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Senior staffers on the House Judiciary Committee helped Donald Trump’s top aides draft the executive order curbing immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, but the Republican committee chairman and party leadership were not informed, according to multiple sources involved in the process. The news of their involvement helps unlock the mystery of whether the White House…
The pastor of a largely immigrant Catholic church in Queens has a suggestion for his anti-Trump parishioners: Go take a flying leap off the nearest building. “Show your hate for Trump. Do it for social justice. #JumpAgainstTrump,” read a meme posted by the Rev. Philip Pizzo just hours after he celebrated Sunday Mass. The message…
One scholar described Steve Bannon’s role in the administration as “pretty terrifying.” Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier listens at left as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with pharmaceutical industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci Donald Trump has been president for…
In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday — one a member of SEAL Team 6 and the other the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born al Qaeda leader who himself was killed in a U.S. strike…
January 31, 2017/in Drones /by emptywheel Back on December 5, 2015, Donald Trump said that if he were elected President, he would take out the families of terrorists. The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They…
Sen. Ron Wyden led Senate Democrats to boycott the committee confirmation votes for Steven Mnuchin and Tom Price. | Getty Senate Finance Democrats boycott Mnuchin, Price votes By Zachary Warmbrodt 01/31/17 10:55 AM EST Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to show up to committee confirmation votes on Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin and Health and Human…
While I think this new situation might be a weak case to object to Uber on, I would still argue that they broke a union-run work stoppage in order to perform the work of that union. This would be enough to consider them scabs. Now, we can debate if it was a strike or not…
Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, during a news conference in June. Credit Pete Marovich/Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday after she defiantly refused to defend his immigration executive order, accusing the Democratic holdover of trying to obstruct his agenda for political reasons. Taking action in an…
JFK with no taxis, via NYTWA There’s a bigger lesson here than “Fuck Uber.” By now you may be familiar with the outlines of this story: On Saturday evening, after Trump’s Muslim ban was announced, thousands of protesters began to gather at New York’s JFK airport. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance—the union for an…
Art by Jim Cooke Yes, wear a shirt with a slogan on it. Yes, put a bumper sticker on your car. Yes, flood your social media feed with your outrage. Fine. All of those are fine, and necessary, and good. But also: Call your senator. Call your congressperson. Call your governor. Call your alderperson, your…