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…
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…
ICE Is Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers, in Violation of Medical Ethics
ICE detainees sit in a yard during a media tour of a Louisiana detention center in September. Gerald Herbert/AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement is subjecting asylum seekers to forced feeding and hydration, despite widespread agreement among medical professionals that the practice is unethical and never justified. Three men at ICE’s LaSalle detention center, a facility…
Trump’s Stealth Plan to Preserve White Electoral Power
Two days after Tropical Storm Imelda battered her district in Houston, state Sen. Carol Alvarado drove from its heavily Latino east side, past taquerias and signs for immigration attorneys, to another predominantly Latino neighborhood just north of the downtown skyline. Senate District 6 is shaped like a dragon whose head starts in the city’s industrial…
Lev Parnas Says Trump “Knew Exactly What Was Going on”
Lev Parnas arrives at court in New York on December 2, 2019.AP Photo/Seth Wenig Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, leveled a series of sensational allegations in an appearance Wednesday night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, implicating President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Attorney General William Barr, among others, in the…
Pete Buttigieg’s Top Cybersecurity Staffer Has Left the Campaign
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg on stage during the CNN Democratic Presidential Debate on the campus of Drake University.Edward M. PioRoda/Zuma Press The chief information security officer on Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign resigned from the campaign earlier this month over differences in opinion about how to best secure the campaign. The staffer, Mick Baccio, told Mother…