Immigration officials on Wednesday raided a series of food-processing plants in Mississippi, arresting 680 suspected undocumented immigrants. It could be the biggest workplace immigration enforcement action in a single state, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acting director Matthew Albence told the Associated Press.Children of the immigrants were left behind without …
Read More »One of Trump's 'America First' Speeches Was Edited By a Foreign Government
In calling for an investigation into Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Tuesday, President Trump made it four straight days of bashing the House Oversight Committee chairman. Driving the president’s vitriol is, among other things, the fact that Cummings’ committee is investigating potential misconduct by Trump and his administration. It’s understandable …
Read More »Trump on Khashoggi Murder and Saudi Human Rights Abuses: We 'Take Their Money'
In an interview that aired on Sunday’s Meet the Press, President Donald Trump was asked by host Chuck Todd why the president turns a blind eye to the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and human rights abuses, while overruling congress and allowing more arms sales to Saudi Arabia. …
Read More »Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Run as White House Press Secretary Is Over
President Trump announced on Thursday that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of June. “After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State …
Read More »Trump Backs Off Tariff Threat After Reaching Deal With Mexico
After threatening Mexico with exorbitant tariffs on imported goods, President Donald Trump announced Friday night that the U.S. signed an agreement with Mexico to reduce the flow of migrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. However, Mexico and the United States had reached the terms of the agreement months before Trump …
Read More »U.S. Sees Largest Reduction of Protected Lands in History Under Trump
The Trump Administration is responsible for causing the largest reduction of protected public lands in U.S. history, according to a comprehensive study published this week in the journal Science. In 2017, the study noted, President Trump enacted two of the largest reductions of federally protected lands, shrinking Bears Ears by …
Read More »2020 Candidate Beto O'Rourke: 'The House Should Move Forward To Impeach' Trump
When Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was a congressman from Texas, he twice voted against the House opening proceedings to impeach President Donald Trump. But now O’Rourke has joined only a handful of Democrats who are calling for impeachment. “Yes, I think there’s enough evidence now for the House of …
Read More »The Press Will Learn Nothing From the Russiagate Fiasco
On February 15, 2016, the National Review took unprecedented action. In an all-out plea to Republican voters to stop Donald Trump before it was too late, the magazine enlisted 22 of the right’s most prominent voices to band together and throw support elsewhere, to save the party. The “Conservatives Against …
Read More »Inside a White-Nationalist Cookout
Excerpted from the book Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan, published by Metropolitan Books. Copyright © 2019 by Anna Merlan. Reprinted with permission. Available for purchase here. “The white majority are fed up with all of these lying, cheating, thieving, war-mongering, …
Read More »Watch Fake Trump Supporters Get 'Dog Walked' in Anarchist Performance Art
Indecline, the artist collective best known for clandestinely installing statues of naked Donald Trump across America, has moved into performance art. Of course, their fierce political approach — and taste for the grotesque —hasn’t gone anywhere. Inspired by Cardi B’s tweet-threat that she would “dog walk” Fox Nation host Tomi …
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