Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe
We're all tense. Hearing about our fellow citizens in Hawaii scrambling around, looking for a place to hide from a nuclear bomb, will do that to you.
Category Archives: Liberal Political News
Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi
Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian teen. More than 700 Jewish young people from the U.S. wrote letters of solidarity to Ahed Tamimi, the iconic Palestinian 17-year-old who was arrested by Israeli authorities last month and charged with 12 counts including assaulting an occupation soldier and stone throwing after a video of her slapping a soldier at her home's yard went viral.
#YoMemoJokes Humiliate Nunes and Trump
As Donald Trump took to Twitter to try to convince Americans that the GOP's overhyped memo was not as much of a failure as it appeared to be, Twitter users were busy elsewhere -- tweeting jokes about the memo under the hashtag #YoMemoJokes. The hashtag, a clever play on words, was pushed to the top trending hashtag nationwide overnight.
Carter Page Called Himself a Kremlin Adviser in 2013
Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by Time that raises new questions about the extent of Page's contacts with the Russian government over the years. The letter, dated Aug. 25, 2013, was sent by Page to an academic press during a dispute over edits to an unpublished manuscript he had submitted for publication, according to an editor who worked with Page.
Paul Ryan deletes tax bill tweet after being dragged for not understanding math
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan answers questions on the possibility of a government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on January 18, 2018 in Washington, DC. In a tweet posted Saturday morning, Ryan praised the new tax law spearheaded by the Republican party.
‘I’ve Been Called A Traitor!’ GOP Rep Whines To CNN About How Mean They Are To Partisan Hacks
Trump flacks are out in force to justify their ridiculous hype and release of a memo that does nothing , says nothing, reveals nothing, and is the equivalent of an empty podium during a presidential campaign. As one commentator said, it's like a bad book report.
This is the week that the GOP truly became the party of Trump
This was the week when the Republican Party finally went all in with President Trump. What once seemed unlikely is now reality.
The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate
The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians that the Nunes memo is a dud, dead on arrival, neglect to consider the main tactic of the Republican right wing for some time now. It is a conspiracy theory, and conspiracy theories carried Trump to the White House and many Republicans into Congress or state legislatures.
Chuck Todd Lets Teahadist Republicans Push Conspiracy Theories Around Nunes Memo Unchallenged
Chuck Todd may have had a temporary lapse where he behaved like an actual journalist for once and quit with his typical "both siderist" nonsense we typically hear from him in regard to this dud of a "Nunes memo" that was released this Friday. Sadly, that didn't stop him from allowing two of the so-called "Freedom Caucus" members to come on his show later that same day and lie and spew conspiracy theories about what the memo supposedly said and about who paid for the Steele dossier that Republicans have been desperate to use to discredit the entire Mueller investigation.
Carson calls for HUD inspector general to review his family’s role at the department
Eureka Garden tenant's association president Tracy Grant shows Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio her apartment at the troubled complex during Carson's visit to Jacksonville, Fla., on April 11, 2017. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has called on his department's inspector general to "review" the role his family members have played there, tweeting Friday evening that he has been "under attack."
When RWNJ Joe Walsh Calls Devin Nunes A ‘Partisan Hack’
Sure, many outlets are going to say "even Joe Walsh!?" but here's the deal: Joe Walsh is taking a page out of Newt takes whatever Fox is currently outraged about and blames liberals/Democrats for it. That's his "one weird trick" to getting endless bookings on cable news.
Under Cover Of The Nunes Memo, Russian Spooks Sneak Into Meetings With Trump’s Administration
Ostensibly, the purpose of the call was to thank Trump for intelligence the US provided Russia that helped them thwart a terrorist attack. Here's what the White House readout described.
Report: Sean Hannity has been advising Trump on Nunes memo
The Daily Beast reported President Donald Trump "has been in regular contact with" Fox News host Sean Hannity in recent weeks about the release of a memo drafted by Rep. Devin Nunes critical of the FBI's investigation into Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and his ties to Russia. According to The Daily Beast, Trump has spoken with Hannity regularly "over the phone" about releasing the memo.
VIDEO: Trump’s SOTU Was “Campaign-Style” Racism
Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, IPS Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis told the Real News Network after the speech, was "a campaign-style speech" designed to appease Trump's right-wing base. While the president mostly avoided foreign policy, she noted, the views he did express were "extremist positions that are guaranteed to be popular with his base."
The Super Bowl Should Support Communities, Not Displace Them
Minnesota activists have launched a week of resistance against racism, corporatism, and displacement caused by the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. The Super Bowl is headed to Minnesota's Twin Cities on February 4, and with it, analysts and officials promise, will come millions of tourism dollars.
Mutually Assured Destruction in the Era of Trump
Trump called for a modernization and rebuilding of our nuclear arsenal. Daniel Ellsberg, most notable for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, recently revealed new secrets he kept while working as a government consultant at the RAND Corporation in his new book joins Michele and Igor to discuss the real threat of nuclear destruction, whether President Trump is fit to operate control of our arsenal, the recent false alarms in Hawaii and Japan, and why they are proof nuclear war may come by human error.
Empowered and Authoritarian
Donald Trump hasn't created the massive "deportation force" he promised as a candidate for president. But he has done the next best thing-boosting, bolstering, and unleashing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, giving it broad authority to act at its own discretion.
Charlie Pierce And Jill Wine-Banks Are Scared And You Should Be, Too
Thank goodness Charlie Pierce and Jill Wine-Banks were on All In. They made me feel better just for saying that even for seasoned on-air professionals, they're scared out of their minds, too.
Today in American Ethnic Cleansing
Weeks of confusion and inconsistencies from immigration officials ended on Monday after authorities deported a Palestinian man who had been living in the U.S. for nearly 40 years. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had kept Amer Othman Adi, 57, in detention for two weeks, ignoring a House Judiciary Committee request that the Department of Homeland Security review his case, which would have allowed him to temporarily remain in the U.S. "In a highly irregular rebuke of Congressional authority by ICE, Amer Othman was ripped from his four daughters, his wife, and the country that he has called home for over thirty years," Rep. Tim Ryan , who had been fighting his deportation, said in a statement.
RNC Chair Wants ‘Due Process’ For Steve Wynn’s Money
2. Money the RNC could be earning interest on before returning or maybe everybody will just forget about the money by then, amirite? She was asked on America's Newsroom to respond to Sean Spicer's comments that the RNC should return the donations , noted to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, in light of the accusations facing former RNC finance chair and Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn. She name-checked Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken before declaring how serious these charges were and that Steve himself was chucked in less than 24 hours.