Category: Politics

Clourer Grady, 72, wanted her felony record cleared. The governor of New Jersey pardoned her after years of fighting. This round, Governor Phil Murphy pardoned 40 more offenders, bringing his total to 169, a state record. It took Grady decades to arrive. Drug crimes landed her in prison in the early 1990s. She devoted to…

A heated Senate session saw Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley seek a complete accounting of how the FBI reportedly monitored Republican members’ conversations under the Biden administration from Attorney General Pam Bondi. After the Senate Republican majority called nine GOP members of Congress’s privacy breach unlawful, Grassley began investigating. The Senate Judiciary Committee report cited an…

Jon Stewart slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on his show, questioning his leadership and Senate Democrats’ strategy amid a government shutdown. Stewart’s harsh criticism comes as both parties struggle to reach a financing agreement. In what many saw as a staged moment of exasperation, Stewart played Schumer saying Democrats were “adamant” about defending Americans’…

A New Jersey lawmaker has requested that the state’s largest teachers union fire one of its magazine editors after she was accused of spreading antisemitic sentiments and supporting Hamas on social media. Representative Josh Gottheimer wrote a strong letter to the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) urging the immediate firing of Ayat Oraby from NJEA…

Whoopi Goldberg had a surprise suggestion on The View in reaction to Super Bowl ICE fears. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned that ICE will be “all over” the Bad Bunny halftime show, sparking the outcry. Joy Behar cautioned that Noem may target immigrants by accent or skin tone. Would she act the same with…

President Donald Trump labeled Democratic leaders’ refusal to endorse a budget bill a self-destructive “kamikaze attack” that shut down the government on Tuesday. Even though Republicans control Congress and the White House, he blamed Democrats for the gridlock. The federal shutdown began on October 1 after lawmakers failed to pass funding legislation before the fiscal…

Pressure is mounting on President Donald Trump after his administration issued a draft document suggesting that furloughed federal workers may not receive retroactive pay after the shutdown. As thousands of workers go unpaid, this policy change is causing legal, political, and popular reaction. According to the draft document from the Office of Management and Budget,…

After being criticized for an inappropriate Gaza conflict joke on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” CNN political commentator Van Jones apologized. Jones said Iran and Qatar were launching a “massive” Instagram and TikTok campaign of deception. He said, “If you open your phone, all you see is dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, Diddy.” Young…

Pop-culture has been used by California Governor Gavin Newsom to fight former President Donald Trump again. The words of Taylor Swift’s new song “Actually Romantic” were used to comment on Trump’s assaults in a recent video by Newsom. Newsom is mixing satire, social media, and culture to make his attacks hit harder and reach deeper….

The federal government has been without funding for six days, and former Mike Pence director of staff Marc Short predicts that Republicans will cave first. Short told national television that Democrats had cleverly attached popular health care provisions to the continuing resolution, making it harder for Republicans to reject them. Medicaid financial protection and Affordable…