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‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. – ABC News
‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from acts of violence in communities across America, dismissing critics who point to his rhetoric as a potential source of inspiration or comfort for anyone acting on even long-held beliefs of bigotry and hate.
A basic fact about Trump is now clear | Tampa Bay Time
A basic fact about Trump is now clear | Column
The behavior and rhetoric of Donald Trump and his most ardent partisans since he was defeated for re-election have brought into sharp focus a fact that has lurked in the background since the day he became a candidate in the 2016 presidential election: Trumpism is a specifically American iteration of generic fascism.
Astrophysicist Debunks Horoscopes with Basic Astronomy (+ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!) – YouTube
Fox Geezer Syndrome | The American Conservative
Fox Geezer Syndrome | The American Conservative
A reader sent me an e-mail about the Rush Limbaugh caller who, near tears, said he was prepared to die for Donald Trump. I wrote about the guy here, and offered a reader’s thesis that the caller was a man who had been disappointed by the church, and looked for a substitute.
Rally brings together Trump voters, far-right leaders in Washington, DC – CNN
Washington, DC, rally brings together Trump voters and far-right leaders
Thousands President Donald Trump’s supporters of all stripes, including right wing and far right groups, rallied in Washington, DC, on Saturday to protest the election results.
Who Has Profited Most From the Trump Presidency?
The Winners of Trump’s Washington
This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ‘s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. A collaboration with WNYC’s Trump, Inc. podcast. On April 30, 2018, nine top executives from T-Mobile checked in to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with their names on a list of VIP arrivals.
Opinion | ‘Moderate’ Joe Biden has become the most progressive nominee in history – The Washington Post
Opinion | ‘Moderate’ Joe Biden has become the most progressive nominee in history
Joe Biden, on a pilgrimage Tuesday to the place where Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, promised a new birth of the New Deal. The former vice president took the fight to Georgia (a state unexpectedly within reach for the Democrat) to the 32nd president’s “Little White House ” in Warm Springs, where Biden symbolically rekindled the flame that died there on April 12, 1945.
How the Right Wing Convinces Itself That Liberals Are Evil | Washington Monthly
How the right-wing convinces itself that liberals are evil
United Press/Library of Congress; Gage Skidmore; Gage Skidmore If you spend any time consuming right-wing media in America, you quickly learn the following: Liberals are responsible for racism, slavery, and the Ku Klux Klan. They admire Mussolini and Hitler, and modern liberalism is little different from fascism or, even worse, communism.
Psychics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – YouTube
I am thinking of a career change. I think I can make more money as a psychic.
I checked and I could call myself “The New England Medium” but I think it would be more truthful to call myself “The New England Extra Large”.
As soon as I land a Discovery Channel TV show I’ll let you all know.
The Second Great Depression – The Atlantic
The Second Great Depression
At least four major factors are terrifying economists and weighing on the recovery. The American economy is reopening. In Alabama, gyms are back in business. In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again. In Texas, the bars are packed. And in Vermont, the stay-at-home order has been lifted. People are still frightened.
David Shor’s Unified Theory of the 2020 Election
David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics
David Shor lost his job at Civis Analytics after his promotion of an academic study on protests created a Twitter controversy. But the socialist data guru’s insights into U.S. politics and the 2020 election are more interesting than cancel culture.