| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evangelical scammers praise Trump for hastening the end of the world. Well, they're not wrong... Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has produced a good read on the "End Times" evangelicals who support Donald Trump because they believe, truly and sincerely, that Donald Trump will bring ... |
Hunter | 01/25/2020 | 82 |
| Jay Sekulow is a busy person. When he is not fronting for Trump, he is pounding drums of all kinds. I was interested in just who Jay Sekulow is. I found out he is a very busy man. He is so busy that he is the perfect person that Trump would have picked to be Chief Council. He is an entertainer, an activist and reported to be one of the 4 horsemen (... |
Vetwife | 01/25/2020 | 44 |
| TRUE BLUE REPORT—Liberal Christian responds to Hymn for the 81% (they taught you better than that?) Daniel, my brother in ministry: Praise the name of Jesus Christ this song is MAGNIFICENT. I have been waiting quite a long time for for someone like you to write a song like this. I'm not ... |
TrueBlueMajority | 01/25/2020 | 67 |
| If Paul Simon Wrote a Song About GOP Senators, It Would Be “53 Ways to Fail Your Country” Hey everybody, I almost hate to interrupt whatever filthy, steamy, sex fantasies y’all are no doubt having about Adam Schiff right this very minute, but I figured we should round up the news real quick before disappearing back into his righteous... |
ShowerCap | 01/24/2020 | 53 |
| Evangelical Christian's song about the betrayal he feels from evangelical Trump support goes viral Daniel Deitrich is a Christian worship leader in South Bend, Indiana. As discussed in this article for Religious News Service, such worship leaders are among the 81% of evangelical Christians who voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Four years ago Dietrich... |
Dartagnan | 01/24/2020 | 293 |
| Mike Pompeo explodes after NPR interview, rages harder after reporter is able to find Ukraine on map Earlier, Daily Kos’ Jen Hayden wrote about Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo getting backed into a corner during an interview with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly on Morning Edition. Pompeo lost his cool after Kelly asked him to speak about the lack of... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/24/2020 | 362 |
| ACLU files complaint with DHS watchdog documenting abuse of pregnant people in CBP custody The ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties and the ACLU Border Rights Center have filed a complaint with the Homeland Security inspector general documenting the inhumane treatment of pregnant people in Customs and Border Protection custody.... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/24/2020 | 16 |
| Adam Schiff’s perfect shutdown of Trump’s ‘executive privilege’ claims is mandatory viewing Rep. Adam Schiff took time away from wiping the floor of the U.S. Senate with Donald Trump’s weak-sauce arguments, to go in front of cameras outside of the Senate to … wipe the floor with the president’s weak-sauce arguments. Speaking alongside the... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/24/2020 | 104 |
| 'Right matters and the truth matters': Read Adam Schiff's history-making impeachment trial speech Thursday evening marked the end of a second long day on the Senate floor in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Democratic officials presented the evidence to America, detailing how and why Donald Trump must be removed from office. The highlight was lead... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/24/2020 | 29 |
| House Oversight Committee calls for information regarding ongoing family separation at border Two leading House Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to hand over information regarding the separation of nearly 1,000 migrant children from their families at the southern border in the year since a federal judge’s ruling ordered a halt... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/24/2020 | 5 |
| Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar to give Spanish-language Democratic response to State of the Union House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have announced that Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas will deliver the Spanish-language Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech next month. “In the House of... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/24/2020 | 10 |
| Acting ICE director confirms DACA recipients will be targeted if Supreme Court ends program Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set on deporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients should the Supreme Court rule in favor of the Trump administration this year and end the program, the agency’s acting director, Matthew Albence,... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/24/2020 | 26 |
| New clip of young Lindsey Graham talking about impeachment confirms his hypocrisy knows no bounds Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds. It is hard to write this in new ways every few minutes, but it is the job of any honest person to acknowledge it. With Donald Trump’s impeachment trial ... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/23/2020 | 81 |
| Tennessee senator tries to burn Adam Schiff, but Twitter roasts her almost instantly Sen. Marsha Blackburn is well-known around these here parts for being a pretty detestable human being. Then again, detestability seems to be the only qualification for being a Republican senator these days. And Blackburn has indeed been doing her job... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/23/2020 | 259 |
| Republican Senators are deluding themselves if they think Americans will forget their treachery At this point what everyone predicted in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump has already come to pass, even though we’re still in the “opening statements” phase. My personal view, for what it’s worth, is that there will not be a single... |
Dartagnan | 01/23/2020 | 271 |
| Ocasio-Cortez dismisses calls for civility: ‘I feel a need for all of us to breathe fire' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke on stage with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at the Riverside Church in Harlem. The two discussed King’s legacy and the oversimplification of his message. Coates pointed out that while... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/23/2020 | 428 |
| Lindsey Graham goes into hiding just before Jerry Nadler calls him out—with receipts Rep. Jerry Nadler spoke today during the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. At one point during his statement, Nadler wanted to make it clear to everyone that the top Republicans in the room were full of shit, especially by their very own... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/23/2020 | 139 |
| 'A year of horrors': Human costs of Trump admin's Remain in Mexico policy continue to climb The human costs of the Trump administration’s anti-asylum policy continue to escalate. Human Rights First has now tracked nearly 820 public reports of murder, torture, rape, kidnapping, and other violence against asylum-seekers returned to Mexico under... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/23/2020 | 5 |
| Trump defender Matt Gaetz publicly sulking after he didn't get picked for Dear Leader's B-team One of the problems with being a professional political suck-up is that there is always someone willing to be more of a suck-up than you. Grovel all you like: Lindsey Graham will have you beat. Praise Dear Leader day and night: Nikki Haley will write a... |
Hunter | 01/23/2020 | 83 |
| Los Angeles City Council unanimously passes temporary ban on private detention facilities The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously passed a temporary measure blocking new private detention facilities within the city, CBS Los Angeles reports. It’s a victory for residents, who had protested a possible children’s detention facility opening... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/23/2020 | 2 |
| Group of parents deported without their kids by Trump admin return to U.S. following court ruling Nine parents who were deported without their children after being separated by the Trump administration in 2017 and 2018 returned to the U.S. this week, as part of a historic court ruling. Among them was Guatemalan asylum-seeker David Xol, whose... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/23/2020 | 21 |
| It appears we have a King. The New Pledge we are witnessing. Oath of offices for republicans, disregarded by a sham Senate impeachment trial, apathy and unconcern and downright distraction from half of the voting public and denial plus addiction is what 2020 looks like so far. We have loyal followers of the so... |
Vetwife | 01/23/2020 | 25 |
| Tulsi Gabbard sues Hillary Clinton in an apparent bid for new public attention There is not a snowball's chance in hell that outgoing Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will ever be elected president, and it is equally unlikely she will ever again touch any nationwide office, ... |
Hunter | 01/22/2020 | 632 |
| Did Donald and Ivanka Trump plunder inauguration funds? Suit filed by D.C. attorney general says yes Unpopular President Donald Trump had one of the most poorly attended inaugurations in recent memory. Of course, while Trump’s ego was subsequently stroked by his minions lying about the throngs of people who were supposedly excited to see him, the... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/22/2020 | 213 |
| Migrant teens abused at detention facility gain powerful new allies in ongoing litigation A 2018 state investigation into a Virginia detention facility found that, yes, staff did strap migrant teens to chairs and sometimes place bags over their heads as punishment, but none of it, investigators claimed, reached the threshold for abuse. “A... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/22/2020 | 16 |
| Jay Sekulow makes a fool of himself in the Senate, so of course the Trump team doubles down One of the more baffling moments of the frequently baffling defense offered up by Trump's impeachment team was an extended rant on "lawyer lawsuits" delivered by Trump personal lawyer and co-conspirator to crimes Jay Sekulow. Nobody could figure out... |
Hunter | 01/22/2020 | 213 |
| Democratic senators want answers regarding detention, questioning of Iranian Americans at border Twenty Democratic senators are demanding to know why a large number of U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents of Iranian descent were detained for hours and interrogated when trying to return home to the United States from Canada earlier this... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/22/2020 | 11 |
| Two more Mississippi inmates are dead. That’s at least 7 in January, and people want answers Mississippi prison officials are fielding a new round of scrutiny after two inmates died due to “blunt force” beating in their facilities Monday night. According to NBC, prison officials also said a third inmate died by suicide in his cell on Sunday.... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/22/2020 | 7 |
| Kellyanne Conway's husband on Senate Republicans: 'What are they afraid of?' Conservative lawyer and husband of truly awful person Kellyanne Conway continues to work to the left of his wife in the public sphere. Known for attacking the current administration, the one his wife works vociferously for, Conway was on CNN earlier... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/22/2020 | 124 |
| Coalition of 90 community rights groups call for release of transgender people from ICE detention The calls for federal immigration officials to release transgender people from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody continue to grow, following a new letter from a coalition of community rights organizations citing the federal immigration agency... |
Gabe Ortiz | 01/22/2020 | 4 |