WATCH: Robert Reich Video: 7 Signs Of A Tyrant In a new video, former labor secretary walks us through what he calls the 7 signs of tyranny. As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically do 7 things according to Reich. 7 Signs of Tyranny 1. They exaggerate their mandate – For example, they claim they won an election by a “landslide” even after losing the popular vote. And they criticize any facts or suggestions that they stole the election. Reich also notes that they repeatedly claim “massive voter fraud” in the total absence of any evidence, in order to have...

George W. Bush Disagrees With Trump Says Media Is ‘Indispensable’ On Monday, during an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show, former President George W. Bush broke with Donald Trump’s characterization of the media as the enemy of the American people saying the news media is “indispensable.” Bush said, “I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy…Power can be very addictive.” Bush continued, “We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.” The former president was being asked if he agreed with Donald Trump’s characterization of the media as the enemy of the people....

WATCH: John Oliver On GOP Obamacare Plan, ‘Tick Tock, Mother F*ckers!’ John Oliver spent the main segment of his show Sunday destroying Republicans over their complete lack of a plan to replace Obamacare. Oliver started out saying, “Obamacare is not perfect. It had and has serious flaws.” He also took on President Obama for not keeping his promise that people could keep their plans and doctors if they liked them. But then Oliver turned his sights onto Republicans. “Republicans have happily complained about the flaws in the law, taken no responsibility for fixing them and in fact have often...

On First Day As DNC Chair Tom Perez Wastes No Time Slamming Trump Tom Perez, the new chair of the Democratic National Committee wasted no time Sunday going after Donald Trump. Just one day after Perez won the election for DNC Chair against Congressman Keith Ellison, he went after Trump on the Sunday shows. On Meet the Press, Perez said of Trump “He hasn’t proposed anything but chaos and carnage from day one.” “We’ve seen no evidence of anything constructive from this president.” Perez continued saying that just hours after he was sworn in as president Donald Trump “made it...

WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel Trolls Trump On Twitter During Oscars Jimmy Kimmel took time in the middle of the Oscars to troll Donald Trump on Twitter. Kimmel projected his phone onto the screen and showed the crowd what he was tweeting to Donald Trump. Kimmel opened the bit by saying “We’re more than 2 hours into the show and Donald Trump hasn’t tweeted at us once, and I’m starting to get worried about him.” Then Kimmel sent the following two tweets at Donald Trump:   Hey @realDonaldTrump u up? — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 27, 2017   @realDonaldTrump #Merylsayshi —...

Iranian Filmmaker Sends Trump Letter of Protest at Oscars Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but he wasn’t be there to accept it. Farhadi was first banned from traveling to America after Trump imposed a Muslim ban. However, when the ban was blocked by the courts, Farhadi decided he would not attend out of protest. Instead, Farhadi sent a letter of protest, which was read in place of his acceptance speech. He sent two prominent Iranian-Americans in his place to the ceremony: Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space traveler, and Firouz Naderi, a...

BREAKING: Trump Nominee For Navy Secretary To Withdraw Politico is reporting that Donald Trump’s nominee for Navy Secretary will withdraw from consideration. Philip Bilden’s withdrawal is the second Pentagon pick that Donald Trump has made that had been unable to untangle themselves from their financial investments, according to Politico. Bilden’s withdrawal could come as early as today, sources told Politico. This story is developing and we will update as information comes...

Poll: Trump Approval Rating At Record Low For New Commander In Chief A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has found that Donald Trump has a record low approval for a new Commander in Chief. According to the poll, 48% of Americans disagree with Donald Trump’s job performance so far. Donald Trump’s approval rating is at 44% the new poll found. When the poll compared Trump’s net negative rating of -4%. For a point of contrast, Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton had a net positive rating of about 34%. Here is how NBC explained it, “Trump begins his tenure in...

WATCH: Vote Vets Releases Stinging Ad Putting Trump ‘On Notice’ In a stinging new ad, Vote Vets released a new ad saying they are putting Donald Trump ‘on notice.’ The groups said on their Facebook page that they will be buying air time on some of Trump’s favorite shows including Morning Joe and FOX and Friends. In the ad, retired Rear Admiral Michael Smith says we’re putting President Trump on notice –we’re demanding the truth on his Russia ties. Admiral Smith calls for an independent investigation into the connection between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election....

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Declare America Is Already Great Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic interviewed Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on the “state of humankind, and about the future of American democracy.” Goldberg describes how both men are optimistic about the future, but “appear[ed] to doubt” Trump’s rhetoric and policy. When Goldberg asked whether they believed America needed to be made great again, Buffett nearly jumped out of his chair: “We are great! We are great!” On the state of the democracy, Buffett explains, “[America] survived civil war, world wars, the atomic bomb, and the Great Depression. We...