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Photo Credit: Eric Crama / Shutterstock Donald Trump has made it clear that he intends to govern exactly as promised in his campaign, unrolling a series of harmful policies designed to hurt immigrants, workers, and their families. Yet the government cannot implement this hateful agenda on its own. On immigration, for instance, it will need […]

Photo Credit: CNN / YouTube Republicans have made more than 50 attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act since its passage in 2009. They made their most successful attempt to date on Thursday, when House GOP members voted to repeal and replace the ACA with their own health care plan. According to estimates, the Republican […]

Photo Credit: John Gomez/Shutterstock.com The abominable AHCA (or simply “Trumpcare), the House Republican’s replacement of Obamacare, is being felt far and wide. While the Senate has already said it has no intention of taking up the House version and the hope is it will die there, many are frightened by the sheer amount of malice that it contains. Among the […]Read More

Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Daniel Padavona The attitudinal shift regarding marijuana that is sweeping the country has now also embroiled the nation’s premier professional sports league, the NFL, and the end result could soon be that the league will retreat from its harsh stance on the herb. But someone needs to clue in Commissioner Roger Goodell first. […]

Photo Credit: Evgenii Sribnyi / Shutterstock.com Hopefully, Saturday’s hacked leaks purporting to show offshore accounts and tax evasion by France’s independent candidate Emmanuel Macron won’t jeopardize his lead over racist nationalist Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s French election. But there may be a larger significance to the leaks and their distribution – their apparent connection […]Read More

Photo Credit: Screen Capture / NBC There’s something off with the women, but they just can’t put their finger on it. In this week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” host Chris Pine and castmates Mikey Day, Alex Moffat and Kyle Mooney play the bros who somehow went unmentioned (yet timeless and believable) in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” […]Read More

Photo Credit: Victoria Pickering / Flickr Creative Commons Donald Trump’s bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act is barbarous. It would see 24 million more Americans become uninsured. It would fund tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest Americans. It would roll back state-level Medicaid expansions. You would think that the immediate reaction […]

Photo Credit: By US House of Representatives [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons Voters attending a packed town hall in Idaho booed and shouted down their Republican congressman after he attempted to defend the House passing a replacement for Obamacare by telling the crowd “no one’ in the US dies from lack of health care. Appearing […]

Photo Credit: Frederic Legrand – COMEO / Shutterstock.com The pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidency with a decisive victory over the far-right Marine Le Pen that his supporters hailed as holding back the tide of populism. Macron, 39, a former economy minister who ran as a “neither left nor right” independent promising to shake […]Read More

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, complained over the weekend that Democrats were jeering from the “cheap seats” after opponents of the House Republican health care bill warned that people’s lives are at risk if the Obamacare repeal is signed into law. Fox & Friends host Clayton Morris on […]Read More

Lex on what the whistleblowing case means for the bank and its CEO

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