Politics
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly Will Reportedly Resign, Signaling the Series Finale of America
Raise your hand if you didn’t see this one coming. An actual real-life and respected Marine Corp general lasted longer than many expected in one of the most dysfunctional White House administrations since President Francis Underwood. According to CNN, the relationship between White House chief of staff John Kelly and the president has grown so…
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Trump National Golf Club Maid Comes Out As Undocumented, Surprisingly Hasn’t Killed Anyone
President Clark Griswald would have white midwesterners believe that he’s the tough-on-borders president, minus, of course, his genius immigrant wife and her parents. He would have southern whites believing that he’s the build-a-wall president that’s going to keep migrants from coming into the country and stealing all the good jobs. He would like to have…
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Emails Show Trump Diversity Official Instructed to Not Be So Hard on White Supremacists: Report
The chief diversity officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs was reportedly warned by a top Trump appointee not to condemn white supremacists violence during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. According to new emails obtained by The Washington Post on Wednesday, Georgia Coffey, a VA senior executive, urged the agency to issue…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tweet-Shames Congress Members for Not Paying Interns a Living Wage
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the newly elected House representative, is continuing her crusade to not only change the way business is done in Congress but to pull back the curtain on the fugaziness that takes place on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, Cortez took to Twitter to bash both sides of the aisle for underpaying their overworked staff…
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GOP Lawmakers in Wisconsin Rig the Game Against Incoming Elected Democrats Who Won Fair and Square
What’s happening in Wisconsin right now should be criminal. Republican lawmakers in the state passed legislation Wednesday that limits the power of the incoming Democrats who won their elected positions in November. The New York Times reports that after Scott Walker lost his bid for re-election and Republicans lost their stronghold on state government last…
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Is Mueller’s Sentencing Memo for Michael Flynn a Veiled Warning for Donald Trump?
Robert Mueller is still doing his job. Despite all the criticism from the “president” and his cronies, Mueller has continued to press forward with his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On Tuesday, the special counsel’s office released a court sentencing memo (pdf) in which Muellersaid because of former national security…
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George W. Bush Is Just Like All of Us, He Desperately Wants to be Friends With Michelle Obama, Too
Remember that moment during Sen. John McCain’s funeral during which former President George W. Bush handed Michelle Obama a cough drop and the two exchanged a laugh? Well, on Wednesday, that moment played out again at the funeral of Bush’s father. As Dubya was greeting the distinguished guests in the front row… along with Donald…
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Bush's Funeral: Trump Was Assured That No One Would Say Bad Things About Him
George H.W. Bush’s funeral Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral will not include any bad speeches about President Trump and the Bush family even gave the president assurances that no one would speak ill about the president so he could attend. Despite the president being a thrower of stones and vocal critic of the entire Bush…
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Brian Kemp Is Getting Called to the Principal's Office to Explain How He Stole Georgia's Gubernatorial Election From Stacey Abrams
Remember that time when Brian Kemp, while serving as Georgia’s secretary of state, oversaw the same 2018 gubernatorial race that he eventual won? And how he used every voter suppression tactic imaginable—from understaffed polls, to purging hundreds of thousands of voters from state rolls, to tossing out provisional ballots, to ensuring that voting machines were…