“He wanted to get online with the secretary and talk about how soccer can be a form of soft power for America,” an unnamed source told the Post. “But we all know that it is about job protection. It is not about anything else at this point.” Infantino’s plan was to create a commercial entity […]
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Source: AARON SCHWARTZ / Getty A new round of Trump polls has been released, and — wouldn’t you know it — they indicate exactly what was indicated by the last round of polls, and the round before that, and the round before that: President Donald Trump’s approval rating is still falling faster than his eyelids […]
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Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty As the GOP continues to play a month-and-a-half-long game of Where On Earth Is Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is done playing, and he’s demanding that the Republican senator from his state prove his “capacity to serve” or resign his seat, once and for all. As we […]
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Source: Last week was a hot mess in American politics. Don’t get me wrong, every week in Trump’s America, some kaleidoscopic evil goes down. But last Thursday, within roughly 36 hours, four ominous messages came from the president and three of his senior officials. Taken together, it is clear that this regime is laying the […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty Can you believe it? Republicans have finally found a diversity hire they can support! Just two days after former senator Lindsey Graham died, South Carolina officials decided that the best-qualified person to temporarily fill his vacant seat and represent the entire state was his sister, Darline Graham Nordone. Now, before […]
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Source: Grant Baldwin / Getty There are only two ways Washington knows how to deal with aging or deceased senators: either Weekend at Bernie’s them through another news cycle, or keep the seat in the family. This week, in the aftermath of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s death, Republicans chose the second option. South Carolina Gov. […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty The longtime Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at age 71. The DC Medical Examiner’s Office has reported that his death was caused by an aortic tear due to cardiovascular disease. Predictably, as soon as word of Graham’s death hit the political streets, Washington started the familiar work of embalming […]
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Source: Senator Mitch McConnell / facebook After being MIA from Congress for more than a month and reportedly hospitalized for nearly a month, GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell has broken his silence with a written statement about his health and what appears to be a proof-of-life photo in a hospital bed alongside his wife, Elaine Chao. […]
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Graham was once a fierce critic of Trump, warning the party would be ‘destroyed’ if he was nominated. In his later years, Graham became one of Trump’s biggest supporters and a ‘sycophant’. Graham’s death has drawn mixed reactions, with some criticizing his Trump allegiance and others remembering him as a ‘true American patriot’. Source: Pool […]
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“We’re not investing any money. We have the right to if we want, but we’re not investing any money. We didn’t pay for it like Obama did. He paid billions of dollars, he paid $1.7 billion from an airplane, all green cash. I watched that, I couldn’t believe it,” Trump said. “But the one that’s […]
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Across the board, voters disapprove of everything Trump is doing by majorities approaching 60 percent, according to the poll. About 59 percent of them disapprove of how he is handling his job as president, and 56 percent disapprove of how he’s handling immigration. 64 percent don’t approve of what he’s doing with the economy. Trump […]
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Across the board, voters disapprove of everything Trump is doing by majorities approaching 60 percent, according to the poll. About 59 percent of them disapprove of how he is handling his job as president, and 56 percent disapprove of how he’s handling immigration. 64 percent don’t approve of what he’s doing with the economy. Trump […]
Read More“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. The senator’s son then went on a rant against Jewish people, calling them anti-American and claiming Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel over America. Lawler argued with Paul and defended his support of Israel, telling him that he was antisemitic. Paul then […]
Read MoreThe worst is still yet to come, though; the full effect of high gas prices will not affect everything else for a few more months, according to Citigroup, who told its clients Monday that “energy costs likely would not start to feed through to core goods prices for at least a few more months.” Meanwhile, […]
Read MoreThe worst is still yet to come, though; the full effect of high gas prices will not affect everything else for a few more months, according to Citigroup, who told its clients Monday that “energy costs likely would not start to feed through to core goods prices for at least a few more months.” Meanwhile, […]
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The subpoena, issued on April 17 but disclosed in court Monday, demands that the board’s custodian of records appear in federal court Tuesday with the full election staff roster, including names, home addresses, email addresses, and personal phone numbers of everyone involved in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia’s most populous county. County attorneys say […]
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The subpoena, issued on April 17 but disclosed in court Monday, demands that the board’s custodian of records appear in federal court Tuesday with the full election staff roster, including names, home addresses, email addresses, and personal phone numbers of everyone involved in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia’s most populous county. County attorneys say […]
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“Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings … showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be. He then stated, ‘Our First […]
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The goal of the investigation, Choi said, is to find out if ICE agents committed crimes that they could be prosecuted under state or federal law, adding, “This is not about any type of predetermined agenda other than to seek the truth and to investigate the facts.” Hennepin County, where Minneapolis is located, announced last […]
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Annie Ramos, the 22-year-old wife of Army soldier Matthew Blank, was released from ICE custody on Tuesday. Ramos had been detained for five days after being arrested on the Fort Polk, Louisiana, military base where her husband is stationed. “I am deeply grateful to my husband, Matthew, who never stopped fighting for me, and to […]
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Annie Ramos, the 22-year-old wife of Army soldier Matthew Blank, was released from ICE custody on Tuesday. Ramos had been detained for five days after being arrested on the Fort Polk, Louisiana, military base where her husband is stationed. “I am deeply grateful to my husband, Matthew, who never stopped fighting for me, and to […]
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It was one of three pieces of legislation signed by Sherrill to protect immigrant rights across the state and push back against Trump’s unlawful immigration agenda, a promise she campaigned on before taking office in January. A nearly identical bill was vetoed by former Governor Bill Murphy in his final day of office. “As we’ve […]
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Naturally, Graham is one of the architects of this war. He advised the Israeli government on how best to lobby Trump to try to topple the Iranian regime. He did his own part too, playing a word association game with the president in the weeks leading up to the conflict. “I say Franklin Roosevelt, what […]
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At an emergency meeting, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called the war “a significant burden on our economy, which is highly dependent on global trade and energy imports from the Middle East.” Japan, which imports close to 95 percent of its oil from the Middle East, is reportedly preparing to release oil from its […]
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At an emergency meeting, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called the war “a significant burden on our economy, which is highly dependent on global trade and energy imports from the Middle East.” Japan, which imports close to 95 percent of its oil from the Middle East, is reportedly preparing to release oil from its […]
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At an emergency meeting, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called the war “a significant burden on our economy, which is highly dependent on global trade and energy imports from the Middle East.” Japan, which imports close to 95 percent of its oil from the Middle East, is reportedly preparing to release oil from its […]
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The pitch appears to be contingent on a new component of MAGA’s 2020 presidential election conspiracy, blaming China for the alleged election interference. The party, and its leaders, have already baselessly attacked mail-in voting and accused the country’s largest electoral software companies—Smartmatic and Dominion—of rigging their machinery to assist President Joe Biden. Both companies sued […]
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The pitch appears to be contingent on a new component of MAGA’s 2020 presidential election conspiracy, blaming China for the alleged election interference. The party, and its leaders, have already baselessly attacked mail-in voting and accused the country’s largest electoral software companies—Smartmatic and Dominion—of rigging their machinery to assist President Joe Biden. Both companies sued […]
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