Trump Moves to Strip Hong Kong
of Special U.S. Relationship: The president also said the United States would
terminate its membership in the World Health Organization and end its
substantial funding of the group because of China’s influence there.
GOP operatives worry Trump will
lose both the presidency and Senate majority
End the political convention as
we know it: The parties don’t need mass televised gatherings, whether or not
there’s a pandemic. They need to reconnect with the American people.
Trump opens the door to
unbridled corruption of your tax dollars: The IG community has been an
effective bulwark against corruption for the last four decades. Republicans,
who were once their greatest champions, have not only deserted them, they have
also abandoned any pretense of serving the larger public good.
‘Not exculpatory’:
Just-declassified transcripts prove Flynn lied – ‘he also betrayed America’
Declassified calls show Flynn
discussing sanctions with Russian envoy: Incoming DNI John Ratcliffe released
the already declassified call summaries on Friday.
Let's talk about why Trump
can't break up with Twitter....
Let's talk about the light at
the end of the tunnel....
We Need Justice for George
Floyd
Which Senate Seats are up for
Re-Election in 2020?
In days of discord, a president fans the flames
Trump Vetoes Student Loan Forgiveness
Bill
In a sad week for America,
Trump has fled from his duty
Trump encourages “MAGA” fans to
gather, Repeats military threat
Fire, pestilence and a country
at war with itself: the Trump presidency is over. A pandemic unabated, an economy in meltdown,
cities in chaos over police killings. All our supposed leader does is tweet
Ted Cruz, Trump, and other
Republicans are pushing a payroll-tax cut that would do little for families
suffering financially due to coronavirus
Let's talk about a missing
takeaway about news interactions this week....
Rantin' Randy's Rant 5-30-20
Tweety Turd theartens to send US Troops
Trump Given False Credit For
Bush- And Obama-Era Space Program
Soldiers of the boogaloo: David Neiwert on the far
right's plans for a new civil war.
Author of "Alt-America": What happens this year will be a
"key turning point" on the path from democracy to fascism
Pelosi Tells America To Ignore
Trump And Not Take The Bait
Trump's slow-motion Friday
night massacre of inspectors general
Who Checks the Executive? Trump is attacking the final safeguard
against executive abuses: The President has defied Congress and gummed up cases
in court. Now he’s firing the inspectors
general
Why Did Mike Pompeo Want His
Watchdog Fired? His vague explanations
for asking President Trump to dismiss the State Department’s inspector general
don’t add up.
People Are Dying, the Economy
Is Collapsing and Trump Wants You to Look at This Squirrel: The rats in Trump’s
abandoned hometown are fighting each other and resorting to cannibalism as the
virus has shuttered businesses and restaurants and cut off their food supply.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/people-are-dying-the-economy-is-collapsing-and-trump-wants-you-to-look-at-this-squirrel?ref=author
Ignore Barr’s
Bullshit—‘Obamagate’ Show Trials Are Coming: You have to give the AG props for
his pure, brazen line of BS, and his deep knowledge of how to make the press
corps swallow and regurgitate even his most outrageous lies.
The era of stupid: President
Trump’s moronic behavior is the defining feature of American life
'Obamagate' backfires:
Documents show Biden, Obama acted properly
The only culprit in the
unmasking scandal is the Trump administration
‘Obamagate’ Is Trump’s Name for
the Crimes He’s Trying to Commit Himself
Barr’s Flynn dismissal motion
portends greater abuses ahead: The attorney general has openly enlisted as an
arm of the Trump campaign and brought the full powers of his office with him
WHY THE UNCLE
JOE-CAN’T-INTERNET CRITICISM IS MOSTLY MALARKEY: Joe Biden is definitely losing
the internet—but the North Star of his campaign is the normie voter, which
means it shouldn’t become a meme factory. The golden rule: “Does this work for
Joe?”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/why-the-uncle-joe-cant-internet-criticism-is-mostly-malarkey
Team Biden has a message for
the haters: Look at the scoreboard: The campaign is pulling ahead in crucial
states won by Trump in 2016, it says.
Before the coronavirus, Joe
Biden offered stability. Now he’s talking bold change
Facebook employees go public
with disagreement over Zuckerberg's handling of Trump: "I work at Facebook
and I am not proud of how we’re showing up. The majority of co-workers I’ve
spoken to feel the same way," tweeted one Facebook employee.
The Psychopath in Chief: I
spent hundreds of hours with Donald Trump to ghost-write ‘The Art of the Deal.’
I now see a deeper meaning behind his behavior.
Letters From the June 1/8,
2020, Issue: What’s the matter with San Fran?… Unspoken rules… The source of
our disagreement…
Democracy Dies in Dysfunction:
There are clear steps we can take now to ensure fair and functional elections
in November—but time is quickly running out.
The Supreme Court Has Given Its
Blessing to Public Corruption: With its Bridgegate decision, the Supreme Court
put another nail in the coffin of our corruption laws.
Trump’s New Press Secretary
Fits Right In: Everywhere you look, the president has appointed people who
undermine their job’s essential reason for being.
Journalism Cannot Be a Covid-19
Casualty: Here’s the plan Congress must include in stimulus measures to provide
muscular support for journalism.
Barr Drops the Case Against
Flynn
How Trump haunts the dead: Our
terrible president’s awful habit of attacking people who can’t defend
themselves
With Trump, the Pathology Is
the Point
Trump to pull US out of third
arms control deal
Can Trump send US military to stop violence at protests?
Why Donald Trump Wants to Make Safe Elections a Partisan
Issue
45 States Allow the Kind of Voting by Mail Trump
Considers Fraudulent
Fox News poll: Biden opens up 8-point lead over Trump. Biden leads by 17 points among voters aged 65
and older and by 13 points among independents. Biden leads by 20 points among women and Trump
leads by 7 points among men. Trump has a
30-point lead among rural white voters, while Biden has a 64-point lead among
black voters. Biden leads Trump by 9
points on the question of who is better suited to handle the pandemic, and he
leads by 17 points on the issue of health care.
Voting by Mail: Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
'The Bible is not a prop': Religious leaders, lawmakers
outraged over Trump church visit
The widely criticized photo-op was the president's idea
because he "wanted the visual," sources told NBC News.
Jim Hightower: What's the Gimmick in Trump's Plan to
'Rescue' the Public Postal Service?
What's a presidential campaign without a sex scandal?
Mitch McConnell’s Moral Bankruptcy
Editorial: Dolan delivers the church to Trump and the GOP
Voting is the fundamental basis of democracy
Method and Madness
Rantin' Randy's Rant 6-2-20 The dictator seeks sending in
troops against the Amrican people
Lindsey Graham Proves Again That He's A Total Scumbag
Rep. Steve King ousted in Iowa GOP primary, NBC News
projects: House Republicans stripped the longtime lawmaker of his committee
assignments after outlandish statements.
Live results for the June 2
primaries: Several states are holding primaries on Tuesday. Here are the races
to watch.
Facebook employees stage
virtual walkout to protest Trump posts
With 'counterfeit ballots'
theory, Barr starts to go over the edge: It's one thing when the chief law
enforcement official looks like a political operative; it's vastly worse when
he looks like a foolish political operative
Opinion: How We Broke the
World. Greed and globalization set us up for disaster.
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as
a Threat to the Constitution: In an extraordinary condemnation, the former
defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn
Americans against one another.
I Cannot Remain Silent: Our
fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so.
Military Leaders Send Missives
to Troops: ‘Stay True’ to the American People
Former Marine commandant on
nationwide protests: 'The time for being silent has passed'
Ex-Defense Secretary William
Perry joins Mattis in condemning Trump: The military “was never intended to be
used for partisan political purposes,” he wrote.
Esper Reverses Course Again,
Orders Troops Out Of D.C.: This is the second time this week he’s made the call
and broken from Trump on the need for a military response to the anti-racism
protests
Let's talk about the generals....
Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, Trump:
What happens when a Confidential Informant becomes President?
EU Says Russia Should Not Yet Rejoin G7, Despite Trump
Plan
G7 leaders reject Russia's return after Trump summit
invite
Brookings Scholar To NYT: Merkel No Longer Wants To Be
The Same Room As Trump
Malcolm Nance: Trump makes Benedict Arnold look good.
Let's talk about people wearing certain patches....
‘Performing facism': Masha Gessen on Trump’s dictatorial
turn. Author Masha Gessen on the line
between Trump’s performance and actual authoritarianism: “Does he know that
that is fascism? Does he care? It doesn’t matter. That is his idea of power.”
'Trump is showing us what he
thinks power looks like and sounds like': Former CIA analyst Gail Helt along
with writers Masha Gessen and Anne Applebaum discuss the president's threat to
use active duty U.S. troops to combat protesters and the violent clearing of
protesters for a photo op this week.
Bully Barr should be reviled,
not given award
FROM BUNKER TO BIBLE, TRUMP
REACTS FEEBLY TO A NATION IN PAIN: One minute the president declares solidarity
with peaceful protesters; the next, he has them forcefully removed
Trump promises Stone won’t serve prison time: ‘He can
sleep well at night!’ The pledge from
the president represents his latest intervention in the case of his longtime
political adviser.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/trump-promises-roger-stone-will-serve-no-prison-time-300351
Emotions erupt over anti-lynching bill as Sen. Rand Paul
holds up passage
Trump Uses the Military to Prove His Manhood
350 Action: It's Time for Trump to Resign
Security Perimeter Around White House Expanded By Several
Blocks
The Story Behind Bill Barr’s Unmarked Federal Agents: The
motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window
into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement.
Barr says he didn't give
'tactical' command to clear Lafayette protesters
Donald Trump orders 9,500 US
troops to leave Germany: White House says move due to more Nato defence
spending, not tensions with Angela Merkel
Source Claimed Trump And Family
May Leave On A Private Jet Amid National Chaos: We can only hope this is true!
Rantin' Randy's Rant 6-6-20
Evangelicals are alright with Donnie holding the Bible upside down
Biden formally secures
Democratic presidential nomination
Former George W. Bush Staffers
Form PAC to Back Joe Biden
One man stands between Joe Biden
and the US presidency – Mark Zuckerberg: Donald Trump knows that Facebook can
help him win in November, and Zuckerberg has too much to lose by censoring him
We Should Take Women’s
Accusations Seriously. But Tara Reade’s Fall Short. I would vote for Joe Biden even if I believed
Reade’s account. Fortunately, I don’t have to sacrifice morality to political
necessity.
A Fourth Inspector General
Bites the Dust
The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party Is a Fight
for the Future: Henry Wallace, FDR’s vice president, argued 75 years ago that
Democrats had to go big on economic and social and racial justice. That’s still
true.
Little Donald’s Sneeze
Look at How Much Sense It Makes
to Do the Green New Deal Right Now: We can get out of this depression and save
the planet all at once.
Want to Push Biden Left? Focus
on These Appointments. Appointments will
have a major impact on whether a potential Biden administration delivers on
progressive policies. Here’s what the Left should push for now.
Want a Real Election This Fall?
Enact Vote-by-Mail. Mail-in voting could
be crucial to a safe and fair election this fall.
Astra Taylor: Bernie Sanders’
Exit Is an Indictment of Our Broken System—Not His Campaign
Voter suppression was stronger
than Bernie Sanders’ voter turnout plan. And the pandemic has made things
worse.
David Sirota: The Democratic
Party’s Tyranny of Decorum Helped Sink Bernie.
Sanders could have gone harder against Biden, but ultimately it was the
establishment that stood in his way.
Class Traitors, Welcome to the
Revolution: Many liberal professionals who supported Elizabeth Warren took
their votes to Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders. But they may still join a future
left electoral coalition if they can face their own precarity.
Bernie Lost Because America
Doesn’t Have a Strong Labor Movement
Black Voters Are Ready. Are
We? Bernie lost with Black voters, but
the Left will win if we commit to deep organizing work to earn their trust.
Perry Rosenstein: Building a
Foundation for Art and Social Justice: As president and founder of the Puffin
Foundation, Rosenstein nourished independent journalism.
To Win Elections, Should the
Left Be Nicer on the Internet? There are
signs that antagonistic Bernie supporters may have discouraged
coalition-building with winnable Warren voters.
Public Citizen News
‘I Believe in Building
Systems’: Stacey Abrams outlines a vision for a fairer and more democratic
society.
Empower Women, Save the World:
How a global research institute is reframing foreign police through a feminist
lens.
80 lawmakers demand Trump ditch any thought of resuming
‘dangerously provocative’ nuclear arms tests
Bernie Sanders Robbed In RI and PA?
Colin Powell: President Trump has drifted away from the
Constitution
A Timely Warning From the Generals
DONALD TRUMP: GOP recruits army of poll watchers to fight
voter fraud no one can prove exists
Voting rights advocates worry the effort will target and
intimidate minority voters.
On Winning a Majority of Delegates in the Democratic
Presidential Primary
Georgia secretary of state
launches investigation after 'unacceptable' voting problems: Long lines, lack
of voting machines and primary ballots plagued those at the polls in some
precincts.
Amy McGrath Takes Narrow Lead
Over Mitch McConnell in Kentucky Senate Race, Poll Shows
The elite military club that's
scorning Trump
Trump Throws Insane Tantrum
Over Losing by 14 to Biden
Robert Reich: The Deadly Fox
News-Trump Syndicate
The Panic Room President
Rantin' Randy's Rant 6-9-20 Bunker boy can't make today
about him
Study suggests Democrats should be running more ads about
Biden, fewer about Trump: It’s almost impossible to change minds about the
president.
Bernie Sanders Is Not Done
Fighting: The senator on the protests, his phone calls with Joe Biden, and when
to compromise.
The Quiet Demise of the
Separation of Church and State
American Psycho: Jared
Kushner—climber, sycophant, snob—is the perfect avatar of elite incompetence
for our times.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158033/jared-kushner-coronavirus-pandemic-response?utm_source=social
America, this is your
chance. We must get it right this time
or risk losing our democracy forever
'Everything about this is
irregular': Ex-judge tapped to review Flynn case blasts Trump DOJ
The retired judge, John
Gleeson, said the Justice Department had improperly bowed to the president's
will.
Trump signs international
religious freedom executive order, visits shrine
President Trump calls for
support for international religious freedom in new executive order: The
president is calling on administration officials to tackle religious
persecution wherever its found.
Trump signs executive order
promoting global religious freedom
Donald Trump Signs Executive
Order to Make Religious Freedom a Foreign Policy Priority
President Trump’s Executive
Order on Advancing International Religious Freedom
Ignore the optics. Trump’s
executive order could jump-start the cause of global religious freedom.
Executive Order on Advancing International
Religious Freedom
Advancing International
Religious Freedom
The Strength of America’s
Apolitical Military: Statement by Former U.S. Ambassadors, Military Officers,
Senior Officials
Read Gov. Mills' full statement
on President Trump's visit to Maine
‘Blood in the water’: Dems get unexpected opening against
Trump in Iowa: After breaking hard for the president in 2016, the swing state appears
to be having second thoughts.
Canadian MP Niki Ashton Unites
with Bernie Sanders and Progressive International
Why Russia will keep poking
America’s racial wounds
Election Fraud
Georgia's elections were a
catastrophe, but they weren't an accident: Georgia's election debacle was a
disaster many saw coming. Will Republican officials take steps to fix the
problem ahead of November?
Bernie backs insurgent in
Kentucky, Engel's challenger in New York: Sanders endorsed Charles Booker
against national Democrats' preferred candidate in the Kentucky Senate race,
Amy McGrath.
Abrams Slams Georgia Leaders
For ‘Incompetence’ And ‘Malice’ In Election Disaster | All In | MSNBC
Liberal Redneck - Rural Antifa Panic
Making Sense of Populism: This article places Europe’s
current populist explosion — in left, right, and nonpartisan versions — in
context. Above all, it emphasizes populism’s status as the political child of
the thirty-year-long decline of party democracy. It offers a balance sheet for
each populist variant, focusing in particular on the left populist experiments,
and it closes with a proposal for a class-based socialist alternative.
Was Keynes a Socialist
Can Trump be Charged with (fill
in the blank)? There's Only One Accurate Answer to that Question.
Rantin' Randy's Rant 6-11-20
G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the
‘Current President’
The Rise of Strategic Corruption: How States Weaponize
Graft
Poll: Democrats, Independents, GOP All Turning on Trump
Amid Coronavirus, Protests: Trump lost support in almost equal measures from
Democrats, independents and Republicans amid the coronavirus pandemic and
widespread protests.
Trump Is Threatening to Subvert
the Constitution: A president cannot just make Congress disappear when he
wishes. [LDH comment: Perhaps VP has
been whispering in his ear. I won’t be
surprised if he refers to the Congress as the Duma in a Freudian slip.]
Barr sends a message: Don’t
ever investigate the President again
When Donald Trump tried to
stage a coup: Was June 1 the turning point? Last week our president tried to
send the Army into America's streets. Aides pushed back, but it was a close
call
The Republican congressman who
could get booted for officiating a gay wedding: First-term Rep. Denver
Riggleman of Virginia faces potential ouster on Saturday at a drive-thru party
convention.
Biden calls for greater LGBTQ+
protections on 4th anniversary of Pulse nightclub shooting
Trump administration won’t say
who got $511 billion taxpayer-backed coronavirus loans
Lindsey Graham Serves Up 50
Frivolous Subpoenas.
Mike Flynn case: Former Federal
Judge Calls Out Barr's Corruption
Team Trump warns rally
attendees they can't sue over COVID-19: Trump wants people to show up and cheer
for him during a pandemic - indoors, with strangers - and if they get sick as a
result, that's their problem.
Analysis: Why QAnon supporters
are winning congressional primaries
CONVERSATIONS ONLINE WITH TRUMP
INSPIRED ZEALOTS
Anarchism is a political theory,
which is skeptical of the justification of authority and power, especially
political power. Anarchism is usually grounded in moral claims about the
importance of individual liberty.
Here’s Why I’m Donating to the
Trump Campaign (and You Should, Too)
https://www.nolandalla.com/heres-why-im-donating-to-the-trump-campaign-and-your-should-too/
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