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at 7/16/19 7:55pmOn Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported that Anthony Edwards has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati and three police officers after he and his real estate agent, Jerry Isham, were handcuffed and detained at gunpoint last year while touring an open house. The police were summoned by...- — Rob Reiner has the perfect plan for the GOP and Trump’s ‘N-word tapes’ from ‘The Apprentice’
- at 7/16/19 7:45pmFor years, there have been rumors about the existence of unbroadcast tapes from NBC’s “The Apprentice” that are said to document Donald Trump using the N-word. Actor Tom Arnold has been pushing the idea. While conventional wisdom may once of held that such a release would be a...
- — ‘You have to think about it?’ Kris Kobach goes down in epic flames when CNN’s Cuomo asks if he’d vote for a racist
- at 7/16/19 7:22pmKris Kobach went down in flames going up against CNN host Chris Cuomo on Tuesday, as the Kansas Republican attempted to “explain” what President Donald Trump “really said” about the four congresswomen of color he attacked Sunday. Cuomo read Trump’s quotes aloud asking...
- — CNN blasted for giving a platform to white supremacist Richard Spencer to defend Trump’s racism
- at 7/16/19 7:03pmCNN was highly criticized on Monday for interviewing Richard Spencer, an avowed white supremacist who took part in the fatal “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “CNN interviewed white supremacist Richard Spencer during a Tuesday segment on President Donald...
- — Texas Republican women think Trump wasn’t being racist — because ‘he didn’t say a color’
- at 7/16/19 6:56pmOn Tuesday, CNN reporter Randi Kaye interviewed a group of eight Texas GOP women about President Donald Trump’s racist attacks on four black and brown congresswomen who have criticized him. And they broadly refused to accept that his behavior was racist. “How many of you don’t think...
- — Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at 99
- at 7/16/19 6:37pmSCOTUS Blog is reporting and ABC News has confirmed that former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99. Stevens was nominated by President Gerald Ford in 1975 and served until his retirement in 2010 when he was 90 years old. He served for 35 years, one of the...
- — ‘Oh, hell no!’: GOP commentator calls BS on Republicans trying to claim they never disrespected Obama
- at 7/16/19 6:24pmIn a Tuesday discussion on MSNBC, pundits responded to the House’s resolution to formally condemn President Donald Trump’s racist tweets about four congresswomen of color. Host Chris Matthews cited House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), who said earlier that Republicans never...
- — Ex-FBI agent: the chaos on the House floor is ‘mission accomplished’ for Putin
- at 7/16/19 6:18pmOn Tuesday, an unprecedented House vote to condemn President Donald Trump’s attacks on four congresswomen as racist descended into chaos. The parliamentarian ruled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticism of the president out of order, triggering an initial floor vote to let her speak and...
- — Trump is furious Republicans aren’t doing a better job of defending his racist tweets: report
- at 7/16/19 6:09pmDonald Trump is angry at Republicans on Capitol Hill for not doing more to defend him during days of criticism about the president’s racism. “In fact, Trump has already been angered at what he sees as a weak defense by Republican members of Congress and has informed at least two...
- — ‘Rob, just stop it!’: Fight breaks out on CNN when Trump surrogate tries to claim Democrats are the real racists
- at 7/16/19 5:53pmOn Tuesday, a panel on CNN’s “OutFront” devolved into a shouting match after former New York gubernatorial candidate and Trump surrogate Rob Astorino tried to categorically deny the president’s attacks on women of color were racist — and that the Democrats were racist for...
- — Trump appoints disgraced ex-GOP Gov Scott Walker to oversee scholars at the Smithsonian Institution
- at 7/16/19 5:48pmPresident Donald Trump has appointed former Republican Gov. Scott Walker to an administration position following his defeat for re-election during the 2018 midterm elections. As governor, Walker sought to drastically cut funding for the University of Wisconsin system. He was even caught trying to...
- — Democrat moves to impeach Trump immediately following House condemning president’s racism
- at 7/16/19 5:00pmImmediately following the House of Representatives voting to condemn racist remarks by President Donald Trump, a Democrat introduced a privileged motion to impeach the president. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) gave an impassioned speech to begin impeachment proceedings for Trump committing high crimes and...
- — Trump ‘reached into the Genesis chapter of the bigot’s bible’ to attack the Squad: journalist
- at 7/16/19 4:57pmOn Tuesday, journalist Jamil Smith wrote a column scorching President Donald Trump’s attacks on “The Squad,” as an act of utmost bigotry — and narcissism. “Trump would surely love to run against these four women in 2020 rather than an actual opponent, positioning them all as...
- — House of Representatives votes for resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s racism
- at 7/16/19 4:52pmPresident Donald Trump was condemned by the House of Representatives on Tuesday for his racist attacks on young women of color in Congress. The resolution was passed with the support of every Democrat. The final vote was 240-187. The text said “Trump’s racist comments have legitimized fear...
- — Legendary civil rights icon John Lewis unloads on Trump from the House floor: ‘I know racism when I see it’
- at 7/16/19 4:39pmCivil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to condemn racist statements by President Donald Trump. As chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lewis was one of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders who organized the 1963...
- — US withholds cash from UN Population Fund over China abortions
- at 7/16/19 4:28pmThe United States said Tuesday it will again withhold contributions to the UN Population Fund due to its work with China, which controls family size, as the agency accused Washington of jeopardizing women’s health. It marked the third straight year that the United States has refused to fund...
- — Kim Jong-un threatens to restart nuke tests as Trump’s efforts to talk to the regime fall apart again: report
- at 7/16/19 4:18pmOn Tuesday, CNN’s Brian Todd reported that the North Korean regime is on the brink of rescinding what little they promised President Donald Trump, as the future of his efforts to continue talks appear uncertain. “Kim Jong-un’s regime is once again in negotiation by...
- — Republican freaks out after Democrat quotes Trump’s racist statement on the floor of Congress
- at 7/16/19 4:12pmChaos continued on the floor of the House of Representatives during the debate on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s racist attacks on four young women of color. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) rose to support the resolution, listing multiple instances of racism from the...
- — Appeals court delivers ‘tremendous blow to federal workers’ with decision to uphold Trump’s anti-union executive orders
- at 7/16/19 4:09pm“There must be a check on the president’s power to destroy federal employees’ union rights.” Unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal employees on Tuesday vowed to fight a federal appeals court ruling in which a three-judge panel unanimously upheld President...
- — ‘He’s ignorant — not stupid’: NYT columnist says Trump is trying to ‘bait’ Democrats because he wants to run against AOC
- at 7/16/19 3:56pmPresident Donald Trump is not going to get the 2020 opponent he wants, so he’s going to pretend that his actual opposition is being led by the four young women in Congress known as The Squad, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wrote on Tuesday. Trump has spent the last few days with racist...
- — Red Alert: record temperatures in world’s northernmost settlement
- at 7/16/19 3:56pmTemperatures hit a record 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit in Alert, the northernmost permanently inhabited spot on the planet less than 600 miles from the North Pole, the Canadian meteorology service said Tuesday. “It’s quite phenomenal as a statistic, it’s just one example among hundreds...
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