Tag: Politics

The Rwanda bill passes: is it really ‘game-changer’?

After a protracted round of parliamentary “ping pong”, peers finally approved the Government’s Rwanda bill on Monday night, clearing the way for it to become law.  The legislation instructs judges to treat Rwanda as a safe country for asylum seekers. This will prevent migrants from challenging their deportation on the basis of general claims about […]

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Even Trump’s Advisers Stunned by Details from Hush-Money Trial

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Why Did Elon Musk Just Kick Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Off X?

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Alina Habba Once More Presents Bizarre Defense of Trump’s Actions

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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You’ll Never Guess What the Right Is Blaming George Soros for Now

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Trump Is Paying Attention to Just One Detail About Hush-Money Trial

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Is Trump Afraid of This Key Hush-Money Trial Witness?

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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What Other Dirt Does David Pecker Have on Donald Trump?

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Black Men Might Turn Their Backs, Literally, on President Biden’s Morehouse Commencement Speech

Democratic presidents delivering graduation commencement addresses at HBCUs are typically good vibe moments. But that’s not the case this time. The Biden And Trump Classified Documents Scandal Explained Off English Strong opposition is brewing against President Joe Biden’s invitation to deliver the May 24 keynote speech at iconic all-male HBCU Morehouse College in Atlanta. Morehouse, […]

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Potential Trump VP Pick Brags That She Murdered a Puppy She Hated

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Jamie Raskin Goes Scorched Earth on SCOTUS Trump Immunity Case

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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‘Horror stories of women having to carry nonviable fetuses’

‘Idaho Republican legislators wouldn’t fix abortion law. It’s up to the Supreme Court.’ Idaho Statesman editorial board Doctors warn that Idaho’s “strict abortion ban is jeopardizing medical care when the health of the mother is at risk,” says the Idaho Statesman editorial board. Women have had to “carry nonviable fetuses” or fly out of state […]

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Haiti interim council, prime minister sworn in

What happened A nine-member transitional council was sworn in to govern Haiti on Thursday following the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The council includes representatives of political parties, civil society and the private sector. Henry, blocked from returning to Haiti by armed gangs that control much of the country, signed his resignation letter in […]

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Ex-Giuliani Associate: Trump Attacked Hunter Even Earlier Than We Knew

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Ex-Giuliani Associate Reveals When Trump Set Sights on Hunter Biden

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Giuliani: Why’d Arizona Indict Me? I Did Far Worse Elsewhere

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Giuliani Makes Hilarious Attempt to Defend Against Arizona Indictment

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Justices set to punt on Trump immunity case

What happened The Supreme Court’s conservative majority, after nearly three hours of oral arguments Thursday, appeared unlikely to give former President Donald Trump the “kind of get-out-of-jail free card” he is seeking in special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election subversion case, Politico said. But a majority of justices seemed ready to enshrine some level of […]

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Samuel Alito’s Resentment Goes Full Tilt on a Black Day for the Court

He also cites “record levels of depression and mental illness, dispirited young people, soaring suicide rates, increasing numbers of angry and alienated young males, an increase in senseless violence, and a deadly drug epidemic.” Again, all true. But the society for which he pines didn’t even measure many of these things and locked mentally ill […]

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Lara Trump Says RNC Poll Watchers Will ‘Physically Handle The Ballots,’ Which They Are Not Allowed To Do

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty Last week, we reported that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor the counting of votes and potentially challenge the count. The plans were confirmed by the RNC, which announced that attorneys would be […]

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Tall tales: Penny Mordaunt offers to open rural Aldi with a sword

Ceremonial dutiesPenny Mordaunt’s sword-wielding abilities impressed the nation during King Charles’s coronation and they could once again be on display – at the opening of an Aldi in North Wales. During recent business questions in Parliament, Conservative MP Virginia Crosbie, who represents Ynys Môn, invited the Leader of the House of Commons to attend the […]

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Can We Become a Country of “Joiners”?

We also talk about how clubs are the place where people learn civic skills. It’s associations where we practice how to run a meeting, give a speech, plan an event, organize a protest, resolve tensions, recruit collaborators, spread ideas, build bridges, and gather and wield power. There have been many explanations for the broad atomizing […]

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The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco

Those who try to downplay Balaji’s importance in Silicon Valley often portray him as a “clown.” But Donald Trump taught us that clowns can be dangerous, especially those with proximity to influence and power. In the nearly eleven years since his secession speech at Y Combinator, Balaji’s politics have become even more stridently authoritarian and […]

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Sam Alito Thinks We’re All Stupid

ADF is not hiding its strategy. Alito, on the other hand, keeps to the stealthy shadows, attempting to advance arguments that promote fetal personhood while simultaneously insisting that this unprecedented expansion of personhood rights won’t come at the expense of women’s lives and autonomy. It’s a deception of the highest order and onlookers might be […]

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Humza Yousaf clears the decks to battle no-confidence vote

Humza Yousaf’s position as Scotland’s first minister is hanging in the balance, as he “fights for his political future” with a no-confidence vote looming. The Holyrood grapevine is abuzz with reports that Yousaf has cancelled a planned speech in Glasgow later today to concentrate on the challenge to his leadership, Sky News said.  The Scottish […]

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Why Team Biden Is So Angry at The New York Times’s Coverage Of Trump

An excellent new Politico report by Eli Stokols has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team believes The Times isn’t adequately capturing the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy, while The Times responds that Team Biden is out to micromanage the paper of record’s coverage. We think […]

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Inside the Nasty Shadow War Between The New York Times and Team Biden

An excellent new Politico report by Eli Stokols has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team believes The Times isn’t adequately capturing the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy, while The Times responds that Team Biden is out to micromanage the paper of record’s coverage. We think […]

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Uvalde Parent Obliterates Police Response to Texas University Protest

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Even More People Were in on Trump’s Hush-Money Scheme Than We Knew

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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The Grotesque Slander of Comparing Gaza Protesters to Neo-Nazis

This, in turn, has fueled racist narratives that these college students, many of whom are themselves Jewish, are antisemitic terror supporters, often implicitly encouraging outside violence against them. Instead, these students have been smeared as fake Jews, a slur of convenience that allows those who are ostensibly concerned with the safety of Jewish students to […]

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