Rashida Tlaib is set to be the first Palestinian and Muslim woman elected to the U.S. Congress following a tight race in Michigan on Tuesday. The candidate cinched the Democratic nomination in a win likely to be welcomed by progressives and green groups, many of whom have lauded her campaign’s emphasis on inequality and environmental justice.
After running neck-and-neck with Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones late into the night on Tuesday, Tlaib claimed victory with ...
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Texas governor tweets out fake Churchill quote to own the libs
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) attempted to own the libs early Tuesday with some words of wisdom from Winston Churchill, the British leader who led his nation to victory over the Nazis in World War II, about how fascists of the future will purportedly guise themselves as leftists.
Abbott tweeted a meme reading, “The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists,” under the heading: “CHURCHILL ON THE LEFTWING.”
“Some insights are timeless,...
Trump’s promised border wall could waste billions of dollars, government watchdog finds
The Trump administration could waste billions of dollars building a wall on the United States’ southern border, one of President Trump’s cornerstone campaign promises. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) out Monday, the administration has failed to consider costly factors like varying terrain and land ownership in the area.
The report also found that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which is tasked with building the wall, selected lo...
Meet the lesbian Native American woman running for Congress in Kansas
MISSION, KANSAS — Like mixed martial arts, running for Congress involves patience, determination, and the ability to fight without taking attacks personally.
Sharice Davids, a professional MMA fighter, Native American, openly gay attorney, and first-time candidate made that comparison on Sunday, just two days before she will have face other Democrats in a tightly contested race for Kansas’ 3rd congressional seat. Early this year, Davids said she looked at the field of c...
Republican gerrymandering wall is starting to crumble
One of retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s final acts as a sitting justice was to stare partisan gerrymandering directly in the eye and cry out a resounding “meh.” A pair of cases argued last term were supposed to deliver sharp blows to such gerrymandering. Instead, the Court punted, Kennedy retired, and there is no longer a plausible way to form a majority that could halt this anti-democratic practice.
Yet, even as the Supreme Court refuses to enforce the Constituti...
During unhinged speech, Trump suggests he may still lock up Hillary and mimics MS-13 stabbings
President Trump delivered a nearly 90-minute-long speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Thursday night in which he suggested he may yet lock up Hillary Clinton and smeared immigrants as violent murderers.
When Trump mentioned Clinton, the crowd broke out in “lock her up!” chants. Trump responded by saying, “Some things just take a little bit longer.” He then complained that his Justice Department “only wants to go after Republicans. You look at the ki...
Study finds New York state’s proposed single-payer system financially feasible
A proposed single-payer health care system in New York state is economically viable and could insure a million people currently without coverage, according to a study from RAND Corp. released Wednesday.
The analysis, which looks at the New York Health Act, was commissioned by the New York State Health Foundation. It makes a number of charitable assumptions about the institution and implementation of the single-payer system, but ultimately concludes the plan would be a cost-effective...
Susan Collins backs move to limit transparency for Trump Supreme Court nominee
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine — a Republican who has positioned herself as a moderate but who has voted for virtually all of Donald Trump’s far-right judicial nominees — said last month that she would not back a Supreme Court nominee who “demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 ruling that enshrined abortion rights. But it does not appear that she is very interested in finding out what Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh actually thinks about...
Trump has no clue how people buy groceries
During a speech at a rally in Florida on Tuesday, President Trump indicated he thinks a photo ID card is needed to make purchases at grocery stores.
While making a case for a nationwide voter ID law, Trump said, “you know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card — you need ID.”
But as most Americans are well aware, an ID card is not usually needed to buy groceries. Customers can use cash. And in many cases, even if they use...
‘Medicare-for-All’ program could cost $32 trillion but may also save $2 trillion
What you didn't know about the $32 trillion Medicare-for-All figure in the Koch-affiliated report