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Last night, the Senate voted 49-43 to silence Elizabeth Warren as she read a letter written by the wife of Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King. King sent this letter to the Senate in 1986 when the chamber was in debate on whether or not to confirm Jeff Sessions to a lifetime appointment on…
A low moment for the world’s greatest deliberative body. CREDIT: Senate TV via AP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a parliamentary procedure to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the middle of a speech critical of Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s pick to be the next attorney general. McConnell claimed Warren broke the rules of decorum by quoting…
An Iraqi man weeps during his visit to the site of a suicide truck bomb attack in Karada district in central Baghdad on July 6. (Ali Abbas/European Pressphoto Agency) On Monday in Florida — the same state devastated by the Pulse nightclub massacre last year — President Trump told members of the military that the…
Story highlights Gorka says the administration will continue using the term “fake news.” Trump and his staff have repeatedly used the term “fake news” to discredit reporting on the presidential administration. “There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media, not just the pollsters, the majority of the media to attack…
Nazi-punching has become America’s new national pastime since a video of alt-right poster boy Richard Spencer getting decked at Donald Trump’s inauguration went viral. Thanks to Wavves’ Nathan Williams and his brother Joel, who make music together under the name Sweet Valley, those who want to slug white supremacists can now do so from the…
So, President Donald Trump is supposedly upset that a woman played his White House press secretary on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend. Politico is reporting that seeing Sean Spicer depicted by a thunderous Melissa McCarthy bothered the president so much, particularly because he “doesn’t like his people to look weak.” Spicer himself said that he thought…
Surely there are more than two Republican senators who are smart enough to realize that Betsy DeVos is neither qualified nor competent to lead the U.S. Department of Education. Which makes her confirmation Tuesday all the more maddening. For all of President Donald Trump’s talk as a candidate about disrupting Washington as usual, there…
A source familiar with internal communications said President Donald Trump is disappointed in Spicer’s performance during the first two weeks of the administration. Spicer has served as both White House press secretary and communications director for the new administration. Those roles are typically filled by two staffers. Former Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller was originally…
Sean Spicer’s WHOIS data is public for everyone to see Image: Alex Wong/Getty Images By Brian Koerber2017-02-07 18:54:20 UTC After an election where data security became a regularly debated hot topic, you’d think everyone in politics would, for lack of better poetry, have their shit together. But of course, you’d be wrong. Until very recently,…
Vice President Mike Pence is likely to cast a tiebreaking vote on Tuesday to confirm Betsy DeVos as education secretary. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, call him the tiebreaker. A vice president does not have much on his plate, as far as constitutional responsibilities go. He presides over the official…