Thursday, September 27, 2018

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Trump privately urges pastors to help him from the pulpit in midterms

WHEN YOU INSULTED JOHN MCCAIN YOU INSULTED ALL OF US

Operation Splinter Factor Combined Espionage and Personal Revenge: The CIA tricked the Eastern Bloc into purging hundreds of loyal officials and settled a vendetta in the process

'Baby Trump' balloon takes first flight in New Jersey, now available for 'adoption'

Lindsey Graham says Trump's stand on John McCain "pisses me off to no end"

Lindsey Graham: Trump will be "investigated to death" if Democrats win the House

Craig Unger: Trump is owned by the Russia mob In his latest book "House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia" Craig Unger breaks down the history of the Trump-Russia connection.

Onetime Teen Mom Who Became a Celebrated Teacher Wins Democratic House Primary

“One Nation, Indivisible” features excerpts from The Sun’s archives that speak to the current political moment.

Trump just accused his spokeswoman of having a “nervous breakdown” over John McCain

Trump just unleashed an embarrassing, unprovoked personal attack on the head of CNN

A Fox News host just turned on Trump and used Obama as an example to call him out

The FBI just arrested a suspect for threatening to shoot up the Boston globe

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just landed a brutal dunk on Ted Cruz over his attacks on Beto

Joe Biden just delivered a deeply moving tribute at John McCain’s memorial service

Al Gore Has 1 Word For Donald Trump: “I don’t mean to be flippant about it,” the climate change advocate said.

Reflections on Confronting Fascists Outside the White House: What Happens When We Refuse To Accept Fascism?

On the Importance of the Death of John McCain and the Struggle Within the Ruling Class

Victory – A Short Story

The Trump/Pence Regime is Accelerating on a Collision Course with Humanity

AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’

Smart President Says Smart Thing

Trump Says CNN's Jeff Zucker and NBC's Andy Lack Should Be Fired

Democrats Just Confirmed Lots Of Trump’s Judges So They Could Skip Town: The resistance wilts in August.

Former Manafort associate reveals illegal foreign payment to Trump’s inauguration: Patten also pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent.

Meghan McCain rips Trump at father’s memorial service

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

Won't Get Fooled Again The Who Lyrics

Alex Jones apparently spotted with trans porn on his phone

Flake tweets photo of Obama, Bush, Clinton at McCain’s funeral: 'Decency wins'

John McCain’s Funeral Was a Council of War—Just as He Meant It to Be: A dispatch from the National Cathedra

Review: ‘Active Measures’ Looks at Links Between Trump and Russia

Obama’s Barrage of Complete Sentences Seen as Brutal Attack on Trump - Satire from The Borowitz Report

The Other Russia Collusion Scandal Is Breaking Wide Open

Campus rapists and sexual harassers about to get a big gift from the Trump administration

Listen to the Democratic Left: The justice system is ‘racist.’ ICE is guilty of ‘human rights abuses.’ And more.

Democratic Socialist Labor Commission

[EVENT | September 20] Neoliberalism’s World Order: Join Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for a special discussion on neoliberalism, globalization, and the future of democracy.

The Great Moving Left Show: Going left on economics plays not only in the liberal cities but also in many of the suburbs and farms. It’s the key to the Democrats’ electoral success moving forward.

Socialism and the Liberal Imagination: How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.

Durbin: White House is saying 'American people have no right to know' Kavanaugh’s background by withholding documents

19 Daniel Ellsberg Interviewed by Joe Lauria, #Unity4J-4 Vigil, 1 Sept 2018

In defining speech, Obama takes down Trump, his politics and enablers; warns of 'dire' consequences of not voting

Trump to Preside Over U.N. Security Council, Prompting Anxiety All Around

Nearly half of Republicans think Trump should be able to close news outlets: poll

WHY VOTING THIRD PARTY DOESN’T WORK IN THIS COUNTRY

The Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory: Russian embassies actively promoted a now-debunked conspiracy theory that the murdered DNC staffer leaked e-mails to WikiLeaks.

House of Payseur

The Payseur French Royal Family in the United States of the Virginia Company

BRETT KAVANAUGH AND THE CASE AGAINST THE SUPREME COURT (EP. 12)

The President Is a Crook: The country now faces a choice between the Trump presidency and the rule of law.

Nellie Ohr: Woman in the Middle.  Is it a surprise to find a Stalin apologist at the center of the Steele dossier scandal?

We are a superpower run by a simpleton

David Cay Johnston 'It’s Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America'

Why did Jon Kyl, John McCain's replacement, say he might quit as soon as January? Here's a theory

President Trump and the fantasy of a race war against white people

China to Join Russian Drills in Sign of Growing Military Ties: The maneuvers in Russia’s far east will take place as both countries’ relations with the U.S. show strains

Bees, Light and Shadow and the Kali Yuga

Collins, Murkowski Seem to Be Preparing to Vote to Confirm Kavanaugh

President’s threat against DOJ attorney could have deep consequences for Justice

House Intelligence Committee Hearing 1975

Two-thirds of American adults get news from social media: survey

Manufacturing Consent

The manufacture of consent

Brett Kavanaugh reportedly accused of sexual misconduct in letter flagged to the FBI by Democrats

CBS faces up to its #MeToo moment: Les Moonves’s ousting could clear the way for a merger with Viacom

The death of democracy and birth of an unknown beast: A book excerpt and interview with David Runciman, author of “How Democracy Ends”

America’s Slide Toward Autocracy: Democracy has taken a beating under President Trump. Will the midterms make a difference?

Americans Aren’t Practicing Democracy Anymore: As participation in civic life has dwindled, so has public faith in the country’s system of government.

The Threat of Tribalism: The Constitution once united a diverse country under a banner of ideas. But partisanship has turned Americans against one another—and against the principles enshrined in our founding document.

The American Crisis: Amid assaults against the press and the rise of technology, democracy is in a fragile state. Can it overcome the challenges it faces?

Where America’s Civic Reawakening Is Happening: Political enthusiasms are running high around the country.

America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare: The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

The Atlantic Democracy Reader: For 161 years, magazine contributors have written about the gravest dangers and darkest hours for America’s political institutions.

A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come.  Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.

Peace Team

Britain’s equilibrium of incompetence: The country’s political parties are exactly as inept as each other

President Trump praises author Gina Loudon, whose book falsely claims she has a PhD in psychology

Trump endorses book declaring him possible the most sound-minded president ever

REAL ID in Pennsylvania

Think Progress

Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week and almost no one noticed: Please pay attention, Susan Collins.

Weekly Standard

Fact Check: Has Brett Kavanaugh 'Stated He'd Overturn' Roe v. Wade?

Lookit This Goddam Sign! I Mean LOOK AT IT! (25 Signs From Around the US)

New York Times runs an "Op-ed" far more important than anything "Anonymous"could ever tell us.

Suspicions Confirmed, Woodward on Trump

Dead SCOTUS nominee walking

Tucker Carlson Gets Creamed By Stormy Daniels' Lawyer, Michael Avenatti in Wild FOX News Throwdown

"A federal appeals court just gave both middle fingers to Roe v. Wade!" Here we go ...

The behavior of zealous partisans after disconfirmation

Good News Roundup for Friday, September 14, 2018

We Are Witnessing the Last Gasps of Centrism: While the Democratic establishment is blindly attempting to revive the neoliberal Third Way, the party’s base is embracing socialism.

Mariame Kaba: Social Movements Brought Down Rahm—Now They Can Transform Chicago.  A conversation with writer and organizer, Mariame Kaba.

The Left Wave Keeps Growing with Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar’s Insurgent Win: Salazar won a stunning victory in New York by running on an ambitious left platform—and never shying away from challenging capitalism.

New York’s Faux Democrats Are Out, and Conservative Democratic Politics Thoroughly Discredited: Voters in New York just told members of the conservative-leaning IDC to GTFO.

The Test Facing Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar in New York: Amid controversy, Salazar is working to make her state senate race against a real estate-backed incumbent about vision and policy.

Retrospectives of the Financial Crisis Are Leaving Out the Most Important Part—Its Victims

Manafort DC Superseding Criminal Information: A superseding criminal information filed against Paul Manafort ahead of his plea-change hearing.The filing charges Manafort with conspiracy against the United States and a conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Manafort pleads guilty, will cooperate with special counsel

How Cynthia Nixon Changed New York Politics

Congress reaches deal to fund government through Dec. 7, preventing shutdown

Woman claims Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, 'held her down and put his hand over her mouth'

After enabling GOP control for years, IDC Democrats get crushed in New York state Senate primaries

Meet the Georgia mom who found the strength to run for Congress in honor of her murdered son

New York Democrats have strong chance to win first stable state Senate majority since World War II

"EVERY DAMN TIME!!!" Sheldon Whitehouse SCHOOLS Brett Kavanaugh on SCOTUS Corporate Corruption

The ‘Witch Hunters’

Edward Snowden Reconsidered

John Simpson: The BBC Failed Its Readers With Its Brexit Coverage

TED CRUZ CAMPAIGN IS MAILING DONATION REQUESTS DISGUISED AS LEGAL SUMMONSES

Will Brett Kavanaugh Face Any Consequences? Women Will.

Former Republican state senator sentenced to 15 years for child sex trafficking

Chris Hedges - American Empire Has Collapsed (Speech)

Chris Hedges Best Speech August 2018

ONE PERSON, NO VOTE: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Republican men — and not a single GOP woman — will be Christine Blasey Ford's interrogators on the Senate Judiciary Committee

High School Classmate of Christine Blasey Ford: "This Incident Did Happen"

Kavanaugh accuser has reportedly received death threats and is in hiding: Meanwhile, the president says he feels "so badly" for Kavanaugh.

Grassley refuses to delay Kavanaugh hearing, won’t back FBI investigation

Cohen questioned for hours in Mueller probe about Trump's dealings with Russia: report

Kavanaugh hires attorney amid sexual assault allegations: report

Democratic Senators Manchin And Heitkamp Signal Support For Kavanaugh Nomination

Plutocrats Are Planning a Stealth Coup: How will American democracy resist their twisted goal of one-dollar, one-vote plutocracy?

Women’s Leadership Online Summit: Leading Change at Work and Beyond

'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's female law clerks 'looked like models', Yale professor told students
Guardian learns Amy Chua said she would advise students on their physical looks to help win post in Kavanaugh’s chambers

The Planners Of The Trump Tower Meeting Moved Millions, And Mueller Is Now Investigating: Documents show suspicious transfers began six days before the controversial meeting.

For Christine Blasey Ford, a Drastic Turn From a Quiet Life in Academia

The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far

Progressives Need a Clear Strategy for 2020 and Beyond—Here Are 5 Guidelines: We have significant numbers. But we need to continue to build our ranks, and mobilize behind a winning political strategy.

The Increasing Irrelevancy of the Conservative Think Tank: The Heritage Foundation’s star is falling—and left think tanks are on the rise.

The Houston police chief just publicly scolded Trump for attack on Kavanaugh accuser

JFK’s nephew just responded to Trump’s attack on Kavanaugh’s accuser like a future president

A Republican Congressman’s siblings just humiliated him in a brutal attack ad

Kavanaugh’s accuser just shot down the latest Republican plot to discredit her

Republican staffer threatens Dr. Ford to show how 'fair' they’re being

Trump tells the inspector general to release documents over warnings from agencies and allies

Under threat from the GOP, the lawyer for Kavanaugh's accuser asks for one more day

McConnell's gambit to save Kavanaugh's confirmation: Convince accuser to not show up at hearing

Here's why Manafort 'flipped' on Trump

Thousands of American women and men repudiate Trump with personal stories of #WhyIDidntReport

UPDATED WITH 40 MORE ENTRIES: This seems like a good day to dust off the GOP Rape Advisory Chart...

Beto O'Rourke blasts Ted Cruz: 'Tell me, who can miss half the days at work and be rehired'

Whoa! Christine Ford Caught Whelan Snooping Her LinkedIn Page 90 Minutes After W.H. Learned Her I.D.

Russiagate Is Far Wider Than Trump and His Inner Circle: It isn’t just the story of a few corrupt officials, or even a corrupt president. It’s the story of a corrupt Republican Party.

Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford agrees to testify about sexual assault allegation

FORMER TRUMP AIDE JASON MILLER ACCUSED OF SECRETLY ADMINISTERING ABORTION PILL

Kavanaugh confirmation in renewed peril after second assault claim: In a statement the nominee made to The New Yorker and released by the White House, he called the allegation a ‘smear’ that ‘did not happen.’

A second woman has come forward accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct

Now we know why Senate Republicans didn't want Mark Judge to testify.

UPDATE: w/ story — Ronan Farrow just dropped another Kavanaugh bombshell

Second credible sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh emerges, a third looms

Thousands at risk from rightwing push to purge eligible voters from US rolls: Conservative groups such as Pilf publish voters’ details online in what experts say amounts to ‘insidious modern-day intimidation’

Kellyanne Conway's husband slams Trump over petty Obama criticism

Former White House photographer drops a troll bomb on Republican establishment

The Final Nail In The Coffin?

The Incriminating Case against Mike Pence

Sen. Feinstein calls for 'immediate postponement' of Kavanaugh hearings after new allegations

Farrow/Mayer: Republicans tried to speed up Kavanaugh confirmation after they learned of 2d accuser.

The Art of War: How Trump Gained Significant Leverage With Declassification Order.  Trump chooses inspector general report as vehicle for declassification as allies panic

The Epoch Times: These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further investigation.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein headed to White House, expects to be fired

Me Against Iniquity: Understanding the Complexities of Global White Supremacy (Racism) Through The Eyes of an Educated Black Man

Jeb Bush, Oliver North and the Murder of CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in 1986

GOP Senate Candidate Who Said ‘Women Are Here To Cook My Dinner’ Loses In Missouri

Andrea Constand testifies in Cosby sentencing, wants 'justice as court sees fit': Before Constand took the stand, a psychologist testified that Cosby is a "sexually violent predator."

Third Kavanaugh Accuser Announces LIVE TV Appearance – Trump Falls Into Blind Rage

Pence is first VP to speak at anti-gay group's Values Voter Summit: Vice President Mike Pence spoke of the Trump administration’s efforts to “protect religious liberty" at the Family Research Council's annual conference.

Diane Feinstein: Why I’m Voting “No” on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination

Report: Rosenstein story was a 'smoke bomb' intended to squelch new Kavanaugh developments

Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Tells Fox News He Was A Virgin At Time Of Alleged Sexual Assault/Misconduct

The New Republic October Issue: The Evangelical Opposition

Trump supporters are sharing a fake photo of him personally rescuing hurricane victims

Report Finds Judge Kavanaugh Ruled Against Public Interest in Almost All of His District Court Cases

Amid Effort to Ram Kavanaugh Through Senate, House GOP Refusing to Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act: "Our efforts to combat violence against women should never waiver, should never be pushed to the margins, and should never be delayed or diminished by political gamesmanship or foot dragging."

Taibbi: Bernie Sanders’ Anti-Amazon Bill Is an Indictment of the Media, Too.  In going after Jeff Bezos, Bernie Sanders tries to shame the press into seeing a problem hiding in plain sight

The Supreme Court Is an Antidemocratic Hot Mess—and We Should Change That: If the Senate won’t do its constitutional duty, that duty should be taken away from it.

The Myth of ‘Liberal Intolerance’: The most significant threats to free speech come from conservatives.

Susan Collins’s Reputation as a Moderate Is On the Line: She says she’s pro-choice, so how can she justify voting for Brett Kavanaugh?

This Grassroots Group Aims to Turn the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue: Down Home North Carolina is organizing the old-fashioned way—one citizen at a time.

Letters From the October 8-15, 2018, Issue.  The media vs. Trump…

Gallup: Republicans more popular than Democrats ahead of midterms

The Bosses’ Constitution: How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

BATTLE OF THE D.C. NETWORK STARS

Letters to the Editor September 15 2018

Republicans Surrender Grand Old Party to Trump

Young: Four reasons why Ted Cruz should worry about Beto O’Rourke

How to Win Elections from the Ground Up: Focusing on the top line—gubernatorial, Senate and House races—misses the critical story of the 2018 primaries: progressive populists are beginning to build for real power, starting from the ground up.

Kansas governor’s race might be a test for Trumpism

A new Kavanaugh accuser comes forward with extremely troubling allegations

Opinion: Don’t forget Kavanaugh’s first hearing

Polling Spotlight: Republicans can thank Trump for highly motivated Democratic voters

President Donald Trump’s worst day yet: Manafort, Cohen fall and the walls are closing in.  Trump seems subdued after his longtime lawyer implicates him in a crime. But does this shift Republican attitudes?

Musk, Trump, and the Second Gilded Age

In the Dark Days of Trump, There Are Still Sweet Victories to Celebrate: Progressive victories are reaffirming the shared humanity that Americans across the political spectrum are standing up to defend.

School Reform Lands in Federal Court

Losing It

Trump Snubbed McCain. The Media Snubbed the Rest of Us.  The media treated Trump’s petty snub of John McCain as a bigger controversy than the $717 billion Pentagon bill named for the Arizona senator.

The End Is Coming, Mob Style

The Love-Hate President and August Wars

Going Fundamental Eludes Congressional Progressives

Don’t Fall for the First Amendment = Free Speech Trick

What Democracy Looks Like

Bobby Kennedy: What Might Have Been

Dana Milbank: In dark times, we marvel at those who retain even a shred of dignity

Progressives Will Lead Democrats in Some of 2018's Biggest Contests: With Andrew Gillum’s primary victory in Florida’s gubernatorial race, and other races in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland and elsewhere, progressives have a chance to prove they know how to win in the midterms.

Economic Royalists Remain

WILL DURST: All the president’s con men

Letters to the Editor: Crime Against Humanity Calls for Impeachment

Redistricting Plan Changes Everything (And Nothing)

What Are the Pols Going to Do for My Town?

US SPLIT ON KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION; HEARINGS DIDN’T HELP.

Identity Politics Are a Double-Edged Sword

Candidate Shows Up Early, Listens Carefully

Gene Lyons: Mccain's example hasn't been completely lost on Americans

Republicans Strap On an Orange Suicide Vest

Democrats And Republicans In Florida’s Governor’s Race Got The Opponent They Wanted: The GOP wanted to face Andrew Gillum. Democrats wanted to run against Ron DeSantis. The Mar-a-Lago set helped make that happen ― so now what?

It’s Time For Progressives To Raise Their Game: A new generation of blacks, Latinos and women is beginning to transform the Democratic Party

How to Recognize a Plutocracy: The Dead Giveaway

It’s the Corruption, Stupid

Bombshell revelations about the Trump White House: It’s even worse than we feared: That patriotic “resistance” inside the White House that’s supposedly containing Trump? It’s not doing a great job

Are Liberals and Conservatives Wired Differently?

Crazytown Abroad: Trump’s Dreams of Preemptive War, Assassination and Withdrawal

The Story in the Numbers

Here's Why Right-Wing Attacks on Real Journalism Are So Dangerous for the Country: Real investigative journalism makes us also safer, and it needs to be protected.

McCain's Greatest Gift to Obama

How Democrats Can Make Race A Winning Issue

Stop Brett Kavanaugh— A Corporation Masquerading as a Judge

Please Speak Ill of the Dead

Why is Crystal Mason Going to Prison? For Voting

Geoffrey Owens Is a Real Somebody

America is still free, and the people will be heard

Corporate Censorship is Still Censorship

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