Politics
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Trump Ready to Issue First Veto As New Budget Calls for Budget Cuts
They grow up so fast. One day, your new President is on the job for the first day. Wobbly and uncertain, you watched as he moved around Capitol Hill aimlessly, like a deer in headlights after a daring escape from the Doritos compound. He stumbled through his first top-level hires, invented a word, and gave…
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Watch: Arkansas State Sen. Stephanie Flowers Is the Hero We Deserve
Arkansas State Sen. Stephanie Flowers has officially become my spirit human after an impassioned speech during a debate over the state’s “stand your ground” law. Flowers, A Democrat from Pine Bluff and the lone black face on the state’s eight-member committee, wanted more time to debate the merits of “stand your ground law,” which argues…
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Ex-Fox News Executive Turned White House Communications Director Bill Shine Resigns
The former Fox News executive who left the fake news station amid scandal and landed a cushy spot in Donald Trump’s White House resigned as the White House communications director on Thursday, after serving Trump for less than a year. The formal statement is that Shine will continue working with Trump on his 2020 reelection…
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Trump’s Latest Word Salad on Russia Collusion and Paul Manafort’s Sentencing
President Donald Trump usually delivers his nonsensical rants on Twitter, but every once and a while, when the blood moon meets Mars, the president graces the public with a goobledy-gook of mishmash that serves as an official statement. On Friday, the president of people who put rain boots on their dogs stopped on the White…
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The President's Former Lawyer, Michael Cohen, Wants His Coins, Sues Trump Organization for $1.9 Million in Legal Fees
The president’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, wants all his bread, all his cheddar, and all his mozzarella so he can make a cheese sandwich before he heads off to the pokey. According to the president’s favorite newspaper, The New York Times, Cohen filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Trump Organization, accusing them of breaking…
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Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly Spills Tea, Calls Full Border Wall a 'Waste of Money'
Former White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly wouldn’t elaborate on whether President Trump forced officials to give his worthless son-in-law Jared “What am I doing in the White House?” Kushner top level security clearance, but he did call his time in the Trump administration the “least” favorite job he had. Also, before we…
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Donald President Refers to Apple CEO Tim Cook as 'Tim Apple' and This Isn't the First Time He's Done This
The president is an idiot. Not a common variety idiot. He’s an idiot with a lot of money who knows how to rally other idiots to believe that he’s not an idiot, even when he’s actually the idiot king! Or, King idiot! In a meeting Wednesday with Apple CEO Tim Cook, the president proved again…
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'We Must Have Equity in Our Outrage:' Ayanna Pressley, Dems Come to Ilhan Omar's Defense Amid Anti-Semitism Accusations
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, along with several top Democrats, released statements defending Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday, as the freshman congresswoman faced mounting criticism—including death threats—following her most recent comments on Israel. “I always have and always will stand in opposition to any and all forms of hatred and discrimination, including white supremacy, racism, transphobia,…
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Congress Opens Investigation Into Georgia’s Historic Voter Suppression
In a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Congressional leaders revealed their plans to investigate the “Wizard of Voter Suppression” and his years of suppressing black voters’ access to the polls. “The Committee on Oversight and Reform is investigating recent reports of serious problems with voter registration, voter access and other matters affecting the ability…