Now We Know For Sure: Devin Nunes Lied About Everything
Korotayev Artyom/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was busy/sleepy all weekend (they’re sort of the same thing these days) and I didn’t get a chance to dig into the just released FISA surveillance application that the FBI filed in 2016 against Carter Page, the goofball “energy analyst”…
Gun Control Activist Lucy McBath Wins Democratic Nomination for Congress
Lucy McBath speaks at an Atlanta gun control rally in 2013.Jaime Henry-White/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By nearly every measure, Lucy McBath wasn’t supposed to get this far in the Democratic race for Congress in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. She’s a mom who became a national advocate against gun…
Brian Kemp, Who Threatened to Abduct Undocumented Immigrants, Wins GOP Race in Georgia
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a bonkers runoff election, Brian Kemp defeated Casey Cagle in Georgia’s Republican race for governor, setting the stage for a general election that will likely be one of the most politically polarizing state races in years. November’s race will pit Kemp against Stacey Abrams,…
Jeff Sessions Just Accused Colleges of Creating “Sanctimonious, Sensitive, Supercilious Snowflakes”
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions looks on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned that colleges and universities are “coddling” young people instead of encouraging them to engage with different viewpoints. At a high school leadership…
Lawmakers Just Stripped Anti-Environment Riders from the Defense Bill
the greater sage grouseJeannie Stafford/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a rare victory for environmentalists in the Trump era, the latest draft of a major defense spending bill has been stripped of provisions that targeted environmental protections, according to documents from the House-Senate Conference Committee released early this week. The policy riders…
Trump Comes to Bury Tariffs, Not Praise Them
Andrew Cullen Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. L-a-a-a-a-dies and gentlemen, your attention please. I am about to attempt a death-defying stunt THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED BEFORE. I am going to defend Donald Trump’s tariff policy. Are you ready? (Cracks knuckles.) As you know, tariffs…