News
Last Call: March 7, 2020
270 days until the General Election and our chance to kick the Orange Ass and his Cartel to the curb. In all honesty, I’m over the primaries and hope, they’re pretty much over with in MORE
Wingnut Watch
Someone at CPAC tests positive for the Coronavirus ‘hoax’
An attendee at the Conservative Political Action Conference — a major annual right-wing gathering held in Maryland this February and attended by President Trump — tested positive Saturday for the novel coronavirus, the host organization MORE
Entertainment
One Million Moms Calls for Boycott of Upcoming Marvel Movie With Openly Gay Superhero
A conservative anti-LGBTQ group has called for the boycott of an upcoming Marvel Studios movie because it features an openly gay superhero. The Eternals is said to an include a kiss between superhero Phastos and MORE
Technology
Durian batteries‽
The ubiquity in the modern world of consumer electronics has created a corresponding demand for better super-capacitors for energy storage, thereby enabling rapid charging for our mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and electric cars. But the MORE
News
Six former Ohio State wrestlers claim Gym Jordan knew about abusive doctor
Tito Vazquez says he still remembers the day three decades ago when, as a wrestler at Ohio State University, the doctor he’d gone to see about a bloody nose insisted on examining his genitals. He MORE
2020 Elections
Erik Prince helped recruit former spies to help Project Veritas infiltrate groups considered hostile to Trump
The New York Times reported that security contractor and Trump sycophant, Erik Prince, “has helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive intelligence-gathering operations that included infiltrating Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other MORE
Environment
U.S. Coal Use Is Plunging at Fastest Rate Since Eisenhower Era
Consumption dropped 13% last year, set to fall as much in 2020 The decline reflects the rapidly changing U.S. energy mix, as coal is increasingly struggling to compete on price with natural gas, wind and MORE
Editorials
America is Botching COVID-19 Testing
The CDC has refused to publish the number of Americans who have actually been tested, reporting only the number of positive results. On Monday, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the FDA, estimated that “by the MORE
Books
Book Review: Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
It’s always tempting to think that the next election will turn things around, and for both Republicans and Democrats to believe that our country would course-correct if only they could elect more of their own. MORE
2020 Elections
Illinois Republicans Campaign Against Nazi Running in Party’s Primary Race
The Illinois Republican Party has launched a major campaign to try and convince voters not to back a neo-Nazi to represent the party in an upcoming district election. Holocaust denier and former member of the MORE
Friday Night News Dump
Trump fires Mick Mulvaney; replaces him with Birther Mark Meadows
“I am pleased to announce that Congressman Mark Meadows will become White House Chief of Staff. I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one.” Trump, who did MORE
News
Trump’s bigly field trip to the Center of Disease Control
After touring tornado ravaged Tennessee, Trump jetted on over to the CDC. “Anybody that wants a test can get a test,” Trump said Friday despite concerns over delayed distribution of testing kits. “And the tests MORE
Politics
Tough guy Ken Buck (Idiot-CO) dares the ‘gun grabbing duo,’ Beto and Joe, to ‘come and take’ away his AR-15
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck wielded an AR-15 rifle in his office and dared former Vice President Joe Biden and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke to “come and take it” in a new video. “I have a MORE
Live Discussions
Watch Live: The Coronavirus task force holds a press briefing
Members of the Coronavirus Task Force, charged with leading the U.S. response to the global coronavirus outbreak, are scheduled to hold a press briefing at the White House Friday evening.
Nutter Watch
Federal Judge Rules Against Washington H.S. Praying Ex-Football Coach
LE††UCE PREY A U.S. District Court judge ruled against former Bremerton High School football coach Joe Kennedy, who got national attention five years ago when the school banned him from praying on the 50-yard line after MORE
2020 Elections
Trump Says Replacing Mike Pence as VP Would Be ‘Great Act of Disloyalty’
President Donald Trump said Thursday at a Fox News Town Hall he has no plans to replace Vice President Mike Pence as the two were friends. Trump named Pence as one of his closest friends MORE
2020 Elections
Primary Turnout For Trump So Far Has Been Huge
Republicans are turning out in historic numbers in the primaries, despite Trump having essentially no competition. The massive turnout is a result of Republican enthusiasm and their own GOTV message online at Facebook and through MORE
News
Trump signs $8.3 billion emergency spending bill to combat the spread of the Coronavirus
President Trump signed the $8.3B emergency supplemental spending bill to contain the spread of the coronavirus on March 6. He said, “I asked for two-and-a-half and I got 8.3 and I’ll take it.”
Economy
Job numbers rise; stocks tank
February Jobs Report: U.S. Added 273,000 Jobs in February; Unemployment at 3.5%: ■ 273,000 jobs were added in February. Analysts had expected a gain of about 165,000, according to MarketWatch. ■ The unemployment rate was MORE
Politics
Kushner sells stake in real estate company whose value skyrockets thanks to Trump tax cuts
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump who also serves as a senior White House adviser, sold his stake in a real estate company more than three years after he said he would be MORE
Newscasts
Elizabeth Warren calls out the Bernie Bros. for their vicious online attacks
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviewed Senator Warren shortly after she ended her presidential campaign. Warren talked about many issues, including how she still holds hope that one day, the United States may actually elect their first, MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 10
Good morning and Happy Friday, News Viewers! You’re stuck with me today because our lovely Rachel is a bit under the weather. Get well soon, Rachel! No, I’m not ‘rigging’ an election by the cartoon MORE
2020 Elections
Hey seniors! If re-elected, Trump’s coming for your Social Security and Medicare
Trump held a bigly town hall with a few whomevers from Fox ‘News.’ When asked about the national debt, of course Trump blamed Obama but also said that if re-elected, he will definitely make cuts MORE
News
Harvey Weinstein moved to Rikers Island after heart procedure
Weinstein, 67, was moved to the jail’s infirmary unit Thursday after undergoing a medical procedure at Bellevue Hospital. He was cleared for transfer by doctors who had to clear a heart blockage, Weinstein’s publicist Juda MORE
News
Judge orders Billy Barr to hand over an unredacted copy of the Muller Report; accused him of misrepresenting its findings
Judge Reggie B. Walton, a federal district court judge appointed by Bush Jr. ordered AG Billy Barr to hand over an unredacted copy of the Muller Report him. He also accused Barr “misrepresenting its findings MORE