Saturday, September 23, 2017

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Reporter in Government Protection Is 9th Journalist Killed in Mexico


 

Court orders company to produce data on anti-Trump site


 

Witness backs explosive Trump dossier: Glenn Simpson provides about 40,000 pages to back claims


 

Russian ambassador found dead in swimming pool


 

A GOP senator wrote a bill to protect Robert Mueller. Trump called him to try to kill it. The president wants to keep his option to fire Mueller open.


 

How Trump's FCC aided Sinclair's expansion: Use of a regulatory loophole will allow Sinclair to reach 72 percent of U.S. households after buying Tribune’s stations.


 

Confirmed: US Attorney Brings Trump To Court For Violating KEY Constitutional Oath


 

Ex-Clinton aide reveals how the Arpaio pardon is Trump’s way of ‘sending a signal’ to Mueller’s targets – and it’s jaw-dropping


 

Ryan breaks with Trump on Arpaio pardon


 

I was detained for protesting Trump. Here's what the Secret Service asked me. | Commentary


 

Bernie Sanders Voters Helped Trump Win and Here's Proof


 

The Myths Democrats Swallowed That Cost Them the Presidential Election


 

Court Admits DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schulz Rigged Primaries Against Sanders


 

What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders: Thousands of e-mails show that the committee came to loathe Sanders’s campaign. But there’s no evidence that they rigged the primaries.


 

Trump Just Committed And ‘Impeachable Offense’, Harvard Law Professor Says Of Arpaio Pardon


 

Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio Is an Impeachable Offense: The president has the power to pardon, but he’s misused that power. The Constitution is clear.


 

Phoenix Newspaper Tears Into Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio In Brutal Twitter Thread: The Phoenix New Times did not hold back after Trump pardoned the Arizona ex-sheriff.


 

The Media Is the Villain – for Creating a World Dumb Enough for Trump: Yet another TV executive says Trump is "good for business." Is sudden good fortune of news media by accident or design?


 

It Appears As Though Hillary Clinton Was Ultimately Done In By Low Democratic Voter Turnout


 

Florida judge dismisses fraud lawsuit against DNC


 

Progressives Prepare to Serve Bernie Sanders Petition to Start New Party: Supporters believe party would be competitive and attract independents


 

At 34 percent, Trump setting new records for low presidential approval


 

Cruz, Cornyn back Texas gov's request for disaster declaration


 

Trump Divorces the GOP Congress: Republicans need to think of Trump as a political independent


 

Trump Discovered Pocketing Gov’t Funds From 7 States, 5 Million People Affected


 

NBC Unloads a MASSIVE BOMB, Confirms that Trump is Under PERSONAL FBI Investigation [Details]


 

Trump asked Sessions about closing case against Arpaio, an ally since ‘birtherism’


 

Arpaio Pardon May Be Opening Act of a Constitutional Crisis: Trump's move Friday night shows the same disregard of the rule of law with which he's trying to quash the Russia probe.


 

Special Counsel Subpoenas Trump Bank Accounts, Phone Calls, Trump Threatens To Fire Him


 

Welcome to the ‘Breitbart White House’


 

Things are going to get much, much worse


 

Do Sanctions Work?


 

Democrats' unexpected money problem


 

What pardoning Arpaio would mean to the worst people in government


 

Evidence Says Republican Party Was Officially in on Russian Plan to Rig Election


 

GOP Leaders No Longer Hiding Their Feelings About Trump


 

How Will the Supreme Court Respond to the Arpaio Pardon? Though its major import is President Trump’s official endorsement of racist discrimination in law enforcement, a flagrant contempt for judges is the subtext.


 

“Nation” Writer Claims Pence Is Far Worse Than Trump


 

Famously book-shy Donald Trump recommends tome by 'great guy' Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke Jr (who said he'd 'choke a Democrat' and has been accused of massive abuses of power'


 

Kasich: Trump used Arpaio pardon as a ‘political wedge’


 

Fmr. President Obama Tweets About Houston Flooding, Now THIS Is How A President Should Act!!


 

Trump’s business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president


 

Trump is a novice protectionist


 

How D.C. Lobbyists Helped Paul Manafort Prop Up a Putin Puppet: For years, the influence-peddlers’ work for a pro-Kremlin party flew under the radar. Then Bob Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe got rolling.


 

Mexico offers to help Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas


 

Exclusive: How a request about Russians made its way from West Virginia to Trump's team


 

Russian Mobster Felix Sater Advised The Trump Campaign


 

TRUMP JUST WENT APE SH*T IN PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER REPORTER ASKS ABOUT RUSSIA (VIDEO)


 

Donald Trump's cyber-security advisers resign warning of 'insufficient attention to the growing threats': 'Your actions have threatened the security of the homeland,' experts tell President


 

Why Donald Trump Pardoned Joe Arpaio


 

Trump being warned by advisers about impeachment


 

FLASHBACK: Trump abruptly walked out of interview after being asked about Felix Sater connections


 

Mueller Team Asking if Trump Tried to Hide Purpose of Trump Tower Meeting


 

Trump signed 'letter of intent' for Russian tower during campaign, lawyer says


 

Trump Reportedly Fed Up With Rex Tillerson: ‘Rex Just Doesn’t Get It’


 

Why People Still Support Trump: It's not all about bigotry and ignorance.


 

How a New Generation of Progressive Activists Is Leading the Trump Resistance: Grassroots progressives are rising up and fighting Trump – with or without the Democratic Party


 

Hatch would vote yes on release of dossier testimony transcript: Rachel Maddow reports breaking news that Senator Orrin Hatch has told TRMS that he would vote in favor of releasing the transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson on the Trump dossier. 


 

Another wave of top State Department officials quit this week in ‘Black Friday’ mass resignation


 

Michael Moore: Donald Trump on track to win re-election


 

"Bbbbut what do we do with this economic thingy"


 

Republicans Will Let America Burn While Holding Out for Tax Cuts: The core principle of the GOP is to make the rich richer, and that's more important to its congressional leaders than any U.S. institution


 

As Kelly Cracks Down, Trump’s Isolation Is Growing: Without allies in Congress, the president is losing control of his West Wing.


 

Televangelist Jim Bakker: Christians will start a civil war if Trump is impeached


 

‘This is not what he signed up for’: Confidant says Trump’s mood ‘worst it’s ever been’


 

Trump Pal Bought IAmAF**got.Com and VaginaBoy.Com, Then the Sites Attacked Their Mutual Enemy


 

Trump Just Got Slapped In The Face; Landslide Win For Democrats In Fairfax County Tonight


 

Republican attempts to undermine Mueller with bill severely limiting investigation


 

What is the history of "third parties" in the United States?


 

Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe: The cooperation is the latest sign that the investigation into Trump's former campaign chairman is intensifying.


 

A Judge Just Gave Trump And Arpaio Bad News About Pardon


 

Grand Old Party's Over. Make Way for the Trump Party: Donald Trump refuses to dance with the Republicans who helped get him to the ball.


 

LETTERS to the EDITOR of The Progressive Populist


 

Look Among Ourselves for Leadership


 

DISPATCHES


 

6 Months of Trump, 6 Lessons Learned


 

Talking About a Media Revolution


 

Movements are Driving Democratic Party Debate


 

Chuck Schumer’s New New Deal


 

Will The Federal Civil Service Defend Us?


 

Socialists See an Opening for Change


 

All That Glitters is Not Good for Democracy


 

Living Well is the Best Revolution


 

‘Donald Trump is afraid’: Dan Rather says Mueller probe is Trump’s ‘Hurricane Vladimir’


 

Chances of Trump impeachment at high point as Mueller calls the president’s bluff and focuses on the family business


 

‘Mueller is playing chess — Trump is playing Donkey Kong’: Morning Joe panel mocks outmatched president


 

Republicans Propose Cutting $1 Billion From Disaster Relief to Help Fund Trump’s Wall


 

Robert Mueller's Latest Strategic Move Is a Game-Changer: It's on.


 

Post-Truth Trump And Why Humanism Is The Answer To Anti-Facts: No, Trump didn’t invent the regressive ideas he promotes, but he is ushering in a new acceptability for backward thinking.


 

AHA Joins Groups to Express Concern about Judge Neil Gorsuch


 

The Sanctity of Human Life Act: Politicians Playing God


 

Church, State, and Taxpayer Support: Is America Moving Toward a European Model?


 

Distractions


 

Read the Letter Trump’s Attorney Michael Cohen Sent Investigators About the ‘Golden Showers’ Dossier: In narrowly tailored answers, the president’s longtime lawyer denies allegations that he went to Europe last year to work with the Kremlin.


 

90 Pages of Suspicious Voting Machine Errors in Major Swing State Found


 

Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash


 

If You Think Trump’s Summer Was a Bummer, Wait ’Til Fall Starts: The five factors that are going to combine this fall to create a perfect storm that will drive Trump crazy and bring our nation to the brink of peril.


 

Barbara Streisand Just Took Trump Bashing to a New Level, Donald’s Fragile Ego Can’t Handle This!


 

Exclusive: Mueller Enlists the IRS for His Trump-Russia Investigation.  Will the accountants take down key members of Team Trump? Or force the president’s tax returns into the open?


 

GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to Russia


 

How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History: Putin, Wikileaks, the NSA and the DNC email fiasco that gave Trump and Clinton another reason to be at odds.


 

Donald Disappears After AP Uncovers Likely $17Million Hurricane Insurance Fraud At Trump Property


 

EPA defends action on flooded Superfund sites in Houston


 

House Republican subpoenas Justice and FBI seeking dossier information


 

Could this Russian-born Trump donor be the key to a cryptic Manafort note?


 

Naomi Klein: How to Resist Trump's Shock Doctrine


 

Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election


 

Fox News Is Now Attacking Republicans While Praising Trump and Democrats


 

Trump's Early Christmas Gift to Democrats: In a surprise blow to GOP leaders, the president strikes a short-term fiscal deal with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, handing them leverage ahead of the next round of negotiations in December.


 

McCain, Whitehouse Make Bipartisan Appeal To SCOTUS Against Wisconsin Gerrymandering: “Americans do not like gerrymandering. They see its mischief, and absent a legal remedy, their sense of powerlessness and discouragement has increased.”


 

Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost.  Free-market boosters, including Betsy DeVos, promised that a radical expansion of charter schools would fix the stark inequalities in the state’s education system. The results in the classrooms are far more complicated.


 

Is Mike Pence guilty of obstruction of justice? I asked 7 legal experts.  The vice president has a lot of questions to answer.


 

Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election: According to people familiar with Facebook's findings, company officials told congressional investigators on Sept. 6 that they discovered political ads on its site bought by a Russian company during the 2016 election. 


 

BREAKING: Virginia Board of Elections Votes Unamimously to Remove All Paperless Voting Machines


 

What Happened?! — Video Emerges of Hillary Clinton Saying Illegal Immigrant Children Have to Go: Video Emerges of Hillary Clinton Saying Illegal Immigrant Children Have to Go


 

Letters From the September 11-18, 2017, Issue: Hacking democracy… Make America democratic… Dems: remember the base… Action and words… In defense of prog rock…


 

Steve Bannon Is Gone, Leaving Behind Only His Worst Ideas: The “Party of Davos” shot down any motions toward economic populism.


 

Disdain for Liberals Drives the Jewish Pro-Trump Right: It’s not the issues that matter; it’s the shared hatred.


 

How the Democrats Can Take Back Rural America: Party leaders must take direction from actual rural Democrats and independent progressives.


 

What Really Happened: Bernie Sanders Refutes Hillary Clinton’s Book


 

Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: The most dangerous people in America.


 

GAO to investigate Zinke’s alleged Alaskan threat: report


 

Russian network RT must register as foreign agent in US


 

CDC tells employees not to talk to the press: report


 

How Russia Created the Most Popular Texas Secession Page on Facebook: When is a Texan not a Texan?


 

Fork In The National Road: A New Progressive Supermajority Party Is Forming.  How will Senator Bernie Sanders react? Which path will you take?


 

Trump lawyers wanted Kushner to step down over Russia probe: report


 

Michigan Republican announces retirement, opening up pickup for Dems


 

ALEC Exposed: Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue


 

Nestled in House Spending Bill: Campaign Finance Deregulation: House package is unlikely to advance in the Senate, but provisions easing rules for companies and churches could become bargaining chips


 

The Day the Russia Data Machine Kicked into Turbo!


 

How Donald Trump Lied to Conceal His Moscow Business Partner: Perhaps this was his greatest deception of the 2016 campaign.


 

Flynn refusing new request to speak to Hill committee


 

Miss Texas Tears Into Trump In A Blistering 15-Second Takedown On Live TV: The Miss America contest took an unexpected turn.


 

House Dems: Michael Flynn May Have Lobbied For Nuclear Deal Inside White House


 

In Free-Range Trump, Many See Potential for a Third Party


 

How Russia-linked groups used Facebook to meddle in 2016 election


 

Christian Author Unleashes on Evangelical Trump Voters: “You don’t like that I’ve “gotten political,” huh?”


 

TRUMP’S PRESS SECRETARY JUST HUMILIATED HERSELF BY TRYING TO TRASH OBAMA (VIDEO)


 

Trump’s Press Secretary Just Urged The Justice Department To Prosecute Fired FBI Director Comey


 

Fair Maps, Fair Elections, and Fair Representation


 

It's an alpha male thing: what dominant chimpanzees and Donald Trump have in common.  When it comes to US presidents, we expect to see a combination of prestige and dominance. Donald Trump’s Twitter tirades and demands for fealty show he prefers the latter – an ape-like strategy for success


 

Oklahoma Republican Claims That Rape Is The ‘Will Of God’ [VIDEO]


 

Trump Says Jump. His Supporters Ask, How High?


 

Trump Just Launched A Petty Attack On Hillary. Her Response Is Classy


 

Sean Spicer Just Revealed A Trump Secret That Explains All Of His Lies On Jimmy Kimmel


 

The White House Just Told Its Biggest Lie Yet About Obama And Trump


 

Former judge to admit payments from Brady campaign, lawyer says


 

Why Is Bob Brady Still in Charge?  Bob Brady has used personal charm to rule Philly’s Democratic Party. But with one politician after another heading to jail, how’s that working out for


 

Philadelphia Woman Pleads Guilty to Charges of Causing False Statements to The Federal Election Commission


 

Feds say Philly Dem's campaign paid rival $90K to drop primary challenge, report: Wednesday Morning Coffee


 

Redoing the Electoral Math: I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong.


 

Running on Hope: Ravi Gupta is recruiting a fresh slate of candidates to take down Trump.  But can a former Obama staffer forge a new path for Democrats?


 

How Silicon Valley’s Monopolies Abet Conservative Propaganda: Two companies—Facebook and Google—dominate the way we consume information online. And they are saturated with right-wing lies.


 

Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Get It: "What Happened" is proof that she doesn't understand the lessons of the 2016 election


 

#AlwaysTrump: No matter how he leaves the White House, we'll never be rid of Trump—and all that he represents about America.


 

Political opponent wants FBI to investigate Rohrabacher in wake of Assange meeting


 

Nancy Pelosi Will Not Let The White House Mansplain To Her: The House minority leader reportedly told the men at the table to zip it during her dinner with Trump.


 

Democrats Have Attacked Trump Every Which Way, But It's Not Working


 

Did Jared Kushner’s Data Operation Help Select Facebook Targets for the Russians? The Russians used social media to rile the electorate. Investigators wonder if they had inside help.


 

The Wall Street Journal Just Shattered Trump’s Ego into a Million Little Pieces, There’s No Recovering from This!


 

A Russian propaganda group purchased ads on Facebook during the 2016 election. Here’s what that means.


 

Money-Laundering Prosecutor Joins Trump-Russia Probe


 

Sarah Huckabee Sanders broke a law that carries up to 15 years in prison (Details)


 

Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators he met with the Russian lawyer to evaluate Hillary Clinton's 'fitness' to lead


 

Trump's fiercest supporters don't actually want him to be president


 

Mueller is coming for the Trump syndicate


 

Presidential pardons, explained


 

DACA is alive. Is the GOP dead?


 

Why I welcome Hillary Clinton's anger and bitterness


 

The architecture of trust


 

Flynn, Bannon, Kushner secretly met with Jordan's king days before inauguration


 

Trump is about to sabotage the GOP on tax cuts


 

Paul Manafort's spokesman testifies before grand jury Friday in highly unusual turn


 

High Ranking CIA Agent Blows Whistle On The Deep State And Shadow Government


 

Another prominent Russian has suspiciously dropped dead in midst of Trump-Russia scandal


 

Donald Trump Asks Bill Gates To Shut Off Internet Because Terrorists


 

The curious rise of Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met Team Trump


 

House Bill Will Make Churches Dark Money Super PACs


 

18 U.S. Code § 879 - Threats against former Presidents and certain other persons


 

Invoking Cloture in the Senate - Cloture is the only procedure by which the Senate can vote to set an end to a debate without also rejecting the bill, amendment, conference report, motion, or other matter it has been debating.


 

Listen to Diane Ravitch clearly explain how public education is being damaged by the billionaires who want to destroy your community public schools.


 

Huckabee lines up Trump as first guest on new talk show: report


 

Trump-Russia Investigation and Facebook: Why Mueller’s Counterintelligence Effort Is Just as Important as His Criminal Probe


 

Russia's Hand Is Visible Everywhere in the Middle East


 

Bill Moyers: Renowned Psychiatrist Warns That Trump Is a Danger to Us All.  "We have a duty to warn if someone may be dangerous to others."


 

Trump Speaks at UN Reform Meeting


 

Taxpayers Foot Mysterious Mar-a-Lago Bill, But Why?


 

Report: Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Probe


 

How to Have a Productive Phone Call With Your Legislator's Office


 

Time: US Caught Russian Spy Boasting of Election Meddling


 

The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election


 

What Russian trolls could have bought for $100,000 on Facebook


 

The Info Wars to Come: Russia is weaponizing social media.  It’s time we started defending ourselves.


 

Hillary’s Tour of Petty Proves She Cares More about Herself than Her Party


 

‘Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire,’ by Kurt Andersen


 

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History


 

Fantasia on a Theme: Ordinary delusions and the madness of crowds in Kurt Andersen's unreal America


 

The party's over: Republicans and Democrats are both finished.

•Trump's election and his increasing comfort in shifting from right to left prove that the Republican and Democratic parties as we know them are finished.

•Never before have we seen the leadership of both major political parties so humbled.

•Here's how this power vacuum will play out in the coming elections.


 

US Government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman


 

Turzai Sets Date for Special Election to Replace McNeill


 

Bloom Officially Enters the Race for PA-11


 

Dan Rather Just Gave Just A Brutal Response To Sean Spicer’s Emmy Appearance


 

Sean Spicer Got A Cameo At The Emmys. Actor Ron Perlman’s Response Is On Point


 

Senate Cancels Meeting With Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen


 

JUST IN: Fmr. President Barack Obama Just Shook The Nation With Major Announcement


 

Dems fear lasting damage from Clinton-Sanders fight


 

Ryan Zinke tells Trump to shrink at least 4 national monuments, modify several others: Interior secretary "sold out" the people who rely on public lands, Sierra Club says.


 

Scorched-Earth Politics: Bernie Sanders and the Dishonest Campaign that Gave Us Trump


 

Fair Maps, Fair Elections, and Fair Representation


 

Giant Monument to Kalashnikov, Creator of AK-47, Is Unveiled in Moscow


 

US officials intercepted conversations between Manafort and Russians: report


 

Deputy AG interviewed by Mueller's office: report


 

Mueller investigating Manafort for decade-old crimes: report


 

Edward Snowden Explains Who Really Rules The United States - September 2017 


 

Trump tried to diss socialism at the United Nations but everyone laughed at him


 

Anderson Cooper hilariously mocks Trump for ‘straight up making up’ a country during UN lunch


 

Lies, Propaganda, and Fake News: A Challenge for Our Age


 

35 Other Things Donald Trump Has “No Choice But To Totally Destroy”: It appears that North Korea will not be the only casualty of Mr. Trump’s presidency


 

Manafort planning to leave US — as Mueller’s team prepares to indict him in Russia probe


 

Try Running Like a Democrat for a Change: A human rights campaign needed for Western Iowa


 

Hillary Doesn't Owe Us Any Apologies


 

THE PUBLIC EYE: Trump’s Big Deal


 

Steve Bannon’s game of thrones: Jilted genius vows “bloody September”.  Ousted White House Svengali plotting with far-right House members to undermine Trump, sow chaos and destruction


 

Trumplandia


 

Trump Sanctions on Venezuela Will Cause More Harm


 

How Trump Is Changing America: The presidency has not transformed him; he has transformed the office.


 

Apparently, it’s illegal to laugh at Jeff Sessions


 

Progressive, Heal Thyself


 

Trump and the Generals: Are Kelly, Mattis and McMaster Keeping the Tweeter-in-Chief Under Wraps?


 

When a red state gets the blues


 

President Trump Inc.: The Report


 

Kris Kobach Defends Using A Private Email For Government Business: The Kansas secretary of state and vice chair of Trump’s voter fraud commission said using his government account would be a “waste of state resources.”


 

Russians targeted 21 election systems, U.S. official says


 

10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking


 

INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE: How the right lost its mind, sold its soul – and embraced Donald Trump


 

The Lord's Loathing


 

Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy


 

Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy


 

18 states, consumer groups sue DeVos over delay of student loan protections: The lawsuits accuse DeVos of illegally delaying the regulations aimed at predatory colleges.


 

Donald Trump’s Cabinet is Complete. Here’s the Full List


 

Here's a List of the Trump Team's Potential Conflicts of Interest


 

Nevada Is 19th State to Call for a Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United; Half the States Needed Are Onboard


 

Kurt and Gladys Lang Biographies

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