Month: September 2020

When President Donald Trump’s favorite right-wing television program “Fox & Friends” launched a Twitter poll on Tuesday asking whether the benefits of Medicare for All “outweigh the costs,” they likely didn’t expect 73 percent of the nearly 32,000 respondents to answer yes—but that’s precisely what happened. “Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for all’ bill estimated to cost …

Read more “Fox & Friends Poll Designed to Discredit Medicare for All Explodes in Their Face”

Amid international outcry over President Donald Trump’s treatment of the news media, more than 100 newspapers are planning to publish editorials this Thursday pushing back against his repeated claims that journalists are “the enemy of the people” and defending their right to cover his administration and actions. Denouncing Trump’s “dirty war on the free press,” …

Read more “As UN Rights Chief Warns Trump's Press Attacks 'Close to Incitement of Violence,' Newspapers Ready Coordinated Response”

In yet another sign that the walls are closing in on President Donald Trump after his former “fixer” Michael Cohen implicated him in a criminal conspiracy on Tuesday, two top executives at American Media Inc. (AMI)—which publishes the notorious tabloid The National Enquirer—have reportedly been granted immunity by federal prosecutors in exchange for information on …

Read more “Trump 'In Serious Legal Jeopardy' as Top Tabloid Executives Reportedly Get Immunity in Exchange for Hush Money Info”

As the GOP plows ahead with another round of budget-exploding tax cuts for the rich just before the crucial 2018 midterms, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser and former television personality Larry Kudlow confirmed on Monday that the White House will push for cuts to life-saving safety net programs like Medicare and Social Security if …

Read more “'This Election Is Last Chance to Stop Them': Kudlow Confirms Trump and GOP Ready to Gut Safety Net After Midterms”

Click:Slew bearing Ferrari will implement minor upgrades on its SF1000 car for next week’s Russian Grand Prix at Sochi, but Scuderia boss Mattia Binotto insists the updates “will not change the big picture”. Ferrari is in the midst of a dismal season in which it has drifted down the order, its performance weighed down by …

Read more “Ferrari SF1000 to receive ‘small upgrades’ for Russian GP”

American fashion designer Marc Jacobs has teamed up with Dr. Martens as part of the iconic footwear brand’s ongoing 1460 remastered collaboration to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Jacobs first collaborated with Dr. Martens, 27 years ago in 1993, with his DM’s-adored Perry Ellis grunge collection and it is this “shared history of rebellion” that the …

Read more “Marc Jacobs reunites with Dr. Martens for new collaboration”

The U.S. Postal Service says it made a mistake in releasing the official personnel file of a Democratic candidate to a Republican-aligned super PAC after the candidate claimed that a GOP super PAC had obtained the file improperly. A spokesperson for the Postal Service said Thursday that the agency made an “unfortunate error” when releasing the personnel file …

Read more “Post Office says it 'deeply regrets' exposing personnel file of Dem candidate”

The political network backed by billionaire activist Charles Koch launched a new super PAC on Monday to elect candidates that share their conservative and libertarian-leaning values. Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the political arm of the Koch network, has created AFP Action, which will coordinate with Libre Action, an Hispanic outreach super PAC, and Concerned Veterans for …

Read more “Koch network launches super PAC ahead of midterm elections”

After delivering a flailing, furious, and blatantly partisan opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Trump Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly and angrily refused to express support for an FBI investigation into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations or to encourage his friend Mark Judge to testify when given multiple opportunities to …

Read more “'Are You Afraid?': Kavanaugh Claims Innocence But Angrily and Repeatedly Refuses to Back Call for FBI Probe”

In the latest demonstration that President Donald Trump and the GOP’s lie-filled ads, videos, and op-eds attacking single-payer have not been enough to convince even their own constituents that providing healthcare to every American at a lower cost is bad policy, a poll published Monday found that a majority of Republican voters support Medicare for …

Read more “Not Buying Paul Ryan and Trump's Lies, Poll Shows 52% of Republicans Support Medicare for All”