Throughout the campaign and until recently, Russian state media — aka propaganda, outlets like Russia Today and SputnikNews — published supportive and often fawning coverage of Donald Trump’s candidacy and presidency. During the month of January 2017, for instance, Trump received more mentions in Russian state media than Russian President Vladimir Putin. In February, sources reported […]

Donald Trump praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in an Oval Office interview, taking the unusual step of complimenting an oppressive leader while sitting in the ultimate seat of American power, even as his administration is sending alarming signals about its “military preparation” for possible action against North Korea. Speaking to Reuters, Trump said of […]

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) is leaving Congress, possibly for a job at Fox News. If the rumors are true, his history of partisan attacks and skullduggery will be a perfect fit at the right-wing propaganda network. In a letter to his constituents, he announced his intention to resign, effective June 30. He explained that his “life […]

The runoff for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District — a seat Republicans have held for nearly four decades — is now in full swing, between former Democratic congressional staffer and filmmaker Jon Ossoff and former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel. Republicans long claimed Ossoff would have no chance against a single opponent, rather than the fractured […]

Despite initial insistence that he would unite the nation as president, Donald Trump’s callous immigration policies are already tearing families apart, causing harm and disruption to people’s lives and to the country as a whole. Now he plans to use his first address to Congress as an opportunity for a transparent political move, designed to impugn undocumented immigrants […]

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, has been a powerful and consistent voice of opposition to Donald Trump and his corrupt administration. Together with Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, Swawell introduced a bill in January to create a bipartisan independent commission to investigate Russia’s meddling in the presidential election. Every Democratic member of the House […]

Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, says that Ivanka Trump cannot evade responsibility for Donald Trump’s attacks on women’s rights, since she is now a part of his administration. Since occupying the presidency, Trump has at every turn chosen to erode and attack women’s rights, including […]

Donald Trump took questions for over an hour at a press conference following his announcement of a new pick for labor secretary, and offered rambling remarks that covered the familiar territory of bashing the media, lying about the court that killed his Muslim ban, and lying about his electoral victory. The event was characteristically chock-full […]

The Associated Press reports that China has approved 38 Trump-related trademarks, “paving the way for President Donald Trump and his family to develop a host of branded businesses from hotels to insurance to bodyguard and escort services.” China is the world’s largest market for luxury goods, so a trademark there could quickly become a profit […]

Shareblue was first to report that within days of taking office, Donald Trump scrapped the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) in favor of a format of his own devising that the White House has had trouble explaining. Now, it appears that the new intelligence briefing relied heavily on disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, whom the White House […]

Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY) has confirmed that the revamped Republican health care plan is a disaster for people with pre-existing medical conditions. The plan is the second attempt from Donald Trump and Republicans, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan, to repeal Obamacare. The first version of their plan, which would have stripped health insurance from […]

The plot continues to thicken around the White House’s attempt to cover up their coordination with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) to leak classified information, and otherwise obstruct that committee’s investigation of the Trump administration. On Friday, members of both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were invited to the White House to review […]

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence previously announced that they will be conducting a full investigation into Russian interference in our presidential election, including cyberattacks and leaks of classified material. Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) does not want the inquiry to stop there, though. She is calling for the investigation to include a specific examination […]

Before Donald Trump was even sworn into office, his transition team knew Michael Flynn was under federal investigation and was thus a huge liability to the incoming administration. Yet he was appointed national security adviser anyway. Flynn reportedly told the Trump transition team — which was headed by Mike Pence — that he was being investigated for secretly […]

Donald Trump took a beating from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto when Peña Nieto responded to Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for his absurd border wall by canceling their meeting next week. Trump’s answer to that was to have his press secretary propose a 20% tax on Mexican imports. Sean Spicer unveiled the plan during a briefing […]

An extraordinarily racist policy Donald Trump proposed in his joint address to Congress, mostly overlooked by a corporate media anxious to praise him, has come to fruition, and Americans are responding in hilarious — and effective — fashion. Trump announced the creation of an anti-immigrant office, with the tortured acronym “Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement” (VOICE), which ostensibly would aid victims of crimes committed […]

Donald Trump spent the weekend preceding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day attacking Rep. John Lewis, a lifetime Civil Rights activist, because Lewis criticized Trump and questioned the legitimacy of his presidency. This morning, without a shred of irony or self-awareness, Trump tweeted: Celebrate Martin Luther King Day and all of the many wonderful things that […]

Donald Trump has opened up yet another avenue of corruption by putting up for sale a $28 million mansion he owns on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, the Washington Post reports. The beachfront estate, La Chateau des Palmiers, was listed for sale in April by Sotheby’s International Realty, accompanied by an Instagram post making […]

When it was revealed during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that Russian bots (computer algorithm controlled social media accounts) on Twitter had masqueraded as “Bernie Bros” during the 2015-2016 election cycle, it was not news to me — it was confirmation of my experience. During the campaign season, I was vocal on Twitter about my […]

Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed to reporters that he now has “full confidence” in Donald Trump. Ryan, who expressed extreme skepticism about Trump during the presidential campaign, gave his full-throated endorsement of Trump during his weekly press briefing. Ryan’s new confidence comes in the midst of an incredible series of scandals unfolding before the public, from […]

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats backing her stood up to Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, and secured two major concessions after both men had made a lot of noise in the preceding weeks. Trump had initially insisted that funding for his ridiculous border wall be included in the short term […]

As of this writing, Dan Rather’s viral Facebook post on the rapidly unfolding crisis surrounding the Trump administration’s ties to Russia, alongside that country’s interference in our election, has over 235,000 “likes,” as well as over 10,000 comments, and has been shared by readers over 110,000 times. https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10158205383810716 Donald Trump is already reaching unprecedented lows […]

While Republicans desperately try to eke out a win before Donald Trump’s first 100 days are up, Democrats started the week with a rousing call to resistance from Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). In her first full speech on the Senate floor, Duckworth eloquently framed the stakes of the resistance in uniquely American terms. Duckworth has […]

President-elect Donald Trump continues to face serious questions surrounding the legitimacy of his electoral victory, including the dual intrusions by Russian cyberattacks and the FBI. A new report by McClatchy pulls together several threads related to that interference. The first is the revelation that six agencies, including the FBI, have been jointly investigating Russia’s intrusions […]

Donald Trump and his team are in serious trouble now, thanks to relentless pressure from Democrats. The Department of Justice has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the investigation into Russia’s election meddling and the Trump campaign’s connection to that effort. Mueller served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and […]

As the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency draws ever nearer, it is becoming clear that he will have no legislative accomplishments to point to at that milestone, and not much of anything else, beyond broken promises. But that has not stopped the Trump administration from mounting a public relations campaign which included a raft of […]

Once again, it has been made clear that there is no “pivot” coming from this White House. Donald Trump’s new National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, has advised against demonizing Muslims with the term “Radical Islamic Terrorism,” and noted that the term is not helpful in the fight against terrorism. But the phrase still made a […]

When made to testify at the end of Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Session’s confirmation hearing, along with civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) said it was “the equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus.” Now Richmond is calling out Donald Trump’s new hire […]

On CNN’s Inside Politics Sunday morning, anchor John King delivered the corporate media narrative that President-elect Donald Trump needs in order to control the damage from his slanderous and racially-coded attacks on civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). King took pains to point out that “Lewis went first” when Lewis said during an interview […]

Reince Priebus, who will serve as Donald Trump’s chief of staff, is, like many of his fellow Republicans, outraged that Democrats would, based on a consensus view of the intelligence community that Russia intervened in the presidential election on Trump’s behalf, question the legitimacy of his presidency. Brushing aside the breathtaking hypocrisy that his party, […]