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Congress is making good on their promise to drain the swamp, and the forests, and the wetlands. The House, predictably, passed H.J. 69 and the fight goes to the Senate now, so keep calling your congresspeople. For more info: http://bit.ly/2kxN8Ez Hi, everyone. 0:00 I’m Samantha Bee. 0:02 Welcome to “Full Frontal.” 0:04 We are…
With everything that Republicans want to do — repeal Obamacare, overhaul the tax code — it might seem odd that one of Congress’ very first acts would be to kill an obscure Obama-era regulation that restricts coal companies from dumping mining waste into streams and waterways. But that is indeed what’s going on. In early…
Last week, the American left rejoiced when the career of alt-right Shitgibbon-In-Chief Milo Yiannopoulos collapsed in on itself like a dying star. It provided a flood of feel-good headlines at a time when we really needed them. The Blaze USA Today USA Today The Washington Post And unlike NaziPunchGate, this story is one we can…
Sean Spicer arrives at Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 17. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt paid a certain price for his Sunday scoop about White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s treatment of his underlings in the White House communications office. Under the headline “Sean Spicer targets own staff in leak…
President Donald Trump is poised to go down as both the most voracious tweeter and most passionate cable news consumer to ever reside in the White House. Since his stunning upset in November, Trump’s preoccupation with each has seemingly intensified. Whether from Trump Tower, his resort at Mar-a-Lago, or the White House Trump has reportedly…
President Donald Trump intends to intensify enforcement of food safety regulations as a cudgel in international trade negotiations, according to leaked recordings of a what appears to be a phone conversation between Trump and Wilbur Ross, his nominee for Commerce Secretary. During the conversation, which was recorded in December, the then-president-elect also advocated a 10…
Still: MSNBC It is absurd that there should be any public discourse examining where people void their bladders and bowels in 2017, and yet that backward and childish discussion illustrates exactly where we are as a country. Thanks in no small part to the White House’s reversal of Obama’s 2016 directive ordering schools to grant…
Updated | An embattled White House terrorism advisor whose academic credentials have come under widespread fire telephoned one of his main critics at home Tuesday night and threatened legal action against him, Newsweek has learned. Sebastian Gorka, whose views on Islam have been widely labeled extremist, called noted terrorism expert Michael S. Smith II in…
Image via Getty. Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. Thank the good Lord that you’re not at CPAC. Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today: Ivanka Trump, champion of women, met with members of the House and Senate to push a $500…
Image via AP Photo. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who is wrong about most things, inevitably found himself in the tricky position of getting scolded by a small child at an Arkansas town hall meeting on Wednesday night. “Donald Trump makes Mexicans not important to people who are in Arkansas who like Mexicans, like me and…