Donald Trump’s presidential campaign warned his supporters on Tuesday of scammers trying to pass their organizations off as authentically affiliated with the president. While the campaign didn’t call out any particular groups by name, the announcement came shortly publication of a report from the Campaign Legal Center and Axios that …
Read More »Diversity in Radio Is Vanishing. The Trump Administration Could Make It Worse
The radio industry is staggeringly uniform. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently reported that only 7% of FM stations are owned by women and less than 3% of FM licenses belong to minority broadcasters. Estimates suggest that the number of stations black-owned radio stations has been cut in half since …
Read More »House Majority Whip Clyburn: Trump 'Is Now Glorifying a Loser. Robert E. Lee Was a Loser'
During a Sunday appearance on ABC News’ This Week, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) used President Trump’s own words against him when answering a question regarding the president’s recent praise of Robert E. Lee. “I find it kind of interesting that the president is now glorifying a loser. He …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Roasts Trump on Empty Cabinet Positions, Immigration
Onthe Weekend Update segment ofSaturday Night Live,hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che once again lampooned the news and the wacky people who dominate our headlines in this, the era of Donald Trump. They started with the arrest of Julian Assange in London this week:“WikiLeaks founder and reason I put tape …
Read More »Trump Takes Credit for Obama's Border Wall
On Friday, President Donald Trump stood in front of recently-refurbished border wall along the California-Mexico border and boasted that it was the beginning of construction on the wall he promised voters in the 2016 campaign. And Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen installed commemorative plaque bearing Trump’s name last fall along …
Read More »Planned Parenthood Stands to Lose Millions in Funding Under New Trump Administration Rule
The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that will strip health care clinics around the country of federal funding if they refer patients to abortion services. Reproductive rights advocates call it a “gag rule” because it imposes limits on the issues doctors can discuss with …
Read More »Trump Caves, Agrees to Re-Open Government Without Wall Funding
President Trump announced on Friday that he will endorse a short-term funding bill to re-open the government, which has been operating under a partial shutdown since December 21st. The bill will not include funding for a border wall. “I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a …
Read More »Trump Expected to Offer Border Compromise in Saturday Address
President Donald Trump announced that he will give an address from the White House at 4 p.m. on Saturday. According to Axios, the president’s speech is expected to include an offer to prolong protections to for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in …
Read More »Michael Cohen, Sex Symbol
Michael Cohen: so hot right now. On Thursday, theWall Street Journal reportedthat Donald Trump‘s former attorney and fixer paid the owner of an IT firm to rig an online poll in favor of Trump as he considered a run for president. According to the WSJ, in early 2015 Cohen agreed …
Read More »The Humanitarian Crisis in the Oval Office
A day before President Trump delivered his first Oval Office address, a Florida prison employee named Crystal Minton was quoted in the New York Times. Hurricane Michael tore most of the roof and fence off her workplace, so the incarcerated were relocated to a Mississippi prison that is a seven-hour …
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