Photo: Samuel Corum (Getty Images) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has instructed members of her party to get ready to go to work in the coming week on a plan to remove President Trump from office, given the clear and present danger his continued presidency poses after his gang of supporters overtook the U.S. Capitol building. Coincidentally—just […]
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Pennsylvania State Capitol buildingPhoto: Shutterstock Republicans are still going full speed ahead with their attack on America’s democracy, despite the dangerous consequences of this behavior as seen in the nation’s capital on Wednesday. Ahead of the madness in D.C., GOP senators in Pennsylvania launched their own upending of standard operating procedures on Tuesday by deciding […]
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Photo: Jessica McGowan (Getty Images) Well people, against all odds it happened: Georgia has turned blue. Yeah, I know, the Peach State turned blue when it handed President-elect Joe Biden his win over President-reject Donald Trump, but that shade of blue just got a little bit deeper now that Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff […]
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Photo: SAUL LOEB (Getty Images) On Wednesday, when it appeared that Mitch “Turtleneck” McConnell was on the verge of no longer being the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer reportedly grabbed the Kentucky senator by his flabby neck skin and told him, “Look at me! I’m the captain now.” Schumer then asked McConnell “Why did the […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. They say politics makes for strange bedfellows, and the fight over $2,000 stimulus checks certainly has. In the red-hot political battle over whether to raise the latest round of direct stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000, President Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie […]
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It’s thus no accident that Donald Trump, the twenty-first–century president of white grievance, has opened fire on these ideas. Last fall, he issued an executive order prohibiting their dissemination through the ranks of the federal bureaucracy and, by extension, into American society at large. In a stunning reversion to Lost Cause-ism throughout all levels of […]
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In case Georgia’s Senate races weren’t high-stakes enough, legal weed is also on the line. The pair of runoff races will determine which party controls the Senate—and whether marijuana legalization has any chance in the coming Congress, Sen. Cory Booker said on VICE’s Cari & Jemele (Won’t) Stick to Sports on Thursday. “Look, if you’re […]
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Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) The death penalty—a thing supposedly reserved for perpetrators of the most heinous crimes, typically involving intentional and cold-blooded murder—arguably makes sense in theory; but in practice, its flaws and potential for racial discrimination are undeniable. According to figures compiled by the NAACP, Black people represent 42 percent of inmates on […]
Read MoreDr. Steven Hotze, president of Conservative Republicans of Texas, speaks at a Restrain the Judges news conference, while Janet Porter of Faith2Action listens at right, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, April 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. By day, […]
Read MoreAn image from the transportation industry of a truck driver being held up at gunpoint. (shotbydave/Getty Images) Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A former Houston police captain ran an air-conditioner repair man off the road and held him at gunpoint after becoming convinced the man had masterminded […]
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Photo: weberjake (Shutterstock) Before Michigan’s electors voted to certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s electoral win, the threat of violence resulted in all legislative offices being closed in the state. Advertisement Michigan, sadly, is no stranger to (probably) white folks who’ve lost their goddamn mind because reality hasn’t aligned with their expectations. Earlier this year, a group […]
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In the lead-up to Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in October, Democrats fretted that the party’s ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein, wasn’t up to the task. Fear among congressional Democrats was “widespread,” according to Politico. The 87-year-old Feinstein “gets confused by reporters’ questions, or will offer different answers to the […]
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Usually, though, it’s up to governments to impose those constraints rather than leaving them up to corporate discretion. In the United States and the EU, BlackRock’s apparent strategy has been to have as much of a voice as possible in that process and chip away at such constraints—in part by hiring government alums like Deese […]
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The debate over how to characterize what the country’s been put through over the past three weeks will carry on for the rest of our lives. And Donald Trump’s waddle through the stages of grief is sure to last through January. But his election gambit is functionally over. Results have been certified in Georgia, Michigan, […]
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The national party’s animating force in the Trump era has been to oppose the president. Now that he’s been defeated, what comes next? It’s not easy to surmise what the party stands for now. Slogans like “believe science” and a grab bag of policy stances brewed up by consultants to win over white suburbanites doesn’t […]
Read MoreWant the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The culture wars of Donald Trump’s America materialized into a battlefront near the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, for the so-called “#StoptheSteal” protest or “Million MAGA March.” Galvanized by misinformation and fake news, more than 10,000 Trump supporters—including QAnon conspiracy […]
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Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Well, get ready for yet another temper tantrum from y’all’s bitch-ass president, as it’s been projected that President-Elect Joe Biden has become the first Democrat in almost 30 years to win the state of Georgia. Advertisement According to CNN, with the projection of Georgia for Biden, and North Carolina for […]
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Photo: AP Photos (AP) Just as Rev. Ralph Warnock predicted last week, Sen. Kelly Loeffler unleashed a torrent of attacks on the Georgia Democrat as the two face off in a crucial senatorial race that could determine the balance of power in the Senate. Advertisement Following the lead of conservatives around the country, Loeffler baselessly […]
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As Lorentzen wrote, Biden “seems to have got into politics simply because he could: for the fuck of it, not out of any ethical commitment or bracing ambition.” He doesn’t have the sort of algorithmic drive of a Pete Buttigieg, or the deep convictions of Bernie Sanders; he doesn’t seem to have to been very […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Everyone processes crushing disappointment in their own way, and that’s particularly true for President Donald Trump’s biggest allies who are—very publicly—grasping for answers to explain why their MAGA hero has apparently not won the election in a landslide. And they’re pushing baseless […]
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So how did he win? Was it policy? Those already proliferating the thesis that his victory proves, again, that America is a center-right country should reckon with the fact that Biden has likely won with a platform that, particularly on climate, housing, and poverty, was more progressive than Hillary Clinton’s. Trump, meanwhile, abandoned the heterodox […]
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There are unwritten rules in just about everything in life. Advertisement In baseball, if a pitcher hits your guy with the ball, then once your team’s pitcher is up to the mound, it’s a must that you bean their opposing team’s batter. Doesn’t even matter if he had anything to do with it. He’s on […]
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For the last few months, a team on Joe Biden’s campaign has been drawing up plans for the transition, compiling lists, and vetting potential appointees. Meanwhile, a network of left-wing organizers, operating under the maxim “personnel is policy,” has been doing opposition research on a prospective Biden White House. In some cases, they’ve run public […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Judge Amy Coney Barrett will be the next associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Barrett to the nation’s highest court on Monday evening, just eight days ahead of the November 3 presidential election. Barrett, a […]
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Photo: Sarah Silbiger (Getty Images) Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to making America eat the goddamn cake on Thursday, as they advanced the nomination of Ruthless Records’ own Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, despite her being a heartless Neo fight-style dodger of questions. Advertisement Democrats boycotted the […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, declined to answer questions about racism, LGBTQ rights, birth control, and more in her responses to dozens of written questions from senators. In written responses submitted Tuesday night, Barrett reiterated her refusal to […]
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Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the White House a deadline of 48 hours to complete negotiations on a new pandemic relief package to be passed before the election, which is now two weeks away. This was the latest volley in the ongoing Congressional wars over a much-needed stimulus bill, and Monday’s headlines […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s choice for the Supreme Court, has so far refused to answer questions about how she’d treat a dispute over the 2020 election. On Tuesday, the second day of Barrett’s confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, […]
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Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty The stakes for this upcoming presidential election have never been higher amid the coronavirus pandemic and the economic downturn due to nationwide shutdowns. With talks of a new stimulus bill eradicated from the conversation, a new poll heaves almost equal blame on President Donald Trump and Democrats for the failure […]
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Forty-nine percent of West Virginians are “worried” about global warming, and 64 percent think citizens should be doing more to address it. That’s in the state that’s least worried about climate change—everywhere else, the numbers are higher still. Getting people to care about climate change isn’t the primary problem anymore (although it would always help […]
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Over the summer, homegrown American conspiracism surged in tandem with the pandemic. On edge after months of lockdown, widespread infection and death, and a highly acrid political climate, people across the political spectrum nurtured a handful of increasingly fantastical explanations for the dismal state of things. On the right, the assorted delusions of QAnon converged […]
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