President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon has been fired, multiple White House officials told CNN on Friday.
So, who will replace Bannon? Rasputin?
So basically Himmler got fired today, but his boss is still on the job. - Andy Borowitz
With Steve Bannon out, there's only the VP left in Donald Trump's original suicide squad. Guess it's family first from now on, right, Don? - Vicente Fox Quesada, Presidente de México de 2000 a 2006
The World Is A Safer Place Without
- At least 100 hurt and 14 killed in Barcelona and Cambrils terror attacks
- State Dept: One American killed in Barcelona attack
- Trump, top aides seek to overcome divisions delaying Afghan strategy
- Durham on edge as KKK expected to hold pro-Confederate rally at courthouse
- US State Department hit by system-wide email outage: official
- Trump announces move to elevate Cyber Command
- Donald Trump retells Pants on Fire claim about Gen. Pershing ending terrorism for 35 year
Dear "Christian" white supremacists: Your Savior is a dark-skinned Jewish man from the Middle East who spoke Aramaic. His mom was Jewish too. - James Martin, Jesuit priest
The American Civil Liberties Union took a new stance on firearms Thursday, announcing a change in policy that it would not represent hate groups who demonstrate with firearms.
Heather Heyer's mom says she won't speak to Trump. "I saw a clip of him equating the protesters with the KKK & the white supremacists..." - Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Republican Shenanigans
- Art of the Deal co-author predicts Donald Trump is about to resign
- Fox CEO James Murdoch criticizes Trump over response to Charlottesville
- ‘My life is over’: 21-year-old Charlottesville marcher whines over ‘outing’ by anti-fascist group
- Third major charity cancels Mar-a-Lago event after Charlottesville
- ‘Your message isn’t wanted here’: Boston mayor threatens white nationalists planning Saturday rally
- CNN’s Cuomo trades insults with GOP candidate blaming liberals for Charlottesville violence
- White supremacists cheer Trump’s evolving response to Charlottesville
- Mueller's investigation focusing on Trump Jr.: report
- Pediatricians say Florida hurt sick kids to help big GOP donors
- Steve Bannon, Unrepentant
We could eliminate the national debt by making Trump's trial pay-per-view.- Andy Borowitz
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On Saturday, Aug. 12, a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the pending removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The statue is one of more than 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in the United States, according to an April 2016 review by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Trumpets: You're trying to erase our history!
Me: You can have it back for free. Go to one of those temples of the liberal elite. A library. - BitchestheCat tweet
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Bannon being forced out is good news. But people keep putting their hopes in staff changes to fix things. They can't. The problem is Trump. - Brian Klaas
Rock The Voter News
- Pelosi endorses Democrats' resolution to censure Trump
- Democrats Urge No Hate Group Tax-Exempt Status
- Democrats call for removal of Confederate statues from US Capitol
- Maryland State House Removes Statue Of Judge Who Wrote Dred Scott Decision
The lesson of Scaramucci and Bannon seems to be this: the only person who can get away with telling reporters totally insane things that indicate he is wildly unfit for his job is the President of the United States. - Andy Borowitz
Is The White House On Fire? Why Yes. Yes It Is.
Another advisory group is walking away from President Donald Trump after his equivocation on neo-Nazis and white supremacists, with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigning en masse Friday morning.
In a new interview, Kim Kardashian revealed that she did karaoke with former President Obama. Said Obama, “That was just the National Anthem…” - Seth Myers
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Business/Tech News
- Trump cancels an Obama-era ban on the sale of disposable plastic water bottles at National Parks
- Fired engineer on being a conservative at Google: 'Really, it's like being gay in the 1950s'
- Billionaire Ally of Putin Socialized With Kushner, Ivanka Trump
- MTA to Replace Times Square Subway Tiles That Look Like Confederate Flags
Florida, with 18% unemployment, passed an anti-bestiality Law. - John Fugelsang
Florida Wastes Time Passing Law.
Wisconsin: Hold My Beer!
Wisconsin lawmakers vote to pay Foxconn $3 billion to get a new factory. State taxpayers could end up paying Foxconn $500,000 per job, or more.
Twenty-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has been accepted to Oxford University. When she puts her Nobel Prize on the shelf, her roommate will quietly put away all her youth soccer trophies. - Jimmy Fallon
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