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06 April 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Andy Borowitz | Mexico Agrees to Pay for Trump's Psychiatric Care  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "Hoping to resolve the seemingly intractable conflict over immigration, Mexico surprised the world on Thursday by agreeing to pay for Donald J. Trump's psychiatric care." READ MORE Prominent Republican staffer Benjamin Sparks. (photo: Fox) Former Scott Walker Staffer Faces Domestic Abuse Charge; Reportedly Had Fiancee Sign Sex Slave Contract William Cummings, USA TODAY Cummings writes: "A Las Vegas political adviser who has worked on national campaigns for Republican candidates, including Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, physically abused his ex-fiancee and had her sign a contract to be a 'slave in training.'" READ MORE Teachers rally at the Oklahoma State Capitol building. (photo: Getty) ALSO SEE:  Red State Teachers Are Rev...

02 February 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News Andy Borowitz | Former Hippies Put in Horrible Position of Rooting for FBI  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker   Borowitz writes: "Former hippies across the United States have been put in the unbearable position of rooting for the F.B.I., hippies have confirmed."   READ MORE The Trump White House's Laughable Spin That the Release of the Nunes Memo Is All About 'Transparency'   Aaron Blake, The Washington Post   Blake writes: "President Trump is just trying to be forthcoming, you see. He wants to get it all out there! Except he clearly doesn't."   READ MORE I Was a Guantanamo Detainee - This Is What I Think of Trump's Plan to Keep It Open   Moazzam Begg, The Independent   Begg writes: "Sixteen years ago today, at midnight, agents of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, and the CIA kidnapped me at gunpoint in front of my family. They took me on a torturous ...

MORNING MESSAGE Richard Eskow Trump’s General Just Announced a New Cold War. Who Will Stop It? Defense Secretary James Mattis announced a dramatic shift in military policy last week, and it threatens to plunge the world into new forms of conflict. Mattis is not a “Mad Dog,” as his nickname suggests. He's a rational and articulate spokesperson for the national security ideology that has dominated American political life since the end of World War II. That’s disturbing in a very different way. WH Floats Demands On Immigration Deal Trump’s Immigration Concession Sets High Price for Democrats. Bloomberg: “The administration Thursday night proposed giving 1.8 million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a path to citizenship in exchange for drastically reducing family-based migration, a $25 billion trust fund for a border wall, stepped-up security at ports of entry, and stricter internal enforcement. The framework is, in effect, a bottom line for the ...

From Protest to Power Trump is hosting a huge celebration at the White House today for Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and GOP Members of Congress. They passed the biggest wealth transfer in American history -- from the poor, working and middle classes to the super rich. Trump and the GOP are emboldened. Want to ruin their party? There must be a political price to pay for the tax scam. If we can’t change the minds of GOP Members of Congress, then it’s time to change who is in office. The rich and big corporations are about to get what President Donald Trump called “a big beautiful Christmas present.” GOP politicians have sold their souls to pay back their billionaire donors. Wall Street is about to have a party at our expense even though two thirds of people know that the tax scam will help the rich instead of working and middle class families and the poor. Will you help us take back Congress in 2018? Our movement politics program is training and supporting hundreds of g...

MORNING MESSAGE Isaiah J. Poole Lifelong Wage Warrior Larry Mishel Takes On Trump’s Tax Scam Lawrence Mishel, the outgoing President of the Economic Policy Institute, is finally – after 30 years at the progressive economic research organization – seeing one of his wishes come true. Leaders in both major political parties are talking about wage stagnation, and how to address it. The bad news is the stagnant wages conversation is being co-opted by the GOPs to sell tax cuts that primarily benefit corporations and the wealthy. "Changing the economy is "a matter of organizing and policy and mobilization," says Mishel. "That work won't be easy," he says, but "the people can win." House, Senate Gird For Tax Votes Congress Poised to Approve Biggest Tax Overhaul in 30 Years. Reuters: “The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress will begin voting on Tuesday on the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than 30 years, with little standi...