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Reporter gets stumped when White House press sec. Psaki turns his hack question back on him

The reporter began by asking about the release of the 2020 Human Rights Report and Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that human rights around the world should always be a No. 1 priority, and aren’t mutually exclusive from the rights that people have to practice their religions. “Why should the faith community not see that as

Fox News Embarrasses Itself Trying To Mock Biden For Maskless White House Speech

Fox News breathlessly tried to make a big deal out of President Biden speaking at a White House event maskless after the CDC eased guidelines for vaccinated people. Video: “There he is maskless” pic.twitter.com/RFuTFL6vnz — Acyn (@Acyn) May 13, 2021 As Biden sprinted to the podium, the Fox News voiceover said, “There he is maskless,

GOP senators quietly meet with White House on infrastructure, happy with what they hear

The Daily BeastTrump Plots to Ruin GOP Guv Over Election VendettaAsh Ponders/GettyIt’s April 2021, and Donald Trump still can’t get past his grudge with Republican Gov. Doug Ducey for refusing to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.The ex-president is still so bothered by Ducey’s refusal to try to throw out Democratic votes in Arizona

The Real Racists are People Who Make Your Kids Feel Bad About Being White

Joe Biden has notched plenty of accomplishments during his first few months in office. And while he’s reached out to Republicans about his policy goals, he’s been happy to move on without them if they weren’t willing to compromise. And Fox News is set on ignoring all of the things that Biden has done. Instead,

Biden Restores POW/MIA Flag To The White House That Trump Took Down

Donald Trump moved the POW/MIA flag from on top of the White House, but Joe Biden has restored it to its publicly visible spot to honor vets. Video: President Biden restores the POW/MIA flag to its former place flying above the White House after Trump moved it out of public view last year. pic.twitter.com/ctzp4XkWSF —

Susan Collins is baffled as to why the White House ‘would want to alienate’ her

Refinery29Marjorie Taylor Greene Excuses Her “Jewish Space Lasers” Comment In A Very Marjorie Taylor Greene WaySince taking office earlier this year, Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon conspiracy theorist, has been exposed for making a number of egregious racist and transphobic remarks. Greene’s old Facebook posts have showed her glorifying violence against Democratic

Biden did not, in fact, remove Trump’s ‘Diet Coke button’ from the Resolute Desk, White House clarifies

National ReviewSen. Sinema Opposes Eliminating the Filibuster, ‘Not Open to Changing Her Mind’Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) is “against eliminating the filibuster, and she is not open to changing her mind,” according to a spokeswoman for the senator. The spokeswoman’s comments to the Washington Post come as the possibility of voting to end the Senate’s

The World of the White House Falls to Pieces – BillMoyers.com

Two stories jump out at me tonight. The first is the question of why Trump seems so desperate to stay in a job he clearly has no interest in doing. Today, reporters caught sight of Michael J. Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, going into the White House. Lindell has been strong advocate of the idea

Andrew Cuomo snubbed Alex Azar, skipped 17 White House meetings

WASHINGTON — He’s been trashing the Trump administration’s COVID-19 vaccine plan but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stopped taking part back in June — skipping more than a dozen White House meetings and snubbing a one-on-one with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, The Post has learned. Cuomo skipped out on 17 consecutive governor

Donald Trump May Flee The White House Next Week

Trump is refusing to accept the reality that he lost the election to Joe Biden, but he is thinking about going to his Florida club next week. The New York Times reported, “Mr. Trump has been eager to leave the White House, and after musings about a rally this week fell flat, aides said he

Vote challenger chaos in Detroit was white privilege on steroids

Having lived in metro Detroit for more than two decades, I know what would happen if African American Detroit residents attempted to force their way into a room where votes were being counted in the predominantly white suburbs. It wouldn’t end well.The opposite scenario unfolded Wednesday in downtown Detroit. Shouting “Stop the count!” and “Let us

Post-Trump White House Takes Shape As Elizabeth Warren Aims To Be Biden’s Treasury Secretary

With just days remaining in this election season, a post-Donald Trump White House is beginning to take shape as Elizabeth Warren is reportedly vying to be the Secretary of Treasury in a potential Joe Biden administration. According to new reporting from Politico, citing multiple Democratic sources, the Massachusetts senator plans to “make her case” for

Trump planning to axe top security chiefs in White House shake-up if re-elected — report

Commander-in-chief has been at odds with intelligence community throughout his political career (Getty Images)President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to axe top security chiefs seen as disloyal to the administration if he wins re-election in November.Top of the pile are FBI director Christopher Wray, CIA director Gina Haspel and defence secretary Mark Esper, according to

President Trump, Ivanka Trump, Dana White to Speak During R.N.C.’s Final Night

President Trump will finally take the stage on Thursday evening, as the final night of the Republican National Convention concludes with his acceptance speech.He is expected to reprise some of the themes of the past week: the need to maintain what his allies cast as an economy on the rebound, an alternative version of the

Fox News Cuts Off Trump’s White House Rally And Pummels Him With A Fact Check

Donald Trump held yet another taxpayer-funded campaign rally at the White House on Thursday, this time using pickup trucks and cranes to represent Obama-era regulations that have been eliminated since he took office in 2017. Trump characterized the previous administration’s policies as a disaster for the economy, which was such a blatant lie that even

As Election Nears, Trump’s White House Grows Bolder in Flouting Ethical Norms

But the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, dismissed such criticism.“I don’t see anything inappropriate with the comments the president has made,” Mr. Meadows said, adding that “those were policy differences that the president highlighted” regarding Mr. Biden.As president, Mr. Trump is not bound by the Hatch Act, which was passed to ensure that

Trump news – live: White House rescinds policy banning international students from online courses amid mounting criticism and lawsuits

ReutersDonald Trump’s administration rescinded controversial new measures that would have effectively banned any international students from living in the United States during the fall months amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the news being announced after a court hearing that lasted just minutes.The president has continued to insist US schools must reopen this autumn despite the

Trump Says He ‘Aced’ Cognitive Test, but White House Won’t Release Details

President Trump on Thursday volunteered to Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, that he “very recently” took a test at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center measuring his mental acuity and “aced” it, but the White House would not say when he took it or why.Mr. Trump boasted that his success on the test surprised

The Challenge to White Quarterbacks to Step Up on Race

When New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday that NFL players kneeling during the national anthem was “disrespectful,” the condemnation, from inside and outside the NFL, was understandably swift. (In an emotional video posted on social media, teammate Malcolm Jenkins called Brees “part of the problem”; protestors in New Orleans, where…

White Woman Who Called Police on a Black Man at Central Park Apologizes, Says ‘I’m Not a Racist’

In a video that has gone viral, a white woman holding her dog by the collar in New York City’s Central Park can be heard saying “I’m calling the cops…I’m gonna tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.” The woman, since identified as Amy Cooper, apologized for making the call in a…

Inside Jared Kushner’s Unusual White House Role

Jared Kushner’s White House office is a shrine to his own influence. Gold-framed accolades from his father-in-law hang on the walls, written in thick black Sharpie in President Donald Trump’s spiky hand. To Jared, Great job on Mexico. Thanks DAD, reads one. A limestone replica of the plaque marking the move of the U.S. embassy…

Syria, White House, Opioids: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 16, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times1. President Trump lashed out on Syria.Mr. Trump essentially washed his hands of the Turkish assault on the United States’ Kurdish allies,…

White Apartment requires probe after Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping

President Trump accused President Obama of tapping his telephones and known as for an investigation into the outdated administration’s surveillance actions. Democrats are incensed via the unsubstantiated declare, but some Republicans may additionally be attracted to seeing what a congressional probe may discover. Errol Barnett reviews.Read Extra

White Supremacist Donated to Several 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates

The head of a white supremacist group, cited by the suspected gunman who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church last week, has given thousands ...

Racial Inequality in America

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ cover story at The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” published last night — and the subject of this week’s Moyers & Company interview — shows how dramatically the legacy of slavery and centuries of legalized and institutionalized…

The Modern Voting Rights Movement, Single Member Districts, and Black Office Holding

The Modern Voting Rights Movement, Single Member Districts, and Black Office Holding – http://www.blackpolitics.org Bloody Sunday BLOODY SUNDAY The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks–and three events–that represented the political and emotional peak of the m…   Editor’s Note – The modern Voting Rights movement can be traced to the 1944 decision of

Finally – US Senate Confirms First African-American Women on Georgia’s Federal Courts

LDF Applauds Senate Confirmation of First African-American Women on Georgia’s Federal Courts On November 18, 2014, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) welcomed the historic votes by the U.S. Senate to confirm the first African-American female judges ever to serve on Georgia’s federal judiciary. The Senate confirmation of Leslie Abrams to the

Police Brutality – Protect Your Rights

Police Brutality Police brutality and outright murder against Black people in the US  is a persistent problem that will not go away. One Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes. It has been said, and demonstrated in practice, that police in America have a license to kill Blacks with impunity. The

Race In U.S. Court Cases; Beyond Trayvon Martin

Findings of Case Study The Impact of Race In U.S. Court Cases; Beyond The Trayvon Martin Case Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) July 25, 2013 A Just Cause, an advocate for the wrongfully convicted, released findings from it study on race and justice in the United Sates. The study includes a review of the IRP-6 case and the

Ban the Box

Ban the Box Legislation   Ban the Box is a nationwide movement that supports legislation prohibiting employers from including questions about criminal records on job applications.  In New Jersey, the Opportunity to Compete Act, also know as “ban the box” has gained support from civil leaders and legislators. The purpose of the legislation is to ban