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Donald Trump is still trying to steal the election from Joe Biden, and while he is still going to fail, the terrifying reality is that a few cracks in the wall protecting democracy have started to appear. This article was originally published by Salon While many pundits continue to minimize this entire situation, sneering at people […]

Character counts. President Donald Trump’s failure to take that into account is a major reason he was not elected to a second term. It is his Achilles Heel. In the business world where Trump came from, bad character can hide in the shadows. It can succeed from there. The searchlights there are dim. There a […]

A priest from the Church of St. Michael in midtown Manhattan is accused of sexually assaulting a female security guard after she caught him watching gay porn, the National Catholic Reporter reports. The news is riling parishioners and associates of Fr. George Rutler, who know him to be an ultra-conservative who has railed against “sodomites.” “I […]

President Donald Trump is celebrating Americans’ high  coronavirus infection rate. According to the president about one in every eight Americans, or around 15 percent of the nation, has contracted COVID-19. More than 290,000 Americans have been killed by the deadly virus and coronavirus cases are surging. More than 15 million Americans in the U.S, have […]

DETROIT — A Michigan woman who served as a witness for Rudy Giuliani during a legislative hearing in Lansing last week was until recently on probation stemming from a case in which she was accused of sending sex videos to her fiancé’s ex-wife. Mellissa Carone, 33, of Grosse Pointe Woods is a supporter of President […]

Want a 2021 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1? Get in line. The all-electric pickup sold out in 10 minutes despite its price tag that tops $100,000, just as the automaker is preparing to start winter testing of it, said Duncan Aldred, GMC vice president. Aldred declined to say how many Edition 1’s have been ordered, […]

In Arizona — one of the states that President-elect Joe Biden won — Republican Gov. Ducey is being slammed as a RINO by far-right Trump supporters for certifying the state’s 2020 election results and acknowledging Biden, not President Donald Trump, as the winner. Some Arizona Republicans are continuing to claim, without evidence, that Trump was […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday used a White House vaccine summit to push for the 2020 election to be overturned. At the Operation Warp Speed event, NBC correspondent Peter Alexander asked the president why President-elect Joe Biden’s team had not been invited. Trump responded by repeating falsehoods about the 2020 election. “We’re going to have […]

Oxford University and AstraZeneca became the first Covid-19 vaccine makers to publish final-stage clinical trial results in a scientific journal Tuesday, clearing a key hurdle in the global race to produce safe and effective drugs for the new coronavirus. The study, published in the respected Lancet medical journal, confirmed that the vaccine works in an […]

When Carlos Flores filed suit against the Trump administration last summer, the Laredo-based attorney said he wanted to help his clients try to stave off border wall construction on their stretch of the Texas-Mexico border at least until the presidential election in hopes of seeing a new administration take over. But with the election over […]

Liberal democracy is not a good thing for political parties of the right. While it can deliver for most people most of the time, liberal democracy can’t for the Republican Party or its counterparts around the globe. Elite members of such political parties have everything they need politically, because they are rich, very rich or […]

Republicans on the six-member joint, bipartisan House and Senate Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) on Tuesday killed a resolution naming Joe Biden President-elect. The Committee was created under the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is “responsible for the planning and execution of the Inaugural Ceremonies of the President-elect and Vice President-elect […]

Although former Vice President Joe Biden enjoyed a decisive victory in the 2020 presidential election — winning 306 electoral votes and defeating President Donald Trump by more than 7 million in the popular vote — most Republicans in Congress are afraid to publicly acknowledge Biden as president-elect. Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that the […]

President Donald Trump’s top election lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, on Tuesday vowed to continue fighting the results of the 2020 election despite the Dec. 8 Safe Harbor deadline. Giuliani and Ellis, who have both reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, released a statement as the period for states to certify votes expired. The attorneys […]

Kellyanne Conway has reportedly agreed to a book deal that would pay her millions of dollars to write about her time in the White House. The former senior adviser to President Donald Trump is believed to have fetched more than the $2 million paid to former national security adviser John Bolton for his own tell-all […]

In a video posted to their Twitter account this Tuesday, comedy duo The Good Liars interviewed a pair of Trump supporters, asking the women why they don’t wear masks in the midst of a surging global pandemic. “We don’t have the vibrational frequency to host the virus,” one of the women said. “So, if you […]

Fox News host Harris Faulkner, who is Black, suggested on Tuesday that her “tan” prevents her from understanding President-elect Joe Biden’s diverse cabinet nominations. Faulkner made the remarks during a Fox News panel discussion about two of Biden’s “radical” cabinet picks, who happen not to be white. Left-leaning commentator Leslie Marshall noted that Republicans could […]

A phone call among Republicans in the House of Representatives devolved into bitter infighting after one GOP lawmaker floated a resolution that would formally condemn any Republican who called on President Donald Trump to concede the 2020 presidential election. The Washington Post reports that the controversy started when Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) pitched a resolution […]

During a ceremony this Monday in Kentucky honoring the more than 2,000 who’ve died from coronavirus in the state, a man shared the story of his brother who died from the virus in August, KCCI reports. “His 80-year-old mother loved to call him Robby, and that was always her name for him, now she does […]

Appearing on CNN with host Kate Bolduan, John Fetterman, the blunt-talking Pennsylvania lieutenant governor, claimed Donald Trump is forcing GOP lawmakers to pander to the “lunatic fringe” of the Republican Party in an effort to help him forestall leaving the Oval Office after the losing the 2020 presidential election to former Vice President Joe Biden. […]

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) is coming out swinging amid reports that President Donald Trump is calling Pennsylvania state lawmakers and pressuring them to help him overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Toomey called on Trump to stop his pressure campaign aimed at getting state legislatures to […]

Trump campaign and personal attorney Jenna Ellis is the latest in the president’s orbit – one of literally more than 50 – to test positive for coronavirus. As the news broke, CNN’s John King chastised the attorney, who has been seen repeatedly without a mask. Ellis informed the White House, Axios notes, “stirring West Wing fears […]

Zeynep Tufekci, a Turkish journalist who now lives in the United States and teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been warning that President Donald Trump’s authoritarianism should not be taken lightly. Tufekci revisits that subject in article published in The Atlantic on December 7, stressing that whether or not Trump’s attempt to overthrow […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James is hot on the heels of President Donald Trump and his family, and she told “The View” that pardons won’t protect them. The attorney general’s office has been investigating the Trump Organization after the president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified before Congress, and James vowed that process would continue […]

John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the legendary musician’s shock murder with a call for gun control. “The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience,” tweeted the 87-year-old artist, who still lives in the Dakota building in Manhattan outside of which her husband was shot four decades […]