Earlier this month, Kim Kardashian West got Donald Trump to pardon great-grandmother Alice Johnson, a cause unnamed activists have been working on for years, which Trump flicked away within just a week of Kim’s visit to the Oval Office. She’s feeling empowered. This is good! Now CNN’s Van Jones is adding, just a…
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,…
Today the New York Times reported that the Food and Drug Administration has disbanded its Food Advisory Committee, “which provided guidance on food safety.” Today the New York Times also reported that pre-cut melons were the culprit in at least 60 cases of salmonella from last month’s outbreak.
Trump attends another summit of world leaders, and yet again, our nation is tested on its claim to the biggest dick in the land.
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It should be pretty easy to declare that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA after 9/11 were morally wrong, but CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel repeatedly declined, during her confirmation hearings, to do so. Oops, that was bad, and now, a week later, she has modified her stance.
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The Roseanne reboot had incredible ratings right out the gate, buoyed by nostalgia and curiosity about how the show would transpose the real Roseanne Barr’s Trump support onto her fictional character. The line between them has always been thin, but for former fans, it’s a bit baffling that Roseanne Conner is so…
According to an official at one company, Michael Cohen was promising corporations access to Trump in exchange for payments to his shell company (the same one that paid Stormy Daniels for her silence). How shocking! I am shocked.
Aw, how cute, you thought Scott Pruitt’s hypothetical firing would lead to his replacement by someone less bad? No such luck, unfortunately!
The Department of Homeland Security and immigration officials have separated hundreds of children from their parents at the U.S. border since last October—at least 700, according to the Department of Health and Human Services—and the number is only going to increase, according to the Trump administration.
Recall, if you would, that endless drip of demoralizing reports on the misery of career EPA staffers under Administrator Scott Pruitt. Well, it turns out Pruitt is more of an equal-opportunity employer, at least when it comes to inspiring feelings of anger and distress: At the EPA, sources told Axios, everyone is…
There’s already too many podcasts in this cold, cruel world, but here’s one I bet you didn’t know about: The Green Line, which is by and and for border patrol agents. The podcast, which is put out by the Border Patrol union, has about 200 episodes, and is recorded in studios owned by Breitbart, your friendly…
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Prior to tweeting his condolences to the Bush family, the president took a moment on Twitter this morning to flip out at New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who co-reported yesterday that Trump treats his gormless attorney, fixer, and fall-guy Michael Cohen like absolute garbage.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has referred to himself as a “geologist” in public at least 40 times, CNN reports, which is notable because Ryan Zinke is not, in fact, a geologist.
President Donald Trump signed a terrifying and deeply destructive bill on Wednesday that purports to protect sex trafficking victims, but that endangers sex workers’ safety and threatens free speech online.
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It’s raining Cabinet members, and some say EPA administrator and water poisoning enthusiast Scott Pruitt’s time is running out. Others say “I hope he’s going to be great.” In the end, it might not matter enormously, as he could very easily be replaced by that redheaded Koch boy who designs button-down t-shirts …
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