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Mary Chastain

Mary is the resident libertarian. She covers stories in every vertical, but her favorite thing to do is take on the media. She saw its bias against the right when she was a socialist.

Mary loves the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, tennis, cats, Oxford comma, Diet Coke, and needlework.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 28, 2019 6 Comments
President Donald Trump has raised $36 million since he announced his 2020 reelection campaign a week ago. From CNBC:
Trump’s seven-day haul is double the entire first-quarter fundraising total for Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont , whose $18 million led the field of two dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 27, 2019 28 Comments
OK, so I hope tonight's debate is not as chaotic and a mess so I can provide better coverage than last night. I wonder if they'll try to out Spanish each other tonight. Anyway, tonight from 9PM ET to 11PM, ten more Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage in Miami.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 26, 2019 18 Comments
Ten of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage tonight for a debate while ten more will appear tomorrow. It was everything we knew it would be: chaotic, loud, and an overall mess.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 26, 2019 37 Comments
On Monday, Project Veritas unveiled a new investigative video of a Google employee describing how the company wants to stop a "Trump situation" in 2020. YouTube removed the video, but Vimeo went one step further. The company chose to ban Project Veritas from its platform for uploading a video with "hateful, defamatory, or discriminatory" content.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 26, 2019 30 Comments
Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony announced on Wednesday that the department fired two more deputies for their inaction during the Marjory Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL, last year now that they have finished their internal affairs investigation. The department fired four deputies over the shooting.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 25, 2019 22 Comments
Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders resigned on Tuesday, which goes into effect on July 5, amid detention center controversies at the US southern border. President Donald Trump knew changes would come to the agency, but he tried to convince Sanders to stay on the job.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 25, 2019 20 Comments
The South Bend Police Union released a scathing statement against Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 Democrat presidential candidate, over his handling of a white cop shooting and killing a black man. The union claimed that Buttigieg has exploited this incident for political gain, which has driven "a wedge between law enforcement officers and the community they took an oath to serve."

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 25, 2019 37 Comments
President Donald Trump issued stricter sanctions on Iran on Monday, hitting the Supreme Leaders Office after Iran shot down an unmanned US drone last week. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani lashed out at the new sanctions on Tuesday. He claimed that the sanctions mean Trump is "lying" about wanting to hold negotiation talks with the regime and that he has poisoned the White House with his "mental illness."

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 25, 2019 6 Comments
We all know how much Turkish dictator President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan loves his power. After all, his Justice and Development Party (AKP) has enjoyed a majority in the government for 25 years. Back in March, the party received a blow when the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) won the Istanbul mayoral election. Erdogan raised his iron fist and demanded a re-run. Well, CHP candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu won again, but by an even more significant margin.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 24, 2019 16 Comments
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has made it known that he will not stop meeting or communicating with well-known anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. Booker made the surprising declaration after an audience member at a faith breakfast asked if he would avoid Farrakhan due to his anti-Semitism.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 24, 2019 46 Comments
Reparations for all the people! Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) proposed the Refund Equality Act in order to provide past tax refunds to LGBTQ couples. From NBC News:
“The federal government forced legally married same-sex couples in Massachusetts to file as individuals and pay more in taxes for almost a decade,” Warren said in a statement. “We need to call out that discrimination and to make it right — Congress should pass the Refund Equality Act immediately.”
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