Watch Al Franken Grill Trump’s New Labor Chief for Promoting Sweatshops
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta will be replaced on an acting basis by Deputy Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella. As Mother Jones reported in 2017, after reviewing hundreds of pages of billing records and emails, Pizzella worked in the late 1990s with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff to…
“It’s a Slap in the Face”: Liberal Organizers Are Not Happy with Pelosi Dissing AOC
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) attend a House Oversight and Reform Committee markup on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.Tom Williams/AP On Wednesday evening, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made headlines when she called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “outright disrespectful” for the criticism she’s lately flung at the New York congresswoman and…
The Profound, Unforgiving Stupidity of Donald Trump’s Social Media Summit
Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka yells at journalist Brian Karem in the Rose Garden at the White House following the President’s social media summit.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Consider a few important, but seemingly unrelated moments from history: The creation of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States; the rise of Twitter and social…
Trump Caves In, Won’t Put Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
President Trump is caving in to the Supreme Court. That’s too bad. I was hoping to watch the show. Instead he’s doing this: Donald Trump is using his executive powers to order every department and agency in the federal government to provide the Department of Commerce with all records on the number of citizens and…
Trump Backs Down on the Census Citizenship Question
President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing for his Bedminster, N.J. golf club, July 5, 2019, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP In a dramatic turn of events, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would not undertake a new push to put a citizenship question…
Quote of the Day: Bashing President Trump Not Protected by First Amendment
Ron Sachs/ZUMA From the president of the United States: To me free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposefully write bad. To me that’s very dangerous speech and you become angry at it. But that’s not free speech. In fairness, Trump says only that we should be angry at speech…