Jon Queally, staff writer
Jon Queally is senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
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News Friday, August 17, 2018 Trump White House Reportedly 'Rattled' Amid Belief That Omarosa Has 200 Recordings of the Inner Circle In the wake of Thursday's release of another recording secretly made by former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, the New York Times reports that White House staff are seriously "rattled" by the idea that a larger stockpile—perhaps hundreds of tapes worth of material—may be forthcoming. Ahead of... Read more |
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News Wednesday, August 15, 2018 'Bankrupt Intellectually,' GOP No Match for Energized Democratic Voters Inspired by Progressive Vision, Says Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont—who handily won the Democratic Party primary in his state on Tuesday night even though he will continue to run as an Independent—appeared on CBS This Morning on Wednesday where he described the Republican Party under President Donald Trump as " bankrupt intellectually... Read more |
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News Tuesday, August 14, 2018 'No, Secretary Zinke. Record-Breaking Wildfires in California Have Everything to Do with Climate Change' After U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke over the weekend outrageously and falsely declared that the largest wildfires in the history of California have " nothing to do with climate change ," it was up to people who actually understand the science —and give a shit about the future of the... Read more |
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News Monday, August 13, 2018 Sharing Family's Immigrant Story, Stephen Miller's Uncle Horrified by His Xenophobic, Hypocritical Nephew Recounting their own family's history as immigrants from eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, the uncle of Stephen Miller, one of the President's Donald Trump's top aides and the chief architect of the administration's hateful immigration agenda, has written a scathing op-ed in... Read more |
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News Friday, August 10, 2018 Let the Great Logo Race for Trump's Idiotic Space Force Begin... Supporters of President Donald Trump were invited by the "Trump Make America Great Committee" on Thursday to vote on their favorite logo design for the president's "ridiculous," "wasteful," and "idiotic" Space Force, but as it turned out many people across the internet were unsatisfied with the... Read more |
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News Thursday, August 09, 2018 'Idiotic' 'Wasteful' 'Ridiculous': Mike Pence Pilloried as He Puts on His Serious Face to Make Case for Trump's Space Force U.S. Vice President Mike Pence strapped on his most earnest " serious face " on Thursday as he made the argument about why the U.S. military must come to dominate outer space with its military – an idea that has been panned with a stream of derisive adjectives that could quite possibly stretch to... Read more |
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News Thursday, August 09, 2018 "We Don't Need Hope. We Need Action.': Watch First Trailer of Michael Moore's Documentary on Trump's America Provided exclusively to the Huffington Post and then posted online Thursday morning, the first trailer of Michael Moore's upcoming film "Fahrenheit 11/9" reveals the filmmaker's attempt at making sense of the rise and reign of President Donald Trump. "Fuck hope. Seriously, fuck hope... We don't... Read more |
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News Thursday, August 09, 2018 Secret Devin Nunes Recording Gives Away Plan to 'Clear the President': Confirm Kavanaugh First, Then Impeach Rod Rosenstein After obtaining the secretly-recorded comments made at a private congressional fundraiser last week, MSNBC 's Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night aired the words of Rep. Devin Nunes , the powerful California Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, as he explained to donors that one of... Read more |
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News Wednesday, August 08, 2018 Despite Some Losses for Progressives, 'Fantastic Night for Centrists' Framing Misses the Point of What's Happening Inside Democratic Party While progressives hoping for tide-shifting victories by progressive insurgents such as Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Cori Bush in Missouri were forced to watch their hopes dashed late Tuesday as their candidates came up short against more moderate rivals, is the real takeaway from the series... Read more |
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News Tuesday, August 07, 2018 New Scorecard Shows Only 12 House Democrats Have Fully Embraced Game-Changing Progressive Agenda With the momentum and energy within the Democratic Party clearly tilting towards those willing to embrace a bolder, progressive set of policies and priorites, a new congressional scorecard released Tuesday reveals that only twelve lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have put their... Read more |