Source: JIM WATSON / Getty Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “war on wokeness” appears to have taken a turn into blatant racism and sexism. Military officials are now questioning whether race and gender play a role in military promotions after Hegseth struck the names of two Black officers and two women officers from a promotion list of potential one-star generals. According to The New York Times, Hegseth had been pressing Army […]
Source: Samuel Corum / Getty Here’s the thing: President Donald Trump probably knows he’s a failure. On some level, Trump — as demonstrably delusional and lacking in self-awareness as he is — must understand that he’s a miserable, emotionally-stunted fool, who has accomplished nothing positive of note during his time in office, and that history will remember him that way. And he’s deeply insecure about it. So, instead of letting […]
Source: Mississippi Department of Public Safety / MDPS So, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety says it stumbled across a Ku Klux Klan robe, handbook, membership lists, and propaganda while cleaning out a closet for a move. The items were packed inside a small blue suitcase that had been tucked away and forgotten, as if it were some dusty relic from a bygone era. That’s the story being told. It’s […]
Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty The month-long shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may be coming to a close after the Senate unanimously passed a bill that funds most of the department, except for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. According to The New York Times, the vote came after President Donald Trump announced on Thursday (March 26) evening that he would sign an order to […]
Source: Alex Wong / Getty Look, I’ve addressed this before, but while there are many Caucasians out there who simply ignore their racist grandpa who is determined to ruin every family dinner by flying off into bigoted rants on a whim—MAGA America made that old, white bigot their president. During a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, March 26, President Donald Trump flew off into yet another tirade, spewing rage and hate […]
Source: Bill Clark / Getty For possibly the first time since President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda began, the Trump administration is being made to explain why immigration agents are showing up at people’s immigration court hearings to make arrests. As usual, the explanation is that the administration is comprised of a gaggle of xenophobic idiots, who are just making it all up as they go along. According to NBC […]
Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty There are two versions of Donald Trump that exist at the same time. One lives in polling data. The other lives in Donald Trump’s head. The one in the data is…struggling. As of this week, Trump’s approval rating has cratered to around 36%—a new low for his second term, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. That’s not just bad; that’s historically bad. We’re talking “group project […]
Source: Megan Varner / Getty When it comes to the Trump administration’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at U.S. airports, where they’ve supposedly been sent to assist TSA — which is short-staffed because it turns out a lot of people would rather quit their jobs than work without pay — people have a lot of questions. Is the deployment really helping to reduce travelers’ wait times at the airport? […]
Source: MARCO SIMONCELLI / Getty On Wednesday, the United Nations (U.N.) voted on a resolution introduced by Ghana calling the trans-Atlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity.” With the exception of Argentina, Israel, and, shocker, the United States, 123 nations voted in favor of the resolution. According to the New York Times, the resolution also calls on the U.N.’s member nations to formally apologize for slavery and contribute to […]
