report
For those not up on game, shortly after Special counsel Robert Mueller released the findings of his two-year investigation into whether Russia colluded with the Trump administration to steal the 2016 presidential election, Attorney General William Barr condensed this 448-page report down to a four-page memo given to Congress in which Barr claimed that the…
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GOP Women Senators Raise Alarm About Trump’s Possible Fed Pick Stephen Moore
Looks like charges of a sexist past may be the downfall of yet another of Donald Trump’s presumed picks for appointment to the Federal Reserve Board. GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa went on record Tuesday saying that it was “very unlikely” that she would support Stephen Moore’s placement on the board, according to the…
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Black Women Are Taking Their Political Power to the Podcast World
Mainstream media have provided few spaces for black women to discuss politics, but A’shanti F. Gholar is joining a growing group of women of color podcasters who hope to provide more such spaces, with her new podcast The Brown Girls Guide To Politics. Her first episode opened with Stacey Abrams, who barely lost the Georgia…
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Here's How Much Money Trickled Down to Wages From Trump's Ingenious Big Business Tax Cuts
The Trump administration touted its bullshit tax plan as a win for the little guy with the idea being this: by giving big businesses massive tax breaks, they’d have more money, and with more money, they’d do the right thing and take care of their workers. It was all garbage-talk from the beginning, but Trump…
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Trump Sues 2 Banks to Keep Democrats Out of His Finances
How do we know with certainty that the president of the United States is not a high paid sex worker who exclusively caters to Russian President Vladimir Putin? We don’t, and that’s why House Intelligence and Financial Services committees have sought to get their hands on the president’s finances by issuing subpoenas to Deutsche Bank…
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Stacey Abrams Will Not Run for U.S. Senate in 2020; Millions Sigh, 'But What About President, Though?'
We still don’t know exactly what Stacey Abrams has in mind for future office, but we can at least rule one possibility out: a U.S. Senate seat in 2020. Early Tuesday morning, the Georgia Democrat announced she will not run to be a Georgia representative, despite “a fierce lobbying effort by party leaders,” the Washington…