While He Was Tweeting: The Bye Bye Bannon Edition, Week 30
The horror of Charlottesville and the ousting of Trump's Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon dominated the headlines this week. But as always, so much more happened. Here's what you missed.
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Lisa Needham is an attorney who has worked in the areas of First Amendment, education, and labor law. She is a contributor to Rewire, where she writes about LGBTQ and reproductive-health legal issues, and Shareblue, where she writes about politics. She is ride or die for Dionne Warwick, Doris Day, and the Oxford comma.
While He Was Tweeting: The Nazis and Nukes Edition, Week 29
While POTUS was busy tweet terrorizing us with threats of nuclear winter, the rest of his cabinet cabal continued to dismantle the government. Here's the news you missed.
While He Was Tweeting: The Grand Jury Edition, Week 28
From Mueller's Grand Jury to the hiring of John Kelly as Chief of Staff, it was firehose of headlines, but lot's of other news happened. Here's what you missed.
Jeff Sessions Believes White Mediocrity Needs a Helping Hand
Pandering to aggrieved white Trump supporters who think their opportunities are being stolen by people of color because of affirmative action isn't politics – it’s a dangerous threat to democracy.
While He Was Tweeting: Trump’s Worst Week Edition, Week 27
This week brought NSFW interviews, horrifying speeches to Boy Scouts, calls for police violence and, yep, Reince Priebus got fired. While the White House was in chaos, a lot of other things happened. Here’s what you missed.
The Trump Assault on Trans Rights Is the Canary in the Coalmine
In a bigoted campaign launched with tweets, this administration has confirmed our worst fears about its anti-LGBTQ plans. How far can this go?
Is This How We Want to Get Rid of AG Sessions?
He's a racist, homophobic misogynist with a hatred for pot and a love of private prisons. And Trump wants him gone. Normally we would too, but times are anything but normal.
While He Was Tweeting: Special 6-Month Dumpster Fire Edition, Week 26
In a week where we saw Team Trump talked pardons, Jeff Sessions in jeopardy and Spicey out, it was easy to miss the other political horrors that happened.
While He Was Tweeting: The Collusion Edition, Week 25
In a week where Donnie Jr. told more lies than his dad and Trump Sr humiliated the US by drooling over the French First Lady, democracy died a little more. Here's what you missed.