Pelosi Is Considering a New Committee for Trump’s Ukraine Scandal. Progressives Are Suspicious.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meets with reporters just after the House Judiciary Committee approved guidelines for impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 12, 2019.J. Scott Applewhite/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has so far resisted Democratic calls for impeachment, is considering setting up a select…
John Lewis Just Delivered a Rousing Call for Impeachment
Michael Brochstein/Zuma Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) delivered a call action for the House of Representatives on Tuesday to impeach President Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal. “We cannot delay. We must not wait. Now is the time to act,” the longtime civil rights leader said on the floor of the House. “We will never find…
Trump Admits to Holding Up Ukraine Aid
And now, Phase 6: President Trump said Tuesday that he held up American aid to Ukraine that has become the subject of furious controversy because European countries have not paid their fair share to support the country, and pointed to the fact that the money was eventually released as evidence that he had done nothing…
Trump Having Trouble Concluding Tiny Trade Deal With Japan
Smityuk Yuri/TASS via ZUMA Japan has kept a very low profile vis-a-vis Donald Trump, in hopes that they could escape his wrath and maybe even cut a small trade deal. And they have! But there’s a hitch from President Deals: For more than a year, Trump has threatened to slap tariffs on automobiles imported to…
Trump’s Ukraine Scandal May Have Finally Forced Pelosi’s Hand on Impeachment
Caroline Brehman/ZUMA She may not be completely sold yet, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to finally be reassessing her longheld resistance to opening an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump amid the fast-unfolding Ukraine scandal. “We will have no choice,” she told CNN late Monday on the inevitability of an impeachment investigation, as contemporaneous…
Why Your Mom Uses Emojis All Wrong 🙃
Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones In the early 2010s, strange uses of language started cropping up all over the micro-blogging platform Tumblr. A Tumblr user might do ALL THE THINGS, or get major feels, or lose the ability to even. Somehow, everyone understood each other. One blog, All Things Linguistic, took the language of Tumblr users seriously.…