Month: April 2019

Donald Glover’s “Guava Island,” co-starring Rihanna, hit Amazon last weekend after his headlining performance at the Coachella fest in California. The 55-minute film takes place on a tropical island that is meant to be a paradise but instead serves as a land for the overworked where exports and capitalism trump joy. The protagonist Deni (Glover)…

Another supporter of President Donald Trump has been arrested after death threats — this time against three Democratic lawmakers. In each of the voicemail threats, investigators say, the caller also viciously attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), just four days after the president posted 9/11 footage in a tweet targeting the Muslim congresswoman. Floridian John Kless,…

Two Virginia police officers have been fired over their ties to white supremacist groups. In separate incidents, anti-fascist organizations revealed that Virginia Capitol Police Sgt. Robert A. Stamm and Daniel Morley, a school resource officer with the Chesterfield County Police Department, belonged to different hate groups. Stamm, 36, was placed on administrative leave in February when…

New Mexico’s governor has ordered a right-wing militia to stand down and stop illegally holding migrants — often at gunpoint ― in her state. “Regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone,” Michelle Lujan Grisham said Friday. “That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at…

LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of a journalist during rioting in the city of Londonderry. The men, aged 18 and 19, were detained under anti-terrorism legislation and taken to Belfast for questioning, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said. The men have…

Gerard Araud left his post as French ambassador to the U.S. on Friday. And the diplomat pulled no punches when it came to describing President Donald Trump in an exit interview with the Foreign Policy news website. Araud, 66, said former President Barack Obama was the “ultimate bureaucrat, an introvert, basically a bit aloof, a…

President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that some statements about him featured in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report are “total bullshit.” Trump again slammed the “Crazy Mueller Report,” which was released Thursday and outlined Mueller’s findings about Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential obstruction of justice by Trump. The president warned against “people that…

An Arizona school has publicly apologized for the impact of a recent exercise after criticism from at least one parent who said a recent lesson surrounding the civil rights movement put her black 9-year-old son’s “emotional [well-being]” at risk.  Rosalind Thompson, the head of school at BASIS Phoenix Central, a charter school serving grades K-5,…

The Trump administration’s informal foreign policy adviser Erik Prince, who is best known for founding a military contracting firm called Blackwater that massacred 14 Iraqis in 2007 and who is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, appears to have lied to Congress about conducting an unsophisticated effort to connect the White House and the…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday called for the House of Representatives to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump in the wake of the public release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.  “The Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald…