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Striking Verizon workers hit by company attorney driving a Porsche

The union claims at least three members were struck by Verizon management while on the picket line this week

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 15, 2016 9:02 PM UTC 0
Business Unions, verizon, Verizon strike

John Kasich’s casual victim blaming “advice”: If you don’t want to be raped, “don’t go to parties where there’s a lot of alcohol”

It doesn't matter how earnest Kasich comes off, the message remains problematic VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 15, 2016 6:53 PM UTC 0
Elections Election 2016, Elections 2016

Ann Coulter takes a parting swipe at ex-Breitbart staffer after prosecutors decline to press charges against Trump campaign manager

While MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski piles on: The whole thing was “a joke from the beginning” VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 15, 2016 5:44 PM UTC 0
Elections Ann Coulter, Breitbart

Bernie’s most nakedly political move yet: Sanders suspends Jewish director for outspoken criticism of Bibi Netanyahu

Sanders selected J Street over AIPAC and is now paying the political price

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 15, 2016 2:40 PM UTC 0
Elections Benjamin Netanyahu

“Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am”: Sarah Palin’s latest delusion is dangerous

Palin encourages parents to boycott Nye in the name of climate change denialism

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 15, 2016 1:15 AM UTC 0
Elections Bill Nye

Kim Davis’ legal team is behind discriminatory anti-LGBT bills in 20 states

And they have lawyers drafting similar legislation in all 50 states

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 9:16 PM UTC 0
Elections anti-lgbt discrimination

Ted Cruz praises North Carolina’s “perfectly reasonable” anti-LGBT bathroom ban

"Men should not be going to the bathroom with little girls," Cruz told MSNBC

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 6:47 PM UTC 0
Elections Election 2016, Elections 2016

Hillary Clinton to sue Arizona over voting rights violations

Voters in Maricopa County stood in line for hours after Republican officials dramatically slashed polling locations

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 5:46 PM UTC 0
Elections Arizona, Election 2016

Look out Paul Krugman: Elizabeth Warren slams “revisionist history” after report finds Wall Street still too-big-to-fail

Without ever mentioning his name, Warren takes down Krugman's latest NYT column on the root of the 2008 collapse VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 3:38 PM UTC 0
Business Banking, Dodd-Frank

Why is Megyn Kelly berating Al Sharpton over Ferguson?: “Do you feel bad … a man’s life was ruined?”

Fox News' Megyn Kelly argues that the real victims in Ferguson and Baltimore are the police, not the deceased

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 2:04 PM UTC 0
Media Al Sharpton, Ferguson, Fox News

Trump supporters plan open carry demonstration outside Fox News town hall

Pittsburgh police on high alert after Trump fans threaten to confront anti-Trump protesters while armed

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 13, 2016 7:50 PM UTC 0
Elections Conservatives, Donald Trump

“She’s killing us! Blood on her hands!”: Black Lives Matter protester interrupts Chelsea Clinton event in Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania's Black Lives Matters activists are going after the Clintons tough VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 13, 2016 6:13 PM UTC 0
Elections

California school district votes to allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom

Teachers at one school district near Fresno will now be strapped like teachers in Texas and Indiana

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 13, 2016 3:14 PM UTC 0
News California, concealed carry, Guns

Bernie Sanders nabs his first Senate endorsement

And it is not from the only other Independent in the Senate, it is from a Democrat VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 13, 2016 1:06 PM UTC 0
Elections D-Ore., Election 2016

President Obama is searching for 350,000 permanently disabled Americans to forgive their student loan debt

After years of failing to reach eligible disabled debt holders, the White House is getting proactive

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016 9:20 PM UTC 0
Business President Obama, Student Loan

North Carolina begins to back off: Republican governor signs executive order allowing private businesses to opt-out of restrictive anti-LGBT law

Pat McCrory issued an executive order allowing private businesses to ignore discriminatory transgender bathroom ban VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016 7:24 PM UTC 0
Elections anti-lgbt discrimination

Drudge Report has “become the attack site for the Donald Trump campaign,” complains Ted Cruz

But just last January, Cruz lauded the right-wing website for breaking the "stranglehold" of the mainstream media VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016 4:29 PM UTC 0
Elections #NeverTrump, #TrumpEffect

“They were selling hope to a lot of people in the middle of a recession”: Retirees scammed by Trump Network speak out

Trump sold a "recession-proof" pyramid scheme during the 2008 recession, but the junk science vitamin co. flopped VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016 3:09 PM UTC 0
Elections #NeverTrump

“Zero chance”: Kasich rejects Trump’s vice presidential offer to get him out of the race

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said he bursted into a fit of laughter after he heard Trump mention his name for VP

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016 1:53 PM UTC 0
Elections #NeverTrump

Violence returns to the Trump campaign: Black protester assaulted by Trump supporters at “New York Values” rally

Only surprised it took this long VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016 12:37 PM UTC 0
Elections 2016 Republican primary

Watch: Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio make a cringeworthy “colored people time” joke at New York City charity event

At the same annual event where former mayor Rudy Giuliani famously dressed in drag, things got awkwardly racial VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Monday, Apr 11, 2016 5:50 PM UTC 0
Elections Bill deBlasio, Election 2016

Donald Trump finds common cause with Bernie Sanders, argues both candidates are victims of “a crooked system”

Both Trump and Sanders have taken issue with their respective parties’ nomination process VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Monday, Apr 11, 2016 3:48 PM UTC 0
Elections 2016 Democratic primary

“The Chalkening” has gone too far: Trump’s call for college supporters to arm themselves with chalk leaves campuses littered with racist messages

Conservatives have had a good laugh over "the Chalkening" but messages of "deport them all" are hardly funny

Sophia Tesfaye Monday, Apr 11, 2016 2:52 PM UTC 0
Elections anti-immigrant bigotry

Ann Coulter slams Pope Francis for urging acceptance of gays but not Donald Trump

The Pope called on the Church to be more open towards the divorced. Thrice-divorced Trump may be a bridge too far

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 8, 2016 6:56 PM UTC 0
Elections Ann Coulter, Donald Trump

Fox News’ Jesse Watters stalks Princeton campus to shout “ghetto” in black students’ faces

"Should we say slum," he offers to those who take offense VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 8, 2016 6:27 PM UTC 0
Media Bill O'Reilly, Fox News

Obama the constitutional scholar returns to law school to deliver a Supreme Court lesson

Only years later, law students have tough questions for President Obama about drones and diversity VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 8, 2016 4:25 PM UTC 0
Elections Election 2016, Elections 2016

Bernie Sanders recreates viral “America” ad with a New York touch ahead of crucial primary

The Brooklyn born candidate retooled his most famous campaign ad to give his hometown a bit more love VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 8, 2016 3:06 PM UTC 0
Elections 2016 Democratic primary

Bernie and Pope Francis team up: Sanders set to speak at the Vatican on economic and social issues

Sanders accepted an invitation from the Vatican and will leave the campaign trail days before the New York primary

Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Apr 8, 2016 12:51 PM UTC 0
Innovation 2016 Democratic primary

White House quick to jump to Clinton’s aid in first big kerfuffle with Sanders: Hillary more qualified than any recent candidate in history

The White House jumps into the fray to clarify that President Obama is "proud" of Clinton's service

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 8:56 PM UTC 0
Elections 2016 Democratic primary

Lisa Simpson, a vegan? 20,000 fans petition “Simpsons” writers to take “Lisa the vegetarian” to the next level

Veganism is a movement in need of one animated second-grader to lead it to the masses VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 4:52 PM UTC 0
Sustainability Lisa Simpson, petition

Sanders ready to burn the house down? Five reasons Bernie says Hillary isn’t “qualified” to be President

Sanders swings back hard after he claimed Clinton argued he was "not qualified." Only problem - she never said that VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 1:38 PM UTC 0
Elections 2016 Democratic primary

Obama’s SCOTUS selection begins to crack up conservatives: Chuck Grassley delivers stunning rebuke of Chief Justice John Roberts on the Senate floor

The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman warned the conservative chief justice to stay out of the nomination fight VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016 9:45 PM UTC 0
Elections Chief Justice John Roberts

“Ted Cruz has no business being in the Bronx”: Latino protesters interrupt Cruz to call him “an insult to the whole community”

The Texas Tea Party Senator gets a taste of the "New York values" he's famously decried VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016 7:19 PM UTC 0
Sustainability anti-immigrant discrimination

Florida woman sees Governor Rick Scott in a Starbucks and offers him a piece of her mind: “You’re an asshole! You don’t care about working people”

“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” a stay-at-home mother shouted to Florida's Republican Governor VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016 5:40 PM UTC 0
Elections Cara Jennings, Florida

Wisconsin Republican Congressman lets the truth slip: Suppressive voter id laws will help GOP win in November

The Ted Cruz surrogate predicted that Republican's voter id laws will help finally turn Wisconsin red in a general VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016 1:56 PM UTC 0
Elections glenn grothman, Video

“Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet — he is a Trojan horse”: Spoiled Donald Trump throws a temper tantrum after losing Wisconsin primary

Predictably, Trump lashes out at "Lyin' Ted" after suffering his first election night without a win since Iowa

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016 3:15 AM UTC 0
Elections Donald Trump, Election 2016

Bernie wins big in Wisconsin: Sanders has now won seven of the last eight Democratic contests against Clinton

#NeverTrump also nets a win in Wisconsin with Ted Cruz defeating Donald Trump

Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Apr 6, 2016 1:43 AM UTC 0
Elections 2016 Democratic primary

“Were your eyes stitched closed?”: Elizabeth Warren skewers Federal Reserve regulator who played “pivotal” role in 2008 financial crisis

A Republican witness at today's banking hearing attempted to claim there were no warning signs before the collapse VIDEO

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 5, 2016 8:45 PM UTC 0
Elections 2008 financial crash

The debate is finally on: Clinton and Sanders set to face off in Brooklyn

After days of public bickering, Team Clinton and Team Sanders have finally agreed to a debate on April 14

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 5, 2016 3:48 PM UTC 0
Elections 2016 democratic debate

Department of Justice opens investigation into Arizona’s election disaster

The federal government is investigating why Arizona's largest county cut down on voting sites and increased lines

Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Apr 5, 2016 2:30 PM UTC 0
Elections 2016 Democratic primary

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