President picks a plumber to repair the shit show at the Department of Homeland Security
The fix was in from the moment Donald Trump picked up the phone. One day you’re Kristi Noem, a cabinet secretary with a taste for $200 million ad campaigns featuring your own face. The next day, you’re the new “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” which sounds like a made-up job from a…
Academy Award-winner Susan Sarandon supports Lisa McCormick for US Senate
Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon has injected a dose of Hollywood star power — and a pointed rebuke of the political establishment — into New Jersey’s Democratic primary, throwing financial support behind long-shot candidate Lisa McCormick in her bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Cory Booker. Sarandon donated a modest sum to McCormick’s campaign and appeared…
Paterson’s Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia spent nearly a year in ICE concentration camp
Leqaa Kordia spent three days chained to a hospital bed after suffering the first seizure of her life, then was sent back to an immigration detention center 1,500 miles from her home in Paterson, New Jersey. She has been in custody for nearly a year, even though an immigration judge twice ordered her released on…
Democracy is threatened as the ultra-rich wield disproportionate influence with lobbying and dark money
There is a spectacle playing out in American politics that would be comical if the stakes were not so terribly high. The two great parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, have spent the better part of a generation engaged in what appears to be a furious competition with one another, but is in fact something…
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