ArchiveAugust 2019

If Trump has his way, his Doral hotel is going to be the site of the 2020 G-7 meeting of world leaders. Unfortunately, it’s already the site of a bedbug infestation. Back in 2017, the hotel settled a lawsuit with a traveler who spent the night at Doral and woke up with “dozens of bites” and his “back and neck riddled with red blotches after he slept at the resort’s $300-a...

The Trump administration is taking another step to harm immigrants. This time, it’s by cutting off their access to life-saving medical care. It’s a breathtakingly cruel move, but it’s also the sort that has become routine under this administration. Up until earlier this month, immigrants who might otherwise be deported were able to stay in the country if they or a relative were...

Under Trump, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has curtailed its investigations into animal welfare. That means things like puppy mills aren’t getting investigated at all. Puppy mills are awful. As the Humane Society explained, a puppy mill is “an inhumane high-volume dog breeding facility that churns out puppies for profit, ignoring the needs of the pups and their mothers” and...

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency released drone footage of wall construction on Saturday, as part of the Trump administration’s attempts to claim that it is building new border wall when it isn’t. Acting CBP commissioner Mark Morgan appeared on “Fox & Friends,” Trump’s favorite Fox News show, on Tuesday morning to tout the footage. But even as he...

Trump praised Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, after he rejected millions of dollars in international aid pledged to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest. “I have gotten to know President @jairbolsonaro well in our dealings with Brazil,” Trump wrote on Tuesday. “He is working very hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of...

The Federal Election Commission, which oversees campaign finance laws, just functionally shut down, thanks to the resignation of one of its commissioners, Matthew Petersen. His departure leaves the FEC with only three members, which isn’t a quorum, meaning it can’t conduct any official business. As Paul S. Ryan of Common Cause, a government watchdog group, put it, the FEC “will...

In a move as petty as it is outrageous, Kentucky Republicans are building a literal wall in their state capitol office annex. It’s all so three GOP senators won’t have to sit anywhere near Democrats. Republicans hold all three branches of government in Kentucky, but they hold a particularly large advantage in the state Senate chamber: 29 Republicans to just 9 Democrats. That may be...

Kentucky coal miners who were dismissed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are now appearing in an ad for Democrat Amy McGrath, who is running to replace him. “Ten hours on the bus, and we got to see him for all of one minute,” says Kentucky coal miner Jimmy Moore in the ad, which was released Friday. Moore explains in the video that his stepfather and grandfather died from...

Republicans are still trying to spin Trump’s nonsensical idea about buying Greenland as some sort of chess master move. The latest attempt comes from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who drafted an op-ed for the New York Times praising the idea on Monday. Cotton declared Trump is “crazy like a fox” for wanting to purchase an entire country that has adamantly insisted it is not for sale...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) insists that there is “appreciation” in Maine for her support of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But polls have shown that Maine was never on board with the nomination and that Collins’ support has dropped ever since the hearings. Collins admitted in an interview with Politico published Monday that she has “lost some votes because of my...