Bernie Sanders sat down with Showtime’s Desus and Mero at the Brooklyn Farmacy, an old school soda shop not all that far from the Midwood neighborhood where Sanders grew up. It wasn’t boring! (“I do do a lot of boring ones,” Sanders said.) Among the things we learned, from this …
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If you’re under federal indictment for money laundering charges, it might be better not to have “Fraud Guarantee” and “Loan Crime Investigation” on your resume. Lev Parnas — one of the Rudy Giuliani associates indicted on conspiracy charges relating to fraudulent campaign donations, including allegedly steering Russian money into the …
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WASHINGTON — Andy Kim had finally seen enough. Until Tuesday, the freshman congressman from New Jersey’s 3rd district had kept a wary distance from the debate over whether to impeach President Trump. Kim, who is 37, won his South Jersey district by a few thousand votes in 2018, ousting a …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representatives is opening an impeachment inquiry against President Trump amid new revelations about Trump’s attempt to leverage foreign aid to push Ukraine to investigate a potential presidential rival. “The president must be held accountable, and no one is above the law,” Pelosi said …
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President Trump has all but admitted he asked the Ukrainian government to investigate a political opponent, and there’s plenty of reason to believe he threatened to withhold Congress-approved aid if the country were to refuse to comply. For Trump and his allies, however, the real scandal is not Trump’s actions …
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President Donald Trump is so proud of his big, beautiful wall, which he claims is unscalable. “This wall can’t be climbed. This is very very hard, and what the panel does at the top, as I said, it’s structural but it’s also very hard to get by that panel. Plus …
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A little more than an hour after Elizabeth Warren wrapped up a speech in front of an estimated 20,000 people in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park on Monday night, it took me 276 long strides to reach the end of a line to get a photo taken with the senator from …
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President Trump kicked off the 18th anniversary of 9/11 by tweeting a picture of himself and Melania standing side-by-side during a trip to survey the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania. The image is a reminder of Trump’s tasteless, self-serving relationship with the attack and its aftermath, and also that …
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In the latest episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper sit down with comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore to discuss his show (which he describes as “What The Daily Show would be if it wasn’t hosted by a millionaire”) and media bias. Fueling Dore’s work is …
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If there’s a worse idea than the Pentagon becoming Editor-in-Chief of America, I can’t remember it. But we’re getting there: From Bloomberg over Labor Day weekend: Fake news and social media posts are such a threat to U.S. security that theDefense Departmentis launching a project to repel “large-scale, automated disinformation …
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