Carl Nett, a Republican candidate for Kentucky secretary of state, tweeted Tuesday a reference to shooting Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY), who was boasting about his F rating from the National Rifle Association. “Move it over just a bit,” the tweet read. “I was trained center mass.” The tweet in question by a @KYGOP candidate for […]
The White House is refusing to comment on the legitimacy of the recent Russian elections because it doesn’t dictate how other countries operate, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed during Tuesday’s White House press briefing. “We’re focused on our elections,” Sanders said. “We don’t get to dictate how other countries operate. What we do know […]
Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, has been suspended from the data-mining firm, as a new expose captures him on camera boasting about running Donald Trump’s digital effort, meeting repeatedly with Trump himself and, through micro-targeting, powering the campaign to victory. The Cambridge Analytica board said that Nix was suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation. “In […]
Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, has been suspended from the data-mining firm, as a new expose captures him on camera boasting about running Donald Trump’s digital effort, meeting repeatedly with Trump himself and, through micro-targeting, powering the campaign to victory. The Cambridge Analytica board said that Nix was suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation. “In […]
During a pool spray with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump discussed a call he had earlier in the day with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Trump congratulated Putin on the result of Russia’s recent presidential election. “I had a call with President Putin, and […]
Tuesday marked National Agriculture Day, a day that celebrates farmers and brings awareness to the industry’s essential role in daily life. Republican lawmakers including President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence took the opportunity to celebrate by using the #NationalAgricultureDay, #ThankAFarmer, and #AgDay hashtags on social media to thank farmers across America. Farmers are […]
Teachers from numerous Kentucky school districts are preparing to rally at the state capitol Wednesday to protect their pensions against proposed cuts, just one week after Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) blasted them as “selfish” and “ignorant.” Several Eastern Kentucky school districts plan to close to accommodate teachers attending the rally, which is expected to […]
Teachers from numerous Kentucky school districts are preparing to rally at the state capitol Wednesday to protect their pensions against proposed cuts, just one week after Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) blasted them as “selfish” and “ignorant.” Several Eastern Kentucky school districts plan to close to accommodate teachers attending the rally, which is expected to […]
In between filming one of the most entertaining reality shows on television today and running a highly successful cosmetics and fragrances business, Kim Kardashian West has emerged as a staunch defender of progressive causes, and she proudly endorsed Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 general election. But a recent Morning Consult poll measuring the potency […]
Several key environmental and energy positions have yet to be filled 14 months into the presidency of Donald Trump. Of a total of 14 high-level political positions at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), eight remain empty, including the agency’s deputy administrator and its head of chemical safety. At the Department of Energy (DOE), Trump has […]
A Kansas federal judge had sharp words for Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach during a contempt hearing Tuesday, accusing him of misleading the court and failing to inform voters whose registrations were previously suspended that they are eligible to vote. In May 2016, Judge Julie Robinson issued a preliminary injunction ordering Kobach “to register […]
Look at macroeconomic measures of Washington, D.C.’s past couple decades and you’ll find evidence of a thriving resurgence. But as anyone living there knows, the fruits of the capital city’s boom have been distributed very unevenly, with waves of young professional gentrifiers pushing longtime residents of the so-called “Chocolate City” out in a dramatic shuffle […]
California’s Reproductive FACT Act, a law requiring certain disclosures from anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers,” just had a terrible day in the Supreme Court. Though there is a strong possibility that the Court’s decision will be narrow, the FACT Act is very likely to fall, potentially in a very lopsided opinion. Liberal justices — including Justices Sonia […]
The NRA got ahead of the facts on Tuesday, attempting to spin a deadly shooting at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County, Maryland as an example of why militarizing schools is a good thing. “It’s clear that [Great Mills High School] officer saved lives. Where’s the wall-to-wall coverage of that,” the NRA TV account […]
Everett Piper, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University with a national platform for his conservative views, capitalized on that platform earlier this month with an op-ed comparing LGBTQ people to ISIS. In his opinion piece published in the Washington Times, Piper argues that moral approval of same-sex relations constitutes a slippery slope (a common logical fallacy) that leads […]
Former coal baron Don Blankenship is now in a dead heat in the GOP’s West Virginia Senate primary — even though he’s still on probation after serving one year in federal prison for conspiring to violate mine safety standards. A poll conducted for the Senate campaign of Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R-WV) in advance of the May […]
The city council of a wealthy, small California town on Monday approved the introduction of a city ordinance to opt out of a “sanctuary” state law aimed at restricting collaboration between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The Los Alamitos City Council voted to move forward on an ordinance exempting the city from Senate […]
The city council of a wealthy, small California town on Monday approved the introduction of a city ordinance to opt out of a “sanctuary” state law aimed at restricting collaboration between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The Los Alamitos City Council voted to move forward on an ordinance exempting the city from Senate […]
Taking serious action on climate change now could mean saving hundreds of millions of lives across the globe, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change on Monday by researchers at Duke University. The study looked at the human health benefits of holding global climate change to 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) — the aspirational goal […]
Taking serious action on climate change now could mean saving hundreds of millions of lives across the globe, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change on Monday by researchers at Duke University. The study looked at the human health benefits of holding global climate change to 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) — the aspirational goal […]
The NRA has put together an attack ad going after Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg in particular, and the March For Our Lives in general. In the ad, NRA TV personality Colion Noir criticizes a comment Hogg made in an ad promoting the march. “What if our politicians weren’t the bitch of the NRA,” […]
Why didn’t district attorney Cyrus Vance pursue criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein back in 2015, even though he was in possession of evidence that Weinstein assaulted Ambra Battilana Gutierrez? And not just any evidence: NYPD detectives had Weinstein, on tape, admitting to groping Battilana. In the audio recording from the NYPD sting operation, which would eventually become […]
Why didn’t district attorney Cyrus Vance pursue criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein back in 2015, even though he was in possession of evidence that Weinstein assaulted Ambra Battilana Gutierrez? And not just any evidence: NYPD detectives had Weinstein, on tape, admitting to groping Battilana. In the audio recording from the NYPD sting operation, which would eventually become […]
Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are demanding that Mark Zuckerberg explain how upward of 50 million Facebook profiles ended up in the hands of data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica — which then used the information to help micro-target voters during the 2016 election. Facebook has been under the spotlight of for months, with […]
Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are demanding that Mark Zuckerberg explain how upward of 50 million Facebook profiles ended up in the hands of data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica — which then used the information to help micro-target voters during the 2016 election. Facebook has been under the spotlight of for months, with […]