Mark Zuckerberg is an awkward guy. This is true when he’s giving tours of his house, it’s true when he’s live-streaming himself smoking meats, and it’s especially true whenever Congress is grilling him about how the social media network he created to keep tabs on the relationship status of his …
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On Sunday morning, attorney Mark S. Zaid announced on Twitter that another whistleblower has come forward regarding Trump’s interactions with Ukraine. Zaid also said he is representing both, along with attorney and former CIA official Andrew P. Bakaj. According to a separate tweet from Bakaj, the new whistleblower has also …
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Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is now leading the pack in Iowa. According to a CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll released on Saturday, Warren has jumped ahead of former vice president Joe Biden. Warren has seen significant gains since June, jumping seven percent points in the same poll …
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In the latest episode of Useful Idiots, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper sit down with Will Menaker of Chapo Trap House to discuss the origins of the hit podcast, the Democratic primary, and how far the party has moved left since 2016. What hasn’t changed since the last election is the media’s …
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Welcome back from the long weekend. If you’re just now tuning back into the news, there’s a lot to catch up on. Here are five of the biggest stories you might’ve missed over the Labor Day weekend. At least five people are dead as Hurricane Dorian pummels the Bahamas The …
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In August alone, the Trump administration laid out plans to make it more difficult for legal immigrants to use social services, eliminate limits on how long families can be detained at the border, and stop providing flu vaccines to migrants held in border detention facilitiesThe administration was proud enough of …
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Climate advocate Jay Inslee may have dropped out of the Democratic primary, but it doesn’t appear like the controversial issue of [checks notes] saving humanity from an environmental apocalypse is going to fall out of focus. On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released arguably the most ambitious proposal yet to …
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Chris Cuomo, the CNN anchor and real son of a governor (as well as brother to New York’s current one), has left little ambiguity about the promised consequences of calling him “Fredo.” Cuomo, 49, was approached and insulted earlier this week by a flock of doofuses, who per the video, …
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On Friday, the Washington Post published a report about how President Donald Trump relies on anitinerant construction crew that includes undocumented immigrants to work on many of his resort properties. The Post spoke with two former employees of the construction crew that operates under Trump’s company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, …
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President Trump on Friday morning gloated that the Baltimore home of House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) had been burglarized. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who in December stepped down as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, did not approve. “This is so unnecessary,” she tweeted, along with a rolling-eyes …
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