Statue of Liberty Climber Speaks Out Against Trump Immigration Policy
NYPD Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Therese Patricia Okoumou, the woman who scaled the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, spoke to reporters Thursday, where she continued speaking out against the push to separate migrant children from their families at the…
Read Scott Pruitt’s Bizarre Resignation Letter
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he accepted Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation. Andrew Wheeler, who worked as a coal lobbyist before being confirmed by the Senate in April for deputy EPA administrator, will succeed Pruitt. Fox News…
New Steel Taxes Are Hitting the Business Community Hard
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times reports that steel users are unhappy about President Trump’s steel tariffs: “In a few days, domestic companies raised prices on stainless steel anywhere from 15 to 25 percent,” said Joe Carlson, president of Lakeside Manufacturing, a medical and food service equipment…
One of Trump’s Potential SCOTUS Nominees Sent a Tweet He Probably Really Regrets
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Only one person on President Trump’s short list to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is on record with his support for a “constitutional right to marry bacon.” I could support recognizing a constitutional right to marry bacon.…
Has the Liberal Mainstream Suddenly Shifted Left?
G. Ronald Lopez via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last night I ran across a post by Corey Robin about a sudden shift in liberal political views: In the wake of the primary victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s been a dramatic shift in mainstream liberal opinion—in the media, on…
Republicans Don’t Really Want to Fix Illegal Immigration
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. David Drucker asks and answers his own question about Donald Trump’s lack of energy on immigration reform: It’s one of the more curious aspects of this administration that Donald Trump—perhaps the most hardline anti-immigration voice in a generation—hasn’t actually been more active in pushing for…