Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 73
Born in 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, Fuller became interested in design at a young age, tinkering with any number of ideas. He was a restless intellect and not a particularly serious student.
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Rape in Fort Morgan, CO? Anti-Immigrant Bigots’ New Unsupported …
There are some people who try very hard to justify their bigotry against immigrants. Sometimes, they try so hard they escape the bounds of fact and leap into flights of fancy.
Repeal is pro-skin cancer
The leaked repeal bill from mid-February eliminated the artificial tanning excise tax. UV tanning bed services were taxed at 10% to partially fund the ACA.
Trump’s ‘School Choice’ Plan: Religious Fundamentalism At Taxpayer Expense
School vouchers programs have proven a collosal failure and yet President Donald Trump and his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos now want to make the whole nation suffer by kicking the door wide open for public school dollars available to religious-based and other private schools. President Donald Trump is being praised for a change in tone in his recent address to Congress , but his belligerent attitude toward public education hasn't changed a bit.
One Year On From Berta’s Murder: We Honor Her. We Still Demand Justice
Berta Caceres's mother, Austra Berta, a powerful woman is pictured here with the author. Berta Caceres was shot and killed in the middle of the night by assassins for opposing an illegitimate hydroelectric project which threatened her people's way of life and violated international human rights law.
Tens of thousands Israelis take part in a protest against corruption in Tel Aviv, December 2, 2017.
Tens of thousands Israelis take part in a protest against corruption in Tel Aviv, December 2, 2017. Tens of thousands of people rallied in protest on Saturday night in Tel Aviv, Israel against Israeli government corruption and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is under criminal investigation over allegations of abuse of office.
What Happened to the Women Directors in Hollywood?
Editor's note: In October 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission began investigating Hollywood's gender gap. Before it delivers its recommendations to the Trump administration, Truthdig contributor Carrie Rickey considers the historic accomplishments of women behind the camera, how they got marginalized, and how they are fighting for equal employment.
I did not have communications with that country
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions will step aside from any further involvement in the investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election, he announced at a news conference Thursday.
Sessions Denies Meeting With Russians Re Political Campaign
Earlier this morning, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told NBC reporters that he never "with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign," in response to the Washington Post's blockbuster story. The Post report said AG Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice, but did not disclose those meetings either in writing or under oath during his Senate confirmation hearing.
An Alternative-Facts Perspective
You might think that Jeff Sessions is a neoconfederate who perjured himself. But perhaps he's a noble resister of THE NEW MCCARTHYISM: The Washington Post contacted all 26 members of the 2016 Senate Armed Services Committee to see whether any lawmakers besides Sessions met with Kislyak in 2016.
Media Can’t Stop Pining For Another Trump Pivot
Media seized on President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress as an opportunity for him to "pivot" or "reset" his administration. This canard that he would at some point change course was repeated throughout the presidential campaign, yet any shifts that occurred were AP: Trump Made "An Appeal To American Optimism" In His First Address To Congress.
Media Fall For Trump’s Shameless Lies Regarding Failed Yemen Raid
President Donald Trump shamelessly and publicly deceived the widow of a fallen U.S. serviceman about her husband's death in order to diffuse widespread concerns about the raid that resulted in his death, and journalists are rewarding him by praising his actions as "presidential." During his February 28 speech to a joint session of Congress, Trump recognized the sacrifice of William "Ryan" Owens, a Navy SEAL who was killed during a botched January 29 raid on a terrorist camp in Yemen.
Study Finds Right-Wing Media Routinely Criminalize Immigrants In Coverage
The nonprofit Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement surveyed coverage of immigration detention -- or stories about immigrants detained by the U.S. government -- in "a variety of media outlets" from 2009 to 2016 and found evidence that right-wing outlets routinely criminalize immigrants in their coverage. The study also found that the nativist Center for Immigration Studies is cited more than other data sources.
Storm Chasers Salute Bill Paxton
Storm chasers and storm spotters came together Sunday to spell out a virtual tribute to Bill Paxton after learning about his sudden passing due to complications from surgery. They were paying homage to the man who played Bill Harding, a veteran meteorologist and storm chaser in the 1996 hit movie, Twister.
New TCBH! poem: ‘True Story of a One-Legged Duck’
It used to be a railroad track, passing through fields, forest and bog. There behind an old derelict farm, right up against the raised path, was an old beaver pond.
Those Bedfellow Aren’t Just Strange
Back in the glorious Iraq war days, Little Tommy Friedman would blather on and on about how he didn't support *this* war, but he supported Tom Friedman's war, which was some other war in Iraq fought for some other reason by some other people in some other way over on Earth-2 somewhere, but that therefore he also supported *this* war because it was the Iraq war which he supported. It's like his support for any bill or treaty with "free trade" in it.
Trump won’t accept responsibility for deadly SEAL raid he approved over dinner, blames Obama
In an interview with the Miami Herald published Sunday, Bill Owensa S-a Sfather of Chief Ryan Owens, the 36-year-old Navy SEAL who died during President Trump's first military operationa S-a Scriticized the Yemen raid, and said he doesn't have any interest in talking with Trump. "Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn't even barely a week into [President Trump's] administration?" Owens said.
Exposing Trump’s shady management style
Ask Bernard Groupy, head chef for six months at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where fancy and expensive Caesar salads are prepared from Parmesan cheese. One day, Trump stalked into the kitchen, screaming to Goupy that one of the guests didn't like the salad and started haphazardly tossing lettuce and tomatoes, forgetting the cheese while shouting "this is how we make a Caesar salad from."
And Now Voting Rights
Because when everyone hates you and your policies, the only thing you can do is keep them from voting you out of office : For the last six years, the Justice Department has sided with the citizens and civil rights groups fighting Texas' voter ID law, which a federal judge at one point found to be intentionally discriminatory against black and Latino voters. But its position changed Monday when the department decided to drop its claim that Republican state lawmakers enacted the law to make it harder for minorities to vote.
John Oliver Slays Republicans On Obamacare
"[Trump's HHS Secretary] Tom Price once proposed a tax credit of $1,200 for people aged 18 to 35 and $3,000 to people 50 and up, which is roughly a third of the cost of the most bare-bones plans on the market today. A tax credit that small helps cover your health insurance the way a thong covers your dad's ass - it doesn't - and there's something fundamentally wrong about that."