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Trump continues a conspiracy that never ended as he covers up the cover up of a crime
It’s hard to know where to begin discussing the president’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence. So let’s start with what it means. It’s not a pardon….
Trump seeks to revive some of the worst trophy hunting practices in yet another inexplicable move
Our nation’s iconic wildlife is under attack in another inexplicable move by the Trump administration. In the latest blow, the government is aiming to allow…
Will our schools re-open? That’s the wrong question
Here’s what we know about whether it’s safe or practical to send millions of American kids and teenagers back to school for the fall term,…
Robert Mueller saw this coming — and again Trump’s criminality is obvious
I don’t think there was anyone in the country who was truly surprised that President Trump commuted his good pal Roger Stone’s sentence. I think…
Why COVID-19 runs rampant among the US prison population
DC Report’s Dr. Bandy X. Lee was interviewed by the Rev. Jean-Fritz Guerrier, Coordinator of Community Life for the All School Conference at Yale Divinity…
Trump’s push to reopen schools prematurely is an assault on states’ rights that may prove deadly
It’s hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu as the Trump regime threatens to withhold federal education funding from states that refuse to re-open…
How 68,000 COVID-19 survivors created a world-class patient resource group in just four months
Diana Berrent was one of the first people in her hometown of Port Washington, New York, to get COVID-19. Back then, in early March 2020, only…
‘The rats are leaving the sinking ship’: Internet stunned after Lindsey Graham agrees to let Mueller testify on Trump
Senate Judiciary Committee Charman Lindsey Graham (R-Sc) stunned political observers on Sunday by siding with Democrats to allow former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify…
Damning report exposes Trump DOJ’s efforts to line up a secret supply chain for federal executions
An explosive Reuters investigation revealed Friday that a series of executions the Trump administration has planned for next week “will mark the culmination of a three-year campaign to line up…
Internet buries Betsy DeVos for ‘total trainwreck’ CNN interview: ‘Why is she in charge of ANYTHING?’
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos both stunned and appalled Twitter commentators on Sunday morning after she spent nearly 24 minutes sparring with CNN host Dana Bash…
Trump isn’t the first president to recklessly endanger his health — but he’s putting others at risk too
President Donald Trump did something very unexpected on Thursday: Speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in a live phone interview, he said that he would…
What the oligarchy fears the most
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, took the knee last month before cameras at a branch of his bank. Larry Fink, CEO of giant…
Trump and the GOP have become the party of the dead
There are few morbid topics subject to greater speculation than the religious loyalty of President Donald Trump’s “base.” Why an alarmingly large amount of Americans…
As coronavirus seizes the state, Florida hospitals are in panic mode
As Florida experiences a surge in coronavirus cases, the residents of the state are facing obstacles like overwhelmed hospitals and a looming shortage in beds. This article…
The GOP is a suicide cult
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried –…
More than 20 million people face eviction by the end of September as GOP threatens to cut aid: study
One in five Americans who live in rentals could face eviction by the end of September as Congressional Republicans move to cut off unemployment assistance…
Tucker Carlson’s ex-lead writer has a history of racist, homophobic and misogynistic social media posts
Blake Neff, the lead writer of The Tucker Carlson Show on FOX News, resigned on Friday after CNN uncovered a trove of disgustingly racist, homophobic and…
Why is Alexander Vindman being driven out of the Army? He’s not a suck-up
The United States Army is at heart like a college fraternity. At the top are the generals, the officers of the frat — seniors who…
Undercover in Trumplandia: How I found the limits of patriotism when I infiltrated the Tulsa MAGA rally
It was June 20th and we antiwar vets had traveled all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the midst of a pandemic to protest President…
Hate groups cashed in on pandemic relief
Organizations listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) received millions of dollars in government-backed Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, according to data from the Small…
These 7 details from the damning Sharpiegate report show it was a dark omen of Trump’s destructive potential
While it was dismissed by some as an overhyped media obsession, the presidential scandal that has come to be known as “Sharpiegate” was, in fact,…
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