Fox News host praises AR-15s as ‘so safe’ hours after one was used to murder 17 people
Fox News host Laura Ingraham, just hours after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to murder 17 people at a Florida high school, praised the weapon as “so safe.”
Ingraham and her guest, Aaron Cohen, criticized Senator Chris …
Sandy Hook Senator Wants To Know How Many More People Will Die Before ‘Complicit’ GOP Acts
“This one is the 18th school shooting just this year … Congress has been complicit. Congress bears responsibility.”
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What do Republicans do when their leader is a racist? Distract by shouting: 'Farrakhan! Obama!'
From “Mexican rapists” to “very fine people on both sides” to “shithole countries,” Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is, without question, an open racist (and those examples have come just since he announced his campaign for president—there’s a …
NBC’s botched attempt to ignore the sexual harassment allegations against Shaun White
On Wednesday morning in Pyeongchang, Shaun White won the his third gold medal in thrilling fashion in the final of the men’s snowboard halfpipe. Four years after his surprising failure to medal at Sochi, 31-year-old White returned to the biggest …
Chris Murphy Tells Trump To Stay Quiet On Parkland Shooting Because He’ll Only Make Things Worse
“If I thought he was going to offer something that was real, actual consolation, I’d be willing to hear more. I’m not sure what’s that we would get.”
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Republican women react to domestic violence charges and it is … underwhelming
It seems that Republican women—well, at least the three the Associated Press managed dig up for this article—aren’t happy with Donald Trump’s approach to domestic violence charges. Emphasis on “approach.” And here they are, fired up and ready to …
The EPA doesn’t have enough money to keep investigating Pruitt’s scandals
The watchdog office charged with investigating EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potentially improper use of taxpayer funds for travel won’t expand its ongoing probe beyond travel conducted in 2017, citing constraints on its staffing, budget, and time.
Therefore, while a trip …
Rachel Maddow Highlights Reports That Find 100+ Trump Officials Don’t Have Security Clearance
“There were more than 100 staffers in the Executive Office of the President who were operating on interim clearances more than a year after Trump was elected.”
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The Trump Administration Is Optimistic About Economic Growth. Be Skeptical.
For its forecast to come true would require productivity improvements not seen in decades and an atypical policy on interest rates.…
From dark money to dark voter suppression policy: The Koch plant in the White House
Nobody seems to know what it is that he does exactly for the $115,000 he gets as special assistant to the president and director of special projects and research, but former Koch guy Michael Roman is definitely doing something. …