Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman sat around joking about Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom like a couple of wealthy guys at a country club joking over cocktails as the republic burns outside the window.Maher dismissed the outrage by calling the cost “couch money.” Fetterman rolled his eyes a…
WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving, according to a new Gallup survey. That ties this 119th Congress with the 112th Congress (2011-2012) as the least popular in contemporary American history.Whi…
Trump’s head of the Department of Homeland Security bluntly rebuffed requests from houses of worship for more security in the wake of a shooting. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Fox News that houses of worship should “hire their own security” while speaking about the mass shooting at the Isla…
The White House is bizarrely floating the idea of Donald Trump pardoning 250 people on June 14th, a number sinisterly tied to America’s 250th anniversary, a date that also happens to fall on Flag Day.And what a stunning coincidence that June 14th is also the day Donald J. Trump turns 80 years old.Th…
As Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of wire fraud for its informant program to infiltrate extremist groups, the news was greeted in neo-Nazi accelerationist circles with glee.“Frankly, it’s a w…
Vice President JD Vance was confronted at Tuesday’s press conference with a question about President Donald Trump’s personal finances, the inherent conflicts of interest, and how it is all at odds with the administration’s messaging — and Vance awkwardly tried to sidestep the issue.”Mr. Vice Preside…
Don’t you miss decency from our politicians? I know I do. There was a time when we didn’t cringe every time the president went out in public.Now, we collectively brace ourselves every time someone puts a microphone in front of Donald Trump, who has made it abundantly and repeatedly clear that he cou…
When the College Republicans of America appointed a student with ties to white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes as its political director, social media praise rolled in from university chapters.“We are @KaiSchwemmer,” posted Nick Jacobs, president of the Wisconsin Federation of College Republican…
Senate Republicans erupted in frustration Tuesday after President Donald Trump blindsided the GOP conference by endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn of Texas — a move many fear could hand Democrats a critical Senate seat.The backlash was swift and visceral.Sena…
Friends,Words matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight.Over the last 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly undermined the United States government that we should use different words to describe these people than we’ve used to describe all previous adm…