Ukraine Opens Investigations Into Ukrainegate
Nancy Pelosi seems pretty happy to be finally signing articles of impeachment against President Trump.Michael Brochstein/ZUMA President Trump did his best to force Ukrainian leaders to open an investigation of Joe Biden. They never did. But today, Trump finally got his investigations: Ukrainian authorities announced a probe Thursday into possible surveillance of U.S. Ambassador Marie…
Notre Dame Needs No Stinking Spire
Washington Post The Washington Post tries to divert our attention from impeachment today with a long piece about the rebuilding of Notre Dame. The big question is whether the ugly-ass spire should be rebuilt: Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect of the country’s historic monuments service, said in a broadcast interview that he would resign rather than…
Energy Companies Have a Great Friend At Trump’s Interior Department: Their Former Lobbyist
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom, Zuma David Bernhardt, the man in charge of the nation’s public lands, has come through the revolving door of Washington, D.C. lobbying and back out again. Before becoming secretary of the Department of the Interior, he collected nearly $5 million for his firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a lobbyist and lawyer…
Iranians Would Kindly Like Donald Trump To “Shut Up”
Iranian students gather for a demonstration over the downing of a Ukrainian airliner at Tehran University on January 14, 2020.Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images When Iran’s military admitted on Saturday that it had mistakenly shot down a civilian airliner, Ukraine Airlines Flight 752—killing all 176 of its mainly Iranian passengers and crew—Iranians started taking to…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Movement Is About a Lot More Than Just Congress
Gabriel Hernández Solano For years, tenants in New York’s public housing residences had complained about the black mold breeding on the walls, the brown liquid dripping from the ceilings, and the cold water flowing from the faucets. But the city hadn’t made repairs. One white-skied Saturday this past November, neither New York City Housing Authority head…
A List of Things Bloomberg Actually Said About Fat People, Rape, George W. Bush, and J.Lo
Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Wire To call Michael Bloomberg’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination unorthodox would be an understatement. The former New York mayor is skipping the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. He’s not accepting individual donations—instead spending $200 million of his own money in just the first two months…