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A “significant segment” of Canadians say Canada’s 2017 refugee target of 40,000 is too high, while one in four Canadians wants the Liberal government to impose its own Trump-style travel ban. Those are just two of the findings in a new Angus Reid Institute poll that looked at Canadians’ attitudes toward the federal government’s handling…
Getty Today, Donald Trump took a break from screaming at random reporters to tour Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. That’s despite the fact that he tweeted (as, regrettably, he so often does) about never flying on the plane. Well, okay, Trump wasn’t wrong about the Dreamliner having issues with lithium ion batteries. Strangely, however, none of that…
John McCain—the original Maverick, ol’ Walnuts, the brave teller of truths—is somehow once again positioning himself, to credulous journalists, as a renegade Republican who isn’t afraid to buck his party, despite his three-decade record of not ever actually bucking his party in any meaningful way. “John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview,” the…
Internet turns to @Sweden on Twitter after Trump appears to invent terror attack So, what’s going on in Sweden?Image: MORI/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK/@Sweden composite By Ariel Bogle2017-02-19 05:03:40 UTC If you needed extra evidence the world’s quickly sliding into the Upside Down, here it is: People are turning to a country’s Twitter account for details about a terror…
We have to just come out with it, those of us who are American Jews in the media. It’s time we made Trump bathe in his own batshit. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, February 16, 2017. Evan Vucci/AP If you’re Jewish and you’re still…
Pope Francis speaks in Malmo, Sweden in October 2016 (Photo by Michael Campanella/Getty Images) The Pope has been critical of President Trump’s treatment of immigrants. But some American Catholics think the Pope needs to slow his roll. Yes, some Catholics are trying to explain to the Pope why God believes in the so-called “extreme vetting”…
US Ambassador to Somalia Stephen Schwarz presents the President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed with a hat that reads “Make Somalia Great Again” (Twitter) Donald Trump’s campaign hat, which reads “Make America Great Again” has become the icon of a movement. So much so, that the US Ambassador to Somalia just gave the President of…
react-text: 223 In the old parable about a group of blind men trying to describe an elephant, each man can only feel a specific part of the animal, and so their descriptions of it are accurate, but still fail to capture the reality. President Donald Trump’s /react-text react-text: 225 White House press conference /react-text react-text:…
The morning after President Donald Trump‘s impromptu White House press conference in which he spent over an hour largely bashing American media as “fake news,” his supporters are doing their part to discredit the Fourth Estate. Twitter abounds on Friday morning with users posting their complaints about the media—CNN is a prime target, as it…
ICE agents rounded up hundreds of undocumented immigrants in an ‘enforcement surge’—and they appear to be casting a wider net than before. Last week, for America’s undocumented immigrants, President Trump’s crackdown began. Over the course of several days, the Department of Homeland Security conducted an “enforcement surge” in the biggest cities throughout the country—New York,…