Lost in the fire-hose of news from the Trump shutdown and its humiliating ending for Republicans was a report about the deliberate nature of the disaster at the border: Following reports on Thursday that federal officials forcibly separated thousands more migrant children from ...read more
As if the tragedies and national indignities foisted upon the world by Donald Trump haven't been damaging enough, the president and his personal Wormtongue, the dead-eyed Stephen Miller, chose to allow the U.S. Border Patrol to launch tear gas at Central American refugees at the ...read more
A month ago today, Trump signed an Executive Order that supposedly ended his zero-tolerance policy of forced separation for parents and children crossing the border. It's tempting to assume that this solved the problem, but so far, this order has not brought all the separated ...read more
I used to be hesitant to use the word "evil" in politics but not so much anymore. How else would you describe this? The Office of Refugee Resettlement is preparing for the possibility of another surge in family separations. Internal documents obtained by Slate show that ORR has ...read more
When we first learned of the cruelty of the Trump regime's family separation policy, it immediately occurred to me that these children, some as young as three months old, were going to be abused, not by accident, but deliberately. And god fucking dammit, I was right: Olivia ...read more
Upfront, I'd like to say: Fuck you Corey Lewandowski but also thank you. It's dogshit people like you that really reveal the true face of the American right wing. Well done! Last night, Rachel Maddow did something she's never done before. She broke down crying on air and cut her ...read more
The right is scrambling to justify the cruel and inhuman torture being carried out against immigrant children. It's not going well. In hindsight, it's clear that the Trump regime thought that putting immigrant children into cages would be a winning strategy. Maybe they thought ...read more
Very soon now, we're going to wake up to screaming headlines about the kiddie concentration camps Jeff Sessions is creating. We will find out that they are rife with sexual predators, child abuse and sex trafficking. The Democratically controlled House and Senate will investigate ...read more
