Mike Barnicle Tells Scarborough: ‘This Isn’t Tax Reform, This Is Tax Revenge’
More post-mortem on the resounding Democratic victory in Virginia. Joe Scarborough tells Mike Barnicle it's really a matter of "the basics."
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Tomgram: Subhankar Banerjee, The Destruction of a Vast Transnational Nursery?
Back in May 2013, a word came to mind that I wanted to see in all our vocabularies. It wasn't the ever-present "terrorist" but "terrarist" and I meant it to describe people intent on destroying the planetary environment that had welcomed and nurtured so many species, including our own, for so long; in other words, human beings willing to commit "terracide."
C&L’s Late Nite Music Club With Boards Of Canada
Alrighty!!! It's the middle of the week. Take some time to decompress from whatever the first part of it may have landed on you.
Maine Votes to Expand Medicaid in Ballot Initiative
On Tuesday, Maine became the first state in the nation to expand Medicaid through a ballot initiative. Just after 10 p.m., the Associated Press called the race in favor of the measure expanding government health insurance to more than 80,000 low-income residents.
Transgender Woman Defeats Anti-LGBT Republican
Danica Roem, a transgender woman unseated one of Virginia's longest serving and most socially conservative lawmakers Tuesday and is set to make history as the first openly transgender person elected and seated in a state legislature. "It's historic.
‘Everlasting Love’ Singer Robert Knight Dies
The legendary singer leaves as his legacy one of the most beloved songs of all time. There can hardly be anyone who hasn't heard the song 'Everlasting Love', even if you don't associate it with the name Robert Knight, the Nashville singer who first recorded it.
‘Nuclear nightmare’: Trump’s speech to the South Korean National Assembly, annotated
President Trump delivered a speech to the South Korean National Assembly Wednesday morning and spoke at length about the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear program. Trump also slipped in a plug for one of his golf courses and a reminder that he was celebrating the first anniversary of his election win.
Trump just made a bad night for Republicans much worse for himself
In this Tuesday, March 21, 2017, file photo, Republican gubernatorial candidate, Ed Gillespie, listens to a question during a kitchen table discussion at a private home in Toano, Va. By embracing the political priorities of President Trump, he figured, he could help bolster enthusiasm from Trump-supporting voters who'd nearly blocked his nomination to be the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia.
Trump’s CIA director met with frequent Fox guest to discuss his claim the DNC hack was an inside job
On November 7, The Intercept reported that, at President Donald Trump's urging, "CIA Director Mike Pompeo met late last month with a former U.S. intelligence official," William Binney, who pushed a conspiracy theory that "the theft of the Democratic National Committee's [ ] emails during the 2016 presidential campaign was an inside job, rather than a hack by Russian intelligence." Binney has previously pushed his claim during his appearances on pro-Trump media, including on Infowars , Sean Hannity's Fox News and radio shows, and Fox's Tucker Carlson Tonight .
Ronan Farrow’s latest Weinstein piece reflects exactly why women don’t report sexual violence
A month after the start of a wave of reporting chronicling first-hand accounts of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape by producer Harvey Weinstein over decades, a new report illuminates the horrifying measures Weinstein took in an attempt to keep women silent. On November 6, reporter Ronan Farrow published his third article in The New Yorker related to reports of decades of sexual misconduct by Weinstein ; this time, it was focused on the extreme efforts Weinstein and his legal team took to surveil and intimidate women seeking to come forward.
A Working Mother Explains Why Medicaid, Nutrition Assistance, and Child Care Are So Important
Congress and the Trump administration proposed deep cuts to many programs struggling families need to get by. We spoke to a Pennsylvania mother to see how these cuts would affect her family.
Carter Page’s Testimony
Carter Page's testimony to the House Intelligence Committee was released last night . I gave it a quick read and produced a Twitter thread as I read through it.
Pieces of Vivian Maier
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Brian Stelter Busts Kellyanne Conway For Deflecting: ‘When I Say Russia, You Say Clinton’
CNN host Brian Stelter called out White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway on Sunday for pivoting to Hillary Clinton every time he asked about possible collusion between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian agents. "You want to talk about approval ratings and I'm telling you the numbers that matter to Americans," Conway snapped at Stelter.
Wilbur Ross In Business With Close Putin Associates, Documents Show
There has been a very large document dump today of documents from an offshore law firm who handles offshore corporate transactions for the oligarchs of this age. This document dump shows that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was in business with close associates of Vladimir Putin and may not have divested himself of the shell companies he was invested in.
I would gladly supply the piano wire and machetes for the H.W.-Dubya vs. DOPUS death match
Which is worse: Disgusting trailblazers who are surprised by what followed them or the further attempts at rehabilitating Bush I & II that will inevitably follow? Former President George H.W. Bush delivered a blunt assessment of Trump in historian Mark Updegrove's new book, titled "The Last Republicans," saying, "He's a blowhard." And former President George W. Bush also had harsh words for his Republican successor: "This guy doesn't know what it means to be president."
Sunday Morning Garden(ish) Chat: “Marrow Escape!”
A worried resident in Germany alerted police to what he thought was a second world war bomb in his garden. Officers found a a particularly large zucchini They said in a statement Friday that officers determined "the object, which really did look very like a bomb" was actually a 40cm courgette.
Chickenhawk Donald: A Complete and Total Disgrace
On November 3, US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan, was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, reduction in rank to private, and a $10,000 fine after pleading guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
11/04/2017
This is not normal people. Not normal at all. He's basically doing promotional public appearances at his global properties on the taxpayer's dime: President Trump stopped at Trump International Hotel Waikiki during his trip to Hawaii on Saturday so he could "say hello" and thank employees.
Russia Wants UN Report on Syria Sarin Attack Shelved
Russia demanded that the UN shelve a report blaming the Syrian government for a sarin gas attack, and a new probe be conducted into use of the deadly nerve agent, according to a draft resolution obtained by AFP. The text circulated to the Security Council also called for a six-month extension of the UN-led panel tasked with identifying who is behind chemical attacks in Syria's six-year war.