Новости за 17.02.2020

According to a new report from Axios, there’s a discussion amongst top Trump officials about reassigning deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates to the Department of Energy from the National Security Council. Coates has been the target of some inside the White House who accuse her of being behind an op-ed in the New York Times […]

Former federal prosecutor John Flannery is one of the over 1,100 former Justice Department lawyers and prosecutors who signed a letter demanding Attorney General Bill Barr resign after intervening to reduce the sentence of a close friend of President Donald Trump. Flannery said that the backlash of Barr’s intrusion is there are many who feel […]

A top EU official for digital policy warned Monday that big tech companies could face tougher rules and penalties in Europe if they failed to adequately curb hate speech and disinformation. European Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton remarks followed talks with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, who was in Brussels urging officials to not go too far […]

Dan Pfeiffer, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and current host of the “Pod Save America” podcast, has written a piece in Politico that offers three essential tips for whomever the Democratic Party nominates as its candidate for president. In particular, Pfeiffer looks at the major mistakes that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) made when […]

It’s not the first time, just the latest that the once-venerable New York Times is getting blasted for appearing to normalize the far right. In recent years the Times has published articles that critics say do just that, from Hitler’s rise a century ago to modern day neo-Nazis. Its latest isn’t an article, but a […]

The recent announcement by Pope Francis that he will not allow married men to be ordained to the priesthood in the Amazon as recommended by the recent Amazon Synod has caused a flurry of conversation and controversy. While those on both sides of the “married priest” debate have a tendency to wrap themselves in the […]

President Donald Trump has already expended all of his political capital with China over his trade war and he is unwilling to pressure the country now that the coronavirus is getting closer and closer to pandemic status. “U.S. health officials have been signaling for nearly two weeks now that a coronavirus pandemic may be on […]

Former White House aide-turned Trump critic Anthony Scaramucci took to Twitter this Monday and voiced his support for billionaire presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, saying that the former mayor of New York has President Trump “unhinged.” “Awwww it’s getting around. @realDonaldTrump is unhinged about @MikeBloomberg,” Scaramucci tweeted. Awwww it’s getting around. @realDonaldTrump is unhinged about @MikeBloomberg — […]

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg joked on Monday about what he would do if President Donald Trump is unwilling to leave the White House after a 2020 loss. During a campaign event in Reno, a voter worried that Trump might call his loss a hoax if the election is close. “I mean, if he won’t […]

The 2020 Census is already shaping up as a potential debacle. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found the Census Bureau was behind schedule in recruiting workers, setting up partnerships with civic groups and testing the technology that will be used to conduct the constitutionally mandated survey, reported Rolling Stone. The once-in-a-decade census has already begun […]

A long time ago, before September 11, 2001, the right-most flank of the Republican Party tolerated the establishment’s compromise with racial liberalism, by which I mean “the basic consensus that existed across the mainstream of both political parties since the 1970s, to the effect that, first, bigotry of any overt sort would not be tolerated, […]

In a column for the Washington Post, conservative Jennifer Rubin expressed disgust with Ivy League-educated Republican lawmakers who have descended into anti-intellectual “know-nothingism” in an effort to parrot whatever the GOP is trying to sell to their most rabid supporters. Following up on comments made by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Fox News where he […]

Anti-LGBTQ activist Franklin Graham says he’s not homophobic, but he is calling LGBTQ activists “truthophobic” and “free-speech-ophobic.” Graham  is once again blasting activists in the UK who have succeeded in getting venues in eight cities to ban him from spreading his hate speech. The evangelical Christian preacher on Facebook says, “my eight-city evangelistic tour across […]

In a Twitter rant this President’s Day, actor, director, comedian, and vocal Trump critic, Rob Reiner, urged his followers to “elect a POTUS who is not a Malignantly Narcissistic Pathologically Lying Misogynistic Racist.” “On this President’s Day let US vow that this Nov. we will elect a POTUS who is not a Malignantly Narcissistic Pathologically […]

President Donald Trump’s constant boasts about the state of the American economy as the “best ever” are at odds with GDP data and other numbers that show the economy isn’t nearly as strong as it’s been under past presidents. As Axios reports, GDP growth during Trump’s first term has been 2.5 percent, which is only […]

MIAMI — The largest Democratic super PAC in the U.S. is launching a new series of attack ads starring a group of Florida Latinos who’ve fled oppressive governments in their home countries, featuring footage of President Donald Trump alongside images of Fidel Castro, Nicolás Maduro and Augusto Pinochet.Priorities USA, which teased this recent slate of […]

German chemicals giant Bayer announced Monday its intention to “swiftly appeal” a U.S. jury’s decision to award a Missouri peach farmer over $265 million in compensation for years of crop losses as a result of drifting dicamba weedkiller. The legal challenge was the first dicamba suit to go to trial and was brought forth by […]

House Democrats are pivoting away from investigations of President Donald Trump and toward economic issues and healthcare for the 2020 general election in November, according to a New York Times report, and shelving—for now—intentions to subpoena former National Security Advisor John Bolton and, in the eyes of critics, giving the president carte blanche on his machinations […]

Nineteen years after the largest attack on an American target since Pearl Harbor, President Trump is looking to cut back on the presence of bomb-sniffing dogs in the country’s airports and train stations. Trump’s 2o21 budget includes plans to get rid of a program that deploys dog teams to detect explosives at crowded travel areas in […]

If we look at Republican candidates for president over the last forty years, we find one significant difference between Donald Trump and his party’s predecessors. Despite all of his forerunners’ failings, it would be a mistake to label any of them as evil. Mistaken or misguided at times? Yes. But evil? No. Even progressive leftists […]

In a column for the Washington Post, longtime political observer Paul Waldman put the Democrats on notice that they would be passing up a huge opportunity to cripple the re-election campaign of Donald Trump if they try to make the election about policy and not about the many controversies still dogging the president. According to […]

White House adviser Stephen Miller was married over the weekend. But instead of congratulations, the nuptials were roundly mocked on Twitter. In a ceremony at one of President Donald Trump’s hotels on Sunday, Miller married Katie Waldman, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence. The news was soon trending on Twitter, where users collectively retched […]

Stacey Abrams “absolutely” intends to run for president sometime in the future, but she told “The View” that she would be willing to be running mate for this year’s Democratic nominee. The former Georgia gubernatorial candidate had previously said she wasn’t interested in being vice president, but now that she’s ruled out a 2020 presidential […]

The Environmental Protection Agency is one of several federal government agencies that are “celebrating” Presidents’ Day this year, but unlike others, it appears to have left out President Donald Trump. “EPA joins the nation this #PresidentsDay in celebrating all our presidents past and future,” a tweet posted by the agency Monday morning reads. Presidents’ Day […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was the subject of criticism this weekend when he commented on a news story surrounding an Alabama Democrat’s bill that would “mandate every Alabama man to undergo a vasectomy within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first.” State Rep. Rolanda Hollis […]