Month: September 2020

Amid reports that President Donald Trump demanded that his senior staffers sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)—and threatened them with huge financial penalties if they breached the contracts—civil liberties advocates and legal experts said the documents show blatant disregard for public employees’ constitutional rights. “Public employees can’t be gagged by private agreements. These so-called NDAs are unconstitutional […]

Amid tweets in which he attacked a New York Times reporter and declared what a “beautiful day!” it will be as he watches on TV the funeral of former First Lady Barbara Bush, President Donald Trump on Saturday also let the world know via Twitter that he doesn’t believe his long-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen […]

As open internet advocates pressure governments and major tech companies to respect the free flow of information online and users’ privacy, World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee spoke Wednesday about how his creation has gone “from utopia to dystopia in 29 short years,” and how it can be reimagined “to empower the hopes we had for […]

A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will allow a law banning medical abortion in Arkansas to stand—a decision that forced Planned Parenthood to suspend its services and leaves just one abortion clinic in the entire state. “Arkansas is now shamefully responsible for being the first state to ban medication abortion,” Dawn Laguens, […]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has named Seema Nanda as its new CEO. Nanda is a former official at the Department of Labor who served as DNC Chairman Tom PerezThomas Edward PerezClinton’s top five vice presidential picks Government social programs: Triumph of hope over evidence Labor’s ‘wasteful spending and mismanagement” at Workers’ Comp MORE’s top […]

A majority of respondents in 48 GOP-held congressional districts believe Republicans are “more corrupt” than Democrats, according to a new poll from a progressive policy group. Politico reported that 54 percent of respondents from the GOP districts said in the online survey administered by the Center for American Progress that Republicans are more corrupt. Of those surveyed, 46 percent […]

Vice President Mike Pence seeeth. Vice President Mike Pence doeth. In a moment that quickly went viral and became the source of laughter (as well as concern), Pence was captured in an extreme sycophantic moment as he robotically removed a water bottle from a conference table after President Donald Trump—for no good reason that anyone […]

After weeks of evasions and outright lies aimed at avoiding responsibility for the torture he has inflicted upon immigrant families, President Donald Trump finally admitted in an off-the-rails speech on Tuesday that the thousands of family separations that have taken place on his watch are a direct consequence of his administration’s decision to prosecute parents […]

Contrary to President Donald Trump’s claim on Thursday that “they like me a lot in the U.K.,” he was immediately met with angry and rowdy protesters as he arrived in London to meet with Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of larger demonstrations against the president expected to draw tens, if not hundreds, of thousands into […]

Before there was a limerick written in its honor or a viral sensation on Twitter, Axios on Sunday reported on an internal White House draft bill—titled the “United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act” (or the U.S. FART Act for short)—that would grant President Donald Trump enormous powers to dictate trade and tariff policy and […]