Politics

What’s that? People don’t want to work alongside Team Weekly Screw Up? Huh, go figure. Despite the caterwauling from Donald J. Trump, petulant manchild, it’s not Democrats who are preventing Trump from staffing his administration with his preferred collection of toadies and minions. It’s Donald J. Trump doing it—because the …

Works from Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry” exhibition (collage by Maeve Richardson) by Callie Teitelbaum The “Mastry” Gallery, created by African-American artist Kerry James Marshall, walks you through Marshall’s journey of making it as a fine artist – a field dominated by whites for centuries.  Marshall was born in Alabama in …

Republican staffs on congressional energy and climate-related committees are brimful of “ex”-fossil-fuel lobbyists thanks to Washington’s political revolving door. No draining of that swamp. Steve Horn at the must-read environmental site DeSmogBlog writes—Congressional Energy and Climate Committees Are Loaded with Ex-Fossil Fuel Lobbyists: A DeSmog investigation has revealed that many …

(photo via blackenterprise.com) article by Samara Lynn via blackenterprise.com In honor of International Women’s Day, let’s focus on tomorrow’s women—today’s girls. It’s no secret; future success requires well-balanced literacy in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Girls are in danger of being left behind in a technology-first world, and this …

Yeah, Paul Ryan’s all casual about destroying one-sixth of our economy. The railroading of our healthcare system continued at breakneck speed Thursday as both the Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees finished work on their respective Trumpcare bills, and by “finish work” I mean reject each and every …

We still don’t know what the Trump administration’s intentions in Syria are. Are we still supporting the same groups? Are we adopting new policies more in line with Russia’s plans for the region? Has our opposition to Assad weakened? We don’t know squat, because Donald Trump and his spokespersons were …

Montana Democrat Rob Quist The storyline is as clear as they come. Democrat Rob Quist is a born-and-raised Montanan, a well-known musician who’s entertained folks around his state and around the world for decades, and a political newcomer running on the populist values that run deep through Montana’s bloodstream. His …

You know Paul Ryan has been working hard because his sleeves are rolled up. Paul Ryan spent the morning giving a deeply dishonest presentation, with PowerPoint no less, on Trumpcare. But one part sticks out as being just mind-numbingly bad and unbelievable. x Paul Ryan says insurance can’t work if healthy must …

Jeff Sessions Attorney General Jeff Sessions: No special prosecutor needed to investigate Donald Trump’s web of ties to Russia during the months when Russia was interfering in the U.S. election and Sessions himself was meeting with the Russian ambassador, meetings he then told the Senate Judiciary Committee hadn’t happened (we …

The Gop health bomb is in a holding pattern, as we wait and see whether Trump throws his weight behind it and twists arms, or heads back to the golf course and looks for someone else to blame. In the meantime, unless there’s a fresh 6 AM Tweetrage, I guess …