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True (4%) — 15 of 350 Researched Statements

Mostly True (12%) — 41 of 350 Researched Statements

Half True (15%) — 51 of 350 Researched Statements

Mostly False (19%) — 66 of 350 Researched Statements

False (33%) — 115 of 350 Researched Statements

Pants on Fire (18%) — 62 of 350 Researched Statements

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Owners Discuss Removing Trump’s Name From Manhattan Highrise: Report
The building's residents are getting jittery about reduced values in properties linked to the twice-impeached former president. ... read more
The Huffington Post2021-01-22
3 hours ago
Why Biden Can Undo Much of Trump’s Legacy Via Executive Orders
President Donald Trump came to rely on executive action for many of his achievements. But his successor seems to understand that it is best used to repeal someone else’s legacy, not build his own. ... read more
The New York Times2021-01-22
4 hours ago
Trump and Justice Dept. Lawyer Said to Have Plotted to Oust Acting Attorney General
Trying to find another avenue to push his baseless election claims, Donald Trump considered installing a loyalist, and had the men make their cases to him. ... read more
The New York Times2021-01-22
6 hours ago
To fight impeachment, Trump turns to ‘Butch’ Bowers, a South Carolina lawyer at a small firm who has defended state Republicans
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham recommended Bowers for a job many prominent Washington lawyers did not want. ... read more
The Washington Post2021-01-22
7 hours ago
President Joe Biden Is Halting Deportations for 100 Days, a Respite For Many Undocumented Immigrants
Raul Medina has spent his entire life afraid of that he or his family would be detained and deported. He was born in Mexico, but was brought to the U.S. at the age of five by his parents, and says he was well trained not to speak about his legal status. He and his family are undocumented and have lived with uncertainty for the more than 20 years they’ve lived in Colorado. Now, for at least the next 100 days, he and his family won’t have to worry about deportation proceedings after the Biden Administration implemented a stop ... read more
TIME Magazine2021-01-22
8 hours ago
How Biden Can Fix Trump’s 1776 Disaster
Before even taking office, Joe Biden pledged to disband Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission—designed to promote “patriotic education” and counter the New York Times’ controversial “1619 Project,” which put slavery at the center of the American historical narrative. And by 12:01 p.m. on Inauguration Day, the commission’s extravagantly mocked “1776 Report,” a 45-page, unsourced so-called “definitive chronicle of the American Founding” (released only 48 hours earlier on Martin Luther King Jr. Day), vanished from the White House website.The disappearance was cheered by professional historians and large swaths of the population. The Trump administration’s commission was “a hack job” reflecting a “clumsy ... read more
POLITICO2021-01-22
8 hours ago
Biden admin launches review of Trump decision to designate Yemen’s Houthis as foreign terrorist organization
The State Department has initiated a review of the Trump administration's decision to designate Yemen's Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), a spokesperson told CNN Friday. ... read more
CNN2021-01-22
8 hours ago
After Donald Trump’s Departure, Washington Begins to Put Back the Pieces
More than two weeks since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Washington is starting to feel a little less like a city under siege, as barriers come down, streets reopen, and the country’s new leaders start the work of assessing the damage from the calamitous final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. As I walked to the White House on Friday — President Joe Biden’s second full day in office — signs of the democratic crisis we all just lived through weren’t entirely gone. Workers stacked black steel fencing that had blocked streets for multiple city blocks around ... read more
TIME Magazine2021-01-22
9 hours ago
Union Membership Declined Again Last Year. But Here’s Why 2021 Could Be Good for Organized Labor
Labor unions in the United States haven’t had much good news in recent years, but this week may have provided some reasons for optimism. The rate of unionization in the U.S. increased in 2020 for the first time in over a decade, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Jan. 22, the same day as President Joe Biden announced two new executive orders aimed at increasing worker protections. In 2020, 10.8% of American workers belonged to a union, up from 10.3% in 2019, the new BLS report found. Still, the picture is far ... read more
TIME Magazine2021-01-22
9 hours ago
Right Wing Round-Up: Prophecy and Accountability
Chuck Lindell @ The Austin American-Statesman: Texas Supreme Court: Alex Jones, InfoWars can be sued by Sandy Hook parents. Lachlan Markay @ Axios: Trump ally Matt Schlapp got $750k in unsuccessful pardon push. Colby Hall @ Mediaite: Newt Gingrich Tells Hannity that Democrats Want to ‘Exterminate’ Republicans. David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: QAnon Congresswoman Announces ‘I’ve Just Filed Articles of Impeachment’ on Joe Biden – Over Debunked Conspiracy Theory. Michael Brown @ Charisma: A Strong Appeal to Those Who Prophesied Trump’s Reelection. Media Matters: Fox News host Mark Levin launches vulgar, sexist attack at Speaker Nancy ... read more
Right Wing Watch2021-01-22
10 hours ago
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Complicit in Evil
Mario Murillo says that any Christian leader who congratulates President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be complicit in “the evil that comes upon this nation.” That is bad news for Richard Land, who recently wrote an open letter to Biden: “Mr. President, please allow me to congratulate you on behalf of millions of Evangelicals on having been elected to serve in the highest political office in the land.” We do have to say that it’s odd for Land to be congratulating Biden, given that he has repeatedly declared that having a Democrat in the Oval Office ... read more
Right Wing Watch2021-01-22
10 hours ago
Don’t Fire People For Dumb Tweets
On Wednesday, Will Wilkinson, a New York Times contributor and vice president at the center-right think tank the Niskanen Center made a joke on Twitter. “If Biden really wanted unity,” he tweeted, “he’d lynch Mike Pence.” The joke has been called “bad” and “offensive” an innumerable number of times since. Wilkinson’s jape may have been in poor taste, but it did, in fact, work as a joke. You see, on January 6, people loyal to the president stormed the Capitol while chanting “Hang Mike Pence.” Less than two weeks later, a number of Republican lawmakers—many of whom pushed lies about ... read more
The New Republic2021-01-22
10 hours ago
Trump is gone. But the threat of right-wing violence that arose under his watch remains.
Armed protesters, who identified themselves as Liberty Boys, pose for pictures outside the Oregon Capitol in Salem on January 17. | Noah Berger/AP Are we entering a new era of political violence? That the United States made it through President Joe Biden’s inauguration without any major act of violence is a relief. But the fact that we had to be seriously worried about it — to the point of deploying 25,000 National Guard troops to secure Washington, DC — illustrates that something has gone badly wrong. A country that once stood itself up as a model of ... read more
Vox2021-01-22
10 hours ago
Biden plans to continue many of Trump’s foreign policies — at least for now
This combination of pictures created on October 22, 2020 shows former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020. | Brendan Smialowski, Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Biden’s team members have already signaled they intend to continue several of Trump’s policies from Venezuela to Ukraine to Israel and even China. President Joe Biden promised a clean break from the Trump years on US foreign policy. But according to recent statements from Biden’s incoming secretary of state and other top officials, there will likely be more ... read more
Vox2021-01-22
12 hours ago
Biden’s LGBTQ rights executive order and the transphobic backlash, explained
Activists blocking the street outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images On his first day, Biden rolled back Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies. Trolls were not happy. Shortly after being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden signed a thick stack of executive orders, undoing a host of Trump administration policies — including protecting LGBTQ rights under existing federal law. The executive order’s legal reasoning is simple: Take last summer’s Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which ruled that LGBTQ people are protected from sex discrimination ... read more
Vox2021-01-22
13 hours ago
Missing Context on Claim About ‘Antifa.com’
Quick Take Social media posts point out that the web address antifa.com now redirects to the White House website. That’s true, but in need of some important context: Whoever owns a domain name can instruct it to reroute to whichever website they’d like. Full Story After President Joe Biden was sworn into office, social media users and websites drew attention to the curious fact that the URL “antifa.com” is set up to automatically take users to the official White House website. That’s true, but many of the posts spreading that information stand to mislead users because they omit an ... read more
FactCheck.org2021-01-22
13 hours ago
The Capitol Riot Zip-Tie Guy Had Quite the Arsenal at Home, Prosecutors Say
Eric Munchel, the 30-year-old Nashville man known as the “zip tie guy” because he allegedly brought plastic restraints and a taser to the Capitol riot earlier this month, had over a dozen firearms at his home when authorities searched it earlier this month. A search of Munchel’s house on Jan. 10 by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force turned up plastic handcuffs, tactical vests, and a .22 caliber revolver. Law enforcement also found a safe containing 15 guns, including a sniper rifle, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, prosecutors said. Munchel and his mother, 57-year-old Lisa Eisenhart, were ... read more
VICE News2021-01-22
14 hours ago
Kill Coal to Save Lives
On Tuesday, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the Affordable Clean Energy rule—the Trump administration’s attempt to relax (or rather, erase) standards for carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural gas power plants—was unlawful, as it was based on a “fundamental misconstruction” of the Clean Air Act. Given that former President Trump’s Department of the Interior spent the past four years pursuing a campaign of deregulation and corporate land grabs, the decision by the court was heralded as a pre-inauguration gift for the Biden administration.The appeals court’s ruling means that the new administration will have the opportunity to move ... read more
The New Republic2021-01-22
14 hours ago
Where Things Stand: There’s A Reason Trump’s Impeachment Lawyer Sounds Familiar
Remember Mark Sanford? If you were a Golden Duke: Duke of Dukes voter this last time around, you most certainly will. ... read more
Talking Points Memo2021-01-22
14 hours ago
Biden, democracy, and Africa
By Witney SchneidmanPresident Joe Biden has committed to restoring American leadership globally. With the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, this task became immensely more challenging. For Africa, nevertheless, this will translate into an American policy that strives to respect the people and governments on the continent. Respect for democratic governance—which the president has called not only the foundation of our society, but the “wellspring of our power”—will also be at the top of his policy agenda. Given Donald Trump’s effort to overthrow our election and the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, the Biden administration needs to ... read more
The Brookings Institution2021-01-22
14 hours ago
Podcaster Steve Turley Mocks Lack of Crowd At Biden Inaugural Without Noting that Mall Was Closed After Insurrection
Steve Turley, a religious-right author and podcaster who celebrates the rise of right-wing nationalism and authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, devoted the latest episode of his podcast to mocking the inauguration of President Joe Biden as “pathetic” and “embarrassing.” Turley called Biden’s inauguration an “abject disaster” and touted Steve Bannon’s prediction that former President Donald Trump will be elected again in 2024. “Nobody showed up,” Turley said, describing the “optics” of no crowd on the National Mall as “humiliating.” Turley claimed that the Biden camp “blamed it on COVID” to explain away the new president’s inability to draw a ... read more
Right Wing Watch2021-01-22
14 hours ago
Phony Trump Letter to Biden Circulating Online
Quick Take A fake letter purported to be the one left by former President Donald Trump for President Joe Biden has been circulating online. The phony letterhead template — which has been used to satirize Trump before — gives it away. Full Story A fake version of the letter that former President Donald Trump left for President Joe Biden has been circulating on social media. It says, in typed text on what looks like White House stationery, “Joe, you know I won.” The text is a reference to Trump’s false claims that the election had been stolen from him. ... read more
FactCheck.org2021-01-22
14 hours ago
Senate ends standoff, agrees to start Trump’s impeachment trial Feb. 9
The delay is in the mutual interest of the former and current presidents: Trump has struggled to assemble a legal team, and Biden has seen scant progress on confirming his Cabinet. ... read more
The Washington Post2021-01-22
15 hours ago
And the Biggest Losers From Trump’s Pardon Sweepstakes Are…
Donald Trump spent his last night in the White House handing out presidential pardons like party favors. But plenty of his most legally-troubled fans didn’t get one, and they’re now facing the consequences of rolling with the smash-and-grab vibe of the Trump era after their guy has left the building. Some are in prison, some face investigations, and some are grappling with serious criminal charges for actions they say were directed, or inspired, by the ex-president. A few who begged Trump for a pardon are publicly blasting him for letting them down, after Trump issued clemency to 143 people for ... read more
VICE News2021-01-22
15 hours ago
On Inauguration Day, the Military Tried to Convince America It’s Safe Again
Was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s inauguration one of the most successful PSYOPs in American history? Only time will tell, but all signs currently point to yes. The insurrection on January 6th was unprecedented and shocking, creating fears of uprisings at state capitals and of the inauguration itself being attacked by right-wing radicals. If these groups were in the nation’s capital Wednesday, they did not show their colors, they did not throw their usual tantrums, and they most certainly didn’t change the course of history and tradition in our democracy. This is likely due to the fact that they had ... read more
VICE News2021-01-22
15 hours ago
Brenden Dilley Laments That Trump Was Not ‘As Authoritarian As We Hoped’
While Joe Biden was being inaugurated as president Wednesday, MAGA “life coach,” Trump-cultist, and proudly amoral right-wing broadcaster Brenden Dilley was using his daily livestream program to lament that former President Donald Trump had not been “nearly as authoritarian as we hoped he would be” during his term in office. “Many are disappointed that he was not anywhere near as authoritarian as we hoped he would be,” Dilley said. “You wanted him to rule with an iron fist. Many of us had believed that he would do that, including myself at times. I thought he might do some things that ... read more
Right Wing Watch2021-01-22
16 hours ago
Sean Feucht Tells Followers Biden Administration Is Pushing ‘An Anti-Christ Agenda’
Sean Feucht, a religious-right musician and missionary who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year as a pro-Trump culture warrior in Northern California, gave followers suggestions this week on how “believers” should “respond to a Biden presidency.” In an email, blog post, and related Facebook video he posted on Inauguration Day, Feucht encouraged people to turn off the news and turn on worship music, and to pray for President Joe Biden and other political leaders as the Bible instructs. But Feucht also made it clear that he believes Biden is advancing a satanic agenda. His email to supporters said, “The enemy ... read more
Right Wing Watch2021-01-22
16 hours ago
This Ex-Cop Says He Only Stormed the Capitol to Check Out the Art
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. While attending to non-Trump related business in Washington, D.C., on January 6, former Houston police officer Tam Dinh Pham figured, what the hell, why not stop by the Capitol Building, which was being violently broken into at the time, to check out some “historical art.” At least that’s what he told federal agents during an interview January 12, according to court documents. Two days later, he resigned from his post at the Houston Police Department after 18 years. Pham initially tried to explain away his alleged ... read more
VICE News2021-01-22
16 hours ago
Schumer says House will send impeachment article to the Senate on Monday
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the House's article of impeachment will be delivered to the Senate on Monday, triggering the start of the Senate's impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. ... read more
CNN2021-01-22
16 hours ago
Trump Showed How Easily Presidents Can Abuse Emergency Powers. Here’s How Congress Can Rein Them In.
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden made official what should have been obvious: There is no emergency at the southern border, other than perhaps the humanitarian crisis brought about by the Trump administration’s own immigration policies. Biden’s executive order rescinding Donald Trump’s 2019 declaration of a national emergency will halt further construction of a wall that has stigmatized immigrants, harmed the environment and served as an ugly symbol of xenophobia.But while Biden’s order will end this particular abuse of presidential emergency powers, it will not safeguard our democracy from future abuses. Trump’s presidency revealed a fatal weakness ... read more
POLITICO2021-01-22
16 hours ago
Don’t Bring Your Gun to Work If You Happen to Be a Member of Congress
Maybe leave your gun home the next time you go to work, especially if you happen to be a member of Congress. Less than two weeks after the Democratic-led House of Representatives installed magnetometers following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and required members to go through them in order to get onto the House floor, GOP Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland had a gun on him when he tried to enter the House chamber Thursday, according to HuffPost. When Capitol Police refused to let Harris in, he reportedly tried to give his gun to Rep. John Katko, another Republican. ... read more
VICE News2021-01-22
17 hours ago
Nixon rehabilitated his image. Could Trump?
The path back to mainstream respectability ... read more
The Washington Post2021-01-22
17 hours ago
What is National Unity?
Republicans began by resorting to coups and even violent insurrections to overturn the 2020 election. Having failed at that they are now glomming on to Joe Biden's focus on national 'unity' to insist that Democrats overturn it on their behalf by agreeing to the absurd proposition that unity means forgetting the 2020 election even happened. Most of us intuitively know that is a bad faith gambit. But it's worth articulating what national unity means and does not. Donald Trump, former President and current GOP leader, governed by making war on the so-called 'blue states'. Supporters got cash and assistance, opponents ... read more
Talking Points Memo2021-01-22
17 hours ago
Senate impeachment whip count: Where Democrats and Republicans stand
This is where Democrats and Republicans in the Senate stand on convicting President Trump. He was impeached by the House on Jan. 13, making him the first president in history to have been impeached twice. ... read more
The Washington Post2021-01-22
18 hours ago
Biden’s Plan to Avoid a Political Disaster
Joe Biden’s team is planning a party. His inauguration on Wednesday, held under threat from the coronavirus and pro-Trump extremists, wasn’t much of a celebration. But the Biden administration hopes that January 20, 2022—a year from now—will mark what some aides are describing as a “renewing of the vows,” an anniversary that could be a genuinely happy moment.By then, Biden hopes, he will have made Americans feel like they’ve put the horrors of 2020 behind them. More than anything, that depends on whether he can dig the country out from the COVID-19 crisis. Vaccine distribution and economic recovery will be ... read more
The Atlantic2021-01-22
20 hours ago
82 Stupid Things From The Trump Era You Probably Forgot About
The sun may have set on Trump's presidency, but we'll always remember the time he stared into it during an eclipse.View Entire Post › ... read more
Buzzfeed Politics2021-01-22
23 hours ago
New Time Cover Shows The Utter Chaos That Donald Trump Left Behind For Joe Biden
Biden looks out of a trashed Oval Office's window in artist Tim O’Brien's latest front page illustration for the magazine. ... read more
The Huffington Post2021-01-22
1 day ago
Fox News Inauguration Ratings Plunge 77% Compared to Trump’s Swearing-In
(NEW YORK) — Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network’s audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural. The 6.53 million people who watched President Joe Biden take the oath of office and deliver his inaugural address on MSNBC Wednesday was a whopping 338% bigger than its audience for Donald Trump’s swearing in four years ago, the Nielsen company said. On the flip side, Fox News Channel’s audience of 2.74 million for Biden on Wednesday represented a nearly 77% drop from its viewership for Trump in 2017, Nielsen said. A preliminary Nielsen estimate shows Biden’s inaugural viewership ... read more
TIME Magazine2021-01-22
1 day ago
Biden’s DOJ must confront what to do with outstanding cases in which it is defending Trump. The first test could come Friday.
As the Biden administration begins to take shape, one key question President Joe Biden's Justice Department must confront is whether to continue defending Donald Trump, who relied on Department of Justice lawyers to fight some of his personal battles. ... read more
CNN2021-01-21
1 day ago
Psaki Tries to Strike a New Tone in the White House Briefing Room
After the Trump White House’s undisguised hostility toward reporters, President Biden’s press secretary promised to “share the truth, even when it’s hard to hear.” ... read more
The New York Times2021-01-21
1 day ago
Ted Cruz tried offering himself up as the new Trump yesterday. It didn’t end so well.
It's widely believed that Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz supported Donald Trump's attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election to endear himself to the former president's supporters. The senator is clearly positioning himself for a run in 2024.Cruz has degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School and is a self-described "Constitutionalist," so it's pretty obvious that his support for the scheme was a cynical ploy.His efforts look even more sinister after the insurrection at the Capitol building on January 6. via Gage Skidmore / Flickr Ted Cruz's transformation from Constitutionalist to Trump impersonator was further evidenced ... read more
GOOD2021-01-21
1 day ago
Viral Meme Strips Context from Lawmakers’ Quotes on Protests
Quick Take A viral meme presents quotes from some Democratic lawmakers to misleadingly suggest they were advocating violence. They were supporting protests over various issues. Full Story Days after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, a meme featuring some out-of-context quotes from Democratic lawmakers started spreading widely on social media. The meme featured four quotes paired with pictures of four lawmakers looking angry. One version includes text that says, “DEMOCRATS NOT IMPEACHED FOR INCITING VIOLENCE.” Others were shared with text such as, “NEVER FORGET: Democrats have been stoking public unrest and violence for ... read more
FactCheck.org2021-01-21
2 days ago
The Biden Generation’s Heavy Burden
Jim Clyburn sat by himself on the dais at Joe Biden’s inauguration, thinking about his late wife, Emily, who wasn’t there with him.Without Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, who endorsed the former vice president at a crucial moment last year, Biden might not have taken the oath of office yesterday. But without Emily’s influence, Clyburn told me, that endorsement might never have happened. Without Emily, he might have watched Donald Trump be sworn in for a second term yesterday—a catastrophe he likened to the fall of Rome. Former President George W. Bush agreed, telling Clyburn at the ceremony that he ... read more
The Atlantic2021-01-21
2 days ago
Trump hints he’ll launch the “Patriot Party.” Maybe he should check Wikipedia first?
ShutterstockTrump reportedly wants to create a new political party, but he apparently doesn't know that name was used by a socialist organization. ... read more
LGBTQ Nation2021-01-20
3 days ago
Trump’s Pardons at the End: He ‘Never Drained the Swamp’
A former prosecutor criticizes the president’s “unprecedented abuse of the pardon power” but notes that the pardons do not actually wipe the record clean. ... read more
The New York Times2021-01-20
3 days ago
Revealed
The story we had ready if Trump had won re-election. Also, special after-the-fact reaction from one of the experts on authoritarianism we had talked to for that story. ... read more
Talking Points Memo2021-01-20
3 days ago
President Joe Biden expected to sign sweeping reversal of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies today
Screenshot/Fox NewsBiden's team says his order will tell federal agencies to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people in major parts of federal law. ... read more
LGBTQ Nation2021-01-20
3 days ago
Joe Biden Is President, but Donald Trump’s Legacy of Violence Looms
Now that Donald Trump is gone from office, what’s next? This week on Intercepted: There are a slew of unanswered questions about the siege of the Capitol. Americans are being asked to believe that the national security apparatus — the same one that charged nearly 200 people en masse, including journalists and observers, with felony rioting when Trump was inaugurated in 2017, and has leveled federal charges including terrorism charges on Black Lives Matter protesters — failed to see the threat to the U.S. Congress posed by right-wing extremists, even as people organized across social ... read more
The Intercept2021-01-20
3 days ago
America’s Fortified Capital Awaits a President’s Inauguration
The capital is a city of soldiers. They are in the different states of alertness that soldiers inhabit depending on what’s happening around them. They are patrolling, they are on guard, they are sleeping — and they are gawking like tourists at the statues of a nation that has been stunned into a mixture of fear and reflection. There has been a nearly overnight militarization of Washington, D.C., after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a mob of Americans inspired by the words, delusions, and narcissism ... read more
The Intercept2021-01-19
3 days ago
The Hardest Inaugural Address in Generations
If Joe Biden finds himself at a loss for words as he prepares his inaugural address, who can blame him? Finding the words to begin his presidency is a challenge as great as any chief executive has ever faced.There have been bleaker and more uncertain moments in American history. Abraham Lincoln came to Washington in 1861 already shadowed by the threat of assassination and spoke to a nation from which seven states had already seceded. In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt spoke as a quarter of the workforce was idle, with a banking system near total collapse. Richard Nixon took power in ... read more
POLITICO2021-01-19
4 days ago
I Went to High School With Biden’s Homeland Security Team
“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”—George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, 1941Future generations may well wonder how it came to pass that the federal government’s homeland security policy fell into the hands of a select group of people raised within a mere 23 neighborhoods inside the Los Angeles Basin, situated south of the Santa Monica Mountains, west of La Cienega Boulevard, north of the Santa Monica Freeway, and east of the Pacific Ocean. The area is known locally as the Westside. ... read more
The New Republic2021-01-18
5 days ago
Why the Environmental Justice Movement Should Think Locally
On a chilly December morning, Gabriel Jamison stood in front of a construction site in Brownsville, Brooklyn, with a sign and a megaphone. “National Grid has the nerve to sit there and come into a low-income neighborhood,” Jamison said, as National Grid employees continued to work in the background. “We’re not going to tolerate that.” Surrounded by a handful of other demonstrators, Jamison was protesting the expansion of a fracking pipeline by National Grid, an energy company that serves New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Within two hours, they could call the day a temporary success: Construction stopped. The National ... read more
The New Republic2021-01-18
5 days ago
The Coming Republican Amnesia
As Donald Trump lurches through the disastrous final days of his presidency, Republicans are just beginning to survey the wreckage of his reign. Their party has been gutted, their leader is reviled, and after four years of excusing every presidential affront to “conservative values,” their credibility is shot. How will the GOP recover from the complicity and corruption of the Trump era? To many Republicans, the answer is simple: Pretend it never happened.“We’re about to see a whole political party do a large-scale version of ‘New phone, who dis?’” says Sarah Isgur, a former top spokesperson for the Trump Justice ... read more
The Atlantic2021-01-18
5 days ago
A Disgruntled Employee Changed The State Department’s Website To Say That Trump’s Term Ends Today, Sources Say
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is launching an investigation after biographical pages for the president and vice president were changed on Monday.View Entire Post › ... read more
Buzzfeed Politics2021-01-13
1 week ago
‘The Genie is Out of the Bottle’
Wednesday’s impeachment of President Donald Trump was one of the strangest political events in memory: A historic rebuke to a president delivered with just days remaining in his term, with seemingly little at stake—and a Senate away on recess, in no rush to take a vote on whether to convict.Notably, 10 Republicans joined the vote, making it the most bipartisan vote in the slim history of impeachments. But how much will any of this really matter? Does it stand any chance of bringing Americans together in rejecting Trump's instigation of the Capitol riot—or will the rushed process just make an ... read more
POLITICO2021-01-13
1 week ago
The Crash of the Flight 93 Presidency
Donald Trump finally did exactly what the foremost metaphor associated with his political rise would have suggested — he plowed his plane straight into the ground. That metaphor, of course, is Flight 93, courtesy of Michael Anton, the right-wing author who wrote a famous essay before the 2016 election about how Republicans had no option but to get on board with Trump. “Charge the cockpit or you die,” Anton wrote, invoking the plane headed for the U.S. Capitol on 9/11 that heroic passengers seized control of and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.“The Flight 93 Election” became a signature statement ... read more
POLITICO2021-01-13
1 week ago
Impeachment And A Conviction Could Affect Trump Even As He Leaves Office
A lot depends on whether Trump is convicted in the Senate before Jan. 20, but there are still potential consequences if it comes later.View Entire Post › ... read more
Buzzfeed Politics2021-01-13
1 week ago
Nancy Pelosi Said Congress May Impeach Trump Again If Pence Doesn’t Remove Him First
Trump has only 13 days left in office, but Pelosi said any one of those days “can be a horror show for America.”View Entire Post › ... read more
Buzzfeed Politics2021-01-13
1 week ago
Days After Trump’s Mob Attacked The Capitol, He Went To The Border To Talk About The Wall He Never Built
“He's going back to what's been tested and what works for him,” one local immigration advocate said.View Entire Post › ... read more
Buzzfeed Politics2021-01-13
1 week ago
Impeaching Trump Was an Act of Self-Defense
Updated at 4:35 p.m. ET on January 13, 2021Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, a 12-term veteran of Congress, was holed up in her office when the mob arrived. Thousands of MAGA diehards had followed President Donald Trump’s call to march to the Capitol to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote. “It was like a declaration of war against the United States, issued by the president of the United States,” Schakowsky told me.When she returned to Washington yesterday to impeach a president she holds personally responsible for the attack, she didn’t wear her members’ pin in public. The threat ... read more
The Atlantic2021-01-13
1 week ago
Black woman ‘heartbroken’ after vicious attack by racist MAGA mob in downtown Los Angeles
Fears of racially motivated attacks by white supremacist supporters of President Donald Trump after this week's deadly insurrection in Washington, D.C. were realized as a MAGA mob viciously attacked a Black woman and other people of color in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon.Defying record-setting Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths, scores of largely maskless Trump loyalists took to the streets in the middle of the nation's second-largest city to protest a lie—that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" from the president.Berlinda Nibo, a 25-year-old downtown resident, was walking in her neighborhood when she came upon the "Stop the Steal" demonstration. Nibo told ... read more
GOOD2021-01-08
2 weeks ago
Congress quietly banned devastating ‘surprise’ medical fees in new stimulus funding bill
America's medical system is so unnecessarily complex and confusing that you can get a master's degree in medical billing. One of the major problems with this Frankenstein's monster of a system is that patients often have no idea what they're paying for services.You'd think that one of the advantages to having a private healthcare system would be the ability to make decisions based on price, as we do with everything else. But it never really seems to work that way.In fact, about one in five visits to an in-network emergency room results in a "surprise" out-of-network bill that can drive ... read more
GOOD2020-12-22
1 month ago
Trump downplays suspected Russia hack, blames China without evidence
President Trump is downplaying a massive cyberattack on the government after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo linked the attack to Russia. To talk about this massive data breach we spoke to Max Bergmann, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. ... read more
Fusion2020-12-21
1 month ago
HRC President: Kamala Harris “Exceptional Choice” for Vice President
Today, the Human Rights Campaign praised the selection of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California as Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden’s Vice President. “Senator Kamala Harris is nothing short of an exceptional choice for Vice President,” said Alphonso David, President of the Human Rights Campaign. “Throughout her groundbreaking career, Senator Harris has been an outspoken advocate for the LGBTQ community, standing with us when many, even sometimes those within her own party, did not. As a presidential candidate, Harris spoke with deep understanding of and empathy for the issues our community faces. It’s clear the Biden-Harris ticket marks our nation's most ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2020-08-11
5 months ago
#AM_Equality: August 11, 2020
84 DAYS The Trump-Pence administration and its allies are continuing to prove that they are no friends to the LGBTQ community. Yesterday morning, Trump Campaign Senior Legal Advisor Jenna Ellis intentionally misgendered Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, an openly transgender woman, tweeting, “This guy is making decisions about your health,” and linked to a local story concerning a reporter accidentally misgendering Levine. Said HRC President Alphonso David (@AlphonsoDavid) in response, “Jenna Ellis is a bigot and Dr. Levine is a patriot -- plain and simple. Dr. Levine illustrates character and patriotism while Ellis cannot even ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2020-08-11
5 months ago
Human Rights Campaign Makes Endorsements to Expand Pro-Equality Majority in Congress
Today, the Human Rights Campaign announced the endorsement of several candidates seeking to expand the pro-equality majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. The full list of endorsements can be found below. “We must reelect and expand the pro-equality majority in Congress to achieve real and lasting change for LGBTQ people,” said Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “The candidates endorsed today are proof that the battleground for the majority is expanding, and LGBTQ equality is a winning issue in every corner of the country. Over the coming months, we will utilize every opportunity and every ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2020-08-11
5 months ago
HRC Responds to Jenna Ellis Misgendering Pennsylvania Health Secretary
This morning, Trump Campaign Senior Legal Advisor intentionally misgendered Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, an openly transgender woman, tweeting “This guy is making decision about your health” and linked to a local story concerning a reporter accidentally misgendering Levine. In response, HRC President Alphonso David issued the following statement: “Jenna Ellis is a bigot and Dr. Levine is a patriot - plain and simple. Dr. Levine illustrates character and patriotism while Ellis cannot even define those terms. “Using a person’s pronouns is a basic level of respect. Despite claims of allyship, Donald Trump, Mike Pence and their ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2020-08-10
6 months ago
#AM_Equality: August 10, 2020
85 DAYS One year ago last Friday, HRC President Alphonso David (@AlphonsoDavid) took the helm of the organization. Since his appointment as president, HRC has expanded its efforts for LGBTQ rights -- especially for justice for transgender and non-binary people -- in the U.S. and around the world, reaffirmed that Black Lives Matter, built virtual communities while at home due to COVID-19 and mobilized to work to defeat Donald Trump and Mike Pence this Fall. Said HRC President Alphonso David: “I’m so proud of the work that we have done at the Human Rights Campaign over ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2020-08-10
6 months ago
Pelosi says Trump ‘ethically unfit’ for presidency, will continue oversight
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday revelations in a book by a former top White House aide show President Donald Trump is unfit and unprepared to be president and Democrats will continue oversight of the Republican president's behavior. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
7 months ago
Trump: U.S. Supreme Court decisions ‘horrible’
President Donald Trump on Thursday railed against the U. S. Supreme Court's "horrible" decisions, seemingly referring to recent rulings that gay and transgender workers are protected under federal employment laws and blocking his bid to end legal protections for immigrants known as "Dreamers." ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
7 months ago
Trump asked China to help him win in 2020, offered ‘favors to dictators,’ Bolton says
In a withering behind-the-scenes portrayal, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton accused him of sweeping misdeeds that included explicitly seeking Chinese President Xi Jinping's help to win re-election. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
7 months ago
China says it has no intention of interfering in U.S. elections
China said on Thursday it has no intention of interfering in the U.S. elections, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, who has said that Trump had sought Chinese President Xi Jinping's help to win re-election. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
7 months ago
Trump administration proposes rolling back protections for big tech
The U.S. Justice Department proposed on Wednesday that Congress take up legislation to curb protections big tech platforms like Alphabet's Google and Facebook have had for decades, a senior official said, following through on President Donald Trump's bid to crack down on tech giants. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-17
7 months ago
FACT CHECK: President Trump Delivers His 3rd State Of The Union Address
NPR reporters from across the newsroom will add analysis and fact-checking to the remarks. Watch it all live beginning at 9 p.m. ET.(Image credit: Evan Vucci/AP) ... read more
NPR2020-02-04
12 months ago
FACT CHECK: Trump Delivers State Of The Union To Tense, Partisan Congress
NPR reporters from across the newsroom added analysis and fact-checking to the remarks.(Image credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) ... read more
NPR2020-02-04
12 months ago
PolitiFact answers the Senate's impeachment questions
Senators took control of their chamber’s impeachment trial this week, submitting questions to the Democratic House managers and President Donald Trump’s legal team. The questions, provided to Chief Justice John Roberts in writing, gave a window into the senators’ thinking as they consider whether to remove a president from office for the first time. But House managers and the Trump team spun their answers to serve their perspective. So we decided to take on the questions ourselves, with the facts in mind. On whether impeachment and removal requires a crime The question (from Democratic senators): "Does the phrase ‘‘or other ... read more
PolitiFact2020-01-31
12 months ago
Fact-checking Joe Biden in Ankeny, Iowa
ANKENY, Iowa — Former Vice President Joe Biden ignored his Democratic rivals and focused extensively on attacking President Donald Trump at a campaign event, saying Trump is "a commander-in-chief who has no notion — none — of what it takes to lead." Biden mocked Trump for saying he was the one who protected pre-existing conditions and portrayed Trump as a divider who has bashed the press and Congress. In the 2020 election, Biden said, "the character of the country is on the ballot. The character of our candidates is on the ballot." Biden’s Jan. 25 event attracted about 300 voters on ... read more
PolitiFact2020-01-26
12 months ago
Five Key Takeaways From Israel’s Indecisive Election Rerun
Heidi Levine/Sipa/Pool via AP Benjamin Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, September 17, 2019 Anyone expecting clarity from Israel’s electoral rerun will be disappointed. The public was sent back to the polls when coalition negotiations following the April 9 election failed. The resumption of those negotiations based on the new distribution of seats in the Knesset will not prove any easier. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will soon call the party leaders to begin the traditional round of post-election consultations, and within days will call on either ... read more
The American Prospect2019-09-21
1 year ago
Former Biden Chief of Staff is Fox News’ Top Lobbyist
Elise Amendola/AP Photo Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Dartmouth College, August 23, 2019. Sludge produces investigative journalism on lobbying and money in politics. The American Prospect is re-publishing this article. When Rupert Murdoch sold part of his 21st Century Fox company to Disney, he formed a new firm, Fox Corporation, which retained the rightwing news network Fox News, Fox Business Network, and many television stations and sports broadcasting companies. Multiple former Trump White House and GOP officials joined the company, including Hope Hicks, ... read more
The American Prospect2019-09-20
1 year ago
How Mexico Is Doing America’s Deportation Work for Us
Marco Ugarte/Associated Press Mexican authorities, feeling the effects of the Trump administration's “Remain in Mexico” policy, have resorted to busing migrants from Nuevo Laredo, at Mexico’s northern border with the U.S., to areas in the south of Mexico. More than a month ago, reports emerged that migrants and asylum seekers had been bused from Nuevo Laredo, at Mexico’s northern border with the United States, to Chiapas, near Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. The Mexican government paid for the buses. The first time was just ... read more
The American Prospect2019-09-20
1 year ago
Transitioning ThinkProgress
Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and editorially independent. We are proud that ThinkProgress helped shape the conversation in this country—exposing the companies that were supporting the NRA, uncovering sexual abuse within religious organizations, documenting voter suppression, and tracking the financing of white nationalism, to name just a few of the many, many, many important stories ThinkProgress covered. Unfortunately, as with so many ventures in today’s digital media landscape, ThinkProgress suffered multi-million dollar shortfalls the past two years—an unsustainable option for a non-profit ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-09
1 year ago
CNN’s planning a 2020 LGBTQ forum. Here are some issues advocates say the candidates should address.
A prominent LGBTQ rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Thursday that it will host a presidential town hall on LGBTQ issues next month. The event will air on CNN. LGBTQ advocacy groups told ThinkProgress that they know exactly what ideas they want to hear discussed at the town hall set for Oct. 10, which is National Coming Out Day. Many said that first and foremost, they want candidates to acknowledge the struggles of the most marginalized in the community, including LGBTQ people of color, and put forward policies to respond to anti-LGBTQ bias in the criminal justice system. ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-05
1 year ago
It wasn’t a debate, but CNN’s 7-hour climate forum laid bare key differences among Democrats
CNN’s seven-hour town hall on the climate crisis wasn’t the debate many activists have spent months calling for. But Wednesday night’s marathon event teased out notable differences among Democratic presidential contenders, giving voters a taste of how each candidate might approach climate policy if elected. Two of the main issues where candidates staked out wildly different stances were nuclear power and abolishing the filibuster. They also differed on fracking, the process of extracting natural gas to be used for energy. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden took heat over a controversial fundraiser scheduled for Thursday night and hosted by an oil ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-05
1 year ago
GOP candidate has a pretty hypocritical excuse for why he’s down in the polls
Dan Bishop, the Republican nominee in next week’s North Carolina congressional special election, claimed on Thursday that the reason polls show he could lose a district that President Donald Trump won easily is that so much money was coming in from out of district to support his Democratic opponent. But most of the money going to support Bishop also comes from outside of North Carolina. Voters in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District will vote Tuesday in their latest attempt to elect a U.S. Representative. The 2018 midterm election result was thrown out due to election fraud by the then-Republican nominee’s ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-05
1 year ago
FACT CHECK: Foreign Interference And ‘Opposition Research’ Are Not The Same
President Trump says he might be open to taking information from a foreign government in a future election, calling it a part of politics. But the law draws a distinction when foreigners are involved.(Image credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) ... read more
NPR2019-06-13
2 years ago
FACT CHECK: Russian Interference Went Far Beyond ‘Facebook Ads’ Kushner Described
President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said the investigations into Russian interference have been more damaging than the interference itself. But there was more to it than online ads.(Image credit: Brian Ach/Getty Images for Time) ... read more
NPR2019-04-24
2 years ago
Why Is It So Fraught to Talk About the Klobuchar Bad Boss Reports?
This article is adapted from a segment on the Waves and has been edited and condensed for clarity. Christina Cauterucci: Last week, HuffPost and BuzzFeed both ran pieces that contained a whole slew of allegations that Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota runs a borderline abusive workplace. There were multiple former staffers who said they and their fellow employees were berated for wrongdoing in front of their peers. Sometimes they’d be CC’d on their emails, saying, “This is the worst press release I’ve ever read in my life.” They were forced to endure emotional outbursts and fits of rage. They were ... read more
Slate2019-02-15
2 years ago
Andrew McCabe: Jeff Sessions Complained That He Missed When the FBI “Only Hired Irishmen”
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s new book, which details his frustrations with President’s Trump administration, has made it clear that his “disdain for Trump is rivaled only by his contempt for [Jeff] Sessions,” according to an assessment from Washington Post reporter Greg Miller. According to Miller’s review of the book, McCabe saw then-Attorney General Sessions as a Trump-like idiot and racist who had “trouble focusing, particularly when topics of conversation strayed from a small number of issues,” failed to read intelligence reports, and jumbled classified material with publicly reported news. The strangest detail from the book, though, had to ... read more
Slate2019-02-15
2 years ago
There Is No New Backpage
Last April, two successive tremors shook the business of sex on the internet. The first was the dramatic FBI shutdown of Backpage, a website for posting online personals that had attained outsize importance among sex workers. Days after that, President Trump signed two new bills into law, the Stop Enabling Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which together make websites that knowingly allow sex trafficking to happen liable for hosting the illegal activity—thus making it much easier for prosecutors to go after the proprietors of sites like Backpage. Both of these moves were meant ... read more
Slate2019-02-13
2 years ago
Roger Stone’s chance to make a positive impact
The Feb. 10 Retropolis column, “Stone seeks Trump pardon for black nationalist Marcus Garvey” [Metro], provided a well-informed review of Garvey’s role advancing a back-to-Africa movement in the ear ... read more
The Washington Post2019-02-13
2 years ago
The Feminist Future of Modesty
“I get it,” is Gretchen Carlson’s message to all the American women who wince at the thought of parading around in a swimsuit. Carlson, who is the new Chairwoman of the Miss America pageant and who also won the competition in 1989, announced last week that the swimsuit portion of the spectacle would be axed. The #MeToo-friendly, revamped Miss American “Competition” (the word “pageant” is also no more) would focus on substance instead of appearance; it would promote neither ogling at various female parts nor the premise that a willingness to bare almost all is necessary to winning.It’s a timely ... read more
The Feminist Future of Modesty2018-06-12
3 years ago
Trump: ’13 angry Democrats’ on Mueller team should be wary
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is striking a combative tone against the Russia probe. He's talking about "Fighting Back" and telling Democrats on the special counsel's team, "wait 'till the Courts get to see your unrevealed Conflicts of Interest!" ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
3 years ago
Trump defends CIA nominee, says she is ‘tough on terror’
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday defended Gina Haspel, his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, dismissing debate over her involvement in a harsh interrogation program and arguing Democrats want her out because she "is too tough on terror." ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
3 years ago
Giuliani’s media blitz defending Trump is off to rough start
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is off to a rough start in his media blitz defending Trump's stance toward the special counsel's Russian investigation and a $130,000 porn star hush payment. ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
3 years ago
Trump urges West Virginia voters to reject Blankenship
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is urging West Virginia voters to reject a former federal convict and coal baron running in the Republican Senate primary, arguing that Don Blankenship he would lose the general election. ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
3 years ago
Trump’s Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban’s Chances in Court
President Donald Trump began the week with a barrage of early-morning tweets blasting the courts for blocking his travel ban executive order. But in doing so, he may have just made it more likely that the courts will keep blocking the ban. People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted ... read more
Mother Jones2017-06-05
4 years ago
The Fox Primary For March: Trump Widens His Airtime Lead
As the Republican presidential field shrunk to three candidates in March, front-runner Donald Trump again led his competitors in interview airtime on Fox News. Fox News hosted the businessman for 6 hours and 15 minutes, compared to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 5 hours and 18 minutes and Ohio Gov. John Kasich's 3 hours and 44 minutes. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson both ended their campaigns in March -- their airtime totals from before they dropped out are listed, but they will not be included in future editions. Trump's lead in Fox interview time comes amid ongoing tension ... read more
Media Matters for America2016-04-07
5 years ago
Morning Joe Panel: Hillary Clinton “Clearly Did Not Say Bernie Sanders Was Not Qualified To Be President”
From the April 7 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: MIKA BRZEZINSKI (CO-HOST): Late last night, Clinton's press secretary Brian Fallon responded to [Sanders'] remarks on Twitter saying quote "Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now - absurdly - said it about her. This is a new low." He added "Bernie Sanders, take back your words about Hillary Clinton." Sanders did no such thing. His campaign released a statement that began quote "Responding to Hillary Clinton's attempt to portray him as unqualified for the White House, Senator Sanders linked her to a trade pact exploited by wealthy individuals and profitable corporations to ... read more
Media Matters for America2016-04-07
5 years ago

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Samantha Bee mocks President Trump’s lackluster inaugural weekend

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