Hackers have successfully infiltrated the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments as well as other government agencies and a cybersecurity firm, Reuters reported on Saturday. And, according to the Washington Post, the Russian government is behind it. “The United States government is aware of these reports and we are taking all …
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The United States has escaped four more years of a Donald Trump presidency. In an election that saw the highest voter turnout in the last 120 years, Americans have elected former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., to be the 46th president. At 11:25 a.m. on Saturday, November 7, the …
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The last day to confidently mail in an absentee ballot, in time to have it received by Election Day, November 3rd, has passed. (October 27th was the cutoff set by the Postal Service.) But don’t panic. If you, like millions of Americans, still have a ballot in hand, you have …
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John Oliver has covered U.S. immigration policy — and its related injustices — many times on Last Week Tonight. But this week, he chose to highlight the Trump administration’s aggressive stance toward asylum seekers and how it’s only gotten worse during the pandemic. “The asylum process has never been easy, …
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O n May 27th, the second day of mounting national outrage over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the president of America’s largest evangelical university decided it was the perfect time to blast out a tweet featuring the crudest of racial imagery. “I was adamantly opposed to the …
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A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service — run by GOP megadonor-turned-Postmaster Louis DeJoy — to suspend and reverse changes that risk disrupting the 2020 election. District Judge Stanley Bastian’s ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed by 14 states that alleged DeJoy misused his authority as …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Juan Passarelli, a documentary filmmaker who recently released The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange. For this week’s Democrats Suck, Matt offers a clip of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee …
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Covid-19 has claimed the lives of over 175,000 Americans, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the first night of the Republican National Convention. Instead of shying away from addressing the Trump administration’s woeful mismanagement of the pandemic, the RNC painted the response as a success story, trotting out speaker …
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In his seemingly endless efforts to thwart a robust democratic participation in November’s election, on Thursday night President Trump told Sean Hannity that he planned to send law enforcement to polling places on election day. He told the Fox News host, “We’re going to have sheriffs, and we’re going to …
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Wednesday is the fourth anniversary of when the man who is now president went to Dimondale, Michigan, a working-class suburb of Lansing, and, referencing black voters, barked out for the first time, “What do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump?” Well, how much time did he …
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