BREAKING: Trump fixer Michael Cohen has 'flipped.' He pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about Trump's business dealings in Russia and is now cooperating with Robert Mueller. This morning the president again tweeted that Mueller's Russia investigation is a 'witch hunt.'
Black women are 243% more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications than white women — this father brought his heartbreaking story to Congress to change that
Holy shit
The owner and CEO of the tear gas company whose tear gas was used on toddlers at the border donates largely to Republicans but also to two Democrats:
Booker & Clinton
84 farms filed for bankruptcy in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana because of Trump’s trade war, low prices for corn, soybeans, milk and beef
https://t.co/IuuhjQ8IAB
An interesting approach by CNN here - putting actual facts in a big box beside Sarah Sanders. Would be worth exploring this kind of Factual Pop-Up Video for Trump's own speeches. https://t.co/FrpvfSviT5
Trump on climate change: “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean.”
BREAKING: Looks like France will join Germany and Holland in supporting an EU wide Magnitsky Act. If true, it will be hard to stop this initiative from succeeding. Very appropriate given Putin’s recent actions in Ukraine
💛 We are sad to share the news of the passing of Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. Today, we are observing a moment of silence to honor his life and work. 💛
Monsanto was found guilty of causing this man's cancer, marking the first time in history the chemical giant will have to pay for poisoning the public.
When we look at Auschwitz we see the end of the process. It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence.
To everybody saying that "gassing children across a border is technically not a war crime because it's technically legal according to US law"... you know what else was "technically legal"?
Holocaust
Ukrainian Genocide
Cambodian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Rwandan Genocide...