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McCain Family Will Endorse Biden for President O'Rourke says he supports voting rights for nonviolent felons Booker: 'I will ha...

Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York's attorney general White House 'blocking' offic...

Trtruhout - Students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, have entered their [22nd] day of a sit-in occupation of their campu...

President Donald Trump was called out on social media for demanding that The New York Times kneel before him and “beg for forgiveness.”

Daily Beast -   The Trump administration's attempt to cut off government money from family planning clinics that offer abortions is set ...

At a 2014 Heartland Institute book discussion event in Chicago, Stephen Moore (underconseration for the Fed) said: “If you want to live in...

Justice Department refuses to comply with congressional subpoena for testimony on citizenship question and 2020 Census Trump: 'No rea...

Truthdig - Baby bonds are federally managed accounts set up at birth for children and endowed by the government with assets that will grow o...

  Nicholas Kristof - In my 35 years at the @nytimes, I’ve covered lots of authoritarians around the world. Many have lashed ...

Moulton against Sanders proposal to let inmates vote, backs rights being restored after release Joe Biden to enter 2020 presidential rac...

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Guardian - Two brothers who say they helped Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack against himself filed a lawsuit on Tuesday ...

Trump tells officials not to attend White House Correspondents' Dinner

Two-thirds of young Democrats in a new poll say they are concerned with the moral direction of the U.S. The survey from Harvard’s Institut...

Politico - Sure, there’s plenty of confusion, diplomatic malpractice and dysfunction in Trumpian foreign policy. But on two critical issues ...

Independent, UK - Stephen Moore, one of President Donald Trump's planned nominees for the Federal Reserve Board, wrote columns decrying ...

Daily Mail, UK - More than half the Americans who have either read or heard about the results of the redacted version of Robert Mueller’s R...

IOWA DEMOCRATic PRIMARY (APRIL) Most recent poll to right 27, 25, 27, 19% Biden 25, 24, 16, 19% Sanders 11, 9, 14%         Buttegieg ...

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Reuters - - President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operat...

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John Nichols “You don’t have to say, ‘Let’s obstruct justice’ for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.”  ...

A new Emerson Poll found that some supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary would prefer Do...

The Hill - Two-thirds of young Democrats in a new poll say they are concerned with the moral direction of the U.S. The survey from Harvard’s...

Common Dreams - The union representing tens of thousands of striking Stop & Shop workers declared victory  after it reached a tentative ...

Sam Smith - There is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits arrest and indictment of a president who commits a crime. As noted here befo...

Trump, Romney and Huckabee have at it Top Adviser to Beto O’Rourke Quits Rep. Ilhan Omar: Legalize marijuana everywhere, expunge recor...

  Via  Curtis Ison Thecase

T he Trump administration will not nominate anyone from the United States to serve on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of ...

Farron Cousins, Ring of Fire  - This is one line that I want to hear every single Democratic candidate repeat from now really into eternity ...

Lawfare : -The Mueller Report describes, in excruciating detail and with relatively few redactions, a candidate and a campaign aware of t...

KTVU - For the past 50 years, there’s been an exodus of African Americans from San Francisco to the suburbs. Fred Jordan, head of the Africa...

EcoWatch - The New York City Council passed the world's "largest single carbon reduction effort that any city, anywhere, has ever p...

NBC - Trump revoked the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order then-President Barack Obama put in place to ensure that companies with fede...

City Lab - The Trump administration has a new front in its anti-immigration campaign: public housing. This week, the U.S. Department of Hous...

Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend’s Black Police Chief. Pete Buttigieg Says Trump ‘Deserves to be Impeached

 Eric Holder: ‘Any Competent’ Prosecutor Would Win Obstruction Case Against Trump Trump lawyers reviewed Mueller report for 10 hours befor...

Buttigieg to join striking Stop & Shop workers The Trump 2020 campaign raked in $1million in donations after the Mueller report War...

Popular Resistance - A federal court ruled last week it will not review a decision that cities cannot arrest people for sleeping on public p...

House Democrats subpoena 9 major banks while probing Trump’s finances — including six US firms and three foreign lender

Kellyanne Conway declares Mueller report's release 'best day' since Trump's election Mueller's Russia report details T...

Planetizen -=  "Counties with the largest numeric growth are all located in the south and the west, with counties in Texas taking four...

John Sides, co-author of Identity Crisis   - A couple statistics relevant to the partisan loyalty of Bernie Sanders supporters:70% of 2008 H...

The best excerpts we've seen so far are from Politico. A few of them.  Barr: “President Trump faced an unprecedented situation. As he ...

In fact, it's fair to argue that if a president can not be indicted or impeached because of alleged crimes, he is immune from the necess...

Political Wire - “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team referred 14 investigations to other US attorney’s offices, including the prosecuti...

Daily Mail UK - Ignorance is bliss - and a great reasonable doubt defense.  That seems to be the case for Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner an...

Mother Jones - When President Donald Trump learned that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016...

Brown Valley Observer -   Moments after reports came in that the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was burning, televangelist Pat Robertso...

The Hill - NBC host Chuck Todd said Wednesday that a New York Times report that the Justice Department has already briefed the White House a...

Wikipedia - On February 11, 2003, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified to Congress that "Iraq has moved to the top of my list. As w...

Coleeen Rowley is a retired FBI special agent and division legal counsel whose May 2002 memo to then-FBI Director Robert Mueller exposed so...

Arkansas is replacing its century-old statues in the U.S. Capitol with more modern figures: American music legend Johnny Cash and civil rig...

Sam Smith - You don't need conspiracy or collusion if you have subservience

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” — Alfred North Whitehead

Mississippi governor signs bill permitting license plates with alternative flag without Confederate symbol

Sam Smith - Mark Thompson (on whose show I'm on every Monday morning) has apparently been suspended by Sirius XM after a brief incident...

Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders are most popular 2020 Dems among Hispanics Tulsi Gabbard hammers Donald Trump for turning U.S. into 'prosti...

The Hill - In a new Hill-HarrisX poll released Tuesday, 84 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana. The April 12-13 survey of regi...

Independent, UK - Ecuador’s president has confirmed that one of the reasons Julian Assange’s asylum was revoked was because he allegedly sme...

Donald Trump says he hasn't released tax returns because he's being audited — and claims he is being audited because of his faith. ...

Trump's Justice Department Now Says the Emoluments Clause Doesn't Apply to His Hotels

63% of Americans say the U.S. should spend more on drug rehab to combat the epidemic of addiction

Omar Barghouti Guardian -L ast Wednesday, as I was preparing to depart for the United States for a series of speaking engagements, I was abr...

Sanders takes on Fox — and emerges triumphant Sanders: No Apology For Being Millionaire...   Pete Buttigieg suggests national service p...

DEMOCRATS' MARGIN VS. TRUMP Most recent poll to right The latest Emerson poll finds Biden's lead over Trum dropping down to sin...

Matt Lewis, Daily Beast - Exodus 23:9 says, “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you wer...

Andrew Yang, 2020 Democrat, proposes $1,000/month 'freedom dividend' for every American over 18 Warren unveils 2020 plan to stop ...

Trump Tells Personal Accountant To Ignore Dem Subpoena For His Financial Info “What do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did bec...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason -   Let’s put aside Assange for a moment—because when laws are written or precedents set based only on whether...

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES  As judged by Democratic voters. Most recent poll - Emerson - to right Sanders 25, 27, 20, 26, 25, 1...