Kamala Harris Gets a D- For Her Climate Plan
Paul Kitagaki Jr./ZUMA Kamala Harris has released her climate plan, and I’m sorry to say that it’s a dog’s breakfast. I don’t really even want to evaluate it, but I suppose I have to. Here are the highlights: I have no idea how big it is. Harris says her plan calls for “$10 trillion in…
Trump Holds Up a Doctored Chart to Try to Show Hurricane Dorian Hitting Alabama
Evan Vucci/AP Who needs memory holes when you can alter the truth with a stroke of black Sharpie? A White House video released Wednesday shows President Donald Trump holding up a chart of the trajectory of Hurricane Dorian. But there’s one problem: Added onto the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of uncertainty” forecast, outlined in white on the map,…
These 127 Military Construction Projects Will Lose Funding Because of Trump’s Border Wall
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border in February, we’ve known that the US military would bear the majority of the cost for Trump’s vaunted border wall. Now the Pentagon has figured out which programs will be stripped of their funding, according to a document sent by Defense…
“Our President Is Unstable”: Sen. Jeff Merkley Makes the Case That “It’s Getting Worse”
© Zach Roberts/ZUMA Wire Senator Jeff Merkley has witnessed some atrocious scenes at migrant detention centers along the Texas-Mexico border. He described one where “hundreds” of children were ripped out of their parents’ arms and sorted into chain-link cages, standing in single-file lines from shortest to tallest. “The shortest one was in front and he…
The Trade Deficit Sure Has Exploded Under Donald Trump
I don’t have any special reason to post this chart today. It’s just a reminder that since President Deals took office, the US trade deficit has increased by about a quarter compared to the last couple of years of the Obama administration. As I recall, this is a metric that Trump loudly said we should…
Ocasio-Cortez Slams Republican Lawmaker for Wanting to Lend Guns to Friends
Tom Williams/Zuma Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) took a stand against universal background checks for gun possession on Wednesday, worried that he might be prevented from lending firearms to his friends. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was ready with a sharp response. “You are a member of Congress,” the Democratic representative from New York tweeted. “Why are you ‘lending’…