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Exclusive: John Boehner says Donald Trump abused his loyalists by lying to them Susan Page, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Former House Speaker John Boehner no longer watches much cable TV news. Noise, he calls it. It was only when aide John Criscuolo texted him a tweet with some raw video attached – "Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol," it read – that he learned the Congress in which he had served for a quarter-c...

A long-dormant judicial volcano belched some smoke and ash into the morning breeze earlier this week, leaving some of the villagers below more than a little bewildered: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas abruptly announced his support on Monday for broad and muscular government regulation of private business. The case that motivated Justice Thomas’s opinion, Knight First Amendment Inst. at Columbia University v. Donald J. Trump, was a suit filed on behalf of citizens whom Trump had blocke...

Associated Press Ripped For Coverage Of White House Dog ‘Doo’ Incident: ‘A Dog Taking A Sh*t On The Carpet Is Not News’ By Tommy ChristopherApr 1st, 2021, 8:29 am Official White House photo Media critics found the perfect metaphor Wednesday when reporters began filing updates on a specimen of alleged dog excrement that was spotted on a floor at the White House. On a day that began with a major cable news host joking for several consecutive minutes about euthanizing one of the First Dog...

The Nation, America’s leading magazine of progressive politics, culture, and opinion, this week named Aída Chávez (@aidachavez / Washington, DC) as DC correspondent, covering politics, policy, and movement-building from the nation’s capital. “I’ve been a regular reader and admirer of Aída’s work at The Intercept,” said Nation editor D.D. Guttenplan. “She’s obviously sharp, skeptical about power, and well plugged into progressive networks in Washington. She’s also shown ...

Posted by Carolyn Seaver for School of Communication Michael Isikoff is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who joined Yahoo News in 2014 as Chief Investigative Correspondent. He previously served as national investigative correspondent for NBC News between 2010 and 2014 and for Newsweek magazine between 1994 and 2010.  Isikoff is the author of three New York Times best-selling books: “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on American and the Election ...

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Ted Cruz’s Cancun Getaway Has Sparked Some Merciless #TedFled Memes The internet got straight to work, photoshopping the Texas senator and his luggage into various scenesAndi Ortiz | February 18, 2021 @ 9:52 AM Last Updated: February 18, 2021 @ 9:55 AM Getty Images Even before The New York Times and Associated Press confirmed that Senator Ted Cruz indeed flew to Cancun while Texas battled a deadly winter storm, early reports sparked reactions from Twitter. As images of a man who...

The Press’s Strange Memory-Holing of Trump’s First Impeachment His second impeachment trial is being presented as a cut-and-dried case, in contrast to its predecessor. But the first impeachment was cut-and-dried, too. Mark Wilson/Getty Images No piece of Covid-era filmmaking has been praised quite as much as the 13-minute montage that opened the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. CNN’s Chris Cillizza argued that it was “unfathomable that any senator—Republican or Democrat—cou...

Trump Defense Lawyer Baffles Viewers With Confounding, Meandering Opening Argument: ‘Just… Ad-Libbing?’ Mediaite 2/9/2021 Bruce Castor, one of the lawyers representing former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, gave an opening statement Tuesday that baffled a great deal of political observers. Castor spent a lot of time talking at remarkable length about history and talking up the Senate and saying that senators are patriots (as you can see in the MSNBC video above) and At...

NBC News has discovered a newfound appreciation for on-the-record sources and just in time for the Biden administration.