EDITOR’S NOTE: Shinbone Star staff member Robin Dalmas wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper, The Seattle Times, and it appeared there on April 21. It is reprinted here with her permission. It is time to begin impeachment hearings against Trump, using the Mueller report as a roadmap. Trump has committed so many impeachable […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is satire. While we seriously doubt that Trump has ever spit into a saliva collection tube to have his DNA analyzed, here is what we imagine might happen. Dear Donald J. Trump: We’re writing from National Geographic’s Genographic Project to share the exciting news: You are African! Now, this might come […]
Donald Trump: When it comes to abortion, “there has to be some form of punishment.” Mike Pence: “I believe we will see Roe v. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs.” Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s conservative nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court: He has said in the past […]
Tom Steyer, billionaire activist and founder of the “Need to Impeach” movement, wants you to know two important things about Donald J. Trump. First, there are eight grounds for impeachment. “We talked to 58 Constitutional scholars to get their take on the criteria for impeachment and whether Donald Trump had met them,” Steyer said. The […]
The author takes to the streets of Seattle. (Photo by Joseph Ferrara) Last July, I marched 1.5 miles from the Space Needle to the Henry Jackson Federal Building in Seattle chanting “Impeach Donald Trump.” Our group made the local news. The resistance was strong! Last month, it was all I could do to hobble outside […]
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) and five other House Democrats on Wednesday introduced five articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump. Cohen serves on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, the one responsible for federal impeachments. “We have taken this action because of great concern for our country and our Constitution, our national security and […]
Is President Donald Trump tiptoeing a little closer to impeachment? A recent poll seems to suggest so. Public Policy Polling announced on Oct. 31 that 49 percent of voters support impeachment, a record level of support for invoking Article Two of the U.S. Constitution. The numbers aren’t surprising in light of recent news events. Trump’s […]
When I espouse my burning desire for Congress to impeach Trump, I often hear the same tiresome argument. “No! Pence would be worse!” Let’s examine that statement in light of a new book. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President hit stores on Oct. 3. It was […]
I watched in disbelief on Aug. 31 as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on CNN that he is declaring Sunday, Sept. 3 as a “Day of Prayer in Texas.” He then introduced Vice President Mike Pence, who predictably gave a resounding “amen.” On Sept. 1, President Trump proclaimed Sept. 3 as “National Day of Prayer […]
SEATTLE — It’s been 11 years since “An Inconvenient Truth” first hit movie theaters, and no one is more aware of that than Al Gore. Recently, a woman who spotted him in a restaurant — and couldn’t quite place him — insisted he would look just like the former vice president if only he would […]
If the Impeach Trump movement were a hurricane, it would be gathering strength off the coast of Palm Beach and getting ready to blow the windows out of Mar-a-Lago. On June 7, Representatives Al Green (D-Texas) and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) announced during a press conference that they were each drafting separate articles of impeachment. On […]
Talk of impeachment began swirling around President Trump’s curiously coiffed head before he even stepped into office. In 2016, three legal experts published a memorandum claiming Trump would be in violation of the Constitution the first day of his presidency due to conflicts of interest. Specifically, he would be violating the Foreign Emoluments clause due […]
The Trump administration is under investigation for possible treason. Possible treason. We learned this March 20 when FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee, informing the world that an investigation began last July into whether the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election. The inquiry is also probing links between the Trump […]
Popularity 62,985,106: Number of people who voted for Trump (source: The New York Times) 65,853,625: Number of people who voted for Clinton (source: The New York Times) 230,585,915: Number of eligible voters in the U.S. (source: United States Election Project) 27%: Percentage of eligible voters in the U.S. who voted for Trump 28%: Percentage of […]
On Feb. 28, Congress had its first vote on legislation regarding an investigation of Trump’s conflicts and Russian ties.
While the world watched President Trump blather his way through another bizarre news conference yesterday and claim that headlines about Russia were “fake news,” something heartening was going on behind the scenes. Organizers from the Impeach Donald Trump Now campaign walked into the office of Jamie Raskin, the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district, […]
Move from despair to defiance! Here are 14 ways to resist the Trump agenda.
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