Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: Fox’s Sean Hannity Drawn Into Trump Legal Saga
(Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons) In a remarkable turn of events in a courtroom in Manhattan today, attorneys for embattled Trump fixer Michael Cohen revealed that one of the defendant’s only three clients is none other than Sean Hannity….
The GOP in 2018: Neo-Nazi Republican Wins in Illinois
(Photo Credit: Billy Hathorn, Creative Commons) Over the past few years, the GOP has steadily drifted rightward, promoting a nativist brand of politics that seems completely out-of-step in the 21st century. As polling shows voters souring on the GOP, the…
Philly Police Use Grease To Keep Eagles Fans Down From Lamp Posts
It’s an exciting time to be a Philadelphia sports fan. The city has seen dearth of professional championships among all its major sports teams for years (the Phillies won the world series in 2008). This Sunday, the Eagles will face…
Dutch Allies Less Likely To Share Intelligence Because Of Trump
While Donald Trump may be among the few willing to publicly deny Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, there is now more incontrovertible proof than ever before that hackers working for Russian intelligence stole the DNC’s emails in an effort…
Authoritarian Face of the U.S.: Trump Booed In Davos
Donald Trump received an icy reception at the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland. In his typically self-aggrandizing fashion, Trump detailed the positive way that the press covered him before he became politician, only to segue into yet another attack…
Woody Allen’s Day Of Reckoning
The #MeToo movement has created an enormous amount of dialogue regarding sexual harassment and rape culture. A number of powerful figures representative of these endemic behaviors have fallen, from Harvey Weinstein to Kevin Spacey, Matt Lauer to Garrison Keillor. Others,…
Jeff Flake Sides With Dems. On Government Funding
Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake has opened up a new front in his internecine struggle with GOP leadership and Donald Trump: the debate over government funding. Republicans – prodded by Trump’s far-right native stance – have sent Congress hurtling toward…
Sign Of GOP Decline? Deep Red Wisconsin District Elects Dem. To State Senate
Pundits and journalists have written extensively about a potential Democratic wave in the midterm elections. The GOP’s popularity has suffered terribly under Donald Trump, the least popular president in polling history. The party is further hamstrung by its deeply unpopular…
Senator Durbin: Trump Remarks “Hate-Filled, Vile and Racist.”
In shocking remarks made during a meeting on a bipartisan immigration plan, Trump attacked “shit hole countries” in Africa and Latin America in what may amount to his most boldly racist comments yet. During the meeting, Trump also suggested that…
Following Controversial Suicide Video, YouTube Cuts Official Ties With Logan Paul
Logan Paul – the 22-year old YouTube star popular with teenagers – attracted widespread condemnation on December 31 when he posted a video in which he and friends crack jokes near the body of a suicide victim they stumbled across…
Wolff: Trump is “Helping Me Prove the Point of the Book”
Michael Wolff – author of the explosive book about Trump “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” – appeared on NBC’s Today on Friday, defending his book against Trump’s attacks and providing more scathing criticism of the deeply unpopular,…
Michael Wolff: 100% Of White House Staff Think Trump Is “Incapable Of Functioning In His Job”
The White House is in turmoil following the release of experts from Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” (Henry Holt & Co). From Bannon’s claim that Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Don Jr. committed “treasonous”…
Trump’s Child-Like Mind: Bannon “Learning That Winning Isn’t As Easy As I Make It Look”
Today’s big news that Steve Bannon told writer Michael Wolff that Don Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner committed “treasonous” acts has solicited an immediate retort from the White House. In a statement released under Donald Trump’s name, the failing…
Bannon Bombshell: Top Trump Campaign Aids “Treasonous”
(Photo: Michael Vadon, Creative Commons) A forthcoming book includes interviews with former Trump advisor and Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon that has sent shockwaves throughout Washington. Bannon told Michael Wolff – author of the book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White…
Why Work When You Can Golf? Trump Promises To Work, Then Spends 7 Days At Golf Resort
Despite promises of getting “back to work in order to Make America Great Again,” Donald Trump proceeded to visit one of his golf clubs for 7 days, puttering about the green rather than engaging in the all-important work required of…
More Fatalities In Iran As Protests Continue
As street protests continue across Iran for the fifth day, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed foreign governments for stoking the unrest, claiming that the country’s enemies are attempting to overthrow the government. “In the events of the past few days,…
Bannon Purportedly Referred To Trump As A “Child”
When the DOJ exposed private messages between FBI agents referring to Trump as an “idiot,” conservative lawmakers threw a fit. Some called for the disbandment of the probe into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russian authorities, pointing to these texts…
Russia Probe: Behind Closed Doors, Trump Blasts Rosenstein, His Own Appointee
Though Trump told reporters this week that the has no plans to go after Robert Mueller – the head of the ongoing investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia – the wildly unpopular president has purportedly criticized…
Heather Heyer’s Fascist Murderer Receives First-Degree Murder Charge
Photo License James Alex Fields Jr – the 20-year-old white supremacist who killed anti-fascist protester Heather Heyer in August – will face the far steeper charge of first-degree murder in his upcoming trial. He had previously only been charged with…
Refusing To Concede, Republican Roy Moore Reconfirms Medieval Belief System
The nation is still reeling from this week’s special election, which saw a Democrat elected in a state-wide campaign in deep red Alabama for the first time in decades. There are a number causes that led to this result: the…
Doug Jones Wins In Alabama In A Blow To Trump and Bannon
In a historic vote, Alabama elected Democrat Doug Jones to the Senate last night, narrowly choosing the former prosecutor over his radical right-wing rival Roy Moore, an alleged sexual predator and child molester. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting,…
Women Sexually Assaulted By Trump Speak Up, Demand Action
Shortly before the 2016 election, a tape emerged on which Donald Trump is heard bragging about sexual assault to then-Hollywood Access host Billy Bush: You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a…
Turning Tide? Conservatives Jumping Off The Trump Train
Trump has gotten away with a lot. Throughout the 2016 campaign and his first year in the White House, he has managed to slight just about everyone under the sun, all while flexing his incompetence and general ignorance at every…
Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse: GOP Support For Moore Sends “Terrible Message”
Just weeks after establishment Republicans distanced themselves from the accused child molester and GOP senate candidate Roy Moore, the RNC silently started supporting the embattled Alabama extremist again, and politicians began equivocating about the party’s connections with the candidate. Mitch…
Australia Enshrines Marriage Equality
In a bit of good news this tumultuous month, the Australian Parliament voted overwhelmingly to pass a law legalizing same-sex marriage. Becoming the 26th nation to have done so, Australia has joined dozens of nations that have enshrined the human…
Pence, Whose Wife Thinks Trump Is “Vile,” Told RNC He Was Prepared To Step Up After Hollywood Access Tape Emerged
Several stories emerging Tuesday paint a bleak picture of how people close to Trump view him. During the final months of the 2016 campaign, Mike Pence and Reince Priebus allegedly plotted to replace Trump following the release of the Access…
To Secure Tax Cuts That Will Benefit His Family, Trump Reaffirms Support For Child Molester
Trump doubled down on his endorsement of accused child molester and far-right extremist Roy Moore. “[W]e need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama,” Trump tweeted Monday, arguing that supporting Doug Jones was far worse. Part of Trump’s support for…
House Of Horrors: Potential White House Reshuffle Threatens National Security
In what appears to be yet another one of Trump’s childish designs to humiliate someone in his orbit, the White House threw a veil of uncertainty over Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job yesterday. Reports swirled around Washington that his…
Report: PAC Backing Child Molester Moore Led By White Nationalist
After revelations emerged that Republican Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore preyed upon underage girls as a grown man, support for the radical right-wing politician has waned. His most stalwart backers on the far-right, however, remain enthusiastic about his candidacy, including…
Trump Resurrects Racist “Pocahontas” Insult Against Warren At Native American Event
Donald Trump’s virulent racism is well documented. From his Muslim travel ban to labeling Mexican immigrants “rapists,” he has utilized bigotry to stir up nativist sentiment to his political advantage. Trump is also willing to level racist attacks against individuals….