The Evolution of the Trump Twitter Feed
Today, the Trump Twitter feed contains: 3 retweets of Fox News 2 retweets of Judicial Watch 1 retweet of Breitbart And a partridge in a pear tree. Trump’s Twitter feed is becoming mostly a conduit for conservative media sycophants and conspiracy theory lunatics these days. Just makin’ America great again, I guess.
House Democrats Just Passed a Bill to Revive Net Neutrality
Sarah Silbiger/CQ Roll Call On Wednesday morning, the House of Representatives passed a bill to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections—but the effort is likely to stop there, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying his chamber won’t consider the measure and the White House threatening to veto the bill as well. The House passed…
Which Democratic Presidential Candidates Have Released Their Tax Returns?
Mother Jones illustration Has he released them this cycle? No. Does he plan to? Yes. When? Unclear. Booker has been a fiery critic of President Trump’s reluctance to share tax returns. During the first debate between Trump and Clinton in September 2016, Booker chastised the Republican nominee for “FAILING miserably” as Trump explained with “stammering…
Vigilantes Not Welcome: A Border Town Pushes Back on Anti-Immigrant Extremists
In late August last year, 39-year-old Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer exited La Gitana bar in Arivaca, Arizona, took out his phone, and started recording a video for his Facebook page: “So down here in Arivaca, if you like to traffic in children, if you like to make sure women and children have contraceptives before handing…
A Man Suffered a Heart Attack on the Train. Another Passenger Rushed to Help Just In Time.
Avi Hatami and Brad Wieboldt.Screenshot via Newsday Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up here. Avi Hatami was on a commuter train outside New York, studying for a medical exam, when he heard something. Hatami, an aspiring doctor just 10 months…
Here’s Why Andrew Yang’s Alt-Right Supporters Think He’s the 2020 Candidate for White Nationalists
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty Last Month, Andrew Yang’s 2020 Presidential bid careened from out of nearly nowhere onto the 2020 Democratic debate stage in a matter of days. Until March 4, the hashtag #YangGang had mostly been quietly floating around Twitter, only occasionally garnering a peak of just hundreds of daily mentions. But on…