trump administration
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Eau de Bull: A Cologne of Arsenic and Environmental Racism for Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Wood
The Justice Department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division is responsible for enforcing compliance with federal environmental laws. So to find that the fingerprints of coal lobbyist-turned-ENRD acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Wood are on an environmental-racism scandal is, actually, pretty par for the course with the Trump administration. In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency found…
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Congressional Black Caucus: Trump and His Administration Don’t Care About Black People
Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, Democrat from New Orleans and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote a three-page letter Wednesday to Donald Trump declining his invitation to the CBC to meet with him, and outlining the many reasons the group as a whole is saying no. In a letter dated June 21 (pdf), Richmond opened…
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Trump Continues Assault on Women; New Rule Moves to Allow Employers to Deny Birth Control Coverage
If the Trump administration has its way, religious employers will be allowed to deny their female employees contraceptive insurance coverage. Currently, under Obamacare, birth control is deemed an essential preventive health service that is fully covered. According to HuffPost, the White House Office of Management and Budget used its website to post that it was…
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Report: White House Lawyers Researching Impeachment
White House lawyers have begun researching impeachment in the unlikely event that Donald Trump is forced to go through proceedings aimed at removing him from office, according to CNN. From CNN: White House counsel’s office have consulted experts in impeachment during the past week and have begun collecting information on how such proceedings would work,…
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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Officially Hops Into Basket of Deplorables
The “Blue Lives Matter” advocate who called Black Lives Matter a hate group and oversees a correctional facility where both inmates and babies have died under his watch—all while perpetrating the grossest, must disgusting offense a black man can ever commit: wearing a cowboy hat—announced Wednesday that he is taking his talents to the Trump…
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Anti-Muslim Crusader Picked for HUD Job in Trump Administration
The woman who has fueled Islamophobia, railed against the mythical encroachment of Shariah law and gone on national TV to disparage a 14-year-old student for having the gall to build a clock while being Muslim, has been hired by the Trump administration and noted dick stabber Ben Carson to work in the Department of Housing…
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Trump Administration Kills Michelle Obama’s ‘Let Girls Learn’ Program
Unlike Melania Trump, Michelle Obama really did stuff as the first lady. She pushed an initiative promoting fitness and healthy eating for kids called “Let’s Move!” She also started the Reach Higher Initiative, which encouraged students to continue their education beyond high school. In 2015, President Barack Obama and the first lady launched Let Girls…
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Not One Step Back: Drug Policy Alliance’s asha bandele Talks Mass Incarceration, War on Drugs, Why She Goes Hard for Justice [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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ICE Temporarily Suspends Its Weekly List Meant to Shame Cities That Won’t Detain Immigrants
Remember how the Trump administration figured it would try to shame sanctuary cities into cooperating with its detainer requests by publishing the “Declined Detainer Outcome Report” on a weekly basis? Remember how the first one came out and we were all like, “Shut up, Homeland Security”? Well, apparently the administration has realized what a horrible…
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Devin ‘the Douche’ Nunes Will Sit Out Russia Investigation
Devin Nunes, the guy from your fourth-grade class who actually wrote down the names of the people who talked when the teacher was out of the room, will step down from his post as chair of the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee investigation into how Russia stole the election for His Excellency Donald “Assistant Putin”…