Elijah McClain, walking home from the store, was approach by three police officers for looking “suspicious”. The officers grabbed him, and as he tried to get out of their grip, he was handcuffed, brought to the ground, put in a chokehold, and threatened with a dog. We have audio, but no video, as all three officers’ body cams fell off. McClain was eventually […]
To understand why Kamala Harris is fully eligible to vice president (or president), and to understand why objecting to that prompts accusations of racism, we should review a little history.
The “birthright citizenship” to which Harris is entitled is enshrined in the 14th amendment, ratified in 1868. The first sentence of the amendment reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject […]
Trump’s late night and early morning tweets come from a deep well of paranoid narcissism, fueled by conspiracy theories and right-wing “news”. It’s a scary place.
This woman came to the US from Mexico illegally in 1997, with her husband and young daughter. She’s had three children since she arrived, and is now a grandmother. She and her husband started a cleaning and moving company when they arrived, and have held various jobs since. Some years ago, she was convicted of a misdemeanor (falsifying a social security number). […]
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There are so many government decisions that could directly affect the Trump Organization’s bottom line; the potential for conflicts of interest is…well, huge.
If Trump can question a federal judge’s legitimacy and call him a “so-called” judge, it’s fair game to do the same to Trump himself.
Bannon unifies and energizes the true deplorables…
To start his second week, Trump doubled down on his “America first” rhetoric by suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days, preventing admission of any Syrian refugees indefinitely, and almost completely shutting down any immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. He took the iconic words “Give me your tired your poor…” and kicked them to the curb while giving the middle finger to the rest of the world..seeming to think this will make us more safe.