Saturday, March 16, 2019

JUST IN: Illinois House votes to require LGBT history curriculum be taught in schools


Murdoch remains the single most pernicious non-government force on the planet. It’s hard to think of any other well-funded global corporation which is more responsible for the spread of political extremism


Spot the Difference


BREAKING: Arrest made in brutal Staten Island mob hit of reputed Gambino family


The isolation of Vladimir Putin began five years ago with the annexation of Crimea


Cindy Yang really wanted the autographed picture with President Trump. But she needed to raise $50,000. She tapped high-dollar donations from a very unusual group: massage parlor workers.


.@mattgaetz-Can you please explain where you magically came up with over $200K to fund your initial campaign for Congress? Were you illegally given the money? You had a much smaller loan in your financial disclosure owed to your dad. Doesn’t look like you had cash lying around.


Estonian Foreign Intelligence explains the Russian influence threat.


Looking back at #Christchurch it’s worth noting how cutting funds to the DHS “Countering Violent Extremism” program to combat white supremacist terrorism was among the first acts of the @realDonaldTrump administration. I asked him about it last November. His response was a lie.


Roger Stone's daughter just broke his gag order. She called the Mueller investigation a "witch hunt." She's a surrogate, right?


Mikhail Lesin, the former Russian press minister who turned up dead in a Washington hotel room in 2015, sustained a fracture to a neck bone just below the jaw line "at or near the time" of his death, according to recently released Washington autopsy files


For Trump, the wall isn’t intended to separate US from Mexico - but to cynically divide us here at home.


More horrifying details from the Italian press on the suspected poisoning of Iman Fadil who was a witness against former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi (Putin’s best friend). “They said she had died after a "month of agony".


News Corporation chairman, Rupert Murdoch. 2,891 Murdoch Media Stories Trashing Islam In A Single Year, Study Reveals

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"At some point, we'll have to start issuing subpoenas." - @RepTedLieu on the White House and a deadline for sharing info on communications between Trump and Putin.


Former Fox News reporter Diana Falzone ready to spill to congressional investigators about why her story on Stormy Daniels' payoff never ran.


Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men: how right wing groups, fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans & motorcycle gangs have become part of the Kremlin’s efforts to undermine Western democracy


A President that puts Americans first doesn’t unleash a budget that starves them of housing, health care & food


"McConnell isn’t popular at the best of times and, at what is shaping up as the worst of times for Republicans, the turtle is showing, once again, that he has the spine of a jellyfish,"


Iraqi ambassador: Tucker Carlson ignorant of history


Beto O'Rourke campaigns for the 2020 Democratic nomination in Muscatine, Iowa: "We have systemic racism in this country."


Opinion: Mass murderers crave publicity. Maybe giving them less would be helpful.


Donald Trump: ‘I Don’t Really’ See A Rise In White Nationalism


Lori Loughlin's husband is apparently a vocal Trump supporter who complains about people not 'carrying their own weight'


Rush Limbaugh auditions to be Alex Jones. This is awful.


Scathing federal report reveals Pentagon can't account for $2.1 billion it spent


JUST IN: Ted Cruz fined $35,000 by FEC for keeping voters in the dark about campaign contributions


New Zealand prime minister tells Trump to show "sympathy and love for all Muslim communities"


Despite a court order to stop interfering with or obstructing access to reproductive services, Scott Lloyd kept tracking the girls' pregnancies for months afterward.


Murdoch's Sky News Australia has been taken off the air in New Zealand after it broadcast the mosque shooter's disturbing video of the attack


Not a single member of the House voted against making the Mueller report and findings public, but now Senator Lindsey Graham is blocking a vote in the Senate. There’s no justification for trying to keep the report hidden unless you’re afraid of what it might contain.


Here is a pregnant Chelsea Clinton being accosted in public by NYU students blaming her for the New Zealand massacre. You are free to have your opinion, but how you express yourself matters. Note how Clinton never shuts down or stops listening, despite not deserving any of this.


April 5, 2018 - "He has instructed his staff to give him a spreadsheet each week that tells him about any unaccompanied minors who have asked for one and how far along they are in their pregnancy. "


We shouldn't discount the danger of the president's veto today. It's a terrible milestone. Only Congress has authority to fund federal activities to protect us from abuses of executive power. Congressional Republicans must uphold the Constitution or be complicit in its violation.


New Zealand bans semiautomatic rifles less than 24 hours after the Christchurch mass shooting. Imagine: elected officials putting public safety over gun manufacturers’ profits. Americans deserve better than lawmakers who are letting gun lobbyists write our nation’s gun laws.


New filing in Roy Moore v. Sacha Baron Cohen: Errata


Heirs to abused climate skip school for worldwide protest


Gates 'continues to cooperate'


Newsom on skewed death row: 'I cannot support that system'


Trump makes gross mix of NZ condolences with border stunt


Trump admin tracked individual migrant girls' pregnancies