At a time when Black people and others are marching in opposition to police brutality and discrimination in astounding numbers, the president’s daughter bemoaned “cancel culture” and “viewpoint discrimination” for the cancellation of her planned virtual commencement address to a Kansas technical school. “Our nation’s campuses should be bastions of …
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Almost 2,000 former Justice Department and FBI officials signed an open letter demanding Attorney General William Barr’s resignation on Monday. The letter was prompted by Barr’s decision to drop the prosecution of President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, last week. The DOJ’s decision to abandon Flynn’s case showed …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Rep. Rashida Tlaib to discuss her initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic and how she deals with Trump. Matt and Katie respond to Hillary Clinton’s conversation with Joe Biden, and the multifaceted tone-deafness of Clinton …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by David Rees, political-prediction maker and former Get Your War Oncartoonist forRolling Stone. Matt takes “a little shot at our ownRolling Stonefor its Andrew Cuomo cover.… He’s one of the biggest douchewads in politics, a …
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UPDATE: President Trump took to Twitter on Saturday night to announce that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will not be quarantined. Earlier today, the president said he was considering the matter and faced pushback from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Trump supporters like Fox News host Laura Ingraham. …
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Speaking from Burlington on Wednesday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders cut to the chase: “Last night was obviously not a good night for our campaign, from a delegate point of view,” he said. And that, frankly, was understatement: Sanders was routed in Missouri, in Idaho and in Mississippi where, according to …
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“Mayor Bloomberg has a solid and strong and enthusiastic base of support,” Bernie Sanders said from the debate stage in South Carolina Tuesday night. “Problem is, they’re all billionaires.” It was a tidy one-liner (with the bonus that it happens to have a basis in reality: Jeff Bezos was among …
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The Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday morning — shortly after an Iranian missile strike on U.S. targets in Iraq — may have been shot down. “I have my suspicions,” President Trump told reporters on Thursday. “Somebody could have made a mistake on the other …
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Mike Pompeo is pissing away whatever credibility he brought to the post of secretary of state as he struggles to substantiate President Trump’s claims that Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was assassinated because he posed an “imminent and sinister” threat to Americans. In his latest insult to the American public’s intelligence, …
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President Trump’s Iran policy doesn’t seem to be working out very well. Since he pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration, Iran has both resumed its nuclear program and found new ways to stir up trouble in the region. The latest provocation came …
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