NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/REX TILLERSON/STATE: “Hours after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson praised him for exercising restraint, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared in state media visiting a missile-development factory and ordering the production of more warheads and rocket engines. Mr. Kim’s visit, the date of which wasn’t disclosed by Pyongyang in its report […]
8/23/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner has spent eight months as his father-in-law’s point person in the Middle East, relying primarily on one envoy, former Trump Organization lawyer Jason Greenblatt, to do the diplomatic heavy lifting in the region. But just over a month ago, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster held a meeting in his […]
8/23/2017
DONALDISM: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/RzePiucV3h” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2017 02:01am […]
8/23/2017
RACISM/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, in his first rally after the violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month, attacked the news media and his fellow Republicans who were critical of his response to the protest. In an address of more than an hour, Mr. Trump accused the news media of ‘fomenting […]
8/23/2017
DONALDISM/SUPPORTERS: “#DrainTheSwamp #PhoenixRally https://t.co/o7S6xoCBiC” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2017 01:00am […]
8/23/2017
MEDIA: “Not only does the media give a platform to hate groups, but the media turns a blind eye to the gang violence on our streets! https://t.co/Mau0B1qYIP” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2017 12:32am […]
8/23/2017
PROTESTS: “Thank you Arizona. Beautiful turnout of 15,000 in Phoenix tonight! Full coverage of rally via my Facebook at: https://t.co/s0D12EFs40 https://t.co/WT4D9Vsen1” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2017 12:18am […]
8/22/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/VENEZUELA: “The U.S. government is considering restricting trades in Venezuelan debt as it seeks to punish President Nicolás Maduro for undermining the country’s democracy, according to people familiar with the matter. The unprecedented move would temporarily ban U.S.-regulated financial institutions from buying and selling dollar-denominated bonds issued by the Republic of Venezuela and […]
8/22/2017
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [8-22-17] will meet with Border Patrol officials in Arizona before attending a campaign-style rally, as he seeks to move past one of the most difficult stretches of his controversy-roiled presidency. Mr. Trump will survey border equipment in Yuma and meet with members of the military before heading to […]
8/21/2017
LOBBYING/RUSSIA: “Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian immigrant who met last summer with senior Trump campaign officials, has often struck colleagues as a classic Washington mercenary — loyal to his wife, his daughter and his bank account. He avoided work that would antagonize Moscow, they suggested, only because he profited from his reputation as a man with […]
8/22/2017
POLICE/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The police used tear gas to disperse crowds numbering in the thousands on Tuesday [8-22-17] night outside the Phoenix Convention Center as tempers flared around President Trump’s divisive speech at a campaign-style rally here. Hundreds of people ran off, streaming into the surrounding streets, coughing and wiping tears from their eyes. Police […]
8/22/2017
BUSINESS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Last Wednesday [8-23-17], even as top executives were abandoning President Trump’s business advisory councils after his remarks on white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., other industry leaders were busy making their interests known to a business-friendly White House. Jerry Howard, chief executive of the National Association of Home Builders, a trade group, […]
8/22/2017
EGYPT/FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Tuesday [8-22-17] denied Egypt $96 million in aid and delayed $195 million in military funding because of concerns over Egypt’s human rights record and its cozy relationship with North Korea. Analysts said they were surprised by the moves, which followed an Oval Office meeting in April between […]
8/22/2017
AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY: “The Pentagon maintains more than 12,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, defense officials said, currently about 3,500 more than it publicly acknowledges, a critical factor as military planners weigh how many additional forces to deploy under a new strategy. The actual number of troops, which hasn’t been previously disclosed, reflects the true U.S. force level […]
8/22/2017
AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s appeal for India’s help on Afghanistan set off alarm bells on Tuesday [8-22-17] in Pakistan, where officials warned that the approach risked jolting a tumultuous relationship. They also expressed relief that Mr. Trump did not call for abrupt reductions in military aid to Pakistan, which the United States has long […]
8/22/2017
BUSINESS/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Coal magnate Robert Murray has just joined Wall Street billionaire Carl Icahn in an exclusive club — wealthy backers of President Donald Trump who tried and failed to get lucrative concessions from his administration. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, one of the nation’s biggest and most politically active coal miners, complained in […]
8/22/2017
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “THANK YOU to all of the great men and women at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Yuma, Arizona & around the United States! https://t.co/tjFx8XjhDz” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2017 07:20pm […]
8/22/2017
CYBERWAR/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump would be required to notify U.S. lawmakers before creating a joint U.S.-Russia cyber security unit – an idea that has drawn criticism across the political spectrum – under legislation advancing in Congress. The proposal, if it became law, would be the latest in a series of maneuvers […]
8/22/2017
DONALDISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We will push onward to victory w/hope in our hearts, courage in our souls & everlasting pride in each & every one of you. God Bless America. https://t.co/44QYFSq07a” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2017 06:12pm […]
8/22/217
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “When Congress returns to Washington after Labor Day, it will immediately confront a tough question: Can there be bipartisan agreement on fixing the country’s health care system? The Senate health committee announced Tuesday [8-22-17] that it will hold two back-to-back hearings on health care September 6 and 7. That will be the first time […]
8/22/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “See you at 7:00 P.M. tonight Phoenix, Arizona! #MAGA?? Tickets: https://t.co/2kUQfKqbsx https://t.co/1w3LVkpESE” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2017 03:03pm […]
8/22/2017
NAVY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We pray for our fallen heroes who died while serving our country in the @USNavy aboard the #USSJohnSMcCain, and their families. https://t.co/t3kD8qj9Mt” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2017 02:15pm […]
8/22/2017
STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY: “Louise Linton, the actress and wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, shot back at an online commenter Monday [8-21-17] evening, bragging of her family’s wealth and calling the commenter ‘adorably out of touch’ beneath a post in which she identified several high-end brands she was wearing in the photo. In the photo, Linton […]
8/22/2017
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Was with great people last night in Fort Myer, Virginia. The future of our country is strong!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2017 05:46am […]
8/22/2017
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA: “North Korea threatened to turn the U.S. into ‘huge heaps of ashes’ and warned that military exercises involving American and South Korean forces this week had worsened the standoff, which could only be resolved by ‘absolute force.’ In a strongly worded commentary issued through its state media on Tuesday [8-22-17], Pyongyang attacked President […]
8/22/2017
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Breitbart seems ready for one of Steve Bannon’s famed ‘wars.’ Just minutes after President Donald Trump concluded his Afghanistan policy speech Monday [8-21-17] night, the conservative site took an aggressive, critical approach to the address and Trump’s new policy. A banner headline blasted the president’s decision to extend the U.S. military […]
8/21/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump called Monday [8-21-17] for peace and an end to bigotry in the U.S., nearly a week after a combative news conference in which he said both sides were to blame for a violent confrontation in Charlottesville, Va., between white nationalists and counterprotesters. ‘The young men and women we send […]
8/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Address to the Nation Full Video & Transcript: https://t.co/FELdImTuUM https://t.co/6ly3fNatiX” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2017 10:50pm […]
8/21/2017
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to the men and women of Fort Myer, and every member of the U.S. Military at home and abroad. #USA?? https://t.co/ticezYKkhz” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2017 10:20pm […]
8/21/2017
BUDGET/INTERIOR: “The Interior Department has ordered a halt to a scientific study begun under President Obama of the public health risks of mountaintop-removal coal mining. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which was conducting the study, said in a statement Monday [8-21-17] that they were ordered to stop work because the Interior Department […]
8/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Join me live from Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia. ➡️https://t.co/LOV4StdJDj” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2017 08:00pm […]
8/21/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM: “J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM, +0.55%) announced Monday [8-21-7] that it will be giving $1 million to nonprofit groups fighting extremism following the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Va. ‘The events in Charlottesville have increased the urgency to confront hate, intolerance and discrimination wherever it exists,’ Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility at J.P. […]
8/21/2017
AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s skepticism about America’s involvement in Afghanistan was no secret to his staff. But his top national security officials were still taken aback at a meeting in the Situation Room on July 19, when an angry Mr. Trump began ripping apart their latest proposal to send thousands of additional American […]
8/21/2017
AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump put forward on Monday [8-21-17] a long-awaited strategy for resolving the nearly 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, but he declined to specify either the number of troops that would be committed, or the conditions by which he would judge the success of their mission there. In a nationally televised prime-time speech […]
8/21/2017
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES: “The Trump administration is working with like-minded sheriffs from around the country on a plan to channel undocumented immigrants from local jails into federal detention, according to several sheriffs involved in the discussions. If it succeeds, it could vastly expand the dragnet that has already begun to transform immigration enforcement in the United […]
8/21/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA: “U.S. federal prosecutors are preparing new actions targeting Chinese firms that officials say are critical financial conduits for North Korea’s government, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort that could provide muscle to the Trump administration’s plans to rein in Pyongyang’s weapons program. The Washington U.S. attorney’s office in May […]
8/21/2017
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s impulse to punch back at Republicans who challenge him is dividing the party in Arizona and threatening the 2018 re-election of Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the party’s most vulnerable incumbents. Mr. Flake opposes Mr. Trump’s trade and border-wall plans, has criticized the president’s remarks about protests over a Confederate […]
8/21/2017
LEGAL/RACISM/SUPREME COURT: “As North Carolina lawmakers rush to adopt new state legislative maps not based on race, they can’t escape the very issue they are trying to remove: race. Both the state Senate and the House of Representatives have proposed new maps to address a lower-court ruling—upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court—that found the existing […]
8/21/2017
NATIONAL DEBT/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said Monday [8-21-17] there was ‘zero chance’ that the U.S. would fail to raise the federal debt ceiling. Mr. McConnell expressed confidence in Congress’s ability to avoid missing federal payments in advance of a legislative sprint in September that will also address expiring government funding […]
8/21/2017
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK/GOP/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s nomination of former Rep. Scott Garrett to lead the Export-Import Bank has opened up yet another front in the Republican Party’s civil war. Pro-business trade groups, free-market advocates and even social conservatives and gay-rights activists are targeting GOP senators with competing lobbying efforts as they clash over Garrett’s […]
8/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For some top figures in the Trump administration—the ones who occupy the more conventional space of the political world—last week was a tough one. They listened in distress as the president they work for appeared to defend a march marked by white-supremacist and anti-Semitic sentiments in Charlottesville. From the left, and […]
8/21/2017
AGRICULTURE/LGBTQ/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sam Clovis, Donald Trump’s pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, has argued that homosexuality is a choice and that the sanctioning of same-sex marriage could lead to the legalization of pedophilia, a CNN KFile review of Clovis’ writings, radio broadcasts, and speeches has found. Clovis made the comments […]
8/21/2017
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Secret Service can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump’s family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast… The agency has faced a […]
8/21/2017
RACISM: “The University of Texas removed four Confederate statues from its Austin campus early Monday [8-21-17] morning, amid growing pressure to take down such monuments in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville. University president Gregory L. Fenves announced the decision late Sunday night, saying the ‘horrific displays of hatred’ in Virginia had made it […]
8/21/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Thank you, the very dishonest Fake News Media is out of control! https://t.co/8J7y900VGK” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2017 08:32am […]
8/21/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jerry Falwell of Liberty University was fantastic on @foxandfriends. The Fake News should listen to what he had to say. Thanks Jerry!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2017 08:27am […]
8/21/2017
IMMIGRATION/POPE FRANCIS: “Pope Francis urged political leaders on Monday [8-21-17] to defend migrants, saying their safety should take precedence over national security concerns and that they should not be subjected to collective deportations. His challenge to politicians, made in a comprehensive position paper on migrants and refugees, again appeared to put him at odds with […]
8/21/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “The U.S. is sharply cutting back visa services in Russia after the Kremlin responded to fresh U.S. sanctions by capping the number of U.S. diplomats in the country. The U.S. embassy said on its website that it would suspend all nonimmigrant visa operations across Russia on Aug. 23 and restart them on Sept. […]
8/21/2017
NAFTA/TRADE DEALS: “The river that divides the U.S. and Canada in this border town also cuts directly through the Twin Rivers Paper Co.’s wood pulp and paper operation. The two-country arrangement has worked for years in the tightly integrated operation, with a Twin Rivers Canadian lumber mill up the road supplying wood chips to a […]
8/21/2017
AMBASSADOR/RUSSIA: “Russia’s next ambassador to Washington will be Anatoly Antonov, a former defense official who is subject to European sanctions over his role in the conflict in Ukraine, the Kremlin announced on Monday [8-21-17]. Antonov takes over from Sergei Kislyak, whose contacts with members of President Donald Trump’s campaign team made him a central figure […]
8/20/2017
NAVY: “Thoughts & prayers are w/ our @USNavy sailors aboard the #USSJohnSMcCain where search & rescue efforts are underway. https://t.co/DQU0zTRXNU” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2017 10:01pm […]
8/20/2017
HEALTHCARE/JOBS/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Sharon Barker isn’t used to recruiting new health insurance customers in deepest summer, long before the enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act. But this year, everything is different. Despite surviving Republican efforts to repeal it, the law known as Obamacare remains vulnerable. President Trump has repeatedly threatened to end billions of dollars in […]
8/20/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning. The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — which includes academics as […]
8/20/2017
RACISM/TRUMP BUSINESS: “With its ornate 20,000-square-foot ballroom and manicured lawns, President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., is often the site of elaborate fund-raisers, drawing big charities — and big dollars. But several organizations are having a change of heart since Mr. Trump blamed ‘both sides’ for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., after a […]
8/20/2017
JOHN KELLY/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John F. Kelly, the new White House chief of staff, told Stephen K. Bannon in late July that he needed to go: No need for it to get messy, Mr. Kelly told Mr. Bannon, according to several people with firsthand knowledge of the exchange. The two worked out a mutually amicable […]
8/20/2017
SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Officials in the White House and in Arizona are bracing for a furious reception to President Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix this week, amid the fallout from his comments faulting ‘both sides’ for racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Va. Of particular concern for some officials is the prospect that Mr. Trump may […]
8/20/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Heading back to Washington after working hard and watching some of the worst and most dishonest Fake News reporting I have ever seen!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2017 06:22pm […]
8/20/2017
AFGHANISTAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will give a nationally televised address Monday [8-21-17] night to unveil his strategy for the long-running war in Afghanistan, the White House said, a plan expected to include sending as many as 4,000 more troops to the country. He’ll deliver the prime-time speech from Fort Myer in Arlington, Va., […]
8/20/2017
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump returns to the White House Sunday [8-20-17] after a working vacation at his New Jersey golf club, amid signs he has alienated some congressional Republicans by saying both white-nationalist demonstrators and counterprotesters deserved blame for the recent violent clash in Virginia. Mr. Trump has a long to-do list: He […]
8/20/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA: “A new cycle of escalation on the Korean Peninsula looked set to begin this week as the U.S. and South Korea kicked off annual military exercises that have a history of enraging Pyongyang. The long-planned drills follow weeks of belligerent rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea that stoked fears of […]
8/20/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of alumni from one of the country’s most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school’s president for his continued alignment with President Trump. A small but growing number of Liberty University graduates are preparing to return diplomas to their school. The graduates are protesting university President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s […]
8/20/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “A fast-approaching deadline for insurers to commit to selling health plans next year under the Affordable Care Act is pressuring Republican lawmakers to decide quickly whether to shore up the law and ease the path for insurers or continue efforts to roll it back. Lawmakers returning to the Capitol from recess on Sept. 5 […]
8/19/2017
RACISM/STEVEN MNUCHIN: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected calls for him to resign in protest of President Donald Trump’s response to violence at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, and defended the president in a statement Saturday [8-19-17] evening. Mr. Mnuchin condemned the ‘actions of those filled with hate and with the intent to […]
8/19/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “The White House announced early Saturday [8-19-17] that President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, would not participate in this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, ‘to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction.’ The decision was another episode in an already fraught week for the White House. Mr. Trump […]
8/19/2017
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump seems intent on an amicable public breakup with his former chief strategist Steve Bannon. In a pair of tweets Saturday, the president lauded Mr. Bannon and wished him well upon his return to Breitbart News after a seven-month stint in the West Wing. ‘Steve Bannon will be […]
8/19/2017
DONALDISM/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heal, & we will heal, & be stronger than ever before!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 03:41pm […]
8/19/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM: “I want to applaud the many protestors in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. Our country will soon come together as one!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 03:41pm […]
8/19/2017
DONALDISM/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heel, & we will heel, & be stronger than ever before!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 03:34pm […]
8/19/2017
POLICE/PROTESTS: “Great job by all law enforcement officers and Boston Mayor @Marty_Walsh.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 02:29pm […]
8/19/2017
POLICE/PROTESTS: “Looks like many anti-police agitators in Boston. Police are looking tough and smart! Thank you.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 02:22pm […]
8/19/2017
MEDIA/STEVE BANNON: “Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews…maybe even better than ever before. Fake News needs the competition!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 12:47pm […]
8/19/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Important day spent at Camp David with our very talented Generals and military leaders. Many decisions made, including on Afghanistan.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 06:47am […]
8/19/2017
STEVE BANNON: “I want to thank Steve Bannon for his service. He came to the campaign during my run against Crooked Hillary Clinton – it was great! Thanks S” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 06:33am […]
8/18/2017
POLICE: “My thoughts and prayers are with the @KissimmeePolice and their loved ones. We are with you! #LESM” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 11:59pm […]
8/18/2017
CYBERWAR/DEFENSE/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense Elevation of U.S. Cyber Command to a Unified Combatant Command Pursuant to my authority as the Commander in Chief and under sections 161 and 167b of title 10, United States Code, and in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs […]
8/18/2017
GUANTANAMO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is making a fresh attempt at drafting an executive order on handling terrorism detainees, reviving a struggle to navigate legal and geopolitical obstacles to expand use of the Guantánamo Bay wartime prison, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. Administration officials said President Trump had been expected to sign […]
8/18/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM: “The mother of the woman who was run down by a car during violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., said Friday [8-18-17] that after seeing President Trump’s comments equating white supremacist protesters with those demonstrating against them, she does not wish to speak with him… In an interview on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ Ms. Bro […]
8/18/2017
BUSINESS/PROTESTS/RACISM: “A prominent Internet rights group has condemned Google and GoDaddy for refusing to manage the domain registration for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization that defends digital civil liberties, issued a blistering statement on Thursday slamming the domain gatekeepers for using their power to silence speech. […]
8/18/2017
PROTESTS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Four charities have pulled their fundraising events from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in the wake of his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Cleveland Clinic, American Cancer Society, and American Friends of Magen David Adom all said they wouldn’t hold their 2018 galas at […]
8/18/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sixteen prominent artists, authors, performers and architects resigned on Friday [8-18-17] from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s defense of white nationalists after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. In a letter addressed to Mr. Trump, the committee members blasted his […]
8/18/2017
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT: “In the weeks before the Environmental Protection Agency decided to reject its own scientists’ advice to ban a potentially harmful pesticide, Scott Pruitt, the agency’s head, promised farming industry executives who wanted to keep using the pesticide that it is ‘a new day, and a new future,’ and that he was listening to […]
8/18/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, I signed the Global War on Terrorism War Memorial Act (#HR873.) The bill authorizes….cont➡️https://t.co/c3zIkdtowc https://t.co/re6n0MS0cj” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 08:30pm […]
8/18/2017
DONALD ON DONALD: “Just returned to Bedminster, NJ from Camp David. GREAT meeting on National Security, the Border and the Military! #MAGA?? https://t.co/Hjmcnnse9j” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 06:17pm […]
8/18/2017
FDA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Food and Drug Administration has received dozens of reports over a decade about hair-straightening treatments that contain the carcinogen formaldehyde and can sicken salon workers and customers with burning and blisters in the nose and throat, nausea, and flulike symptoms. Yet six years after a consumer-safety group petitioned the agency to […]
8/18/2017
CYBERWAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have directed that U.S. Cyber Command be elevated to the status of a Unified Combatant Command focused on….cont: https://t.co/3iScfuMw9s” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 10:28am […]
8/18/2017
POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM: “Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took to Facebook Friday [8-18-17] morning to again criticize how President Donald Trump handled the Charlottesville, Virginia attacks this past weekend. ‘Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep and the vast heart of America to mourn,’ Romney wrote. […]
8/18/2017
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has told senior aides that he has decided to remove Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled White House chief strategist who helped Mr. Trump win the 2016 election, according to two administration officials briefed on the discussion. The president and senior White House officials were debating when and how to […]
8/18/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Heading to Camp David for major meeting on National Security, the Border and the Military (which we are rapidly building to strongest ever).” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 09:09am […]
8/18/2017
TERRORISM: “Radical Islamic Terrorism must be stopped by whatever means necessary! The courts must give us back our protective rights. Have to be tough!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 08:06am […]
8/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/BUDGET/VOTING: “Federal money set aside to help states upgrade their voting equipment is running out, at a time when many states are seeking to replace aging machines and further fortify against cyberattacks. While federal funding has gradually diminished, the 2016 fiscal year marked a new low. As of September 2016, states had collectively spent […]
8/18/2017
DEMS/NATIONAL SECURITY: “The Obstructionist Democrats make Security for our country very difficult. They use the courts and associated delay at all times. Must stop!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 07:55am […]
8/18/2017
BORDER/DHS: “Homeland Security and law enforcement are on alert & closely watching for any sign of trouble. Our borders are far tougher than ever before!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2017 07:31am […]
8/18/2017
BUDGET/REX TILLERSON/STATE: “Lawmakers and activists are preparing for the possibility that President Donald Trump’s administration, in its zeal to slash the federal budget, will take the rare step of deliberately not spending all the money Congress gives it — a move sure to trigger legal and political battles. The concern is mainly focused on the […]
8/17/2017
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is no annulling this marriage. For several weeks, congressional Republicans have grown more brazen, inch by careful inch, in creating a measure of distance from President Trump. Perhaps he should not declare war on the face of a female host of ‘Morning Joe,’ they have suggested, or antagonize Senator Mitch McConnell […]
8/17/2017
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday [8-17-17] called on President Donald Trump to send an ‘unequivocal message’ that he would not stand for the ‘hate and racism’ seen over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, rejecting the president’s notion that blame lay with ‘both sides’ taking part in the event. ‘There are not two […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite ongoing rebukes over his defense of white supremacists, President Trump defiantly returned to his campaign’s nativist themes on Thursday [8-17-17]. He lamented an assault on American ‘culture,’ revived a bogus, century-old story about killing Muslim extremists and attacked Republicans with a renewed vigor. Hours after a terrorist attack in Spain, Mr. […]
8/17/2017
BUSINESS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As corporate chieftains on a White House advisory panel debated on Wednesday [8-16-17] on whether to disband, a few spoke up in favor of sticking with President Trump. They made their case in terms of business self-interest, patriotism and pragmatism. Jack Welch, the retired leader of General Electric, said the business leaders […]
8/17/2017
PROTESTS: “Last weekend, when a 27-year-old bike messenger showed up at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Va., he came ready for battle. He joined a human chain that stretched in front of Emancipation Park and linked his arms with others, blocking waves of white supremacists — some of them in full Nazi regalia […]
8/17/2017
NORTH KOREA/STEVE BANNON: “For all his fire-breathing nationalism — the demands to ban Muslims, build a wall on the Mexican border and honor statues of Confederate heroes — Stephen K. Bannon has played another improbable role in the Trump White House: resident dove… His views, delivered in a characteristically bomb-throwing style, have antagonized people across […]
8/17/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trump’s, condemned the president’s performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and pledged to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. In an email on Thursday [8-17-17], a copy of which was obtained by […]