At a rally in Ohio this week, President Donald Trump went after a familiar target: the late Senator John McCain. “I have to be honest, I never liked him much,” the president told his crowd at the General Dynamics plant in Lima. “Probably never will.” (Trump seemed particularly galled that …
Read More »Trump Ruins Everything, Next Up: Fourth of July
With seemingly nothing better to do this morning, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to make all Americans dread the Fourth of July, for the first time ever. “HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It …
Read More »Michael Cohen Will Reportedly 'Pull the Curtain Back' on Trump's Crimes
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s embattled former lawyer and fixer, was set to testify before Congress on February 7th. Then, late last month, he backed out, citing fear over threats from his former boss. A day after Cohen reconsidered voluntarily appearing before Congress, the Senate Intelligence Committee left him with no …
Read More »The Supreme Court Unanimously Weighs in on Civil Forfeiture
For years Tyson Timbs passed by an Indiana police impound lot on his way to work where he could see his Land Rover, confiscated in 2013 after he sold an undercover officer four grams of heroin. “It was a visual reminder for him that this wasn’t over,” Timbs’ lawyer, Wesley …
Read More »Parkland, One Year Later: Surviving Students Maddy Wilford and John Wilford
On Valentine’s Day 2018, a 19-year-old ex-student took an Uber to his old high school; he walked across the campus and into a three-story building, where he killed 17 people and injured 17 more. It was the sixth of 24 shootings in U.S. schools last year, but the incident at …
Read More »Mitch Dworet, Annika Dworet, Alex Dworet: A Family Living With Grief
On Valentine’s Day 2018, a 19-year-old ex-student took an Uber to his old high school; he walked across the campus and into a three-story building, where he killed 17 people and injured 17 more. It was the sixth of 24 shootings in U.S. schools last year, but the incident at …
Read More »Mike Pence Finds Criticism of His Right to Discriminate 'Offensive'
Last week, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told the New York Timesthat he doesn’t understand why the terms “white supremacy” and “white nationalism” are offensive. Though King’s racism has been well-established, House Republicans made a show of denouncing the comments and on Monday stripped King of his committee assignments. President Trump …
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