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What diary hijackers don't understand about the seven most dangerous things from climate change.

Most people have a general idea of what climate change is doing to the planet; after all, 85% of the world's population has already been impacted by fossil fuel emissions that transform our climate from safe and stable to chaotic and deadly. Most, however, have no understanding of how serious the...

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October 17, 2021

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Audit Facebook, regardless of its oversight board decision on previous guy.

Previous guy added a page to his website, one which mimics Twitter and Facebook in its appearance, because the grift needs to be fed. In a related story, Bloomberg reports that demand for butt implants rose during the pandemic. “Knowingly repeating a lie — an act of immorality — is...

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May 5, 2021

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Facebook Oversight Board continues ban of Previous Guy!

The Facebook Oversight Board sustained the ban on Trump — for now. Previous guy added a page to his website, one which mimics Twitter and Facebook in its appearance, because the grift needs to be fed. In a related story, Bloomberg reports that demand for butt implants rose during the pandemic....

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May 5, 2021

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Minerva @ Midnight: people like Giuliani's records, they're not thinking about the first impeachment

Remember when Trump said: “I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery”. Maybe we can finally get to that obstruction of justice because the former United States President tried to blackmail Ukraine into helping him cheat in our 2020 election. We’ll have more chances...

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April 29, 2021

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Biden to Share AstraZeneca Vaccine as India Descends into Covid Chaos

The Biden Administration is preparing to send millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to other nations. The FDA has not yet approved AstraZenca’s vaccine for injections in the US, and enough of the three approved vaccines are likely to be delivered before May 31 to jab every American who wants a...

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April 27, 2021

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Indy spree killings: were there My Little Pony reasons

Apparently the spree killer in Indianapolis was also a “Brony”, a follower of My Little Pony as reported by the Wall Street Journal. We are in our pandemic (l)anguish, even more confused by a sad shape for online culture. Not unlike the infantile imagery used by Boogaloo Boys, racism and sexism filter into...

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April 19, 2021

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Manatee County Florida. Mandatory Evacuations ! Catastrophic Leak

No. No. We don’t need infrastructure bills in America . We are fine according to republicans. Well, that state of mind is being changed I bet as I type. (or maybe not according to Republican thinking) Manatee County Florida is under mandatory evacuations and every homeowner can expect higher homeowner...

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April 3, 2021

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Ted Cruz more embarrassed being caught in Mexico than facilitating an insurrection

Ted Cruz tried to slither around the coverage of his holiday in Cancun, including an interview on Hannity to offset a series of lies once social media caught him at the airport. #TedFled because he’s really not all about the accountability or even patriotism considering his role in the insurrection. Cruz's...

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February 19, 2021

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization

As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier ACM story showed how Steve Keen’s critique of Nordhaus’s use of discounting climate change demonstrates that orthodox economics is incapable of accelerating innovation especially in...

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January 31, 2021

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Scenes from the bunker: Trump plans unironic trip to Alamo, Texas; still furious about Twitter ban

Donald Trump is ending his presidency the way he began it—as a squishy wad of id that just can’t get over how unfairly it’s been treated. Because he has the miasmic ego of a tyrant and the self-awareness of a prechewed legume, Trump is eschewing quiet reflection and self-recrimination in...

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January 10, 2021

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits

The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on surviving an impending climate crisis catastrophe, because “the rents are too high”. Existential threats have a critical reality, about which ruthless criticism is entailed. Even...

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December 27, 2020

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The herd market for immunity was also about denying every American a mask in March

Crimes against humanity by needless deaths, because sending Americans a check with his name on it obligated a vote. Trump needed anti-masking reactionaries and antivaxxers to merge in order to foment some naïve idea of herd immunity such that wanting to get more people infected was more important to the...

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December 19, 2020

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Chuck Todd calls Trump’s leadership catastrophic but failed to call out the most damaging politician

Every time Chuck Todd is about to go over the brink to full-throated journalism, he pulls back. Lose the false equivalence implied or otherwise. Chuck Todd almost got it. x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. In a recent Meet The Press Daily, Chuck Todd almost did it. It seemed he...

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December 13, 2020

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Abigail Esman on patriarchy, Republican Party authoritarian, catastrophic leadership

Abigail Esman discusses patriarchy, narcissism, and more. GOP is officially anti-democratic. Todd talks about catastrophic leadership but misses one. Abigail Esman has an important message. x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 Topics: Chuck Todd...

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December 11, 2020

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Will Trump go down as the worst President ever? (He has some sadly strong competition)

As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that he should be considered the worst president in U.S. history. But, taking a dispassionate, long view, there are a small number of surprisingly strong contenders for this title. This history call is depressingly closer than it...

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December 6, 2020

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Ali Velshi destroys GOP: Hope to rebuild & wash off Trump’s stench? We'll remember your silence.

Ali Velshi, in a vicious deconstruction of Trump and the GOP's lies, dereliction of duty, and unpatriotic vile, speaks the necessary truth. Ali Velshi exposes the Trump stench x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Ali Velshi did not disappoint. He did what few journalists do as they either...

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December 5, 2020

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2020 one of the 3 warmest years on record despite a La Niña typically producing lower temperatures.

We will remember 2020 as the good old days as the climate continues to overheat due to our failure to rein in heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions. Heck, this year might even be the coolest we will experience for an unknowable number of Millenium. We have entered perilous times, and physics will...

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December 3, 2020

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There will be matters still to be resolved related to Trump Russia beyond the pardons.

Like the counterintelligence limits of the Mueller report, there are still slender skeletons to be revealed in the corruption of US interests. Trump’s inquiry about a strike against Iran last week was not about Iran’s nuclear proliferation as much as it was part of much larger regional conflict among nuclear...

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November 19, 2020

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Whitmer orders shut down of oil pipeline that threatens the fresh water of the Great Lakes.

“Most importantly, Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate our economy and way of life. That’s why we’re taking action now, and why I will continue to hold accountable anyone who threatens our Great...

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November 14, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Paul Krugman, “A Republican Senate Would Be Bad for Business”

This has been a busy post-election week for me at work and I have a lot more diaries I want to write about this past election and the upcoming Governor elections inn 2021 and of course, the 2022 midterms. Right now, I am laser focused on helping Jon Ossoff (D....

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November 13, 2020

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like the stock market isn't the economy, America just isn't the 12 states of the 2020 campaign

Maybe we can now just wait for every vote to be counted. Fortunately we’re past the fail-safe point of the Comey email fiasco of 2016 and its associated manipulation by the NY Times. We may be out of October Surprises. Even Putin seems to have officially cut Trump loose. Then...

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October 29, 2020

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De-Trumpification programs could be ahead, regardless of the election outcome

Reminding myself that during nearly two decades of my life, racial segregation dominated some states, and that in 2020 we are still battling some of the same issues preventing people from voting. As if we didn’t need more reminders of systemic racism. People are going to need to be “carefully taught”,...

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October 28, 2020

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Private Polls Are Showing Big Swings to Democrats in the Suburbs

It’s becoming the story of the election that the suburban areas, especially those with many well-educated people are shifting strongly toward Joe Biden and Democratic candidates. According to Dave Wasserman of Cook Reports, most congressional districts are shifting by about 8 points, but some suburban districts are shifting more. It...

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October 22, 2020

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Whether we should eliminate the Electoral College really raises two questions. (A short discussion)

Although frequently posed as one question — “should we eliminate the Electoral College?” — there really are two separate questions: should we (i) abolish the Electoral College, but keep the formulation where each state’s weight is based on the combined total of its US Senators and Representatives, or (ii) move entirely to a national popular vote? I...

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October 1, 2020

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Climate fires have tipped us into a new era – the age of embers.

Yale Environment 360 notes “just as global warming has propelled the Arctic Ocean past a tipping point which will lead to a largely ice-free Arctic in summer in the coming decades. Wildfire scientists say that rising global temperatures and worsening droughts mean that the world has entered a new era...

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September 29, 2020

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NM-Sen: GOP Meteorologist Claimed That Climate Change Doesn't Cause Wildfires

Oh boy: Political clashes about the role of climate change in catastrophic West Coast infernos are spilling into a U.S. Senate race in New Mexico, where a Republican meteorologist is campaigning for an open seat. U.S. Rep. and Democratic Senate nominee Ben Ray Luján accused rival Mark Ronchetti on Monday...

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September 17, 2020

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'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.

Ranger selfie with his buddies. The rangers protect the Gorillas from poachers in the Congo.

“'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.” William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing the planet over climate change, and sowing doubt over vaccines the far-right conspiracy theorists have a new target to haunt the world with the crazy,...

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September 17, 2020

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RNC night four features another Trump speech. Prebuttals say it all

I can’t really watch the Trump speech tonight considering how much I’ve already been exposed to the same nonsense. I actually am more concerned about Russian amphibious assault exercises in the Baltic and the reinforcement of Gotland island by Sweden (lest you think that’s trivial, there’s a US SpecOps unit...

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August 27, 2020

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PA-AG: Sen. Pat Toomey (R) Is Trying To Take Down Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D)

Here’s a preview of the 2022 Pennsylvania Governor’s race: Heather Heidelbaugh wants to deny Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro a second term. It’s an expensive and challenging proposition. But the little-known Pittsburgh lawyer is getting some valuable help from allies of Sen. Pat Toomey — whom political watchers in both...

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August 27, 2020

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Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura

Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm surges are expected to push creeks and maybe rivers to reverse their flow. A meteorologist on MSNBC just predicted 15-foot flooding in Lake Charles, LA.,...

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August 27, 2020

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Mass evacuations in the Gulf Coast as Category 4 beast bears down on the COVID ravaged region.

In a scene that may eerily replicate the mass evacuations that occurred with Hurricane Rita in 2005, residents in the same area are warned to flee the coasts of Texas and Louisiana as a powerful Category 4 hurricane will soon barrel over the area. Hurricane Laura, now a major Category 3...

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August 26, 2020

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Platform objections at the DNC, because delegates are serious about their candidate

A twitter pie-fight is currently simmering but it’s unclear whether people/bots are doing it for the lulz. It appears that Bernie delegates will still vote to represent their constituents, because there are policy positions at stake. In the case of Cori Bush, there’s likely some supporters of the defeated Lacy Clay stirring...

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August 17, 2020

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what, another Trump Presser? LiveBlog

“To Joe, I would say stop playing politics with the virus. Too serious. Partisan politics has no place here,” the president says while delivering an attack on his election opponent from the White House briefing room. Expect a brag on the Israel UAE agreement, a dodge on sabotaging the postal service,...

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August 13, 2020

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Trump Presser: aside from all the American deaths, there have been fewer American deaths

Today’s takeaway from another presser that this time was an hour late: Trump thinks the massive fertilizer explosion in Beirut was an attack, Trump gathered new data to try to divert attention from the current economic recession. And for some reason the state of Florida has superior mail-in voting ability...

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August 5, 2020

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Physicists find deforestation has 90% chance of causing irreparable catastrophic societal collapse.

Human consumption and climate change have sent humanity on a steep, dangerous, and deadly spiral spin toward a “catastrophic collapse” warn researchers. The dire warning is published in the scientific journal Nature Scientific Reports. Physicists Mauro Bologna and Gerardo Aquino layout in their research that there will be a ninety percent chance...

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July 30, 2020

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Our climate destiny is grim after 25 top climate scientists rule out best case scenarios.

I keep vigil. I wish I knew how to get people to care, but we seem determined to kill ourselves and ignore all of the code red warnings that the science is telling us. I guess it comes down to what outrages folks and it isn’t our survival. Perhaps it is...

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July 24, 2020
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The Mutiny Of “The Bounty”

When the history of the 2020 election is written, it is the story broken by the New York Times, chronicling the scheme hatched by Vlad the Imp to pay a bounty for the lives of US soldiers in Afghanistan that may well have been the final nail in the Trump...

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July 4, 2020

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Forests to go the way of coral reefs, unable to keep pace in a warming world.

“We have to be aware that climate change and biodiversity loss are stress factors for ecosystems, for humans, for animals, and for the microbiome. Our research shows that if the different axes of the disease pyramid are destabilized, new infectious diseases can be expected, including for humans.” Dirk Schmeller, Université de...

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June 30, 2020

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Economic cratering on the 2021 horizon as Goldilocks got the Stormy Daniels treatment by Trump

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida to officially launch his 2020 campaign on June 18, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Continuing the Trump economy described initially as “just right” for a second term is more Red Riding Hood than Goldilocks. Where “what was originally a frightening oral tale became a cozy family story with only a hint of menace”, the economy now becomes capital crime and assault. Mother Hubbard got knocked...

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May 28, 2020

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Sen. Tom Udall (D. NM), “We need Joe Biden in the White House”

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D. NM) in support of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: It’s clear what we need now: We need a president with experience and integrity who will be a leader for all Americans. We need Joe Biden in the White House. I have seen Vice President...

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May 14, 2020

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in an economic restart, the GOP gets a national chicken pox party, and even more people could perish

The GOP’s goal is more about being reelected rather than economic recovery, and their tacit promotion of RW resistance through gun rallies is only a first step “back to normal”. This is happening even if they also tolerate attacks on science by pseudo-scientific propaganda like Vaxxed or Plandemic. Unfortunately, the...

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May 13, 2020

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Homeland security laws would have dramatically lessened the impact of COVID-19. The two most recent were prepared by the Trump White House in 2018.

Homeland security laws would have dramatically lessened the impact of COVID-19. The two most recent were prepared by the Trump White House in 2018. I have a Master’s Degree in Homeland Security from the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security,...

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May 11, 2020

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ME, IA & AZ-Sen: These GOPers Brag About Defending Obamacare But Vote For Judges To Kill It

The Daily Beast has been on a roll with terrific pieces about the upcoming U.S. Senate races and Eleanor Clifft’s latest piece highlights three Senate GOPers hypocrisy on their claims to their constituents that they are protecting and defending the Affordable Care Act: With the election looking iffy for the...

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May 10, 2020

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ME-Sen: Maine Women, “Susan Collins (R) ‘right’ and our ‘right’ aren’t the same thing anymore”

AUGUSTA, MAINE -- 12/05/18 -- Maine Speaker of the House, Sara Gideon, D-Freeport. Troy R. Bennett | BDN

From Salon: Women voters who propelled Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, to wins in four consecutive Senate races have increasingly soured on the so-called “centrist” Republican as her record has drifted farther right since President Donald Trump's election. Maine is a uniquely women-dominated state. About 77% of women residents are registered to vote,...

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May 10, 2020

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In AZ, Trump to air grievances, shift blame, stoke feuds, spread misinformation, inspire false hope

Will Trump wear a mask today, May 5, during his visit to a mask factory in Phoenix. President Trump will begin traveling again in earnest starting tomorrow, starting with a tour of a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona The Honeywell plant is now making N95 masks for first responders and...

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May 5, 2020

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Trump hopes to win in November by trading your health for a reopened economy

Robert Reich tells the truth in an op-ed at the Guardian: Trump wants you to choose between your job or your life — because work makes you free. Trump preferred “cheering an economic revival rather than managing a catastrophic health crisis” — Nothing has changed. Trump’s hope of timing a “re-opened economy” to victory is that...

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May 3, 2020

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The WHO is Trump's Current Scapegoat, and He's Out to Sacrifice It

Trump has been desperately casting around for a scapegoat, anyone to blame for his delays and dismissals of the novel coronavirus. Since early April, one of his victims has been the World Health Organization (WHO), whose funding he said he was cutting off: President Donald Trump used Tuesday’s [Apr 14, 2020]...

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April 26, 2020

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LIVE BLOG: daily COVID Taskforce briefing – “There’s death by keeping this strongly closed country”

Live Blog below (still doing it only because Trump says stupid stuff) 5:00* PM EDT ( expect delays — yesterday’s presser started at 6:15pm) Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing The White House So many possible press questions, so little time. Unfortunately there will be WHO follow-up...

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April 15, 2020

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I'm Not Really a Dictator; I Just Play One on TV

While everyone is running around screaming that Trump’s acting unconstitutionally (which is is), they shouldn’t worry too much that Trump is effectively calling himself a dictator. He doesn’t really want to be a dictator; he just wants to play one on TV. Greg Sargent puts it this in his column...

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April 14, 2020

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Trump ignored the smoke detector and waited until the (white) house was on fire

Aside from sinophobia rather than russophobia, The NY Times has documented more of the details for the 70-days of denial/delay/dysfunction in the Trump White House. Aside from the framing of Red Dawn (1984), it’s pretty clear that the 2012 remake was on the minds of the email writers, where references...

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April 12, 2020