Issues

Due to the government shut down, the namesake trees at Joshua Tree National Park near Palm Springs, CA, have fallen to vandals wielding chainsaws. Just for fun, I can only guess. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1083698696603291649 Jeanna Bryner at Live...

As Trump continues to hold out the threat of declaring a national emergency to abscond with the funds he wants to build his nonsensical wall, there’s one factor that hasn’t gotten a lot of...

https://twitter.com/bri_sacks/status/1083814672497852416 https://twitter.com/bri_sacks/status/1083819176781889538 People contributing to that guy's GoFundMe for Trump's border wall who want to pay by check are told to send their money to a UPS store in Castle Rock, where it'll be picked up...

As a government shutdown that's inflicting pain in every corner of America nears becoming the nation's longest ever, Republicans have no plan whatsoever to end it as they squabble amongst themselves. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of...

Kevin Hassett is probably not a familiar name, but you’re going to remember the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors after this one. According to Hassett, the 25 percent of federal...

Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks—a man who once publicly said "people who live good lives" shouldn’t have to pay into insurance pools that include people with diseases like cancer, only to be diagnosed with cancer himself six months...

As President Donald Trump continues to escalate his threat to declare a national emergency to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border—and amid reports that his administration is already laying the groundwork for the...

Rachel Maddow reported last night that after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin finished  briefing a bipartisan group of House members yesterday about the admin’s decision to drop sanctions against Manafort’s BFF Oleg Deripaska, he complained to reporters about having having to take a whole 1½ hours out of his Snidely Whiplash day to schlep up to the Hill and explain himself. (I couldn’t find any news stories on this, but you can hear Rachel report it starting at 3:56 in the video below….) This will no doubt cause a thousand tiny violins to be broken out by HRC supporters who remember her her 11 hour grilling by the Republican House’s Benghazi Committee which led to exactly no conclusions being found and no charges brought. Poor Steve, being called away from playing with our money…. …to answer for actions that will financially benefit a Russian Oligarch who likely tampered with our 2016 election. HRC could have done an hour and a half standing on her head… …………………………………………………………………………………………. To receive articles of mine not published elsewhere become a patron on Patreon. Please follow me on Twitter @durrati [cross-posted to PolitiZoom]

In the midst of the ongoing #TrumpShutdown, where hundreds of thousands of federal employees are either off the job altogether or having to work without being paid and hundreds of federal contractors are being...

Federal workers, government contractors, and the unions that represent them rallied in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to pressure President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to end the ongoing government shutdown,...