Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms appeared on both CNN’s State of the Union and CBS News’ Face the Nation this Sunday morning. In both appearances, the mayor urged Donald Trump to “just stop” talking. The mayor compared Trump’s tweets about mass protests to his comments on Charlottesville, adding that “he speaks and he makes it worse.”…
‘Challenge people on race’: Philadelphia activist sums up what progressives can’t skip out on
“You can actually have church actually in your own home on a Sunday morning, or a Wednesday, for that matter,” the Reverand Gregory Holston told Daily Kos during a Making Progress interview. Now, that conversation took place last summer at Netroots Nation, a conference for progressives, but his words on how to make faith and…
Pelosi slams Trump’s dangerous musing on injecting disinfectant: ‘They call that embalming’
As one might expect, the Sunday shows are filled with talk about Donald Trump’s bizarre and dangerous suggestion about injecting disinfectant as a possible treatment for the novel coronavirus. He has since said his comment, originally made on Thursday, was “sarcastic.” On CNN’s State of the Union, for example, host Jake Tapper and House Speaker Nancy…
Trump adviser calls anti-lockdown protesters ‘modern-day Rosa Parks’ as nation faces pandemic
As small groups of protesters gathered in a handful of states across the country, right-wing economist Stephen Moore compared their actions to none other than civil rights icon Rosa Parks, as reported by The Washington Post. What were these protesters doing in groups that almost certainly don’t fit the guidelines for social distancing during a…
Fox News continues to minimize risk of coronavirus, with the help of former Reagan Cabinet member
On Monday, April 13, former Ronald Reagan Cabinet member Bill Bennett went on Fox News to give his expert opinion on COVID-19. Bennett is probably best known as a right-wing moral “crusader,” who, it turns out, was full of shit. But just because you spew mostly methane doesn’t mean you can’t get a place to speak to…