This Tax Day, Some Truckers are Unhappy with Trump
Trump gestures from the cab of an 18-wheeler parked outside the White House.Andrew Harnik/AP Last month, Dennis Bridges, a CPA who runs an accounting firm just north of Atlanta, had to break bad news to a client. Bridges specializes in doing taxes for truck drivers around the country, and this tax season he’s had to…
Ilhan Omar Says Death Threats Have Surged Since Trump’s 9/11 Tweet
Alex Edelman/ZUMA In a statement late Sunday, Rep. Ilhan Omar revealed that she has been subjected to an increase in death threats in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tweet on Friday that combined remarks by the Minnesota Democrat with graphic images of the 9/11 attacks. The tweet, which remains on the president’s social media…
Millennial Trump Supporters Are Breaking With Their Party Over Climate Change
Scott Olson/Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s indifference, punctuated by bursts of mocking disdain, towards climate change has been indulged and even cheered by his supporters. The president has called climate science “bullshit,” donned a coal miner’s helmet at rallies and defenestrated…
Pelosi Condemns Trump’s 9/11 Attack on Ilhan Omar: His “Rhetoric Creates Real Danger”
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday denounced President Donald Trump’s recent video attack against Rep. Ilhan Omar, which combined remarks given by Omar during a Muslim civil rights event with graphic images of the attacks on September 11th, and demanded that the president remove the video from his social…
Trump Plans to Trick Media With Barr Letter a Second Time
LOL. But you never know. The media already fell for this trick once. Maybe they’ll fall for it again. Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. FACT: Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and the wealthy wouldn’t fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we…
Mayor Pete Buttigieg Officially Kicks Off His Presidential Campaign in South Bend, Indiana
Preston Ehrler/ZUMA Wire Pete Buttigieg launched his presidential campaign on Sunday afternoon, in the city he helms as mayor, South Bend, Indiana—officially joining a big, diverse field of Democrats vying to topple President Donald Trump in 2020. Buttigieg fans clad in rain gear packed an old Studebaker building in South Bend for the announcement, a…