Stacey Abrams' romance novel in development stage for CBS series
You may know her as a former Georgia state politician. You may know her as a whiny loser in the last Georgia gubernatorial election. Stacey Abrams has another career path not so well-known. She's a...
View ArticleCold feet? Michigan Democrat who voted for impeachment inquiry now prefers...
If you asked me to predict which House Democrat would be the first to back off impeachment, I ... would not have bet on a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus from a D+30 district in Detroit....
View ArticleThe dumb new animal cruelty federal law
There's a new federal law regarding animal cruelty. Via The Daily Mail:Donald Trump signed the first animal cruelty bill of his presidency on Monday, outlawing narrow types of egregious violence...
View ArticleMA town launches experiment to give 16 year olds the vote
This should be interesting. If the state gives its approval, the town of Brookline, Massachusetts will gain a lot of new voters in the future. At a town meeting last week, residents voted to extend the...
View ArticleWarren's campaign clarifies her statement caught on video: Actually, her son...
Last Friday a protest broke out at Elizabeth Warren's rally in Georgia. A group of black parents who strongly support charter schools interrupted Warren's speech to voice their opposition to her...
View ArticleBuh-bye: Chinese trespasser at Mir-a-Lago to be deported
It's been a wild ride with Yujing Zhang, the Chinese woman caught trespassing at Mir-a-Lago last March. Her story changed several times along the way. She fired her attorneys last June and represented...
View ArticleACLU worried about cops with robot dogs
For three months this year, the bomb squad for the Massachusetts State Police had one of the terrifying Boston Dynamics "Spot" robot dogs on loan for a pilot program test. The robot, equipped with an...
View ArticleDemocrats 'will not be able to field a candidate' in Arkansas Senate race
The Democratic Party of Arkansas had selected Joshua Mahony to run against Sen. Tom Cotton in next year's election. However, minutes after the filing deadline for candidates had passed, Cotton's...
View ArticleNadler sets expert hearing on impeachable crimes for December 4, invites...
For cripes sake. His star expert is going to be Laurence Tribe, isn't it?The point of this hearing, I suspect, will be to both broaden and narrow the public's imagination on whether Trump committed a...
View ArticleHomeless activists occupied a site near Oakland's City Hall Sunday, police...
Protesters tried to take a page from the Occupy playbook in the city of Oakland this week, but the "Housing Justice Village" they set up in a park adjacent to City Hall only lasted a few hours. Police...
View ArticleDNC vice chair to Bill Hemmer: Why the hell does Tucker Carlson still have a...
Simple answer, buddy: Because he delivers ratings. And he's a buddy of the president's. And he's probably going to run himself in 2024 and Fox doubtless would like to be able to boast that it was...
View ArticleAbout that "dumb" animal cruelty law. Another view
When Taylor wrote about the new federal animal cruelty law earlier today, I'll confess to being disappointed that he called it "dumb." I suspect that the description of the bill provided in the Daily...
View ArticleCringe-worthy interview: Jeremy Corbyn held accountable for anti-Semitism in...
Seth Mandel posted a clip of this interview on Twitter in which Jeremy Corbyn refuses to apologize for the scandal of anti-Semitism in his own Labour Party. But that's really just the end of a much...
View ArticleHoo boy: New poll shows Warren in free fall, losing half her national support
And to think, I've been feeling sheepish these last few months for pointing to her poor polling this past spring and declaring that her candidacy was going nowhere. She rose steadily all summer and...
View ArticleUnder the bus: I didn't direct Rudy's work in Ukraine, Trump claims
Literally no one believes this. Even MAGA commentators who have to pretend to believe it will do so only half-heartedly, given how preposterous it is.But I suppose Trump has no choice except to make...
View ArticleDem Senators: We'd like more information on the military Pardons Trump is...
Amazingly, the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have found something to talk about that doesn't have to do with impeachment, at least yet, anyway. Patrick Leahy and Sheldon Whitehouse would...
View ArticleHong Kong police to enter university where protesters hid tomorrow
A potential disaster for everyone involved could happen tomorrow in Hong Kong where police are preparing to enter a university and arrest anti-government protesters. The two sides have been at a...
View ArticleDe Blasio vs Bloomberg: Embrace the Dark Side
We still seem to be dealing with the question of whether or not there's anyone in the country who was excited about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg throwing his hat in the 2020 Democratic...
View ArticleReport: Trump had learned of whistleblower complaint before he released...
Why does this matter? Remember that Gordon Sondland testified last week that when he finally confronted Trump about what was going on with Ukraine, Trump told him there was no quid pro quo and that...
View ArticleMedia applauds as Melania Trump is booed at youth opioid summit
It is a first in the Trump era of American politics. First Lady Melania Trump was the guest speaker at the Baltimore Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness Tuesday and some in the audience booed as she was...
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