Friday night on HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher deemed that the entire Democratic field would likely lose a presidential race against President Donald Trump and that they need to recruit someone who has not expressed interest in running. “One night, after self-medicating,” Maher said, “a name appeared in the vapor …
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WASHINGTON —The Democratic National Committee is facing a growing backlash in the wake of its refusal to host a 2020 presidential debate focused solely on solving the climate crisis. Last week, the DNC not only dismissed the idea of hosting a debate on the existential threat of our time but …
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Republican Congressman Justin Amash has broken with the Republican Party line to declare that President Trump has “engaged in impeachable conduct.” He also accuses Attorney General William Barr of attempting “to mislead the public about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s analysis and findings.” President Trump has responded calling Amash a “lightweight” …
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A few weeks ago the #FiveJobsIveHad hashtag began trending on Twitter. The idea was that successful intellectual types could prove their Regular Joe bonafides by letting their followers know that they once waited tables, or whatever. Former FBI Director James Comey — whose Twitter presence since his departure from the …
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On Tuesday, a student was killed and eight were injured during a school shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. It was the second fatal school shooting in as many weeks, following the April 30th attack that left two dead at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. “Our Nation grieves at …
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Congressman John Lewis’ Washington, D.C., office is filled from floor to ceiling with photographs and souvenirs from a lifetime of activism: the Freedom Rides he risked his life for from the age of 21; the March on Washington, where Lewis wrote a speech so fiery that Martin Luther King Jr. …
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