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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., spoke at an awards event held by an affiliate of the Communist Party in his state, touting President Biden's Build Back Better plan as a promoter of "economic justice." The Democratic senator appeared Saturday at the Connecticut People's World Committee Amistad Awards to distribute certificates of recognition to the three recipients of the awards. Video by the communist group posted on Facebook shows emcee Ben McManus inviting members of the audience to "join the Communist Party in this epic time as we make good trouble to uproot systemic racism, retool the war economy, tax the rich,...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is "furious" over the Biden administration delaying flights with Americans trying to escape Afghanistan after President Biden’s botched troop withdrawal. The senator from Connecticut issued a press release on Monday eviscerating the Biden administration for delaying flights out of the Mazar-e Sharif airport in Afghanistan following reports of the administration not giving the evacuation flights the green light.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believed former President Donald Trump attempted a coup with a “conscious plan, strategy, that did not work.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “We’re learning some stunning new details about the former president’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election result, thanks to testimony from his former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. Rosen told the Senate Judiciary Committee over the weekend about efforts by his own deputy to enlist the DOJ in sowing doubt about the election results. Our next guest sat through Mr. Rosen’s testimony and concluded that Trump’s...

I’m gonna be a dick today, because that’s a personal choice. It’s the middle of June and the COVID-19 vaccine is available (and free!) to anyone in the United States over the age of 12. This is a miracle. If you’re fully vaccinated like I am, you can throw parties now. You can travel. You can eat out. You don’t have to quarantine at home, counting toilet paper rolls and making hatch marks on your bedroom wall and wondering when you’ll be free of this bloody pandemic. It’s over for you. You won. You could even celebrate by going to...

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) discussed the ongoing conflict between Israel and terrorist group Hamas. Durbin voiced his support for a cease-fire but made it clear that he “couldn’t disagree” more with the policies of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “when it comes to the treatment of Palestinians.” The Democratic lawmaker from Illinois added he believes a “two-state solution is the only realistic future” in the Middle East.

The Senate Democrats’ leading advocate for amnesty and immigration, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), is endorsing the pro-amnesty push underway by former President George W. Bush. “Bless you, George W. Bush, for saying what you did,” said Durbin, who has a long history of supporting migration into the United States, regardless of the damage done to Americans’ wages, housing costs, and civic stability. In an April 22 interview with Punchbowl News, Durbin said the GOP should adopt Bush’s pro-migration policies: Will it have an impact on Republicans? I think it must. I believe that many of them want to move beyond...

In the wake of Daunte Wright’s accidental shooting by a Minnesota police officer, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called for the purging of racism in America. Durbin said in an appearance on Tuesday’s CNN “New Day” that gun violence and racial incidents occur on “almost a daily basis,” and he asserted it is time to “cancel racism in America.” Durbin added there would be a “sincere and real effort” to create more oversight for policing in the country

Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is slated to host a virtual fundraiser for House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) amid backlash she received for speaking out against former President Trump. To co-host, donors have been asked to pay $5,800, and $2,900 to attend the event, according to an invitation first obtained by Politico. The fundraiser comes as Cheney will face two primary challengers — Wyoming state Rep. Chuck Gray (R) and State Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R) — after the Wyoming representative voted to impeach Trump

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo recently tweeted that “me-first capitalists” who disagree with injecting political activism into their workplaces will be “the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution.” The company has not commented if the tweet by Costolo, who has an estimated net worth of $300 million, violates its policies against glorifying violence. In a recent tweet, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo discussed a decision by Brian Armstrong, the CEO of the cryptocurrency firm Coinbase, to not promote political activism and social justice within the company. Armstrong’s comments fly in the face of ultra-progressive...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said on Sunday that pardoning former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden “would be unconscionable” after President Trump said he was considering the idea at a recent press conference. “Edward Snowden is a traitor. He is responsible for the largest and most damaging release of classified info in US history. He handed over US secrets to Russian and Chinese intelligence putting our troops and our nation at risk,” Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, tweeted on Sunday afternoon, adding; “Pardoning him would be unconscionable.” A day before Cheney’s comments, Trump said...

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s critics let him know how they really felt about him ordering New Yorkers to snitch on each other for violating social-distancing rules — by flooding his new tip line with crank complaints including “dick pics” and people flipping the bird, The Post has learned. Photos of extended middle fingers, the mayor dropping the Staten Island groundhog and news coverage of him going to the gym have all been texted to a special tip line that de Blasio announced Saturday, according to screenshots posted on Twitter. One user sent the message “We will fight this tyrannical overreach!”...

Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, told Melania Trump "#BeInfected" after the White House announced the first lady would be in PSAs concerning the coronavirus. "#BeInfected," Wilson tweeted, mocking the first lady's anti-bullying #BeBest campaign. . . . Wilson was slammed online for his criticism of the first lady. "This is the most insidious & hateful rhetoric of anyone who exists in political punditry," Joe Concha, a media reporter for the Hill, said.

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Full title: Man, 46, arrested for punching Andy Dick outside a New Orleans bar 'claims the controversial comedian grabbed his genitals before the attack' Dick claims he was knocked unconscious for 15 minutes after he fell to the ground following the attack.

Democrats immediately rejected President Donald Trump’s offer of a work-permit amnesty for one million registered migrants in exchange for 230 miles of new border wall. The rejection came even though Trump’s offer angered his base by trading a DACA temporary amnesty for a wall. Also, Trump did not ask for the reform of the many catch-and-release rules which allow the cartels to profitably smuggle hundreds of thousands of poor migrants into the U.S. labor market, welfare rolls, and U.S. K-12 schools.The speech came after Trump had offered a series of smaller concessions in closed-door negotiations since Christmas. Democrats quickly dismissed...

Donald Trump’s current con job – spreading lies about the migrants who are walking through Mexico, seeking to terrify his fans into voting on November 6 – is just his latest attempt to weaponize fear for political gain. He’s been playing that card, successfully so, since he rode his escalator on day one of his craven candidacy, but his “caravan” demagoguery actually reminds me of a tactic that right-wingers concocted way back in 1934. I’ll explain that shortly. By now you’ve probably heard the fake news, because it’s virtually impossible to escape it. For his closing argument on the eve...

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said the Trump administration had trapped children in a “bureaucratic cave” with his zero-tolerance policy on immigration which caused some families to be separated after crossing the border illegally. Referencing the children being saved from a cave in Thailand, Durbin said, “Before I get into that, our hearts and prayers are with those boys in Thailand, trapped in the cave. I hope our hearts and prayers are also with thousands of children, toddlers and infants, removed from their parents by the Trump administration, under zero tolerance. They’re trapped in a...

<p>Fresh off his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump returns to Washington on Wednesday to face what may be the biggest threat to his presidency -- Special Counsel Robert Mueller.</p> <p>Now, Mueller is intent on quickly resolving a central issue with Trump’s legal team: whether the president will sit voluntarily for an interview in the probe of Russian election meddling, according to current and former U.S. officials. After months of negotiations, the two sides must find common ground or gear up for an unprecedented legal fight likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.</p>

On the same day that Long Beach-born, Korean-American superstar Chloe Kim jumped, flipped and twisted her way to a golden medal in the halfpipe competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the U.S. Senate barreled ahead with a long-awaited debate on the fate of young, unauthorized immigrants in America. Now she and her gold medal are being sucked into the immigration fight unfolding in Congress. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, went as far as to bring a victorious photo of Kim to the Senate floor on Tuesday as he shared the immigration story of her father. “Today, all...

Friday, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) backed up a Washington Post report claiming President Donald Trump referred to certain nations as “shithole countries” in a bipartisan meeting Trump held with members of Congress on immigration policy. Durbin’s remarks were made to reporters and captured by MSNBC’s camera. Durbin also criticized Trump for his use of the term “chain migration” because according to the Senate Minority Whip, it was offensive to African-Americans that “migrated” to the United States chains.