In freshly liberated transcript, state department official details exchange in which Trump elevated Ukraine investigations David Holmes, a state department official, said he had “never seen anything like” the phone call he overheard between Donald Trump and Gordon Sondland, the EU ambassador, in which Trump personally grew the investigations he …
Read More »‘So you won’t take down lies?’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenges Facebook CEO – video
Mark Zuckerberg faced a gruelling investigation from the Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, with questions over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook’s reluctance to police political advertising. The Facebook CEO declined to disclose when he found out the company was harvesting and selling customer data to influence elections. She …
Read More »How AOC turned boring congressional hearings into electrifying moments
The Democrat established waves by challenging Zuckerberg. It wasn’t even her first viral moment that day It isn’t often that you hear person rave about a great congressional hearing they’ve seen online. Heck, outside of large-hearted national occurrences, I’m going to bet you have never willingly watched C-Span. But less …
Read More »‘Are you talking to me?’: furious Trump takes aim at journalist over Ukraine question – video
‘Are you talking to me? ‘ Donald Trump requested during an extraordinary exchange with Reuters’ White House correspondent Jeff Mason. Trump became angry after Mason requested Trump a question about Ukraine, to which Trump replied:’ We have the president of Finland. Ask him a question’. Mason reacted: ‘I have one …
Read More »‘The United States is broken as hell’ – the division in politics over race and class
In the final part of our serial on the American left we look at how marginalized groups in America are now asserting themselves “However rebellious offsprings may be, they have their parents’ genes; American revolutionaries are Americans, ” wrote the late radical writer Andrew Kopkind in the New York Times …
Read More »Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years
Fields with discriminatory record purging at higher ratesPurges intensified following 2013 supreme court decision US election districts with records of heinous voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report liberated Thursday. Related: Activists say brand-new Tennessee law aims …
Read More »The sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump – the full list
A list of the accusations made against Donald Trump, all of which he has denied Continue reading … Read more: theguardian.com
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