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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The workers at General Electric Aviation’s facility in Lynn, Massachusetts make jet engines and helicopter parts, most notably the massive T408 engine that powers the U.S. Marine Corps “King Stallion” heavy-lift helicopter. They are good at what they do, but in the past few decades the company has steadily moved …
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On March 18th, as the reality of the coronavirus crisis was becoming painfully apparent to Americans, the Idaho Legislature was turning its attention to health care concerns of another kind: making sure that women were denied access to abortion at some nebulous future date. Across the country, state legislatures had …
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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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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, while the rest of the nation is focusing on staying healthy and social distancing, anti-abortion politicians and movement leaders have been doing the only thing they know — pursuing an agenda to shut down abortion clinics. Capitalizing on the mantra to never let a crisis go …
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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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“I’m a private person,” Hillary Clinton says in Hillary, the new four-part documentary series about her life that premieres Friday on Hulu. Director Nanette Burstein wanted to see if she could get her to open up. In January of 2018, Clinton’s camp came to Burnstein with 2,000 hours of a …
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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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