In a live address on Friday, presidential candidate Joe Biden said the killing of George Floyd was “an act of brutality” that “denied him of his very humanity.” Related:Global Protests Begin After Police Killing of George Floyd Biden’s emotional speech came before the arrest of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, …
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A few weeks before President Trump was impeached last December for attempting to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan warned the House Judiciary Committee of a future in which the president used similar tactics on his own country: “Imagine living in a part of Louisiana …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Matt Stoller, author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly, Power and Democracy, a book that Matt describes as having “venom for all the right people.” He is also the Research Director at the …
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Lest you think coronavirus stupidity is solely a Republican problem, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made the same uninformed and incorrect statements that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp made this week. de Blasio also tried to claim that until very recently, scientists were not aware that asymptomatic or presymptomatic …
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Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her presidential bid on Monday. Klobuchar, who positioned herself as a Midwestern moderate, will endorse former Vice President Joe Biden at a rally in Dallas on Monday evening, according to her campaign. The senator finished third in New Hampshire but she couldn’t establish more …
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Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) encouraged a crowd to continue booing Hillary Clinton at a Bernie Sanders rally in Iowa on Friday. While the event’s moderator began mentioning one of Clinton’s recent attacks against Sanders, the crowd started to boo. The moderator then tried to quell the audience’s reaction, saying …
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren submitted a question during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial about the legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court and the Constitution, leaving the chief justice no choice but to read it aloud. On Thursday while presiding over impeachment, Chief Justice John Roberts read the Democratic presidential …
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No other 2020 candidate for president, including Donald Trump, can come close to matching Bernie Sanders’ level of support among members of the U.S. military, to go by the most recent campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 …
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The Supreme Court voted in favor of letting the Trump administration move forward on more of its harsh immigration policies. In a 5-4 vote, the conservative majority won out on Monday, allowing enforcement of a rule called a “wealth test” by immigrant rights advocates and “public charge” policy by the …
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President Trump said he’s happy with the way the impeachment trial is going thus far because his administration has not released “materials” that would hurt his cause. “When we released that conversation all hell broke out with the Democrats,” Trump said. “Because they said, ‘Wait a minute, this is much …
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