Attorney General Bill Barr’s unprecedented effort to let former national security adviser Mike Flynn off scot-free hit yet another speed bump this week. Two judges on a three-judge appeals panel reviewing a request to force the dismissal of the case appeared very skeptical of the rationale for ordering a lower court judge to do so. Flynn’s lawyers,…
As previously suspected, it looks like the Republican Party is homing in on Jacksonville, Florida, as the “new” location for Donald Trump’s National Republican Convention. The Washington Post reports that the party’s more boring, proceduralish meetings will still be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, so that the party can dodge lawsuits for breaking their contract,…
Donald Trump is all about branding and he’s been very in love with his whole “Space Force” plan. But somehow those two things didn’t come together competently enough for the Department of Defense to edge out Netflix when it came to global trademarks for the term “Space Force.” “Space is a war-fighting domain just like…
As Kerry Eleveld covered just a short while ago, bunker-cowering president Donald Trump’s job approval numbers in a new CNN/SSRS poll have utterly collapsed—down to 38% approve, 57% disapprove. The poll has presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden ahead by a gaudy 55-41 that, if accurate, would have Biden approaching the 400 electoral vote mark. The…
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin, and Franklin County, Commissioner Kevin Boyce, were all pepper-sprayed today, during a protest outside the Ohio Statehouse, where people were peacefully demanding an end to police brutality and marching for justice. Beatty, who has represented Ohio’s Third Congressional District since 2013, was at the protest, which…
Forget about coronavirus—Donald Trump is determined to repeat the political rally and ode to his own ego he staged in Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July last year. That event featured all the military hardware Trump could demand, excluded regular people from the prime locations in favor of tickets for Trump’s allies, and forced the National Park Service to divert $2.5…
On Wednesday, the United States officially passed the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from the COVID-19 virus. While Donald Trump marked the occasion by attacking members of the media and floating conspiracy theories on Twitter, Joe Biden released a somber, heartfelt message to the families of the 100,000 Americans who fell victim to this deadly virus,…
On May 21, Timothy Klausutis wrote a letter to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. In it, Klausutis pleaded with Dorsey to excise a conspiracy-laden, fact-free tweet the president of the United States sent out over Memorial Day weekend, a tweet that implied Klausutis’ deceased wife, Lori, was secretly murdered by then-Congressman Joe Scarborough. Klausutis explained that there was no one with…
This is an updated reprise of a previous Memorial Day essay. Georgia State Flag, 1956-2001 The year my mother moved the two of us out of southwest Georgia—1956—was the same year the legislature there chose to unfurl a new state flag in defiance of the desegregation mandate of the Supreme Court’s unanimous Brown v. Board…
On Friday, Donald Trump let it be known that he had something to say about the COVID-19 pandemic. But rather than his usual hours-long ramble in which he confesses to taking a dangerous off-label prescription, or encourages Americans to sip a Clorox cocktail, Trump stumped out to the stage for only two minutes flat. He was…
More than 40,000 National Guard members are hard at work helping states fight the novel coronavirus, from testing to disinfecting facilities to contact tracing—and the Trump administration plans to screw them over to save some money. The administration announced a “hard stop” on deployments on a date that just happens to be one day before any of…
New reasons are emerging for why it was important that the inspector general of the State Department be removed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wasn’t just illegally using the State Department personnel to handle his personal errands—he turned taxpayer-funded dinners intended to support U.S. foreign policy objectives into a means of building his own political clout. Instead of…
Eric Trump, the president’s son, spewed his usual nonsense on Fox News Sunday, this time to advocate for the senior Trump’s all-so-important right to campaign during the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, Eric Trump, executive vice president of The Trump Organization, accused Democrats of trying to “milk” needed coronavirus lockdowns for “everything they can.” “And you…
On Saturday, The New York Times reported what we probably should have presumed all along: It was Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who “urged” Donald Trump to fire the State Department’s inspector general, continuing the widespread purge of government officials responsible for oversight of the impeached president and his team of corrupt incompetents. The…
This past Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was a lying sack of crap. “They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that’s no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game…
While Kentucky’s senior senator, Republican Mitch McConnell, is drawing red lines over more assistance to the states trying to stay afloat in the coronavirus crisis, the governor, Democrat Andy Beshear, is making sure the state’s unemployed get all the assistance possible. That’s led to a third of Kentucky’s workforce filing for unemployment, the largest share of…
The Trump White House is now a coronavirus hotspot. With the news of Mike Pence press secretary Katie Miller (wife of white nationalist Stephen Miller) and Donald Trump’s military-provided personal valet (read: Diet Coke deliverer) testing positive, as well as unidentified Secret Service members, that much seems clear. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Stephen…
After California issued a safer-at-home order in March, a “large number” of extended family and friends met up in Pasadena to hold a birthday party in mid-April. That birthday party, held at a private residence, according to the Pasadena Public Health Department, is being credited with creating a cluster of five confirmed cases of the novel…
On Thursday, CNN went through some of their recent archives to pull out statements that newly anointed White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany made about her new boss, Donald Trump. It turns out that a lot of those statements were no good. I mean, they were honest—they just aren’t good for the job she has now….
Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen at the Associated Press introduced their updated fact-check story of the squatter in the White House Saturday morning with these words: Truth can be a casualty when President Donald Trump talks about deaths from the coronavirus in the United States. True enough, although they could have ended that sentence at “talks.” His endless stream of lies…