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French officials thwart Trump-Putin meeting by scrapping lunch seating arrangements at last minute: report

Angry Trump Warns ‘Loser’ Reporters To Show Him ‘Respect’ Or Risk Losing Press Credentials

A look at Broward elections chief Brenda Snipes' long history of trouble

Georgia My Voter Page

After NRA Mocks Doctors, Physicians Reply: 'This Is Our Lane'

CONSPIRACY THEORIESPro-Trump ‘journalist’: Thousand Oaks shooting victim’s mother is a ‘demon-possessed crisis actor’

LAURA INGRAHAM ACCUSES DEMOCRATS OF 'REFUSING TO ACCEPT THE AGONY OF DEFEAT' IN 2018 ELECTIONS

‘Pathetic’: Donald Trump cancels appearance at WWI event over weather: As other world leaders paid their respects to the fallen heroes of World War One, Donald Trump was nowhere to be seen.

Trump makes baseless claim that the stock market is plunging because of the prospect of Democrats investigating him

Lock Him Up?  Is America losing the espionage war?

It’s Not Fearmongering When Democrats Do It: Distinction without a difference.

Trump is Acting Desperate: Making the problem worse.

Is the GOP’s Trumpian Realignment Permanent?  Why did the GOP "come home" to Trump?

The Mueller Report Is More Important Than Ever: It may not contain bombshells about Trump's potential collusion with Russia, but it can help sustain the public's faith in American democracy.

Paul Manafort is spending a lot of time with Robert Mueller lately. A LOT.

Democrat Mike Levin is apparent winner of California House seat vacated by Darrell Issa: NBC News

Following Trump's money exposes the awful truth: Our president is a 'financial vampire'

Legal experts back CNN's case against Trump over press credentials

'Daddy, I'm hurt': 6-year-old girl shot while family waits at McDonald's drive-thru

Your Cool New Congresswomen Are Already Hanging Out

Trump Tower apartment, other Manafort properties seized by feds

Commentary: Manafort’s trial is about Putin, not tax evasion

Russian charged with Trump’s ex-campaign chief was key figure in pro-Russia strategy

What we know about Paul Manafort's tangled web of connections to Russia

THE BACKSTORY TO ‘BETTER CALL MICHAEL COHEN’ YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

Republicans back Ardoin, who says 'radicals' threaten elections: Gwen Collins-Greenup was the biggest surprise of the election, finishing second after spending virtually no money on her campaign and jumping over the state Democratic Party nominee Renee Fontenot Free.

Mueller seeking more details on Nigel Farage, key Russia inquiry target says

Short-version: Now that we won a ton of elections(!), we're launching two new, big guides outlining the Indivisible strategy for the next two years. Indivisible on Offense demystifies what the new Democratic House Majority means, and how you can use it to make your voice heard. Our new state guide describes how to take the Indivisible philosophy and push for state-level policy change with your state representatives.

Fox News backs CNN’s lawsuit against Trump administration

STUDY: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All

Georgia Legislator, Arrested At Work, Says She Was ‘Singled Out As A Black Female Senator: A white male colleague, who was not arrested at the same voting protest, agrees that state Sen. Nikema Williams was “treated differently.”

McConnell rejects Mueller protection bill

Federal judge finds Georgia county violated Civil Rights Act by rejecting ballots

Donald Trump wrote own health letter, says physician Harold Bornstein

Trump Can't Control Himself Around Putin

Matthew Whitaker is steeped in time travel and Bigfoot. He's the right man for the job. 

Florida recount war waged on social media

We follow the money

How Women Won the Right to Vote: In 1848, a small group of visionaries started a movement to secure equal rights for women in the United States. But it took more than 70 years just to win the right for women to vote. Both the Progressives and Socialists favored women’s suffrage.

Female Reformers in the Progressive Era: Progressive reformers wanted to end political corruption, improve the lives of individuals, and increase government intervention to protect citizens.

The Midterms were a referendum on Trump – and he failed

Republicans are paying the Trump tax: Trump’s political strategy is failing.

AP Analysis: Trump is the fault line of widening divide

Election Shows That U.S. Divisions Are Only Growing Wider: Social discord, partisan rancor and government sclerosis are about to get worse.

The 9 most important state legislature elections in 2018, explained: Democrats lost a lot of statehouse power under Obama. In 2018, they could start to win it back.

Florida Votes for Democracy: A supermajority of voters approved a change that will extend the franchise to more than 1 million people in a swing state where elections are regularly decided by razor-thin margins.

Marijuana Did Well on the Ballot Tuesday

Michigan becomes 10th state to allow recreational marijuana

House Dems Already Have Their List of Trump Scandals to Investigate. Here It Is.  The subpoenas are coming.

Trump’s free ride from Congress just ended: Investigations, legislative fights, impeachment? What Democrats’ House takeover could mean for Trump.

The Democrats Won the House. Now What?  For starters, pick policy battles wisely.

Trump emoluments case ruling opens way to financial records

We already know who lost the midterms.  We all did.

The Luck of the Democrats: Trump could have flattened liberalism. Instead he’s given it an opening.

Instead of shaming non-voters, let's make voting easier

Beto’s Loss Was a Blessing in Disguise for Democrats: And other lessons of the 2018 midterm elections

Michael Cohen Wiretap Cold Open - SNL

Commander in crap: Donald Trump toilet brush making bathrooms great again

Ohio Republicans just passed a “heartbeat” abortion bill even though the governor already vetoed it

Trump: Signs of dementia? (Episode 6)

President Trump will visit California to meet wildfire victims

ROBERT REICH: IF TRUMP IS GUILTY, HIS PRESIDENCY MUST BE ANNULLED | OPINION

What happens when the intelligence community decides that Trump is too dangerous to be president?

Trump slips up in interview, admits he installed Whitaker to halt Mueller probe

House conservatives protest LGBT protection in Mexico-Canada trade deal

Information Attacks on Democracies

NPR News Interviews Michelle Obama, Reviews Her New Book

Ranked-choice voting passes the test in Maine

What the 1974 midterms can teach us about 2018

Beto O’Rourke lost his election but he’s getting most presidential buzz

The possibility of Beto O'Rourke's 2020 presidential run has donors thinking he's the 'new Barack Obama'

A game of chicken among House Democrats

What You Need to Know About the Army Paratrooper Running for President

Trump attacks likely House Intelligence chair as 'little Adam Schitt' on Twitter

GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith: ‘Great Idea’ To Make It Harder For Liberals To Vote

Australia’s Prime Minister Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Idiot

Democrat Gil Cisneros defeats Republican Young Kim, flipping last GOP House seat in Orange County

Jim Carrey on potentially losing fans over his anti-Trump Twitter art: 'Lose them'

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ WANTS TO REPLACE COLUMBUS DAY WITH HOLIDAY FOR ELECTION DAY

Are We About to Face Our Gravest Constitutional Crisis?

The Biggest Threat to Free Speech No One Is Talking About

Alice Walker: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Democrats seek to overturn ban on religious headwear on House floor

Forget ‘Conventional Wisdom’: There Are No More Moderates.  Beware the latest call to “move to the center” — which is just the same old tune, re-packaged

Thomas Paine, Dissertation on the First Principles of Government

U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout

Ohio Legislature Considers Total Abortion Ban

Texas Republican Joe Barton to Retire After Nude Photo Circulates

What We Must Do Now: Abrams, Georgia and Something Extraordinary

Trump Says in Interview He Is the Sole Arbiter of Truth

Trump DOJ Chief Whitaker Received $900,000 From Right-Wing Group

Russian Trolls Sue Facebook, Their Old Propaganda Machine: The social network used to be a happy home for Kremlin agitprop. Now that Facebook has become a bit more hostile, the propagandists are suing as First Amendment martyrs.

Voters’ message for Democrats: Focus on results.  Most Bay State voters don’t want Democrats to move further left. 

Donald Trump fires back at Chief Justice John Roberts: You do have ‘Obama judges’ and judiciary is not ‘independent’

In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Trump for comment about 'Obama judge': The president later responded on Twitter, defending his attacks on the Ninth Circuit for ruling against him in an asylum case.

House Intelligence Panel Hiring Money-Laundering Sleuths: One of President Trump’s biggest foes is taking steps to chase the Trump-Russia money trail.

How Trump helped inspire a wave of strict new abortion laws: A 15-week abortion ban struck down in Mississippi is just one of several recent efforts to challenge Roe v. Wade.

Charges dropped in first federal genital mutilation case in US

The village that's eradicated FGM

Gary Hart's mistress Donna Rice has moved on with her life and is now a Trump-supporting grandmother who says her past 'unhealthy choices' were the result of being raped after college

Nancy Pelosi Just Showed Us Why She’s the Democratic Leader: When it comes to dealing with her opponents inside the Capitol’s marble walls, no one in her party even comes close.

Trump Completes a Shameful Trip to Paris, Just as He Needs the Global Stage

Trump's Showdown documentary - full

America's gun culture in 10 charts

It's Not a Gun Problem, It's a Heart Problem: A flawed defense of the status quo.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro apparently failed to repay campaign debts from disastrous ’06 run for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat

Judge Jeanine Ghosted on Old Campaign Debt and Ignored Feds’ Demands for Financial Records
PayDirt found that ‘Judge’ Jeanine still owes nearly $600,000 to vendors and stopped filing required updates to the FEC years ago.

Mueller used George Papadopoulos' own tweets against him in a new court filing

These Five Women Were Bridesmaids in Each Other's Weddings — Now They're all State Senators

Milwaukee Girl Who Condemned Gun Violence Is Killed By Bullet

Giving Thanks, Arlo Guthrie, & My 1st Yarmulke

Whitaker May Be a Bad Choice, but He’s a Legal One: The president’s designation of the acting attorney general is constitutional, so long as it is temporary.

Matthew Whitaker went straight from a sleazy scam company to acting attorney general

Trump Has Found His Roy Cohn in Matt Whitaker

It’s Probably Too Late to Stop Mueller: The prospects for interference are dimmer than many imagine.

Revenge of the White Woman

Jeff Sessions Is Out, But His Dark Vision for Immigration Policy Lives On

One Big Loser of the Midterms: Russian Hackers.  Security officials believe the U.S. prevented cyberattacks on Election Day. But it’s hard to tell.

America’s Fever Is Still Rising

If the EU does not drastically change, it is doomed to decline and fall like the USSR

US judge blocks Mississippi 15-week abortion ban

Is there any hope for resolving society's deep disagreements?

Trump seeks no friends in Europe

Gary Hart: "All the rules have changed" in politics

An ex-National Enquirer editor just said he’s going to spill Trump’s scandalous women secrets

Ex-CIA officer claims he’s flooded with requests from Democrats on how to take Trump down: ‘They’re going after him with a hatchet’

NO HOLDS BARRED: ARE JARED AND IVANKA GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

Who’s the Next Trump Cabinet Member to Go? The Smart Money Is on Interior’s Ryan Zinke. As we’ve learned, as long as you’re loyal to Trump, you have to do a lot of bad stuff to get Potus to care. The interior secretary may be getting close to the line.

The strange argument that Democrats actually lost the midterms, debunked: What centrists like Nick Kristof and Bret Stephens get wrong about the midterms.

The entire White House press corps should walk out and stop indulging this bully

Trump Can’t Fire CNN: Jeff Sessions is gone, but Jim Acosta isn’t going anywhere.

UNDERSTANDING U.S. FASCISM: PAST AND PRESENT

Canada Ranked #2 Best Country In The Entire World

The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia: The Kremlin has been focused on undermining trust in American democracy and elections, but Donald Trump and the Republicans have done it better than Russia ever could.

Schiff: 'We are going to bring Whitaker before the Congress'

Alan Dershowitz says Mueller report will be 'devastating' to Trump

Square, Airbnb, And eBay Just Said They Would End Forced Arbitration For Sexual Harassment Claims: Tesla and Netflix declined to comment. Slack said it was "undertaking a careful review" of its policies.

Facebook and Google Are Right to End Forced Arbitration: Allowing employees to sue for sexual harassment can end toxic cultures and lower risks for companies

Letters From the December 3-10, 2018, Issue: This is what heroism looks like… Lost in translation… Humph!…

Where the Blue Wave Hit a Red Wall: Progressives picked up some sweet victories, but Election Day also brought some sobering lessons.

Last Night, the Feminist Insurgency Hit the Polls—and Now It’s Headed to Congress: Women candidates won big—and a larger proportion of women voters went more Democratic than in any midterms before.

Trump’s War on Trans Rights: A Q&A With Chase Strangio.  The ACLU lawyer describes how governments change definitions to exclude people.

Winning the House, Democrats Vow to Check and Balance Trump: Nancy Pelosi, Elijah Cummings, and Jerry Nadler now have the power to hold the president to account.

‘All We’ve Got Are Protests and People Power’: Meet the progressive strike force that saved the ACA—and almost brought down Brett Kavanaugh.

New Mueller Indictments Expected as Soon as Tuesday, CBS Reports

Fox News has found a new 'villain' in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

'We don't want an Alabama': Hyde-Smith has Republicans holding their breath.  Democrat Mike Espy claims momentum in the final days of the Mississippi special Senate election, but Donald Trump heads to the state Monday to blunt it.

A new court ruling is set to destroy the main Republican talking point about Russian ‘collusion’

Bill Maher Just Shut Up Every Single Trump Supporter with One Sentence No One Else Would Say

POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Trump supporters vandalise library honouring Michelle Obama

Major TV Network Refuses To Air Sarah Sanders Press Briefing, Tired Of The Lies: Let's hope the rest follow suit!

What Are The Results Of The Robert Mueller Probe So Far? | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

AUTHORITARIANISM Trump Wants Government To Launch A Worldwide Propaganda Television Network To Combat CNN

Donald Trump Shares Meme Showing Obama, Clintons Behind Bars For Treason: The president shared several tweets bashing his most high-profile critics on Wednesday.

‘A disgrace’: Mexico awards Jared Kushner with nation’s highest honor for foreigners.  And Mexicans are not happy about it.

Key Mueller witness: I lied and I'm ready to die in jail

Trump appeals to men who suffer from ‘fragile masculinity’: psychologists

Trump threatens to declassify 'devastating' documents if Democrats 'want to play tough'

Trump threatens to declassify ‘devastating’ docs about Democrats

Democrats just flipped a seat in the U.S. Congress that they thought they had lost

Democrats just flipped a U.S. Congress seat that Trump and his kids campaigned hard for

Credible new evidence just tied Trump directly to Russian collusion

Trump just channeled Stalin with an image demanding his enemies be tried for treason

Trump’s written answers to two key questions from Mueller just got leaked

Legal experts just pointed out why Giuliani’s bombshell revelation spells doom for Trump

Justice Kavanaugh just returned to coaching high school girls and the Washington Post roasted him

CA Dem Party Chair Accused Of Sexual Assault

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan re-elected, soundly defeating Ben Jealous

Election Day 2018: Republicans Kept The Senate, While Democrats Took Control Of The House And Gained Governors

Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress in new deal with Mueller in Trump-Russia probe

Mueller asked Trump about 2016 RNC platform change regarding Ukraine: Sources

Trump Talks of Pardon for Manafort and Escalates Attacks on Russia Inquiry

Papadopoulos’s Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue the FBI: The former foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign boasted of a Russia business deal even after the election, according to a new letter under review.

How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime

Exclusive: Trump administration to announce final bump stock ban

Close this loophole now: New York law will tie prosecutors' hands, and let Trump associates get off scot free, in the event of a presidential pardon

“IT MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST GET THIS YEAR”: HOW THE GUARDIAN’S BOMBSHELL SET OFF ITS OWN LITTLE MEDIA WORLD WAR.  Luke Harding’s story of when Manafort met with WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange contains vivid detail, but very vague sourcing, and both Manafort and WikiLeaks deny it—which doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Manafort slams Guardian story as 'totally false,' 'libelous'

Guardian Busted For Bogus Assange Story

The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow: During the presidential campaign, Michael Cohen discussed the matter with a representative of Putin’s press secretary, according to two US sources.

The Rachel Maddow Show

Betsy DeVos' proposed Title IX regulations could alter Penn's sexual misconduct policies

Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Trump Tower project in Moscow, cuts deal with special counsel Robert Mueller

Justin Trudeau just corrected Trump’s showing off at the G20 summit

Flake won't vote to confirm judicial nominees

Incredible supercut video proves President Trump incessantly lied to voters about business ties to Russia: President Donald Trump insists that he revealed his business dealings in Russia during the 2016 campaign -- but video evidence suggests otherwise.

TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS APPEAL TO MEN WITH FRAGILE MASCULINITY, RESEARCHERS FIND

Former President George H.W. Bush Dies at 94: The World War II naval aviator, Texas oil pioneer, and 41st President of the United States of America died on November 30, 2018

Donald Trump Claims Everyone Knew About Secret Russian Deal No One Knew About

The Chinese export we really should be worried about: repression.  Xi Jinping wields a level of social control not seen since Mao, posing a direct threat to democratic values worldwide

Former President George H.W. Bush is dead at 94: He represented a moderate wing of the Republican establishment that in many ways has passed from the political scene.

Ivanka Trump's involvement with Moscow Trump Tower plan 'being investigated by Mueller': President's daughter suggested architect for project, emails reportedly show

Senate Committee Refers Perjury Cases to Mueller For Prosecution

Trump walks off leaving Mauricio Macri standing alone at G20 – video: The Argentinian president was left alone on stage when his US counterpart, Donald Trump, walked away due to a misunderstanding during a photo opportunity. Both leaders shook hands before Trump left the stage, with Macri appearing to call after him. It appeared the Argentinian wanted Trump to remain on the stage as they awaited other world leaders for an official members’ ‘family photograph’

REPUBLICAN HOUSE VICTORY IN NORTH CAROLINA IN QUESTION AS EVIDENCE OF FRAUD EMERGES

Sentencing Memorandum on behalf of Michael Cohen

Mattis Confirms Russia Interfered in U.S. Midterm Elections: The defense secretary also condemned Putin’s violation of the nuclear treaty, seizure of Ukrainian naval vessels.

DEUTSCHE BANK WILLING TO REPORT JARED KUSHNER’S ‘SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTIONS’ TO ROBERT MUELLER: REPORT

Lifting Russian Sanctions Key To Trump Deal Exposed By Michael Cohen | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
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