Like the Confederacy, Republicans lose vote to restore racist monument
The House voted Thursday to reject an amendment to restore a racist Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery. The statue depicted a Black “mammy” holding a Confederate soldier’s baby and a Black enslaved person following a Confederate soldier into battle.
June 14, 2017 – Officials announced that Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller would investigate Donald Trump for obstruction of justice. This was part of Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
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US Supreme Court just overturned the ban on bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic AR-15-style rifles to fire automatically, like a machine gun. Yet the Supreme Court declared that they do not create a "machinegun."
This decision is brought to you buy a SCOTUS stacked with right-wing idealists who ignore the law. Your vote in November matters for every SCOTUS decision for a generation. I don't care that you think of Biden--SCOTUS matters!
Every election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue
June 14, 2020 – Trump testily defended himself after videos shot at West Point showed him tentatively walking down a ramp and struggling to drink from a glass of water. Though the day was sunny and hot, Trump tweeted that the ramp was “very slippery.”
Takes on the Supreme Court decision to turn down hearing the case to ban mifepristone and misoprostol because the litigants lacked standing:
"The Supreme Court didn’t end access to mifepristone; instead, it ducked the substantive issue, leaving it for another day by ruling that the plaintiffs in this case lacked standing and dismissing the proceeding on that basis without considering the merits of their argument."
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“…tweets liked by #Vance said #Trump committed “serial sexual assault,” called him “one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs,” and, in a since-removed set of tweets, harshly criticized Trump’s response to the deadly 2017 White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – something Vance now defends Trump over”
Former president Donald Trump on Thursday raised the prospect of scrapping the U.S. income tax system and replacing it with something very different: much higher tariffs on imported goods.
The fucking idiot still doesn't get that Americans pay the tariffs. Or is he expecting to collect $16,180,461,000 from caviar imports?
June 13, 2017 – Since the 2016 election, 70 percent of the properties purchased from the Trump Organization have reportedly sold to anonymous LLCs rather than identified people.
Before the election, only 2% of Trump properties went to anonymous companies.
#SevenYearsAgoToday#AreYouBetterOff
June 13, 2017 – On Twitter, Donald Trump’s account blocked a veterans group that had been critical of him. The group, VoteVets, represents 500,000 U.S. military veterans.