Early Tuesday morning, Empire actorJussie Smollett alleged he was attacked by two men while walking to an apartment in Chicago. Smollett, who is black, said that one of the attackers put a noose around his neck and poured an unidentified substance on him. According to the police, the two attackers …
Read More »Roger Stone, Trump's Confidant for Decades, Is Indicted by Mueller
The lies appear to have finally caught up to Roger Stone. On Friday morning, the former Trump adviser and longtime Republican operative was indicted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into the Trump campaign’s coordination with Russia during the 2016 election.Stone was charged with seven counts — including …
Read More »For Years, the Supreme Court Has Been Silent on Gun Rights — Until Now
When Brett Kavanaugh replaced Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court this past fall, most people thought the most drastic changes would come in the areas of abortion, LGBT rights and the death penalty. Justice Kennedy was a conservative, but he often sided with the Court’s liberals on these areas of …
Read More »Robert De Niro Says Trump Is a Con Artist and White Supremacist
Robert De Niro has never been shy with his feelings about President Donald Trump, and in a new interview with theGuardianpublished on Sunday, he is still throwing barbs at the man in the White House. Here are just a few of the insulting names he called Trump in his latest …
Read More »Incoming Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney Disagrees with Himself on the Border Wall
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is now claiming that a border wall with Mexico would be effective, a reversal of his stance a mere three years ago, when he criticized Trump’s wall idea as “childish.” CNN’s KFile unearthed audio of the 2015 interview with a local South …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Juxtaposes Migrants With Piles of Garbage as Advertisers Flee
Update: Fox News has released a new statement defending Carlson’s comments while attacking the “agenda-driven intimidation efforts” of organizations that have criticized the host. “It is a shame that left wing advocacy groups, under the guise of being supposed ‘media watchdogs’ weaponize social media against companies in an effort to …
Read More »Investigation into Inaugural Committee Spending Reportedly Closes in on Ivanka Trump
New York federal prosecutors are looking into potential financial wrongdoing by President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and Ivanka Trump’s involvement in price negotiations for space rental in the Trump International Hotel in D.C. According to reporting by WNYC and ProPublica, President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee paid large sums of money …
Read More »How the Supreme Court Could Change LGBT People's Lives for Good — or Bad
Over the past 20 years, the Supreme Court has established basic rights for gays and lesbians —the right to marry the person you love regardless of sex or gender, the right to private sexual relations, and the right to be able to petition local governments for anti-discrimination protection. It’s impossible …
Read More »Another Day, Another Racist Comment From the Trump Camp
Republicans are going all-in on racism this midterm election cycle. The latest incident came when U.S. Agriculture Secretary and former governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue, used the racist term “cotton-pickin’” during a Saturday rally in Florida while supporting the GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, Politico reported. While talking about what …
Read More »What We Know So Far About the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
On Saturday morning, as worshipers were gathering at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh for Shabbat services, a gunman opened fire and killed 11 people. The shooter surrendered at the scene to police after a short standoff and was arrested.On Sunday, the victims were identified. They range in age …
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