In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by former Ohio State senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate Nina Turner, who makes her second appearance on the show and discusses the future of progressive politics in America after Sanders suspended his campaign. Taibbi makes …
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White supremacists are using an encrypted messaging app called Telegram to devise schemes with the intent of weaponizing the coronavirus to target law enforcement agents and “nonwhite” people, according to a report by Yahoo News. According to a law enforcement weekly intelligence brief, federal investigators appear to be monitoring neo-Nazis’ …
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) announced on Monday that he is quarantining himself after being informed that he came into contact with an attendee of the Conservative Political Action Conference who tested positive for COVID-19. Gaetz, a Trump loyalist known for orchestrating outlandish stunts to get media attention, mocked coronavirus last …
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The 2020 Census is nearly upon us, and signs are emerging that the once-in-a-decade survey of the American population could experience some issues if the Census Bureau doesn’t start taking the technological elements of the operation more seriously — and fast. Last Wednesday, a troubling report from the nonpartisan Government …
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Attorney General William Barr has ordered an outside prosecutor to review former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s case. Barr assigned U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen of St. Louis to re-examine the prosecution of Flynn. And additional outside prosecutors have been tasked to review other, yet unnamed, politically sensitive national-security cases “some …
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President Trump has found his dream attorney general in William Barr. We already knew this, considering how Barr worked last year to obscure special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings (and then some), but the bromance between the president and the head of the Justice Department, which in a functioning government would …
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Three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, six candidates dutifully assembled in Des Moines Tuesday night for the final debate before voting begins. With polls showing a virtual dead heat in Iowa, the stakes were high and the spotlights bright. But the questions? The questions were mystifyingly inane. No questions …
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According to two separate reports this week, President Donald Trump may have had the impeachment process on his mind when giving the go-ahead for the drone strike that assassinated Iranian military and intelligence official Qasem Soleimani last week. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported: “Mr. Trump, after the strike, …
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Early Friday morning in Iraq, the United States assassinated high-ranking Iranian military and intelligence official Qasem Soleimani. He was killed in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport, along with several officials from Iran-backed militias operating in Iraq. The attack represents the most aggressive action yet in an increasingly tense …
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When President Trump signed the largest overhaul to the U.S. tax code in 30 years in the fall of 2017, there was no mistaking who would benefit: corporations and the super-wealthy. They have. In April, a study foundthat 60 of the largest companies in America paid no taxes in 2018, …
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