Tax plan pushed by the “party of fiscal responsibility” would add $1.7 trillion to the US national debt over 10 years.
(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)Trump administration abruptly ends refugee program that saved hundreds of Central American children. Current applicants are left to twist in the wind.
Maine voted to expand Medicaid to cover over 80,000 more low-income citizens. So Republican governor and noted terrible human being Paul LePage vows to block it. Join me in wishing him a crushing court loss.
(via Joe.My.God.)Another head rolls: Louis CK now accused of sexual misconduct by several women.
Two Avon and Somerset, England officers joke that a 14-year-old “should be raped”. Problem: They were recorded by the mother’s answering machine.
(via @TimCushing; RT: @Popehat)Finally, former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka is a fascist fraud with dubious credentials and zero qualifications, so of course Fox News brought him on as their national security strategist.
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