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Hundreds of activists rallied and marched in downtown D.C. this December in a show of solidarity with Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors. (Photo by Julie Strupp) Activists are planning a rally tonight in front of the White House to show their opposition to the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines….
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has instituted what it described as a temporary media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants. Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press detailed specific prohibitions banning press releases,…
You Are Not Equal. I’m Sorry. A post is making rounds on social media, in response to the Women’s March on Saturday, January 21, 2017. It starts with “I am not a “disgrace to women” because I don’t support the women’s march. I do not feel I am a “second class citizen” because I am a…
This morning I got a notification from my Politico news app that told me what I quietly prayed wouldn’t happen: President Trump froze federal hiring. My blood boiled and I went silent to the people around me. My career plan, my humble job that I wanted for years, my job that I’d sent in several…
Getty Images A journalism professor raises some excellent points. It’s damn near impossible to turn on a cable-news show and not see Kellyanne Conway sitting there, doing verbal parkour to try to explain how whatever awful thing Donald Trump (or his press secretary) just did was actually neither offensive nor terrifying, and really, it’s all…
YouTube Richard Spencer told followers on Friday that he and fellow white supremacists might need their own protection force, after the ‘alt-right’ founder got punched in the face during an anti-Trump protest. If law enforcement can’t protect us from antifa assaults we will begin protecting ourselves.— Richard 🐸 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) January 21, 2017 Spencer did…
On Jan. 20, 2017, President Trump took the oath of office, pledging in his inaugural address to embark on a strategy of “America first.” Here are key moments from that speech. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) President Trump has officially declared the day of his inauguration a national day of patriotism. Trump’s inaugural address on Friday frequently…
President Donald Trump gestures after getting out of his car in front of the White House on Friday.Mark Wilson/Getty Images Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a day after it was posted online, the petition calling on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns has garnered more than 158,700 signatures—more than enough…
Donald Trump has elevated Ajit Pai to chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, giving control over the agency to a reliable conservative who’s been opposed to pretty much every big action the commission has taken in recent years, from establishing net neutrality to protecting consumer privacy to restricting major cable mergers. Pai has been a…
Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer began his second briefing from the White House by referring to it as the “first briefing,” an attempt to downplay a statement he gave Saturday that contained a number of falsehoods in reference to Donald Trump’s inaugural crowd size. Spicer began the press conference at 1:45 p.m., almost 15 minutes…