Moonhawk Kim has a terrific post that much better articulates some of the things that I've been trying to put into words. It also raises a number of important wagers that had never crossed my mind. An excerpt: One way to interpret the triumph of Donald Trump is that the long-standing...
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Predictably terrible! The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its annual report on union density. And who knows, maybe for the last time as the Trump administration continues its war.
As I have stated before, any senator who votes to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as Attorney General should be expelled from the Democratic Party. Charlie Pierce agrees: There is.
Trump's border wall executive order is beyond idiotic. The idea of the wall is incredibly stupid, even if you want to secure the border. First, there is already a lot of wall in areas near population centers. But that wall is incredibly porous because you...
One of the things that did piss me off about "The Emails!" was learning that Hilary took an unsecured Blackberry to all kinds of places—China, SCIFs—that she really shouldn't have..
Headlines from the last few hours: Trump Endorses Plan for 20% Tax on All Imports Pentagon Rejects Notion that Defense Department is Trolling Trump on Twitter Mexican President Cancels Visit.
And now, the punchline: the aristocrats! https://t.co/GBWvUQ0qsQ pic.twitter.com/sn7IJqwFyg— Jaime Fuller (@j_fuller) January 26, 2017 In a remotely rational universe, no editor who thought that Hillary Clinton's EMAILS! were a story of major importance would ever work in journalism again. Alas, they're not the people who...
The similarities between Donald Trump and Joe McCarthy are vast. Of course there's the Roy Cohn connection. That's the real giveaway. But there's also the relationship between McCarthy and the.
And tells him to fuck off. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has cancelled next week's trip to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump. His decision comes a day after.
You may already have seen this, but the State Department just lost a big chunk of its management team. Ambassador Richard Boucher, who served as State Department spokesman for Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, said that while there’s always a lot of turnover around the...
Make America White Again: Further the president said that the Secretary of Homeland Security will be publishing a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants, and of the cities that.
Threatening to strip cities of federal funds because oogabooga foreigners is yet another way in which Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are interchangeable. More.