Disgraced Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate whether he lost his 2106 re-election bid due to improper influence from the Obama administration, or because everyone just got tired of what a racist asshole he was.
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Affidavits filed in April claims that migrant children in a taxpayer-funded facility with a history of abuse allegations were forcibly injected with powerful anti-psychotic medications, Reveal reports. In an interview with Reveal, forensic psychiatrist Mark. J. Mills compared the practice to tactics used in the former…
After the official launch of Jeff Sessions’ “zero-tolerance policy” in April, which mandates the criminal prosecution of everyone who crosses the border without authorization, at least 2,300 children—over a hundred of whom are under the age of four—have been forcibly separated from their parents. (The Trump…
On Monday night’s The Ingraham Angle, a show for racists, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked about recent comparisons being made between the Trump administration’s policy of family separation and forced deportation and family separation in Nazi Germany.
At ProPublica, reporter Ginger Thompson has obtained what might be the most potent illustration of the impact of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” border policy: stomach-churning audio of the sobs and frantic pleading of young children who have been stolen from their parents by the U.S. government. The audio…
A day after Jeff Sessions defended the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents by citing a verse from the New Testament, the attorney general spoke about immigration and the Department of Justice’s commitment to “restoring the rule of law in our immigration system” in Scranton,…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to be pleased with the outcome of his “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has resulted in the forcible separation of children—some only a few months old—from their parents, who often do not know where they’ve been taken. The psychological repercussions of these forced…
Inside a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, the U.S. government locks up around 1,500 boys between the ages of 10 and 17 for up to 22 hours a day, sleeping five kids into rooms meant for four. Some of these children cross the border without adults; some were snatched away from their parents by the U.S. government.…
Donald Trump, who has discovered the joys of pardoning bad men—and, on the rare occasion, at the behest of Kim Kardashian, showing actual humanity to a woman serving an unjust sentence—may soon extend pardons to more people on Kardashian’s list at the urging of his son-in-law and Middle East peacemaker Jared Kushner.
Behind Jeff Sessions’s decision to abandon asylum protections for victims of domestic violence is the story of “A.B.” The Salvadoran woman, identified in court documents by her initials, endured more than a decade of physical abuse by her ex-husband, who she says also raped her and repeatedly threatened her life. In…
Racist thumb Jeff Sessions has issued a new, stomach-churning decree: On Monday, he instructed immigration judges to reject asylum applications from victims fleeing domestic violence or gang violence. This will block “tens of thousands of people, especially women, from seeking refuge in America,” the Los Angeles…
You know that feeling where you immediately regret something but it is too late to change your mind? Like when you drop off your laundry, and then realize that you have a date that night and the only jeans in your closet are the ones that sag in the butt?
The Justice Department will begin rating immigration judges’s job performance based on how quickly they close cases, according to a memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. While there is a massive backlog of cases—leaving immigrants in limbo for years—it’s hard, given the extra extra racist ambitions of this…
An elderly former reality television host who’s famed for the catchphrase “you’re fired!” and now sits in the president’s chair flew into another tantrum this week. Unsure whether to poop or order McDonald’s or what, he blinked and then said: “you’re fired!” And then he retired to the presidential bedroom for soda and…
A spokesperson for the San Francisco office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement stepped down this week because, he said, he could no longer “bear the burden” of lying for the Trump administration.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Like a Confederate soldier who kept fighting long after the war ended—actually, that too—Attorney General Jeff Sessions has kept up his myopic contention that marijuana is the devil’s plant, to the extent that he is now rescinding an Obama-era policy that discouraged the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states…
A lot of terrible things happened in 2017. The United States exited the Paris Climate Agreement, relinquishing responsibility for its role in our ongoing armageddon. The president called a hostile dictator “fat” on Twitter and now Hawaii is testing its nuclear sirens. Jared Kushner personally inflamed the…