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Famous Americans have always snubbed US presidents to make political points. But never before in the history of this republic have so many snubbed any president the way they are snubbing Donald Trump. This trend began famously enough on the first day of his presidency. That’s when celebrities of every stripe boycotted his inauguration ceremonies.… Read more.
Et tu, Brokaw? MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski’s has added her name to the more than 60 women [including Maria Shriver and Rachel Maddow] who signed a letter supporting NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw after sexual harassment allegations against him were published by Washington Post and Variety: The testimonial was made public one day after … former… Read more.
Have you noticed Kanye is already sporting blonde hair, man boobs, and (sometimes) blue eyes…? This might explain his antic love for Donald Trump: After all, to paraphrase Kanye’s most famous political statement: Donald Trump doesn’t care about black people. Then again, to paraphrase Obama’s take on him: Kanye is a Jackass, whose talent gives… Read more.
Video of a woman being pulled away from her weeping daughters on a California street and shoved into a US Customs and Border Protection vehicle is drawing criticism of the manner in which federal agents are enforcing immigration laws. … Perla Morales-Luna, 36, came to the US illegally at the age of 15. (CBS News… Read more.
A jury found Bill Cosby guilty Thursday of [three counts of] drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home near here 14 years ago … each punishable by up to 10 years in state prison, though the sentences could be served concurrently. … The case was the first high-profile trial of the #MeToo era.… Read more.
I stood with fellow students in the early 1980s in calling on corporations and governments to cripple South Africa’s Apartheid regime with boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS). We were trying to force democratic reforms that would grant civil rights to the country’s historically oppressed blacks. I could not have been prouder. But I knew that… Read more.
Miguel is following Raúl as Raúl Followed Fidel. With apologies to my Spanish-speaking readers, nothing describes Cuba’s national development quite like the French epigram plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. It means the more it changes the more it remains the same. And that, in a nutshell, is Cuba. Cuba’s National Assembly cleared… Read more.
North Korea says its quest for nuclear weapons is ‘complete’ and it ‘no longer needs’ to test its weapons capability, a significant development ahead of diplomatic engagement with both South Korea and the United States. (CNN, April 21, 2018) Trust me folks, this is like Syria saying its conquest of all rebel strongholds is complete… Read more.
The “pee-brained” president of the United States greeted the world this morning with this tweet, which is as heartless as it is clueless: Of course, the only mission Trump accomplished was to waste billions of taxpayer dollars just to turn a few empty buildings into rubble —in a war-ravaged country that was already mostly rubble.… Read more.
Trump’s egomaniacal stunts are such that he will probably order bombs to begin landing on Syria this Sunday night. Because that’s when ABC News has scheduled what all of Washington anticipates will be a blockbuster interview with former FBI director James Comey about his dealings with “Mafia Don” Trump. That interview will be based on… Read more.
