Author: Stephanie Moffat

London Mayor Calls For Cancellation Of Trump’s Visit To UK London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on the British government to cancel a state visit from Donald Trump after Trump attacked his response to the terror attacks in London this weekend. “I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the president of the USA in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for,” Khan said in an interview with Britain’s Channel 4 News. “When you have a special relationship it is no different from when you have got a close mate. You stand...

US Ambassador To China Resigns Over Trump’s Paris Climate Decision Donald Trump’s Paris Climate Decision Is Having Real World Diplomatic Consequences.   The acting United States ambassador to China has resigned over Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The news was first reported by CNN which noted that Ambassador David Bank, who is a career foreign service officer, would be resigning. Bank has been in the foreign service officer since 1990. According to CNN, the State Department said that “Mr. Rank made a personal decision. We appreciate his years of dedicated service to the State...

Trump Can’t Be Counted On To Give Accurate Information To Americans When Violent Acts Are Unfolding: AP Trump’s Lying Has Gotten So Bad That News Organizations Are Telling Americans To Ignore Him.  The Associated Press went to the extraordinary step of telling Americans that the sitting U.S. President cannot be counted on to give accurate information. The AP opened their story saying, “President Donald Trump can’t be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad.” It’s an exceptionally bold statement for the nonpartisan news organization that does everything it can to avoid political commentary. It is...

The Supreme Court Just Ruled Against North Carolina On Gerrymandered Districts Again North Carolina Republicans Just Lost Another Gerrymandering Case At Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on Monday dealt another blow to North Carolina Republicans and their effort to gerrymander state legislative districts. The Court unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling to throw out the state’s legislative districts. The decision re-affirms a three-judge panel’s ruling last year that 28 state legislative districts were drawn improperly because legislators considered race in the crafting of new lines in 2011. North Carolina v. Covington, is one of several challenges to the Republican-drawn...

John Oliver Explains Everything That Is Wrong With Trump’s Paris Decision [Watch the video below] Comedian John Oliver, on Sunday, broke down Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord last week. The “Last Week Tonight” host noted that the branding of the agreement is all wrong for Trump. Oliver said it is so off brand that for Trump it might as well have been called “Globalist cuck surrender” or a “light jog.” Oliver fact-checked Trump’s claims about the Paris Accord. He started with Trump’s claim that the world celebrated the signing of...