Politics
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Trump Wanted to Mock Mitch McConnell’s Multiple Chins in Scathing Statement but Settled for ‘Unsmiling Political Hack’
What happens to a former president who is banned from social media? Does he make a sound? Does anyone give a shit? Does he know how to use Microsoft Word? On Tuesday, the former president of people who put NERD candy in their spaghetti sauce wrote a scathing diary entry in which he noted that…
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NAACP Sues Trump, Giuliani and Two White Nationalist Groups for Failed Jan. 6 Coup
The NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll figure if Republicans won’t let their ovaries hang and impeach the voice of the insurrection, then they will just have to sue his ass and his supporters’ untanned asses. So a lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning in the Federal…
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Twice-Impeached Non-President Donald Trump Acquitted for the 2nd Time
Welp, the second attempt at convicting twice-impeached former President Donald Trump has ended the only way it was ever going to end as Senate Democrats and Republicans voted mostly along party lines and the impeachment managers failed to get the two-thirds vote they needed to win. In other words: As smart as the managers were,…
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Trump Impeachment Trial, Day 3: House Managers Make Their Final Arguments
House impeachment managers will be making their final arguments beginning Thursday afternoon in the Senate trial that decides whether former President Donald Trump will be convicted of inciting the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The final push to impeach Trump follows the second day of the impeachment trials during which House Democrats, led…
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‘Slavery Has Never Been Properly Addressed’: Reparations Bill Reintroduced to Congress
On Juneteenth in 2019, lawmakers met with Black activists and scholars to discuss H.R. 40—a bill to create a reparations commission to examine the impact of slavery and the possibility of compensation for the descendants of enslaved Africans—during a hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. But way…
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Fulton County District Attorney Opens Criminal Investigation Into Trump's Efforts to Overturn Georgia Election
Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., are opening a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse the election results in the state, with a focus on his phone calls to several elected officials, The New York Times reports. This news comes as House Democrats in Washington, D.C., are presiding over a Senate impeachment…
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All Power to the People: Judas and the Black Messiah Cast Discuss the Revolutionary Spirit of Fred Hampton and How White Fear Tried to Destroy It
“White fear has not only been a tremendous impediment in terms of Black liberation, but the irony is that it’s been an impediment in terms of white liberation.” — Shaka King, Director text Why do white people fear Black liberation? This white fear is centuries old. Within the context of the federal government, the FBI…
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Trump Impeachment Trial, Day 2: House Impeachment Managers Set to Unveil Unreleased Footage of Capitol Riot
House impeachment managers will release never-seen-before footage of rioters storming the Capital that will show elected officials were in far greater danger for their lives than previously known or realized, according to the Washington Post. An aide to the House managers told the Post that Democrats will outline the events that lead to the attempted…
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Impeachment Trial, Day 1: Senate Votes to Proceed With Trial, Rejecting Trump's Argument That It Was Unconstitutional
The first day of the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump provided his lawyers an opportunity to prove that the trial was unconstitutional and therefore should not proceed, an argument the Senate rejected in a mostly party line vote of 56 to 44. Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) delivered…