It’s past 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and Zarifa Ghafari is running late for work. Six days a week, she commutes from her home in Kabul to Maidan Shar, the embattled capital of Wardak province, where she serves as the youngest female mayor in the country. Her office is …
Read More »Trump Smashes Record for Most Presidential Impeachments
The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to impeach President Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” making him the first president in American history to have been impeached twice. The vote comes exactly one week after Trump incited a mob of his followers to storm the U.S Capitol in a violent …
Read More »Watch Mitch McConnell Warn of Democratic 'Death Spiral' Minutes Before Pro-Trump Mob Storms Capitol
Shortly before a violent MAGA mob stormed the Capitol, Mitch McConnell defended of our system of government and the orderly transfer of power. McConnell, who is losing his majority leader status after Democrats swept two special election Senate seats on Tuesday, warned members of the Senate against attempting to overturn …
Read More »Obama, Bush and Clinton Willing to Get Vaccinated on Camera
Three former presidents will receive the coming coronavirus vaccine publicly, doing so on camera in an attempt to promote its safety and effectiveness. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton have all volunteered to get a Covid-19 vaccine as soon as it’s available and approved by government …
Read More »RNC Backs Trump's Bogus Claims That He Won the Election
Following the bizarre press event this week that saw Rudy Giuliani reference the movie My Cousin Vinny while hair dye streaked down his sweaty face, the Republican National Committee endorsed the wild statements made during Giuliani’s lie-filled press conference, falsely claiming that Trump not only won the presidential election, but …
Read More »Fox Hosts' Post Trump Rally Analysis: 'He Didn't Cough' Could Draw President's Ire
Trump complained vociferously about the way he is treated by Fox News during his interview with Rush Limbaugh, and if he happens to catch some of what the network’s weekend hosts said following his Covid-19 super spreader event at the White House on Saturday, the ‘roided-up president might just blow …
Read More »'Gross Negligence': Public Health Experts Weigh in on Mike Pence Participating in VP Debate
Mike Pence should be in quarantine and Wednesday’s vice presidential debate will put those around him at risk of contracting Covid-19, according to public health experts. The vice president last Saturday attended the White House event commemorating Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination, along with at least eight people who …
Read More »Spies, Paranoia, Revolution, and the Rise of American Empire
Before he was a journalist and a novelist, before he was a globe-trotting war correspondent and a historian with an eye for ordinary people that led extraordinary lives, Scott Anderson was a child of the Cold War. His father worked for the State Department, which took the Anderson family to …
Read More »Trump Looted $44 Billion From FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund in the Middle of a Record-Setting Hurricane Season
Laura, the strongest August hurricane observed in the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Katrina, is steamrolling toward Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas and expected to make landfall by Thursday morning. The National Hurricane Center has warned the storm could bring with it an “unsurvivable” surge — waves up to 20 feet …
Read More »Trump Claimed 'Magical Authorities' Allowed Him to Do Illegal Things, Says Former Deputy
Blasting Trump as “one of the most unfocused and undisciplined senior executives I’ve ever encountered,” a former top deputy in the Department of Homeland Security says he came away from his service in the administration “completely convinced, based on firsthand experience, that the president was ill-equipped, and wouldn’t become equipped, …
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