Scott Pruitt Retakes the Lead in Race to Be Washington’s Biggest Asshole*
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More Scott Pruitt news from CBS: NEW: Scott Pruitt was stuck in traffic. He wanted to use lights/sirens to get to his official appointment, but the lead agent advised him that sirens were to be used only in emergencies. Less than two weeks later that…
309 Women Are Now Running for Congress. That’s a Record.
Protesters at the Women’s March in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2017Michael Nigro/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A record-setting number of women are running for seats in the US House of Representatives, a new analysis by the Associated Press finds. The 309 women who so far are seeking House seats…
These Oklahoma Teens Are Channeling the Parkland Student Movement to Demand Better School Funding
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On stage Wednesday before the steps of the Oklahoma state Capitol building, in front of thousands of teachers, parents, and kids like them, 14 students from schools surrounding Oklahoma City took the stage to demand a better life for them and their teachers. Landen Brumley, a sixth-grader…
Trump Was Supposed to Talk About Tax Cuts. We Got Rape, Immigrants, and Voter Fraud Instead.
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump kicked off a Thursday roundtable discussion on tax reform in West Virginia by targeting Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator in the deeply conservative state Trump won by a landslide, for voting against a range of his administration’s priorities, including…
New Lawsuit Targets EPA Over Audit Scott Pruitt Has Tried to Keep Secret
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt is under fire in Washington for his lavish travel expenses and for bunking in the townhouse of an energy lobbyist, but he also faces an ongoing controversy in Oklahoma connected to an allegedly corrupt buyout program to compensate…
Douglass Mackey Is in a Heap of Trouble
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of Donald Trump’s most effective white nationalist trolls during the 2016 campaign was “Ricky Vaughn,” who was also one of the most reliable retweeters of Russian Twitter accounts. He did his best to stay anonymous, but Luke O’Brien finally tracked him down for HuffPost…