Following blowback, Louisiana Republican congressman Steve Scalise finally deleted a doctored video that he posted on Twitter that manipulated the words of progressive activist Ady Barkan. On Sunday, Barkan, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and uses a computerized voice to speak, called out the House Minority Whip before Twitter …
Read More »The Wildly Dishonest Coronavirus Montage Was Everything That Was Wrong With Day 1 of the RNC
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 …
Read More »Nope, President Trump Can't Send Troops or Law Enforcement to Your Polling Place
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 …
Read More »What We All Had to Lose
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 …
Read More »Trump Says He'll Seek a Third Term Because 'They Spied On Me'
With the political world focused on the Democratic convention Monday night, President Trump looked to steal some of the limelight by saying that he will seek a third term if he wins re-election. During a rally in Wisconsin, the president lied to a cheering crowd, telling them that he deserves …
Read More »Tiffany Cross Gives a Masterclass on How to Interview a Trump Sycophant
Tiffany Cross called out President Trump’s Diversity Coalition Executive Director Bruce LeVell for using the racist term “China virus” during a contentious interview on Saturday. During the 20 minute-long battle on MSNBC, Cross continuously interrupted LeVell when he attempted to deflect, lie and filibuster on a slew of issues. The …
Read More »How Oregon Is Pushing Back Against 'Kidnap and False Arrest' by Trump's Agents
The state of Oregon is suing the Trump administration in federal court to halt what it likens to the “kidnap and false arrest” of protesters in downtown Portland, alleging that the administration’s secret-police tactics are violating core constitutional rights. In a harrowing new tactic, reminiscent of fascist regimes, armed federal …
Read More »Watch This Devastating Fact-Check of Trump's Lie-Filled Fox News Interview
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar dissected President Trump’s weekend interview with Fox News, and the number of lies she found is so mind-boggling that at one point she said, “He’s even lying about the lie there.” On the coronavirus, Keilar said that the president is “denying reality” so much so that …
Read More »Ivanka Trump Cries 'Cancel Culture' and 'Discrimination' to Blame for Commencement Speech Cancellation
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 …
Read More »More Than 1,900 Former DOJ and FBI Officials Call on Attorney General Barr to Resign
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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