BURLINGTON, VERMONT — Get ready to feel the Bern again. A movement to draft Bernie Sanders to run for president in 2020 is launching today, with the aim of building an organizational structure so the Vermont Senator can start campaigning at a moment’s notice. “We have two goals,” Rich Pelletier, …
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General Motors announced on Monday that it will halt production at five North American plants and lay off 15 percent of its salaried and contract workforce. In total, nearly 15,000 people will lose their jobs as a result of the large-scale move to restructure operations.“The actions we are taking today …
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Kanye West’s lunch with President Donald Trump on Thursday was supposed to be focused on criminal justice reform, gun violence and other issues plaguing the rapper’s hometown of Chicago. Instead, West, an outspoken Trump supporter, came armed witha proposal for a hydrogen-powered plane that would replace Air Force One, which …
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John Oliver opened Sunday’s Last Week Tonight by recapping the White House’s week of President Trump criticisms –from the anonymous senior official’s New York Times op-ed that called Trump’s actions “detrimental to the health of our republic” to the slew of harsh quotes from various staffers featured in Bob Woodward’s …
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Stephen Colbertwas part of the full slate of comedians who excoriated President Donald Trump for his self-abasing statements at the Helsinkipress conference Monday opposite Russian President Vladimir Putin. During his speech, Trump reaffirmed his belief in Putin’s claim that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election, despite heaps of …
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Jon Stewart defended his former Daily Show collaborator Samantha Bee in a recent interview, dismissing the notion that the Full Frontal host’s controversial description of Ivanka Trump as a “feckless cunt” offended the president. “They don’t give a shit about the word ‘cunt,’” the comedian said of the White House …
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At this point, there is overwhelming evidence that Russia meddled heavily in the 2016 election. The primary tool Russian operatives used to do so was social media – particularly Facebook – which boasts close to 215 million American users. On Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee released nearly 3,500 Facebook ads …
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Concerning the State Department today, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that Rex Tillerson, the ultra-wealthy former Exxon Mobil CEO who’s been called “the worst Secretary of State in living memory,” is out, fired via Twitter by President Trump, after presiding over a 14-month-long gutting of …
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Will the president who fired FBI Director James Comey in May – against the advice of many of his closest advisers, including Steve Bannon– demand the ouster of Special Counsel Robert Muelleras soon as this week? Truth is, no one knows. And that probably includes Trump himself, whosaid on Mondaythat …
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When the news that Alabama Senate candidate and longtime conservative raconteur Roy Moore wasaccused of molesting a 14-year-old girl when he was 32, we braced for the inevitable pushback from those on the right who would defend him. Partisanship is a hell of a drug, one powerful enough to cause …
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