Quote of the Day: “It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls”
From a former deputy DA who worked alongside Roy Moore: It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird…We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall. Okey dokey.
Black Americans Have Our Own National Anthem. Stand Up and Sing It With Us.
James Weldon Johnson.Mother Jones illustration; National Archives and Records Administration; Jose Luis Magana/AP; Jane Kelly/Getty On a cloudy day in May 2015, several hundred Howard University seniors, myself included, filed into the school’s main quadrangle for commencement, a ceremony that kicked off with “The Star Spangled Banner.” I can’t honestly recall whether my fellow black students…
Reminder: Republicans Need 60 Votes to Pass Their Tax Plan
I keep seeing stuff like this: If Doug Jones, the Democratic nominee [for Alabama’s open Senate seat], wins next month, Mr. McConnell’s majority will shrink to one, possibly imperiling the Republican push to overhaul the tax code and most everything else that lawmakers are aiming to do to reverse their spiral before the midterm elections.…
Republicans Thinking About Delaying Alabama Special Election
Trigger warning: Watching this video might make you ill. Roy Moore met by GOP cheers just outside Birmingham in first public appearance since allegations: pic.twitter.com/OWELn5TCa8 — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 11, 2017 So what is the Republican Party going to do about its Roy Moore problem? Republican senators and their advisers, in a flurry of…
Trump: Putin Says He Didn’t Interfere With Our Election, and I Totally Believe Him
Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix via ZUMA Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, the greatest negotiator the world has ever seen: Did Russia’s attempts to meddle in US elections come up in the conversations? He said he didn’t meddle, he said he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many…
It’s Been an Amazing Year for Political Artists Telling Donald Trump to Shove It
kadirkaplan/Getty For many Americans, Trump’s first year in the White House has been, in a word, ugly. But the Trump administration has resulted in some of the most provocative political art in American history. “Painting is not made to decorate apartments,” Pablo Picasso famously said in 1945. “It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” Over…