ArchiveDecember 2018

After the tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where a white student killed 17 people, the federal government convened a Federal Commission on School Safety, to be headed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. That commission was charged with finding “meaningful and actionable recommendations to keep students safe at school.” Now, the Commission has...

Sarah Sanders emerged from hiding and used an extremely brief press briefing to attack the FBI and to promote absurd conspiracy theories about the prosecution of Trump’s criminal former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. The White House press operation has been in hiding since November 27, the date of the last briefing — nearly a month ago. In total the Trump administration has only...

Right now, the FBI is investigating whether Republicans engaged in election fraud to try to win a House seat for Mark Harris in North Carolina. At the same time, state and local investigators are examining whether Harris personally had a hand in the fraud. In spite of all this, both North Carolina’s statewide GOP and the 9th Congressional District GOP just called on the state elections...

Even though the stock market is not a good proxy for the overall health of the U.S. economy, Trump has spent two years using it as a proxy for his own success. He’s tweeted about “stocks” or the “stock market” more than 70 times, usually giving himself outsized credit for any positive news at all. In just one month, October 2017, Trump bragged about the stock market...

Michael Flynn, a former Trump campaign adviser and Trump’s first national security adviser, appeared in court Tuesday and asked for his much-anticipated sentencing hearing to be delayed. Flynn was scheduled to be sentenced for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during and after the 2016 campaign. He is yet another member of Trump’s campaign and inner circle now facing...

Trump is agreeing to shut down his family’s private foundation, and give away the rest of its money, as he faces a lawsuit alleging that he illegally used the charity for his own benefit. The Trump Foundation has signed a stipulation with the New York Attorney General that will dissolve the organization, which prosecutors say was used for “repeated and willful” acts of...

In a blatant snub to the will of Arizona voters, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey will appoint the loser of last month’s Senate race, Rep. Martha McSally, to the Senate. The appointment comes a few days after Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, previously appointed to finish out the late Sen. John McCain’s term, announced he would step down on Dec. 31. McSally will now serve out the remainder...

Secret Service agents are willing to put their lives on the line to protect Trump and his family, but his push for a shutdown to pay for his racist border wall could cut off their pay. In a shutdown, Secret Service agents still have to work because they are deemed essential, but they’d have to do it without paychecks since government agencies wouldn’t have money to pay them. As...

Throughout 2018, Michigan voters made clear that they strongly supported helping the working people of their state with two major reforms: requiring businesses to provide paid sick leave, and increasing the minimum wage. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of voters signed petitions to get those measures on the ballot. The GOP took that choice away from voters, however, by passing the measures in the...

During the campaign, Trump promised Mexico would pay for a wall on the US-Mexico border. Now Trump is threatening a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t pay a $5 billion ransom for the wall, and Congressional Republicans now admit they have absolutely no clue what to do. Until January, Republicans control the Senate, House, and White House. Trump will initiate a government shutdown...