Politics
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Trump Wanted Ally to Un-Recuse Himself So He Could Oversee Michael Cohen Investigation: Report
The relationship between President Trump and former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker soured late last year after the president sought to put an ally in charge of the investigation into hush money payments made by the president’s former lawyer to women claiming to have had affairs with Trump. The New York Times reports that Trump…
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Roger Stone Can’t Stop Trolling and It Might Land Him in Jail
Roger Stone, the president’s longtime associate who dresses like Drake’s father, may end up in jail earlier than he thought after the judge presiding over his case called him back into court Thursday to discuss images targeting her that Stone posted on his Instagram profile. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wants Stone to explain…
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Alabama Newspaper Publisher Calls for KKK to 'Night Ride Again' and 'Clean Out' D.C.—with Nooses in Tow
In what continues to be a truly wild February for the books, the publisher of a small-town Alabama paper published an op-ed calling for the Klu Klux Klan to clean out Washington, D.C.—nooses preferred. The Valentine’s Day op-ed (after all, what better way to express your love of democracy by inciting the optics of a…
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Bernie Sanders, the Method Man of Democrats, Is Running for President
Unfortunately, like wide-legged denim, choker necklaces and whooping cough, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is back. On Tuesday, America’s favorite Uber driver announced that he’s running for president in 2020 after suffering defeat to the insufferable Hillary Clinton in 2016. “I am asking you to join me today as part of an unprecedented and historic grassroots…
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Taking the Seat and the Table, Too: What Valuing Black Women in Politics Looks Like
In a posh ballroom overlooking Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a hushed roomful of state and local elected officials from across the country gathered for a 9 a.m. Sunday session. It was the sort of weekend conference that routinely fills banquet rooms across the country, but it was remarkable for one simple fact:…
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A New Challenger Approaches: Bill Weld Announces Exploratory Committee
While 2020 can’t come soon enough for anyone with an IQ over 80, pundits and voters have focused on the loaded field of Democratic primary candidates, assuming that party unity would ensure Trump’s first round bye through to the Republican National Convention. That might not be the case. Former Republican governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld,…
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Ayanna Pressley Opposes Increased ICE Funding: ‘They’ve Proven Themselves Corrupt’
Donald Trump may not have gotten his wall on the U.S./Mexico border, but a new bill approved by Congress yesterday may still give him and his administration plenty of means to harass, detain, and deport tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants and migrants. Among the lawmakers who pushed back against the bill, which would substantively…
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Trump Declares National Emergency and Then Goes Off the Rails In Unhinged Ramblefest
On Friday, as expected, President HooHoo Von WiffleStick walked out into the White House Rose Garden and used his executive powers to declare a national emergency to stop the influx of Mexican Decepticons at the Southern border and to aid Optimus Prime in the battle to keep America safe. “I’m going to be signing a…
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Trump Will Sign Spending Bill, Declare National Emergency Because He Can't Stand Losing
The president lost the wall. Despite billing himself as the great negotiator who will get the deals done, his strong-arm tactics proved ineffective, highly ineffective. The president drove the government into the longest standstill in American history, demanding full funding for his border wall. In the end, he not only got no funding for his…
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President Trump's Physical Was Days Ago, So Where Are the Results? [Updated]
When the president had his routine physical last year, he was quick to usher out Dr. Ronny Jackson to do a press conference announcing that he was the most fit 71-year-old man whose diet consists of fast food. Oh, he swore that the president was only taking a low dose of cholesterol medicine and that…