First Lady Laura Bush has a very powerful op-ed against the President’s family separation policy in today’s Washington Post. On Sunday, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds of family, I was among the millions of Americans who watched images of children who have been torn from their parents. …
Election 2018
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Voting Is Fundamental
Tomorrow @AMarch4OurLives embarks on a journey like no other. We’re helping to build the largest voter force this nation has ever seen. See ya soon, Chicago. #RoadToChange #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/JknT5pQR1f pic.twitter.com/bxcCXZja6G — Jaclyn Corin (@JaclynCorin) June 15, 2018 If you think authoritarianism cannot happen here in America, I lived through a time when it already did: …
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America is Not a Theocracy and Attorney General Sessions and The White House Press Secretary Don’t Know Anything About the Bible
As BettyC mentioned earlier, both Attorney General Sessions and Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, decided to take their religion out and wave it around in everyone’s faces today. This was done to justify the change in policy that the President, via Attorney General Sessions, made in 2017 that children will be separated from …
Repub Values Open Thread: Corey “Leeeeroy!” Stewart
Corey A. Stewart wins three-way Republican race in Va., will challenge Sen. Tim Kaine for U.S. Senate seat https://t.co/jSqRT3qJus — Post Local (@postlocal) June 13, 2018 With such a Boss Hogg meat-mugg, I guess ol’ Corey figured he’d be wasting an asset in his hometown Duluth… How are reporters still struggling to call people like …
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America’s Internment Camps for Undocumented Minors
(Figure 1: One of the murals at the Brownsville Detention Center for Undocumented Minors) MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff was given access to the Brownsville, Texas center for detained undocumented children. Here’s what he found: I’m a part of the first group of journalists to go into the shelter for detained child migrants in Brownsville Texas since …
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If Only There Was Something That Senators Corker or Flake or Collins Could Do…
This was Senator Corker today, bemoaning his inability to achieve anything in the US Senate: Sen. Corker on why GOP colleagues won't vote on his tariff amendment: "'Gosh, we might poke the bear' is the language I've been hearing… 'The president might get upset with us as senators if we vote on the Corker amendment, …
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The Text of the Statement Signed by the President and Kim Jong Un at the Singapore Summit
From CNN: Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) held …