Новости за 27.02.2020

“One of the things that we’ve found as we’ve gone around in South Carolina and elsewhere, talking to working people of all sorts, is that people do understand that nobody loves their insurance company.” A grassroots campaign working to build voter support for Medicare for All across South Carolina ahead of the state’s Democratic presidential […]

One of the leaders of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville has reportedly been arrested for child neglect after police found six children living “in a home filled with trash, feces, urine, and/or rotten food.” Extremism expert Emily Gorcenski published screenshots of the court matter involving Michael Joseph Chesny, also known as “Bunker […]

In a bizarre CPAC panel discussion with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway attacked the idea of “being woke.” The term is generally used to refer to having empathy and understanding with communities of color. President Donald Trump’s campaign recently launched an effort to attract Black voters, but Conway told the […]

In Northern California, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been investigating what appears to be the United States’ first example of someone being diagnosed with coronavirus despite having never left the country; everyone previously treated for coronavirus in the U.S. had traveled abroad. With health officials around the world fearing that coronavirus […]

Trump and his trolls downplay coronavirus to protect him — and may be encouraging their fans to take dumb risks Donald Trump lies, all the time, about everything. Right-wing media and congressional Republicans back him up on these lies. As many a liberal who has confronted Trump supporters over the relentless lying has found, a […]

President Donald Trump’s son Eric is attacking a Scottish Green Party leader after he called for an investigation into the money behind a land purchase. Lawmaker Patrick Harvie “said there were reasonable grounds for suspecting that the US president, or people he is connected with, ‘have been involved in serious crime,’” said The Scotsman in […]

In the wake of President Trump’s naming of Vice President Mike Pence to lead the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, past writings by Pence where he defended the tobacco industry are resurfacing. During his 2001 run for Congress while he was governor of Indiana, Pence penned an op-ed where he claimed that despite the […]

A top expert on viral infections has been given orders to not make any statements about the coronavirus without being authorized by Vice President Mike Pence. The New York Times reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci, who serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has “told associates that the White […]

A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump is considering a contempt of court charge against a Russian firm indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich issued a one-paragraph order siding with prosecutors and gave lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting until the end of Friday to explain why the firm […]

Vice President Mike Pence has taken his first step as head of the president’s Coronavirus Task Force, and in so doing he has made crystal clear what the group’s goal actually is. Pence has added two of the administration’s top economic and finance advisors, Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin, to the list of members. The […]

You wouldn’t think that disease, particularly a communicable disease like coronavirus, would have to be shoved through the partisan political machine that we are using for most issues these days. It’s not as if one side of the nation’s divide is in favor of more disease. But the partisan tones are there, and to me, […]

Vice President Mike Pence announced on Thursday that he was placing Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow on his task force to respond to the coronavirus epidemic. Given that Kudlow falsely claimed just two days ago that the virus had been “contained” in the United States, and given that he is a butt of jokes thanks […]

As the coronavirus spreads, there a contingent of Trump supporters who see something more sinister at play. The latest conspiracy to emerge out of “MAGA-world” is the claim that the “deep state” is utilizing the virus as a weapon to undermine President Trump. As POLITICO’s Ben Shreckinger and Alice Miranda point out, the “evidence” for […]

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) survived a mass shooting attack during the Congressional baseball game in 2017 and he bragged about having the best healthcare in the world that saved his life during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “I would not be here today without the greatest health care system on the […]

At 19, Naomi Seibt is on her way to becoming the voice of climate sceptics. Close to the far right in her home country of Germany, she has also been propelled by the Heartland Institute, an American think tank supported by allies of US President Donald Trump. Climate sceptics have found their muse: Naomi Seibt, […]

SEATTLE — Bellevue College has apologized after one of its vice presidents altered a mural of two Japanese American children in a World War II incarceration camp by whiting out a reference to anti-Japanese agitation by area businessmen in the accompanying artist description.The art installation “Never Again Is Now,” created by Seattle artist Erin Shigaki, […]

SEATTLE — Black high school students are more likely to enroll in advanced coursework when their schools employ at least one black instructor to teach such classes, new research suggests.Students of other races are also more likely to take advanced classes when they have the option to take one from a black teacher.The study adds […]

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday and was repeatedly unable to answer basic questions, got snippy with Democratic lawmakers, and falsely claimed research cited by top Democrats was wrong and had been “debunked.” (The numbers behind that research came from DeVos herself, according to this piece in the Washington […]

The president spoke to the nation Wednesday about the spread of the coronavirus. It didn’t go well, just as it never goes well when Donald Trump must be presidential. It’s worth quoting Bloomberg Opinion’s Jonathan Bernstein at length. Today, he wrote: He was at times barely coherent even for someone who knew what he was […]

In the Deep South, some far-right Republicans continue to defend the use of Confederate symbols on government property — arguing that they have historic value. But there is a huge difference between featuring a Confederate flag in a museum and displaying one in a government building or on a military installation. And U.S. Marine Corps […]

A British judge on Thursday paused Julian Assange’s extradition hearing following four days of intense legal wrangling over Washington’s request for the WikiLeaks founder to stand trial there on espionage charges. Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who will ultimately rule on the controversial case, ordered the legal teams for the 48-year-old Australian and the US government to […]

Taylor Swift dropped her directorial debut Thursday, releasing the music video for her song “The Man” in which she stars as, quite literally, the man. In heavy prosthetics and convincing drag, the 30-year-old pop juggernaut parades through the video as an obnoxious man who skates through life to success thanks to the privilege of his […]

When it comes to democracy, the kids aren’t all right. Research recently presented by Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk shows growing disillusionment with democracy – not just with politics or campaigns, but with democracy itself. This growth is worldwide, but it is especially strong among young Americans. Fewer than 30 percent of Americans born since […]

A panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday alleged that socialized medicine — not a car accident — killed Princess Diana. The remarks came during a panel on the alleged dangers of socialized medicine. “Socialized medicine killed Princess Diana,” the announcer revealed before asking one of the panelists to explain why. “Princess […]

In an opinion piece for the Washington Post this Wednesday, Paul Waldman took ABC News to task over its suspension of veteran reporter David Wright after he was secretly recorded in a sting operation by Project Veritas, the “media watchdog” group headed by conservative activist James O’Keefe. Waldman opened his piece with one question: How are […]