The masthead of the Washington Post looks a little bit different these days. Underneath the name of the newspaper, in its distinctive type, is a stark, new message: [media-credit name=”Washington Post” align=”aligncenter” width=”492″][/media-credit] As journalist Brian Stelter confirmed with the Post, these four words are indeed a new “value statement” for the news outlet: WashPost's new […]

The New York Times published a fascinating piece about the inner workings of the White House under the Trump administration over the past two weeks. Buried deep within the richly detailed article was a stunning revelation: Donald Trump reportedly did not know he had appointed his Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to a position on the […]

On CNN’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper offered a cutting critique of Donald Trump that took him to task for his recent comments attacking the federal judiciary, the free press, and the United States of America, while defending Russian despot Vladimir Putin. Tapper’s searing commentary correctly casts Trump’s actions as an attack on two “pillars of […]

The New York Times reports: The decision by the White House and Harley-Davidson to cancel President Trump’s trip to Milwaukee for a factory visit on Thursday rather than face protesters is sure to have repercussions for the already energized activists opposing Mr. Trump’s presidency. Harley-Davidson was worried about the protests likely to greet Mr. Trump […]

Yesterday, activists across Europe showed solidarity with the American resistance, protesting the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States by unfurling banners and other signage on highly-visible bridges and other locations. The organizing group, BridgesNotWallsUK, had this message to the world on its webpage: [media-credit name=”Bridges Not Walls” align=”aligncenter” width=”650″][/media-credit] They further […]

Team Trump loves ethics loopholes, like the one it claims exists to allow Donald Trump to employ his son-in-law as an advisor, despite a federal anti-nepotism statute. Now, it has remarkably found yet another ethics loophole, to justify announcing the expansion of Trump’s Scottish golf resort, mere days after having promised there would be no […]

When he was not busy insulting the country’s greatest living actress and lying about mocking a disabled reporter, President-elect Donald Trump did the other thing he does best: Claiming credit for jobs that were already in place before he was elected. This time, the “lucky” company was Fiat Chrysler, whom Trump praised in tweets Monday […]

It was the final question at Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) town hall meeting in Springdale, Arkansas, and it was a doozy. After a raucous hour-and-a-half grilling by constituents, Cotton called on a little boy named Toby Smith, who wanted to know why Donald Trump wants to cut funding for PBS, while wasting money on an absurd […]

When House Democrats met to discuss Donald Trump’s moves toward gutting the consumer protections and financial regulations of the Dodd-Frank Act, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had strong messages for Trump. When Waters was asked about her recent comments, wherein she stated that her “greatest desire” is to lead Trump “right […]

This piece was co-written by Shareblue staff writers Dianna E. Anderson and Alison R. Parker. Since his election, Donald Trump has attempted to shape himself as a “jobs” president, taking credit for numerous manufacturing decisions and new plants. But Trump’s “jobs jobs jobs” line will be completely undermined by a budget being modeled off the […]

In a historic march on Washington, faith leaders from all over the United States gathered at the Capitol Monday to hold an unprecedented protest ahead of Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) confirmation hearing as Attorney General. #MoralRevival March to #StopSessions pic.twitter.com/saWmKaa1g1 — Repairers of the Breach (@BRepairers) January 9, 2017 The march was led by an interfaith coalition […]

Vice President Mike Pence did some heavy lifting for the Trump administration this weekend, appearing on four Sunday shows to try to repair some of the damage that Donald Trump has done in just two weeks on the job. It did not go well. On ABC’s This Week, Pence revealed more of Trump’s weakness against […]

At a ceremony to swear in Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders calling for the “rebuilding” of our already vast military, and another which institutes a version of Trump’s long-promised Muslim ban. In a particularly vile touch, Trump dedicated his hateful order to the people who were killed in […]

At 12:01pm today, Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States. And at the second he assumed the presidency, President Trump was in violation of the Constitution he pledged an oath to uphold. Ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has already filed complaints against Trump relating to legal […]

President-elect Donald Trump has faced numerous ethical conflicts during his transition period, including refusing to divest from his business holdings and many of his cabinet nominees failing to turn in their ethics paperwork. Now he is adding nepotism to his growing list of unprecedented hostilities to established ethical standards and federal law by naming Jared Kushner, a New […]

VoteVets.org, which released a poignant video during the 2016 campaign in support of immigrants and their contributions to the United States, especially through their military service, has released a new ad that goes directly after Donald Trump: President Trump, I hear you watch the morning shows. Here’s what I do every morning. Look, you lost the […]

This piece was co-written by Shareblue staff writers Dianna E. Anderson and Tommy Christopher. The Donald Trump administration is setting up the United States for a major shift in foreign policy — one that stands to make us considerably less safe and secure than we have been under President Barack Obama’s leadership. His admiration for […]

At the 2016 Golden Globe awards show, award factory and national treasure Meryl Streep delivered an impassioned speech in which she blasted President-elect Donald Trump for mocking disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski. Trump characteristically reacted by attacking Streep on Twitter, and once again lying about the well-reported fact that he crudely imitated Kovaleski’s appearance and bodily movements […]

Donald Trump and his team have insisted that a botched Navy SEAL raid in Yemen yielded significant intelligence which will help to prevent future terrorist attacks, and have made this claim as part of a campaign to deflect calls for an independent investigation into what went wrong. But senior officials who have seen inside information say that no […]

Meryl Streep was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes, and, during her acceptance speech, she criticized President-elect Donald Trump for having mocked disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital joint condition, on the campaign trail. There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank […]

Retired U.S. Navy Admiral William McRaven, former head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, organized and oversaw the military raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. After 37 years of service, he retired from the Navy in 2014. Now he is the chancellor of The University of Texas System, and in a […]

Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, made his case on Donald Trump’s anti-Semitism crystal clear. On MSNBC’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Goldstein explained, “Trump quacks, walks, and talks like an anti-Semite. That makes him an anti-Semite.” He went on to cite the compelling evidence for his claim, including […]

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has shown some integrity about seeking accountability for Russia’s intrusion into the U.S. presidential election, especially when compared to other Republicans, but even he has been publicly skeptical about the fact that Russia absolutely did affect the outcome in Donald Trump’s favor. This week’s bombshell revelations have apparently had some effect on McCain, […]

Amid Donald Trump’s many conflicts of interest is his eponymous foundation, which, while defending it, he has nevertheless now pledged to dissolve. It is the only portion of his conflicts that he has made plans to divest from completely — the others he has promised to place in a “half-blind trust” (spoiler: there is no such […]

In true Trumpian fashion, unpopularly elected Donald Trump treated the announcement of his Supreme Court pick like a reality show competition, bringing both “finalists” to Washington, D.C., to heighten the suspense — but even that, he could not get quite right. In the East Room of the White House Tuesday night, Trump announced the winner, 10th U.S. […]

In a move that was previewed during HUD Secretary-designate Ben Carson’s confirmation hearing, the brand-new administration of President Donald Trump has made one of its first moves to suspend a reduction in FHA mortgage insurance premiums: The Trump administration overturned a mortgage-fee cut under a government program that’s popular with first-time home buyers and low-income […]

At his first post-election press conference, Donald Trump was asked by a reporter whether he would at long last release his tax returns. He responded: “You know, the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, okay?” She pressed him: “You don’t think that the American public is concerned about that?” To […]

In a classic Friday afternoon news dump, following the classified briefing on Russian cyberattacks during the election, President-elect Donald Trump issued a carefully-crafted statement which attempted some heavy strategic lifting, but still failed to directly acknowledge Russia as the perpetrators of those attacks. Instead, Trump pivoted to the crisis of legitimacy, which is apparently far more […]

In another step toward resistance of President-elect Donald Trump’s impending anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-woman administration, California Democrats have retained Obama administration alum, former Attorney General Eric Holder to assist them in their work. Senate Leader Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, both Democrats, said Wednesday that Holder will serve as outside counsel to the […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s senior advisor Kellyanne Conway is already on record taking pride in the fact that he can influence stock prices with a single tweet, and, on Thursday afternoon, that reckless power was on display once again. At 1:14 pm, Trump tweeted an explicit threat at Toyota: Toyota Motor said will build a new […]