House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reached out to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about preventing President Trump from accessing the nuclear launch codes, a sign of lawmakers’ growing alarm over what the president could do in the final days of his tenure. The speaker, in a letter …
Read More »Ho, Ho, Ho, You're Not Getting $2,000
It’s the holidays, it’s been a truly miserable year, overwhelming numbers of Americans are missing their families, those hit hardest by the pandemic and collapse of the economy are still waiting for relief from the government of one of the richest nations in the world, and last night, in front …
Read More »Useful Idiots: Nina Turner on the Future of Progressive Politics After Bernie Suspends Campaign
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 …
Read More »Trump Offers a Recycled 'Compromise' in Speech, Democrats Reject It
President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House to present his plan for reopening the government. Trump said that his plan will “break the log jam” of the government shutdown and to “solve the crisis on the southern border.” But early Democratic reaction …
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