Probably, but there are ways for Poland to make things awkward for the union as well, so they may not push as hard as they theoretically could.

And in international news, both houses of Poland's parliament (dominated by the ruling right-wing nationalist party, and defying street protests and pressure from the EU) voted to end judicial independence, firing all supreme court justices to be replaced by ones picked by the justice minister and approved by the…

If the Norse had managed to establish a permanent settlement in North America, you would have had a much more gradual process of contact between the continents (since ships weren't able to cross the open ocean of the Atlantic at the time, limiting all communication to the difficult and peripheral…

The WaPo article discusses this. It's a question that has never been settled because no president has been insane enough to try it. One legal expert cited thinks "probably not" (based on general principles rather than any specific legal text), but that it's a determination the Supreme Court will almost certainly have…

I absolutely agree with your first paragraph, personally speaking. Donald Trump is dangerously unfit to be president, and removing him from office just because of that should be one of the Democratic party's top priorities.

Aides? I'll have you know that the President gets his facts from only the most unimpeachable source: Fox News morning shows repeating talking points spread by conspiracy websites.

Trump is someone who's lived a life of exceptional privilege yet considers himself constantly persecuted. Whose only concern is for himself, and who fears and hates anyone different. Whose political program is otherwise limited to opposing anything Obama was for while pandering to religious extremists.

Liberals are guilty of sexist attacks against conservative women, which is unacceptable, but seriously, fuck Ann Coulter. She's as much of a monster as Rush Limbaugh or any of the others assholes who've turned the Republican party into a death cult. (Kellyanne Conway is just the normal, low-key evil of a corrupt…

A few of them should get together and announce at the same time that they're voting no. Then no single one of them will be the vote that killed the bill.

OTOH, Robb is sixteen. Military wunderkind or not, it's pretty much a given that he'll do something stupid, dick-wise. Putting him in a situation where he has to make a major political decision by himself without his most trusted advisors was the real mistake.

that his dad wouldn't let him contribute or made him cancel the whole thing or some crap like that

And not even the actual nouveau riche (who are at least genuinely rich), but more often upper-middle-class people with humongous mortgages.

Oh absolutely. I for one welcome our new AI overlords. Hope they do something about the ongoing environmental disaster. Computers don't like overheating, right?

Indeed, as the chumps who only supported him as the "lesser" of two evils gradually drift away, he relies ever more on his hardcore supporters: the 30% or so of Americans who are pro-evil. There was a story reported the other day that he might start a trade war, even though his cabinet almost unanimously opposes it as…

Definitely a contender. I still think Pruitt's single-minded focus on destroying the planet makes him the front-runner, though.

Of all the awful people in this administration, from white-nationalist Bannon to nepotism poster-boy Kushner to corrupt corporate stooge heading the FCC Pai, I think Scott Pruitt may be the most evil.

1) Chimpanzees are apes.
2) That doesn't really matter, since French does not distinguish between apes and monkeys, so La Planète des Singes is the planet of apes/monkeys in general (an early English edition was called Monkey Planet).
3) In fact, there are civilized chimps on the planet in the book.

Trump trying to make locker room talk about how hot a female reporter is on an official phone call with a foreign Prime Minister who is famously gay. Jesus Christ!

Maybe Senate Republicans should follow John Oliver's lead and take out ads on Fox News to brief the President on policy basics.

Also, for those who may wonder what "after the July 4 recess" actually means concretely, according to the Congressional Calendar the recess is from July 3 to July 7. So this is only a short delay. (If they can't pass anything by the end of July there's a longer summer recess lasting until September 4, and at that…