Kaili Joy Gray
Executive Editor
Longtime progressive editor and writer and fierce feminist. Formerly Planned Parenthood, Wonkette, and Daily Kos. Follow her on Twitter @KailiJoy.
Elizabeth Warren did not mince words when she took to the Senate floor to decry the brutal Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care repeal bill. “These cuts are blood money,” she said. “People will die.” Republicans have made it clear they do not want to hear from Democrats. Or women. Or even Medicaid patients who […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 22, 2017The super secret Senate GOP health care bill is finally out, and it’s not as bad as everyone had feared. It’s worse. The bill targets the elderly, the working-class, people with disabilities, people with pre-existing conditions — and of course Planned Parenthood. Not only does the bill “defund” Planned Parenthood, by blocking it from participating […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 22, 2017White House press secretary Sean Spicer recently refused to answer whether Donald Trump believes Russia attempted to influence our election. Spicer claimed he hadn’t had an opportunity to talk to the president about it — a shocking admission, given that the intelligence community started investigating such attempts before Trump was even in office. Fortunately for […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 22, 2017Contrary to Donald Trump’s Twitter-rages and baseless accusations that he and his campaign team are the victims of a “witch hunt,” the evidence of potential collusion with Russia is real. Real enough to warrant an investigation. That’s according to former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who served under President Barack Obama. During testimony before the […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 21, 2017On Tuesday, voters in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District turned out in record numbers to choose between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel. The race has been historic, in terms of enthusiasm, money raised, and the simple fact that the young and unlikely Democratic candidate has turned a deeply red seat, held by Republicans for […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 20, 2017Arizona Sen. John McCain can always be counted on for a good, angry quote about his fellow Republicans. But when it comes to actually standing up to his party, the self-proclaimed maverick is anything but. Now McCain is joining some of his fellow Republican senators in feigning outrage at how the all-male group of 13 […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 20, 2017Russia attempted to hijack our democracy and influence the outcome of our presidential election, and Donald Trump and his administration couldn’t care less. That was confirmed again on Tuesday by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who admitted, in an exchange with OANN reporter Trey Yingst, that he has not even talked about it with Trump. […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 20, 2017There is growing consensus, even among some Republicans, that Donald Trump is not fit to be president. But if Trump were to leave office, either by removal or by resignation, America would still have a serious problem on its hands — and that problem’s name is Mike Pence. “He’s ideological, I consider him a zealot, […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 20, 2017Georgia Republican Karen Handel, who faces off against Democrat Jon Ossoff in Tuesday’s special election, has decried the lack of civility in American political discourse. But she’s not pointing a finger at her own party, who spent eight years hinting or outright declaring that President Barack Obama was illegitimate because he was a secret Kenyan. […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 20, 2017Donald Trump is always eager to denounce acts of terrorism — so long as he can claim “I told you so!” about his anti-Muslim policies. When the perpetrator of violence is white, racist, or even a Trump fan, his silence is deafening. And Trump’s silence in the wake of the tragic attack in London near […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 19, 2017When the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11, Donald Trump boasted that his building was now the tallest in New York. Carlos Humberto Cardona, an immigrant from Colombia who came to the United States 30 years ago, when he was just 17, risked his own health to volunteer in the recovery efforts at Ground […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 19, 2017Donald Trump and his administration pay a lot of lip service to notions of equality and justice for all. But his policies tell another story. And Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) is calling him out for it. “President Trump and his Administration can claim to oppose discrimination all they want, but actions speak louder than words,” […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 17, 2017One year ago, Philando Castile was shot to death in his car by a police officer. On Friday, a jury acquitted the Minnesota police officer who killed him. It’s a story all too familiar in America. Despite the existence of video taken by Castile’s girlfriend, who sat next to him in the car when he […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 17, 2017The way Senate Republicans are trying to push through their super secret bill to repeal health care is egregious for a number of reasons. But their exclusion of women from the process is especially odious. The Senate version of the bill is being written in secret, by a group of 13 Republican men and no women. […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 16, 2017Americans really do not approve of the job Donald Trump is doing. And that is especially true when it comes to his handling of health care. In a new poll from Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, filled with terrible numbers for Trump — including a stunning 65 percent who think he has little or no respect […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 16, 2017Donald Trump’s reputation for inflammatory, divisive, hateful, and even dangerous rhetoric is indisputable. Unless you are Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his deputy press secretary. During Thursday’s White House press gaggle, Sanders was asked about Trump’s comments following the shooting in which Rep. Steve Scalise and four others were injured at baseball practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. While Trump’s […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 15, 2017Senate Republicans are keeping their secret plan to repeal health care so very secret that not even Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price has seen it. Price, before joining Trump’s administration, represented Georgia in Congress, where he was one of the leaders in the fight to repeal Obamacare. That was certainly part […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 15, 2017America’s intelligence community agrees that Russia attacked our democracy by trying to influence the outcome of our presidential election. And Donald Trump does not seem to care. Neither does Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to his own recent testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Angus King, the independent senator from Maine, asked Sessions about his understanding of […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 15, 2017Democrat Ron Wyden, the senior senator from Oregon, has four words of advice for Americans concerned about the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare: “This is go time.” “I can’t remember a more urgent need with respect to health care,” Wyden said in an exclusive interview with Shareblue. The time for the millions of Americans whose lives […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 15, 2017While Donald Trump seems determined to make America best friends with Russia — handing over top secret intelligence and trying to lift sanctions against the country — a nearly united Senate is standing in his way. On Wednesday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 98-2, to impose sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Republicans […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 14, 2017Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney had a hand in Trump’s decision to fire the U.S. attorney who was investigating him — and he’s very proud of it. That’s according to a new report from ProPublica, in which multiple sources claim that Marc Kasowitz “has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 13, 2017When Donald Trump asked Russia to hack our presidential election, Russia was listening. A new and devastating report from Bloomberg reveals that Russia launched vicious cyberattacks on voter databases and voting software in 39 states, far more than had previously been known. In Illinois, Bloomberg reports, “investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 13, 2017After the highly unusual move of inviting the entire Senate to the White House for a national security briefing on North Korea, Donald Trump spent all of 14 minutes with the senators, according to several White House reporters. A senior administration official then told reporters, “What you will see soon is using the economic dimension of national […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 26, 2017During his daily — or, these days, occasional — press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer tried to spin away a statement Donald Trump made only days ago. On Friday, Trump was asked during a press conference in the Rose Garden whether he would be willing to testify under oath about conversations he had with FBI Director James […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 12, 2017Donald Trump has officially been done in by his own Twitter feed. And his own press secretary. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on Trump’s Muslim ban and, as every other previous court ruling has determined, Trump’s own words, as a candidate and as president, show the nefarious and unconstitutional intent behind his ban. In […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 12, 2017While the fired former director of the FBI testified to the Senate that Donald Trump is a liar who attempted to obstruct justice and is unconcerned about Russia trying to hack our democracy, the White House tried to focus on “infrastructure week.” The highlights of “infrastructure week,” according to White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway? “Infrastructure […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 12, 2017From the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared war on immigrants and threatened to enforce harmful draconian policies, but it turns out to be much harder to accomplish now that he is actually in the Oval Office. California U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, blocking Trump’s executive order that would have […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 25, 2017Since before Donald Trump was elected, many Americans suspected that the tax returns he refuses to release might reveal shocking secrets — perhaps including corruption and even financial dealings with Russia. Now the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia have a plan to find out the truth. On Monday, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine and […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 12, 2017Once again, Donald Trump hightailed it out of Washington, where he ostensibly lives to do his job as president of the United States. Trump is spending yet another weekend at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, which his team has absurdly tried to coin the “Summer White House.” There is only one White House, and it […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 10, 2017House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi offered a harsh, but completely fair, assessment of James Comey’s Senate testimony, leading her to ask the critical question, “What do the Russians have on Donald Trump?” Comey’s Thursday testimony was absolutely devastating for Donald Trump. Even Fox News host Chris Wallace declared it “very damaging for the president.” One of the most […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 09, 2017