Month: September 2020

Paris Dennard, a political commentator who had been a fierce on-air defender of Trump throughout the election, was on a CNN set when he got “Paris Dennard: ‘Wow, we actually did it’”

Americans believe by a nearly three-to-one margin that Alabama Republican Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreSessions goes after Tuberville’s coaching record in challenging him to debate The “Poll: Large majority believes Moore should drop out”

Ignoring how North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ HB2 cost the state millions in lost revenue and jobs—while tarnishing its reputation nationwide—conservative lawmakers in at least six states “Transgender Community Faces 'Attacks on Humanity' in Six More States”

For the third year in a row, the world experienced its warmest year on the books, global scientists have determined. The new assessments come from “2014 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded. Then It Was 2015. Now It's 2016.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that aims to slash regulations—an action, advocacy groups say, that puts lives at risk. The order—the “'Dangerous' and 'Dumb': Trump Signs Executive Order Torching Regulations”

Protesters briefly blocked Betsy DeVos from entering a Washington, D.C. school Friday morning in her first visit as Education Secretary, one woman shouting, “She does “Watch: Protesters Block Betsy DeVos From First Visit to Public School”

Furthering the administration’s anti-worker agenda (and its “deconstruction of the administrative state”), the U.S. Senate is poised on Monday to block an Obama-era executive order “GOP Deregulating Frenzy Takes Aim at Fair Pay and Safety Rules for Workers”

An ally of former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said the head of Breitbart News is not concentrating on House incumbents ahead of the “Associate: Bannon’s focus not on House incumbents”

The Senate’s Republican campaign chief is now pushing for former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore (R) to run for the state’s Senate seat in 2018.  National “Senate campaign chief urges Jim Gilmore to run in Virginia: report”

President Donald Trump has made the world a “darker…unstable place” with his campaign rhetoric, Amnesty International said Wednesday, calling his xenophobic language “divisive and poisonous.” “Trump's "Poisonous" Rhetoric Made World "Darker, Unstable": Amnesty”