The Web company used by 8Chan, the hate site where recent El Paso shooter posted his white supremacist hate messages against immigrants before driving nine hours to the border town, announced it will no longer provide services to the racist site, effectively shutting down the 8Chan page. A Nebraska Republican lawmaker called out the GOP—and Donald directly—for …
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Learn to bear with fortitude | How your voices are making a difference
John Ratcliffe, Donald’s nominee for head of intelligence despite his having little experience and having embellished his credentials, lying about his accomplishments, is out. New York state prosecutors are continuing their investigation into Donald’s payment of hush money during his campaign to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, subpoenaing related documents from the Trump Organization. Speaking of Stormy …
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“We stuck together like neighbors are supposed to do.” | How your voices are making a difference
No doubt you’ve read plenty about Mueller’s testimony before Congress this past week, so we won’t rehash it here—but watch Donny deny things Mueller clearly said in this video comparison. Major automakers bypassed the White House’s resistance to upholding higher standards for gas mileage in vehicles by secretly negotiating a climate deal with California to limit vehicle emissions. …
Our Racist President | How your voices are making a difference
Nancy Pelosi forced House Reps to go on the record with their responses to Donald’s most recent racist tweets with an astonishing, rare vote to condemn the president, which passed mostly along party lines. Unsurprisingly, Republican lawmakers are all cool with institutionalized racism except for four of them, including Texas’s Will Hurd, and a former Texas …
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37 Subpoenas | How your voices are making a difference
Republicans Against the Law A federal judge blocked Don John’s effort to switch legal representation in seeking to circumvent the Constitution by pushing through with adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in violation of the Supreme Court decision disallowing it—followed by a second federal judge upholding that ruling. At which point, in yet another head-spinning 180, Donald once …
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Donald’s masturbatory celebration of self | How your voices are making a difference
Republicans Against the Law After threatening to unconstitutionally delay the next census indefinitely because of the Supreme Court ruling against Don John adding a citizenship question, the question’s engineer, Wilbur Ross, announced that the government had dropped plans to add the question. The very next day, Donald called the report of his own flip-flop “FAKE …
Plant your trees, warriors | How your voices are making a difference
Please indulge me in a word before we launch into all the ways your voices made a difference this week. “Sometimes you get the elevator; sometimes you get the shaft.” I first heard this saying in Austin writer Sarah Bird’s book The Boyfriend School. At the time I found it hilarious, but lately I’ve been finding …
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Rainbow-clad Kids at Drag Story Hour | How your voices are making a difference
Good global news—after authoritarian Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded a new election when a candidate from the opposition party won the Istanbul mayoral election, the opposition candidate won again—by an even wider margin, dealing a decisive blow to Erdogan’s human-rights-violating, oppressive ruling party. Republicans Against the Law Despite the unilateral efforts of Virginia’s Republican legislature, …
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Baby Wannabe Despot in Chief | How your voices are making a difference
Republicans Against the Law The Office of Special Counsel, a federal ethics watchdog agency, recommended that Kellyanne Conway be removed from federal office for repeated violations of the Hatch Act—disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while in her official capacity. Donald refused to follow the Depression-era law and the ethics organization’s recommendation. Donald also stated on national TV that he would not …
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A reminder of the goodness of people | How your voices are making a difference
Seventeen automakers, including Ford, Volvo, GM, and Toyota, signed a letter asking the Mentally Deranged Dotard not to roll back Obama-era auto pollution regulations, promising “an extended period of litigation and instability” if he does. Republicans Finding a Spine A bipartisan group of senators has introduced more than a dozen bills intended to block Donald’s sales of …
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