Politics

During an indigenous people’s march in Paris shortly before the climate agreement was approved in December 2015, Casey Camp-Horinek presented a traditional Ponca cradleboard to the people of the city. The cradleboard represents future generations. “We come here with a present for Paris, we know what happened [in the terrorist …

Barack Obama (photo via nbcnews.com) article by Associated Press via nbcnews.com Former President Barack Obama was named the 2017 winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Thursday for carrying on his fellow Democrat’s legacy. “President Kennedy called on a new generation of Americans to give their …

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ironically calls warnings from the business community over the bathroom bill “fear mongering.” Texas social conservatives watched longingly from afar as North Carolina lawmakers trashed the state’s reputation, killed business opportunities, and lost numerous sporting events over an unenforceable “bathroom” bill based on unfounded fears. …

Ryan practices mind control on his easiest target yet, Donald Trump. It all started with popular vote loser Donald Trump and an early morning tweet, as it usually does. x Don’t worry, getting rid of state lines, which will promote competition, will be in phase 2 & 3 of healthcare …

I keep my chocolate in here. When a letter starts with “I write to supplement my January 10, 2017 testimony” you might think it’s going to acknowledge a mistake. But of course, Team Trump does not make mistakes. So Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee can’t …

Sergey Kislyak is everywhere That drip, drip, drip of Trump advisers admitting that they, whoops, forgot about that meeting they had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak? Well, here’s the biggest drip of all. A few minutes before he made those remarks, Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russia’s …

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) promised Monday to revise and reintroduce a bill that took aim at Donald Trump’s original Muslim ban in order to block Trump’s 2.0 version of the ban. Murphy called the new ban, which removed Iraq from the initial list of majority-Muslim …

This is Freedom in Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s stunted mind: with the Republican Obamacare repeal plan, you can make choices. The choice he’s suggesting you make, however, shows that he understands healthcare about as deeply as he understands ethics in government. “We’re getting rid of the individual mandate. We’re getting rid …

Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Note: Time it takes for a Venus flytrap to close: 100 milliseconds. Approximate number of days it takes one to digest a trapped insect: 10.  I’m noting these scientific facts in case the Trump White House scrubs them from the archives of …

Betsy DeVos Los Angeles voters have a choice on Tuesday. The city is holding Board of Education elections, and big-money backers of charter schools—one of the forms of education privatization framed as “choice” by people like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos—are pouring funds into winning the three available seats (out of seven). …