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It turns out that hiring your family’s event planner and/or Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation for a high-level spot in the government's Housing and Urban Development agency may not lead to competent government decision-making.…

All is not well in Republicanville. No matter how slavish the Fox News segments become, it ain't working; it is slowly dawning on powerful Republicans that the president they are so dutifully protecting and sucking up to may, in fact, be an idiot.…

This week at progressive state blogs is designed specifically to focus attention on the writing and analysis of people focused on their home turf. Here is the July 15 edition. Inclusion of a blog post does not necessarily indicate my agreement with—or…

The GOP effort to pass health care repeal has been on life support for weeks, but Sen. Mitch McConnell just won't pull the plug.…

With Donald Trump focused on the legality of pardons for himself and selected minions, and spewing a torrent of early morning official White House statements in 140-character bits amid new revelations about Russian contacts, legal authorities are again…

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Donald Trump has been "president" for six months now. It is not normal for one of the nation's top papers to celebrate the six month anniversary of a new administration with a column reminding readers that the new leader is a lying sack of crap, but we do not…

It looks like the Trump administration's plan to frighten Americans away from voting is proceeding as planned.…

“Now that you’ve insured an additional 20 million people, you can’t just take the insurance away from these people,” he added. “It’s just not the right thing to do.”…

(Greg Dworkin, inventor of the APR series, is on vacation.)…

Steve Horn at DeSmogBlog and Curtis Waltman at MuckRock write—Emails Show Iraq War PR Alums Led Attempt to Discredit Dakota Access Protesters:…

Washington Post has a big scoop here on Jeff “I don’t recall” Sessions and it is not good news for him.…

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After following Junior’s evidence trail on Twitter, follow me @BrianMc_Fadden.

Richard Burr is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Devin Nunes is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Burr, though a supporter of Trump, has conducted his committee with an attention to making progress, an awareness of the…

Team Trump doesn't like the Russia investigation one whit, but they are particularly averse to the idea that the probe might balloon from collusion and obstruction into an expansive review of Donald Trump's finances. Now Trump's legal team is working to turn…

One of the most difficult things about trying to talk race in this country is the fact that our knowledge of and agreement on basic facts is so varied. While most of us know that the enslavement and segregation of black people gravely impacted their…

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Donald Trump’s new communications director is a match made in heaven for the ego-sunken narcissist in chief. During his first turn at the podium Friday afternoon, Anthony Scaramucci lathered up his new boss with one of the most nauseating displays of…

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Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Repeal & Whatever:…

Donald Trump’s new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was upset by a rule from the Obama administration that required hedge fund managers to pay more attention to the needs of their clients rather than making trades for the express…

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With the elevation of Anthony Scaramucci, an avid Trump defender with no communications background, to White House communications director, Donald Trump has once again demonstrated that regardless of skill set or training or knowledge of government, he is…

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In a move that is surprising to absolutely no one, Donald Trump will not be speaking at this year’s annual NAACP convention which begins on Saturday in Baltimore.…

Whether you are hiding in your panic room or just popping Xanax every 15 minutes, the one thing we can all say about the current state of affairs is that we are all living in “historic” times. Every week or two we are faced with news that President Trump…

White House press secretary Sean Spicer is out—because apparently working for Anthony Scaramucci is worse than working for Donald Trump.…

The end of this week brings us a quote from Capitol Hill that seems at once obvious and also perplexing after seven full months of totally inane Republican rule. The New York Times writes:…

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