Maria Butina, the convicted Russian agent who last month was sentenced 18 months in prison for her illegal attempts to back channel with American conservative leaders and the Trump administration, is appealing her prison term. Currently housed at the Grady County Jail in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Butina filed her appeal with …
Read More »Grey Worm Actor Was Yelling 'Mike Pence!' While Filming Battle of Winterfell
Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week to talk about the filming of “The Long Night,” the episode that aired this past Sunday, in which the humans defeated the Night King and his army of the dead. During the interview, the …
Read More »Trump Staffers Got Drunk at Mar-a-Lago. You Paid For It
President Trump has spent close to 250 days of his time in office at his own properties. He loves none of them more than Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Florida, resort he’s affectionately dubbed the “Winter White House.” Earlier this year, the Government Accountability Office estimated that every time Trump absconds …
Read More »Kellyanne Conway Says Trump Is Innocent Because He Says So
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday morning and did what she does best: spin. No matter the facts. No matter the issues at hand. No matter that her husband George Conway yells from every mountain top he can find to rail about the …
Read More »Trump Wants to Bring Back 'Large-Scale' Family Separation
Last summer, after public outcry over the Trump administration’s newly instituted policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border reached a fever pitch, the president responsible tried to distance himself from the action. First, he blamed Democrats. Then, he issued an executive order that put the onus …
Read More »Sycophant Congressman Hits the Morning News Shows, Touts Trump's 'Amazing Two Years'
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) hit the morning news shows on Sunday to make it clear that President Donald Trump can do no wrong because some people like him. Every time Jordan was asked about the morality or just simply the right or wrong of anything Trump has been accused of …
Read More »Students Lead a Worldwide Climate Strike. Will Adults Listen?
Last August, when she began her climate strike outside the Swedish parliament, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was all alone. “I tried to bring people along to join me,” Thunberg recently told Rolling Stone, “but no one was really interested, and so I had to do it by myself.” But around the …
Read More »The First Time: Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
At just 16 years old, Greta Thunberg has galvanized an international youth movement against Climate Change. The Swedish teenager first staged a “School Strike for Climate” in front of Parliament in August, handing out fliers with messages like “You Grownups don’t give a shit about my future.” She gained international …
Read More »Jay Inslee Wants to Be the First Climate President. Is America Ready?
On a recent Sunday morning, Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, paid a visit to the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency. He was part of a group of governors who had come to meet with EPA chief Andrew Wheeler, the face and leader of President Trump’s all-out …
Read More »Trump Seems to Have Made a Habit of Obstructing Justice
From firing FBI Director James Comey to his endless attempts to undermine federal law enforcement on Twitter, President Trump has obstructed justice in plan sight for most of his time in office. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that he’s also been doing this behavior behind the scenes. On Tuesday …
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