If you’re wondering where lies as a policy started, it started with the last GOP administration.

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,”… Continue reading If you’re wondering where lies as a policy started, it started with the last GOP administration.

NFL Owner Testifies Under Oath that He Changed His Mind About Hiring Kaepernick After Trump’s Comments

An NFL owner testified under penalty of perjury that he changed his mind about hiring NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick because of President Trump’s comments, Kaepernick’s attorney Mark Geragos told me on my podcast “Straight Aim” Tuesday . The Kaepernick legal team has already conducted more than 14… NFL Owner Testifies Under Oath that He Changed… Continue reading NFL Owner Testifies Under Oath that He Changed His Mind About Hiring Kaepernick After Trump’s Comments

Trump Hypes Jobs Report Hour Before It’s Released

“No president has ever given the public any indication of what that report might look like before its release.” Trump Hypes Jobs Report Hour Before It’s Released Today, president Trump took a break from his normal hysterical ranting about leaking to leak official data before release. Any BLS employee would have been fired or worse… Continue reading Trump Hypes Jobs Report Hour Before It’s Released

Trump, on NFL, suggests players who kneel ‘shouldn’t be in the country’

“I think the people pushed it forward. This was not me. I brought it out,“ Trump says. Trump, on NFL, suggests players who kneel ‘shouldn’t be in the country’ Snowflake in chief demands self censorship to protect his feelings. It’s this kind of political correctness gone mad that is responsible for the GOP losing special… Continue reading Trump, on NFL, suggests players who kneel ‘shouldn’t be in the country’

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I never borrowed your phone! Also, it was already broken when you gave it to me. And it was working just fine when I returned it.

Right-wing prof Niall Ferguson plotted to get dirt on a liberal student

The latest campus free speech controversy has a twist: It involves a conservative professor conspiring with students, in emails that sound like they were written by comic book villains, to dig up dirt on a progressive undergraduate. (via Right-wing prof Niall Ferguson plotted to get dirt on a liberal student – Vox) Paid protestors! Campus… Continue reading Right-wing prof Niall Ferguson plotted to get dirt on a liberal student

Trump’s memo response to Mueller’s interview subpoena is tyrannical

This is a particularly extreme version of the “unitary executive” doctrine that conservative legal scholars sometimes appeal to (especially when there’s a Republican president), drawing on the notion that the executive branch of government — including the federal police agencies and federal prosecutors — are a single entity personified by the president. But to push… Continue reading Trump’s memo response to Mueller’s interview subpoena is tyrannical

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The week Trump went full dictator and no one tried to stop him | Will Bunch It sounds bad when you describe it this way: The president of the United States explicitly violating a government rule to divulge secret jobs data, causing a billions-of-dollars move in the world’s financial markets. via The week Trump went… Continue reading Untitled