Americans are seemingly pushing back against a recent trend that has seen multiple states pass more restrictive abortion laws. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, 58 percent of Americans said, “abortion should be legal in most or all cases.” That is an increase of 8 percent from a …
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 »Elizabeth Warren Is Rooting for Daenerys Targaryen in 'Game of Thrones'
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is a Game of Thrones fan, and her favorite character is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Daenerys “Stormborn” Targaryen, who Warren says, “has been my favorite from the first moment she walked through fire.” We learned this in a column Warren wrote for The Cut published …
Read More »Republicans Are Launching Attacks at Rep. Ilhan Omar (Again)
Rep. Ilhan Omar is once again being targeted by Republicans and right-wing media. Once again, the attacks against the Muslim lawmaker are clouded in bad faith. The latest round of outrage comes in light of comments Omar made last month at a Council on American-Islamic Relations event in Los Angeles, …
Read More »Judge Rules Against 'Delusional' Bundy Clan Leader
The patriarch of the Bundy clan, whose sons staged the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016, has been laughed out of court by a Nevada judge who called the rancher’s claims about federal lands “simply delusional” and “fundamentally flawed.” Cliven Bundy is an infamous (his fans might …
Read More »Advertisers Continue to Flee Tucker Carlson. Will Fox News Stick With Him?
On Wednesday morning, Fox News hosted advertisers at its New York headquarters for the first “upfronts” meeting in the network’s history. The goal was to convince executives to purchase airtime on Fox News programming blocks despite the network’s Trump-fueled descent into abject demagoguery. Though protesters congregated outside the network’s Manhattan …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Refuses to Back Down in the Wake of Even More Foul Clips
Fresh audio of Tucker Carlson’s run of appearances on Bubba the Love Sponge’s radio show is making the rounds. True to the duo’s on-air oeuvre, it features a bunch of gross misogyny. This time, it’s directed at a teenager. In 2007, Miss South Carolina Teen USA Caitlin Upton was widely …
Read More »House Passes Anti-Corruption, Pro-Voter Rights 'For the People' Act
The Democratically-controlled House of Representatives passed a sweeping reform bill to address money’s corruption of politics and the erosion of voting rights on Friday. “It’s a power grab for the American people,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) told theNew York Times. Among the reforms proposed in the bill are: Making Election …
Read More »Why Did a Bunch of Republicans Vote Against a Bill Condemning Bigotry?
This wasn’t supposed to be hard. On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted on a resolution denouncing hatred. The bill was introduced as Democrats grappled with how to respond to what pro-Israel lawmakers have considered anti-Semitic sentiments expressed by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), but its language encompassed pretty much every …
Read More »Don't Let the Jussie Smollett Hoax Fool You: Hate Crimes Are on the Rise
Three weeks after claiming he was attacked by a pair of masked men yelling racist and homophobic slurs, Empire actor Jussie Smollett turned himself in to Chicago police on Thursday. Smollett has been charged withfiling a fake police report portraying himself as the victim of a hate crime. Attorneys for …
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