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Why Won't Congress Take Domestic Terrorism Seriously?
Just hours before a deranged white man stormed two New Zealand mosques and killed some 49 people, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) sent his third letter to the FBI and the Justice Department asking for a committee briefing on the “evolving threat of domestic terrorism.” His first two requests had been ignored. According to HuffPost, the…
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Steve Mnuchin Says He Will Comply With Law to Release Trump’s Tax Returns, Maybe
During a two-hour hearing on Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made it clear that he would comply with an obscure law that could compel him to turn over Trump’s records. CNN reports that Mnuchin, himself no stranger to grift, told Democrats that he would comply with U.S. tax code section 6103, which allows three…
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Donald Trump Vetoes Resolution Against Stupidity
President Donald Trump has issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday, striking down a bipartisan resolution against his emergency declaration calling for a slat-fence to protect the country from the lowest influx ever of people who commit very few crimes and smuggle very few drugs. “Today I am vetoing this resolution. Congress has…
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Former Fox News Reporter to Break NDA, Appear Before House Oversight Committee
As a rule of thumb in Spades, it’s best to play the little joker after the big one’s taken a book. As a rule of thumb in colluding with a presidential campaign to keep news of its centerpiece’s lack of morality from sinking his polling numbers, the government has, like, infinity big jokers. Thursday, House…
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Trump Threatens to Veto Senate’s Vote Against His Wall Because That’s What Mob Bosses Do
Trump is doing it again. The arrogant thing that has become the signature of his time in office, where he ignores everyone around him like a kid who sticks his fingers in his ears when his parents are talking, only to do what he’s been told not to do. No one wants this dumbass wall.…
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Asked Twitter for Furniture Advice. The Answers Were Hilarious
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not only new to Congress, she’s also new to buying furniture for her own place. So she decided to ask 3.52 million of her closest friends for a little help. So Twitter did what it always does and had fun with the New York Democrat voted most hated by the Grand Ole…
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Trump Ready to Issue First Veto As New Budget Calls for Budget Cuts
They grow up so fast. One day, your new President is on the job for the first day. Wobbly and uncertain, you watched as he moved around Capitol Hill aimlessly, like a deer in headlights after a daring escape from the Doritos compound. He stumbled through his first top-level hires, invented a word, and gave…
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Right-Wing Foundation Alleges AOC Campaign Paid Boyfriend Illegally
New York’s freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has raised plenty of eyebrows during her first few months in office. According to a right-leaning think-tank, her campaign’s finances may have raised legal concerns, too. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation alleges in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that Brand New Congress PAC paid her boyfriend, Riley Roberts,…
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Trump Claims Michael Cohen’s Book Proposal Was a ‘Love Letter’ to Him
After his failed summit in North Korea, President Donald Trump claimed Friday that his former hitman shopped a book that not only gushed about what a great man and leader that Trump was, but claimed it was a “love letter” to him. Because Trump is back in the United States and therefore has nothing to…
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Trump Is Having a Rough Few Days
Poor Donald J. Trump. Not only did his former consigliere sit in front of Congress and call him a liar and a racist, but his bae-cation with side piece and leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, ended without an actual agreement. It must be hard being the president—especially a president who didn’t want to…