ABOVE: Friends, coworkers and family watch as U.S. immigration officials raid several Mississippi food processing plants, including this Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The early morning raids were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as undocumented employees. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis, AP) As Rachel Maddow says, “Watch what … Read more
Does the leadership of I.C.E. have any decency? According to the Washington Post, they apparently knew where the close to 700 illegal immigrants that they arrested on Wednesday, worked in Mississippi. CNN published a piece showing photographs of I.C.E. agents at some of these facilities where the illegals worked. Instead, they decided to arrest many … Read more
Last week, Donald Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) blew up in his face. Rep. John Ratcliffe is already out as Trump’s DNI pick: Congressman John Ratcliffe’s short-lived tenure as the Director of National Intelligence nominee has already come to an end. Less than a week after President Donald Trump … Read more
No, it wasn’t just your imagination. July Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, UN Says: July 2019 may have been the single hottest month in recorded history, preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization shows. Global average temperatures from July 1 to July 29, 2019, met and possibly even surpassed the previous record for the … Read more
You knew that “Teleprompter Trump” being forced to read from a hostage statement prepared for him on Monday — a “low-energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week,” as Joe Biden so accurately described on Wednesday — would not last. “Twitter Trump” used the tragedy of a mass shootings in … Read more