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More than 200 people were indicted on felony rioting charges during anti-Trump protests on Inauguration Day. Decrying it as "investigatory overreach" and a "clear abuse of government authority," web hosting provider DreamHost is challenging a request it received from the Justice Department for information about visitors to a client's site used to organize protests against President Donald Trump on his Inauguration Day.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside of Trump Tower Monday night as the president returned to his New York City skyscrapper for the first time since he took office in January. Protesters on Fifth Ave. in New York City shouted "Shame! Shame! Shame!" as President Donald Trump returned to Trump Tower Monday night for the first time since he took office in January.
James Loewen's books include Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong , Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism . Earlier this year, he spoke at a symposium in Richmond on Confederate monuments and memorials, available on C-SPAN.
In 2015, Social Security lifted an estimated 12.6 million women out of poverty, including 9 million women aged 65 and over. Today is Social Security's 82nd birthday.
New York Times editorial board: Let's discard the fiction that President Trump wasn't placating white supremacists by responding so weakly to the neo-Nazi violence that killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterdemonstrator in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. The neo-Nazis heard his message loud and clear.
CNN's Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter spoke with Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, this Sunday about Trump's refusal to condemn the white supremacists at the protests in Charlottesville over the weekend. Sabato had some advice for Trump, but don't expect him to follow it.
National security adviser H.R. McMaster on Sunday defended President Trump's escalating rhetoric directed at North Korea and said that he does not believe that the United States is any closer to war than it was a week ago. "We have a very high degree of readiness, so the United States military is always locked and loaded, but the purpose of capable, ready forces is to preserve peace and prevent war," McMaster said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week."
Since we've officially hit the "dog days" of Summer, I thought it would be a good excuse to cull a list of my 10 seasonal favorites for your consideration. These would be films that I feel capture the essence of these "lazy, hazy, crazy" days; stories infused with the sights, the sounds, the smells, of Summer.
As news broke of a terrorist attack in Paris in November 2015, Trump immediately tweeted that he was praying for "the victims and hostages." Very soon after a shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June 2016, Trump tweeted that he was "right on radical Islamic terrorism."
"Well, that's good," I said to myself with a tension-reducing sigh. Congress is taking August off and the Senate actually took steps to keep Trump from making any recess appointments should he decide to, say, fire the attorney general or anyone else.
Chaos erupted at the scene of a hit-and-run in Charlottesville on Saturday, when witnesses say a grey sedan deliberately struck at least six protesters after riot police dispersed a white supremacist rally. CREDIT: ThinkProgress/Joshua Eaton Witnesses told ThinkProgress that they saw a grey sedan speed through the streets of downtown Charlottesville, VA, striking two other vehicles before backing up and injuring at least six protesters on Saturday.
They can't get jobs, it's hard to make it through a police stop without being shot and they are constantly getting sent to prison for decades for a joint. They can't shop at department stores without being followed and they will never get to be president without having a reality show loser accuse them of not being a "real" American.
I wish Al Franken would give a seminar to the entire Democratic Party apparatus about how to actually communicate with voters. In this short video conversation with Chris Van Hollen, Franken sidesteps the Democratic slogan "A Better Deal" to point out in just a few words what that actually means: raising the minimum wage, and lowering costs, particularly on prescription drugs.
Keystone XL Foes Vow to Put Their Bodies on the Line to Protect the Planet As Nebraska's Keystone XL pipeline hearings came to a close on Thursday, Indigenous tribes and environmentalists vowed to put their bodies on the line to stop a project they have argued would be a "disaster for people, wildlife, and the planet."
The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. John Conyers knows a good deal more than Donald Trump does about the Korea Peninsula-and a lot more about the Constitution.
In the West, legal decisions to protect animals instead of allowing for the unregulated exploitation of the natural world continue to outrage already profitable industries. Never mind that the protection of these species is also tremendously profitable for other groups, bringing a ton of money into states such as Oregon and Idaho.
In an interview on Fox News, when asked by Elizabeth Claman to comment on his attacks on the Secretary of State, he replied, "Never said that." Gorka also claims to have the audio and still denied that by saying it was " the idea that Secretary Tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical," was a slight on the SOS in any way.
Adam K. Raymond, New York: Paul Manafort squealed to authorities about the now-infamous 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, Bloomberg reports in a piece about special counsel Robert Mueller putting the screws to the former Trump campaign manager.
Maximilian Kasy: Mother Jones's Kevin Drum more recently wondered: "Why do Republicans tell such obvious lies?" A common, though apparently ineffective, response to this frustration is to double down by discussing more facts. When arguing about politics, it is often helpful to construct the best possible version of your opponent's reasoning -- a task admittedly not always made easy by the current administration.