ArchiveNovember 2018

Trump is willing to believe almost any conspiracy theory you put in front of him — but somehow he refuses to believe what scientists in his own administration are saying about the impacts of climate change. On Friday, scientists from 13 federal agencies released the National Climate Assessment — a comprehensive, 1,600-page report on the devastation that climate change has already brought to the...

Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) has conceded to Democrat Ben McAdams, giving Democrats their 38th pickup in the House of Representatives. After weeks of counting ballots from the close election, officials determined that McAdams had won by 694 votes. The victory in deep-red Utah showed just how strong the “blue wave” really was in the 2018 midterm elections. It also highlighted the GOP’s...

Trump has spent nearly two years in the presidency without any serious congressional oversight, thanks to Republican control of the legislative branch. Now it looks like Trump is left without enough competent lawyers to represent him and his underlings as they face Democratic control of the House and a government that plans to do its job again. Politico reports the White House counsel’s...

After Trump’s ill-advised trade war cost GM $1 billion, the auto manufacturer is announcing that it will cut thousands of jobs and may close several factories. “General Motors will lay off 14,700 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure,” the Associated Press reports. These plans are not final, the AP notes, as GM is still in...

Trump launched his latest Twitter tirade about special counsel Robert Mueller on the same day yet another of his senior campaign aides heads to prison. Trump has repeatedly attacked Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign’s involvement in that attack. On Twitter, Trump asked if Mueller will “be covering all of his...

Corporations are lining up to demand a refund of their campaign contributions to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) because of her racist comments and history of supporting the Confederacy. Hyde-Smith, a white woman, is in a close Senate runoff race with Mike Espy, a black man seeking to become the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Mississippi since 1982. Over the weekend, Major League Baseball...

Trump justified the use of tear gas against desperate migrant children by describing them as “stone cold criminals.” Migrants seeking refuge from Honduran violence and chaos in the United States were tear-gassed at the U.S.-Mexico border by agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Photographs showed that many of those on the receiving end of the gas were young children, some of...

In the 2018 midterms, Michigan voters overwhelmingly supported the Democratic candidate for governor, Gretchen Whitmer. She beat her conservative GOP challenger, outgoing Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, by nearly 10 percentage points. With that, Michigan voters sent a clear message that they favored the sort of progressive values Whitmer ran on, including policies like raising the...

The Trump administration is reportedly paying undercover informants to infiltrate the migrant caravan and spy on the group as they make their way north after fleeing violence in Central America. According to NBC News, the Department of Homeland Security is overseeing the operation to gather intelligence from the group of about 4,000 asylum-seeking migrants. In addition to placing undercover...

Since moving into the Oval Office, Trump has used his Twitter account to attack Americans like John McCain and Dianne Feinstein way more often than his pal Vladimir Putin. According to a comprehensive analysis by the New York Times, Trump has attacked the FBI 24 times as often as Putin, and his own Department of Justice 8 times as often. The Times catalogued 547 people, places, or things Trump...