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And they’re all related to Russia. Photo Credit: HarvardEthics / Flickr “A dark cloud of illegitimacy hangs over the pending presidency of Donald Trump,” wrote former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Facebook Sunday night, following CIA reports of Russian interference in the presidential elections, and specifically interference that benefited Trump. The existence of the evidence […]

Obama faces mounting calls to eliminate a discriminatory Bush-era registry that targets Muslims. Over 100 people staged a spirited march from the Department of Justice to the White House on December 12 to demand that President Barack Obama dismantle a registry that disproportionately targets Muslims, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS). “The […]

With Electoral College vote looming, Republicans put party ahead of country. Photo Credit: twitter.com/transition2017 Donald Trump’s march from Election Night to Inauguration Day feels like the ever-louder ticking of a doomsday clock, with new drama surfacing daily that is deepening the alarm but not derailing the coming storm. Russian interference in the election is the […]

On November 9, Republicans “got busy squirting out ever more unconstitutional laws in the hopes that one of them would make it to SCOTUS.” Photo Credit: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee/YouTube “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee is taking a break from watching the “non-stop sh*t geyser” of president-elect Trump to investigate an important women’s rights […]Read More

Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald details how Trump is using his president-elect status to cozy up to dictators and benefit the family’s business. Photo Credit: FlickR/Gage Skidmore Donald Trump has already postponed his promised December 15th announcement of how he is going to divest himself of his immense conflicts of interest because of his business ties around […]Read More

Sanders was able to show one Trump voter the error of her ways in no time flat. Photo Credit: MSNBC / YouTube Donald Trump won Kenosha County, Wisconsin, by fewer than 300 votes; it’s a county that had not voted for a Republican in a presidential election in nearly 50 years. Just over a month […]

Joe Walsh says Trump ought to be ashamed of himself. Photo Credit: Screenshot / CNN Former Republican Congressman and prominent conservative radio host Joe Walsh slammed the president-elect and fellow Republicans Monday over their lack of interest in investigating Russia’s attempt to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump. “I’m outraged at the lack of outrage, […]Read More

K.T. McFarland, who once said Hillary Clinton was spying on her by helicopter, will be a top national security aide. Photo Credit: Screenshot / YouTube One of Donald Trump’s top contenders for a cabinet post, former United Nations ambassador John Bolton, went on TV over the weekend and suggested that he thought it was possible that the […]Read More

The suicide rate is up in this country. How does work factor in? A log loader or forestry machine loads a log truck at the site landing with the driver securing the load in southern OregonPhoto Credit: TFoxFoto/Shutterstock An Amazon worker was recently injured in a suicide attempt after he jumped off a company building […]

Activist moms explain how to protest with your babies in tow. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Martha, a Brooklyn mom and activist, wants to take her 16-month-old daughter to the Women’s March on Washington on January 21 , but her husband doesn’t like the idea. “He worries that my daughter could get hurt in some way: tear gas, […]Read More

Fake pity, morality policing and mock interrogation are just a few tell-tale indicators. Photo Credit: Marcos Mesa, Sam Wordley/Shutterstock Read this list like one of those psychological diagnostic tests. If more than some number of symptoms are present, the diagnosis fits. Or like a bingo card. If you’re dealing with someone who relies on at […]

The GOP has been the party of cruelty for decades. In Trump, it’s found its champion. Ayn RandPhoto Credit: YouTube Screengrab If you have any doubts that the phenomenon of Donald Trump was a long time a’coming, you have only to read a piece that Gore Vidal wrote for Esquire magazine in July 1961, when the conservative movement was […]Read More