Politics

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson called Donald Trump’s rescinding of the original ban “total capitulation.” Moments after Donald Trump’s new Muslim ban was announced, the legal group that feverishly worked to combat the original ban issued its assessment of Trump’s new Islamophobic masterpiece: “The only way to actually fix …

Monday Mar 06, 2017 · 12:34 PM PST 2017/03/06 · 12:34 Women members of Congress wearing white to Donald Trump’s congressional address on Feb. 28, 2017. Women members of Congress wearing white to Donald Trump’s congressional address on Feb. 28, 2017. North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer is now engaged in …

Protest at office of Texas Sen. John Cornyn. Authoritarian legislators in a third of the states hope get bills suppressing dissent passed this term. Inae Oh at Mother Jones writes—Republicans All Over the Country Are Pushing These Anti-Protest Bills to Silence Peaceful Dissent: As citizens unhappy about the Trump administration …

Chance the Rapper (photo via rollingstone.com) article by Dan Hyman via rollingstone.com Chance the Rapper announced on Monday that he will donate $1 million to the Chicago Public Schools Foundation “for arts and enrichment programming.” The announcement came at a press conference held at Westcott Elementary School in the Grammy-winning …

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who lied about his Russia contacts. Americans are getting a little squeamish about the connections between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, and they don’t exactly trust the Trump administration to sort it out. In fact, 55 …

Monday Mar 06, 2017 · 3:04 PM PST 2017/03/06 · 15:04 The White House spent some of its back from Mar-a-Lago time on Monday issuing a glowing press release talking about how super awesome ExxonMobil is and how they’re creating jobs and Trump is creating jobs and sure the program everyone’s …

Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is The return of Baby-Man: • What you may have missed on Sunday Kos: • A Women’s History Shero: Ida B. Wells, by Denise Oliver Velez• The buck stops with the President, by Mark E Andersen• We’re your neighbors (not enemies): Why I couldn’t be prouder …

Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff Wow. This new quote about Democrat Jon Ossoff from the Republican mayor of Georgia’s seventh-largest city—situated in the state’s 6th Congressional District, which is hosting a major special election on April 18—will blow your socks away: Jere Wood, the longtime Republican mayor of Roswell, disagrees. “This …

After delays last week because things were going so darn well, Donald Trump has signed a new Muslim ban. The new version of the ban includes Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and Libya, but drops Iraq after a lot of embarrassing stories about Iraqis who were endangered by their work with the U.S. military being …

Jason Chaffetz Is Donald Trump telling the truth when he says former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped? House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz—bearing in mind that Trump is a confirmed liar who bases his claims on whatever he happens to have just read on Breitbart News—what say you? …