In a surprise, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is all over right-wing media, and Trump advisers are now warning that Kennedy will cut into the MAGA vote. But is it all a bait and switch?
X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday suspended the accounts of multiple prominent journalists and left-leaning commentators and comedians, many of whom were critical of X owner Elon Musk.
Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
“I am working with a number of my colleagues including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to revive legislation...[to] determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
Republicans’ main witness in their efforts to impeach Joe Biden has already been charged with lying to the FBI. Now, he has also admitted to having ties to Russian intelligence officers.
The Trump town hall earned CNN no end of mockery on the day of the event. Weeks later, however, we're seeing knock-on effects in the form of staggeringly low ratings.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
“I am working with a number of my colleagues including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to revive legislation...[to] determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
That Biden’s speech was political served as an excuse for lazy both sides journalism, as reporters scrambled to draw equivalence between Biden’s commentary and a movement that’s currently calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals.
Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
In a stunning cave to far-right anti-LGBTQ fury, Starbucks has banned Pride decorations in its stores halfway through Pride Month, the company’s workers union revealed Tuesday.
“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
“I write today to demand that you immediately return to the American people the $7,886,072 that we know you have accepted from foreign governments,”
@RepRaskin
said in a letter to Trump.
.
@mtomasky
: “It’s my understanding that there’s more news coming on Thomas and Crow. It seems highly possible that what we know so far, ghastly as it is, barely scratches the surface.”
Just weeks after a 6-year-old shot his teacher, a gun trade show in Las Vegas is hosting a manufacturer promoting its “JR-15,” a child-size AR-15 rifle.
“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
Perhaps there’s still one crucial difference between the two parties, captured perfectly by the old aphorism: Republicans fear their base, and Democrats hate theirs.
“So tonight, let’s all agree—and apparently we are—let’s stand up for seniors,” Biden said during the State of the Union. “And if anyone tries to cut social security, which apparently no one’s gonna do…I’ll stop them. I’ll veto it.”
Rupi Kaur’s achievement as an artist is the extent to which her work embodies, formally, the technology that defines contemporary life: smartphones and the internet.
Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare our blinkered approach to mental health, revealing the fact of human interdependence and the need for structural approaches to mental health problems,
@MsShade
writes.
Sinéad O’Connor’s estate issued a missive to Trump, demanding that he never again use her music after he featured her breakout hit, a cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” during rallies in Maryland and North Carolina over the weekend.
Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
Liz Cheney, who lost the Wyoming Republican representative primary after four terms, has now backed Democratic candidates in two races: Tim Ryan in Ohio and Elissa Slotkin in Michigan.
Clarence Thomas has attended retreats at Bohemian Grove, a secretive all-men’s gathering in Northern California, for more than two decades as a guest of his longtime, increasingly problematic friend Harlan Crow, according to a new report from ProPublica.
How Bill Gates has developed and wielded influence over two decades is one of the more consequential and under-appreciated shapers of the failed global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Alexander Zaitchik writes.
Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
“The more he gets attacked the more he will talk about things he shouldn’t be talking about,” former Republican George Conway said about Trump. “I think you could even get him thrown into jail, by running the right ad,” he added.
#StopTrump
House Speaker Mike Johnson has three flags hanging outside his office: the American flag, the Louisiana state flag, and a flag representing a movement that wants to turn the U.S. into a religious Christian nation.
SEC laws prohibit the use of “manipulative and deceptive devices” to pump up stocks. The Truth Social posts in question could be seen as the former president trying to talk up his company to increase its stock price after a rough week.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
Trump’s gross little rampage on Truth Social today is likely the result of a Wednesday court ruling rejecting his latest attempt to delay his upcoming trial for defaming E. Jean Carroll. The trial is due to start on January 15.
A nine-year-old girl was left sobbing after she was falsely accused of being transgender just because she has short hair, in a clear sign of how transphobia harms everyone.
Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
“The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries and the systematic dismantling of its system of justice and Rule of Law by a single man – the former President of the United States.”
In a court filing on Thursday, Knight Speciality Insurance Company revealed that its liquid assets don’t meet the needs of Trump’s already minimized bond.
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 99 percent of Jared Kushner’s investment firm's funds have come from foreign sources, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Donald Trump got caught red-handed during his New York fraud trial on Monday when lawyers for the New York attorney general’s office revealed Trump had long ago signed documents with the clear intent that they would be used to curry favor with banks.
RFK Jr., Glenn Greenwald, and other Putin apologists are making disingenuous, pseudo-populist arguments against U.S. support for Ukraine, Alaric DeArment writes.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rejected $350 million in federal funds meant to help tackle climate change—just months before Hurricane Idalia flooded his state.
Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney revealed that Bud Light never reached out to her, as far-right creeps made her fear for her safety.
@prem_thakker
writes:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rejected $350 million in federal funds meant to help tackle climate change—just months before Hurricane Idalia flooded his state.
The prosecution against Lula, the most popular president in Brazil’s history, was motivated by political animus and sustained by flimsy evidence,
@TheInterceptBr
reports today.
And they have receipts.
“I write today to demand that you immediately return to the American people the $7,886,072 that we know you have accepted from foreign governments,”
@RepRaskin
said in a letter to Trump.
Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that he received payments from foreign governments. In a Fox News town hall Wednesday night, Trump dismissed the amount as “a small amount of money.” At least one congressman wants him to return the cash.
This crime literally turned the 2016 election to Trump. Without it, polling shows and political scientists argue, Hillary Clinton would likely have been our president for at least four years.
New explosive footage of Roger Stone strategizing to overturn the 2020 presidential election—before the vote was even called for Joe Biden—dooms Donald Trump’s main legal defense, writes
@ellajsherman
.
The failed global response to the pandemic is an occasion to re-examine the public health model championed by one of Big Pharma's most influential enablers: Bill Gates.
Former Republican George Conway said Democrats need to wage a “psychological war” against Donald Trump until it makes him so “crazy” that he violates court orders.
#StopTrump
Just last week, Jim Trusty left the legal team representing Trump for charges of mishandling classified documents and making false statements to federal officials. Today, he withdrew from Trump’s legal team in his lawsuit against CNN.
A proposed Florida bill would remove certain journalistic privileges, like the right to keep sources anonymous. Statements from anonymous sources would be considered “presumptively false,” making journalists covering discrimination vulnerable to lawsuits.
The Biden administration will face a broad array of complex problems over the hundreds of days to come, but headaches from Trump holdovers who can be removed at any moment need not be among them.
.
@MaxwellFrostFL
: “My generation already is going to own the least amount of assets of any generation if the trends continue. On top of that, now we’ve been pushed into the renters’ world, and now it’s becoming harder and harder to even rent.”
Michigan’s no-nonsense Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday that she has charged 16 people, including top members of the state’s Republican Party, with felonies for pretending to be electors in the 2020 presidential election.
An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
Trump's head of the Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley, says it is now policy that BLM law officers will defer to self-proclaimed “constitutionalist” county sheriffs who have vowed not to enforce federal environmental laws on public lands.
NEW with
@typeinvestigate
and
@POLITICOMag
: A BLM whistleblower in Nevada says his office, which oversees millions of acres of public land, is failing to uphold and enforce environmental rules and regs.
“A culture of lawlessness has been engendered.”
Donald Trump’s campaign team actively helped organize the scheme to use fake electors to falsely claim he won Michigan during the 2020 election, according to internal campaign emails obtained by The Detroit News.
.
@RepRaskin
and
@RepRobertGarcia
have asked the Government Accountability Office to look into Senator Tommy Tuberville. Last year, Tuberville protested the Dept of Defense’s policy of reimbursing costs for service members who had to travel for an abortion.
“I wanted them to know that they’re racists and fascists, and D.C. doesn’t like fascists,” Joe Flood said about Patriot Front, who marched in Washington, D.C. on Sunday. He called them “losers,” “incels,” “cosplayers,” and “a joke.”
Republicans, livid that Matt Gaetz plunged the House of Representatives into turmoil, have begun to air the worst bits of the Florida Republican’s dirty laundry.
One of the UAW’s more creative demands is that workers receive $2 in profit sharing for every million dollars the Big Three automakers spend on stock buybacks and dividends. That would mean at least $28,000 per worker this year.
“I disagree with some of the critiques that you hear, I think predominantly from the left, about ‘you don’t give him oxygen, you don’t give him air time.’ No. You give him more. Show everybody the crazy.”
In his desperate attempt to avoid accountability, twice-impeached and twice-indicted former president Trump may have unintentionally allowed himself to now be formally known as a rapist.
Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
.
@allisongill
, a former Veterans Affairs official and host of the podcast
@muellershewrote
, pointed out that E. Jean Caroll could ask for an injunction to stop Trump from continuing to make potentially defamatory statements about her.