Nunes Now Planning to Shower America With Memos
Prince of Darkness Sidney Blumenthal.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jonathan Swan says that Devin Nunes isn’t done. Apparently he was so thrilled with the response to his memo about the FBI that he’s planning to write about other agencies too: Republicans close to Nunes say there…
Hey Orange County Residents: What Is This?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of odd contrails in the sky, and today I got some pictures with my phone. Here’s what the path looks like at the start of their flight: I’m pretty sure airplanes don’t take off at a 45 degree angle.…
These Animals Are Tougher Than We Thought
Olin Feuerbacher/NPS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The West is a challenging place to live these days, with fires and mudslides, droughts and heat waves—to say nothing of the political climate. But the West’s residents…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…
In Shocker, Deficit Explodes Yet Again Under Republican Rule
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Treasury Department is going to be borrowing a lot of money this quarter: No worries. At least the rich are getting richer and schoolteachers are getting an extra $1.50 per week: Paul Ryan doesn’t want you to see this deleted tweet where he said…
Paul Ryan Brags About Giving Public School Employee $1.50
Pete Marovich Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How in the world did Paul Ryan think this was something he should tweet? $1.50 a week will indeed cover the basic $60 membership to Costco, but it wouldn’t cover the gold membership! The GOP is bragging about giving public school employees $78…