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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, May 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM EDT I don't want to overstate the importance of protest demonstrations. Their immediate impact on the problems of the day is never likely to be more than negligible, while their long-term impact is unknowable. But I don't want to understate their importance, either. May 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM EDT Shortly after the wrongful arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, another Wisconsin judge is coming under fire for standing up for justice. Sawyer County Circuit Court Judge Monica Isham had reportedly sent out an email referring to Dugan and saying that she would not let anyone be dragged out of her court by ICE agents without due process: May 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM EDT A coalition of 20 state attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over what it calls the "dismantling" of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in through mass layoffs and the freezing of core functions. Via The Hill: Filed in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island, the attorneys general argue that the Trump administration is supporting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s goal of "evisceration of the Department." May 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT Wisconsin's dumb senator, Ron Johnson, joined CNN's State of the Union host, Jake Tapper, so that RoJo could try out his newest Rancid Kumquat cheerleader routine. After defending the tariffs and other idiotic decisions Dementia Donny is making, Tapper went in for his Gotcha moment: TAPPER: You have long been opposed on principle to the IRS being used to punish an administration's opponents in any way. You were very outspoken about that during the Obama administration. We would have you on all the time to talk about it. and here you are during the Biden administration at a hearing on government weaponization. Take a listen. May 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM EDT During a meeting in the Oval Office today, Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald Trump in no uncertain terms that Canada will never be for sale, ever. Demented Donald was asked by a reporter if he still wants to buy Canada and turn it into the 51st state. May 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM EDT House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) mocked Republicans for being "stuck" with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a candidate after Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) decided not to run for Georgia Senate in 2026. "Why does Donald Trump make such ridiculous statements, like he's unsure as to whether he has a responsibility to follow the Constitution?" Jeffries asked at a Monday news conference. "Why is the Republican Party stuck with Marjorie Taylor Greene as their candidate for the United States Senate seat in Georgia?" May 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM EDT Charles Blow forced CNN MAGA spokesperson Scott Jennings to squirm out of his previous statements bashing Trump. Before he became the Trump toe licker for CNN, Jennings wrote criticism of Trump for refusing to follow the US Constitution and threatening retaliatory actions against any company that refused his orders. It's unconstitutional and illegal for a president to use his federal power against private companies that refuse to bow to his racist views. May 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM EDT Treasury Secretary told CNBC's Sara Eisen that nothing has been done with China on trade and talks haven't even begun. Trump has been repeatedly lying to the press and public by claiming he's had serious negotiations with China over his tariff obsession. China has denied these talks publicly. May 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM EDT A Trump-appointed federal judge on Monday ordered the North Carolina elections board to certify results showing Democrat Allison Riggs as the winner of the state Supreme Court race against Republican Jefferson Griffin, the latter of whom couldn't take the L, and graciously allow the winner to be seated. Griffin challenged 60,273 legal North Carolina voters""registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election, including military members serving overseas. Griffin has been at this for nearly six months now, and it could possibly come to an end, finally, unless Griffin appeals the ruling. There have already been two recounts in the close election that Riggs won by just 734 votes over Griffin. May 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM EDT The Pulitzer Prize board thumbed their noses at Jeff Bezos on Monday by awarding the Pulitzer for illustrated reporting and commentary to the former Washington Post cartoonist who quit the paper after her cartoon was scrapped. Via the Daily Beast: Ann Telnaes won the award, considered the highest honor in journalism, four months after she revealed that a cartoon showing Bezos and other tech billionaires genuflecting to Donald Trump was killed by the newspaper's then-opinions editor David Shipley. May 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM EDT As John Amato wrote, it's not a safe time to fly! Air traffic controllers who lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to hundreds of delays for more than a week, are taking special government leave for traumatic situations to recover from the stress. Via CNN: The controllers in Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control, which coordinates planes arriving at Newark, "temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them," on Monday April 28, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in a statement shared with CNN. May 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM EDT Georgia QAnon Klan Mom Marjorie Taylor Greene admitted to jailbird Steve Bannon that Republicans are losing the midterms for the Trump administration. The conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite blames everyone else instead of her Dear Leader. |
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