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Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election
Vice - Fri Aug 14, 2020
The United States Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without any official explanation or reason given, Motherboard has learned through interviews with postal workers and union officials. More»

Deutsche Bank gave Trump financial records to New York prosecutors
The Guardian - Wed Aug 5, 2020
New York prosecutors investigating Donald Trumps finances previously issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank, one of the foremost lenders to the presidents business, as part of their inquiry - and the bank complied, according to the New York Times. More»

Donald Trump got suspended on Twitter
Raw Story - Wed Aug 5, 2020
President Donald Trump was banned from Tweeting on Wednesday after Twitter told the president he had to delete the misinformation about children not getting the coronavirus. More»

"Man. Woman. Camera. Person. TV.": Noam Chomsky responds to Trump bragging he aced a dementia test
Democracy Now - Sat Jul 25, 2020
Is the United States being run by a madman? "What can you say about a person who, before speaking before an adoring crowd, raises his eyes to heaven and calls himself the chosen one?" says Noam Chomsky, responding to President Trumps boast that he aced a mental acuity test. More»

GOP congressman charged with multiple counts of voter fraud in Kansas
American Independent - Sun Jul 19, 2020
Freshman Representative Steve Watkins (R-KS) was charged with three felony counts of voter fraud on Tuesday, after prosecutors alleged that he used an address of a UPS storefront and not his home address to register to vote - a violation of the law. More»

Trump Attacks Anti-Segregation Rule For ‘Devastating’ America’s Suburbs
Raw Story - Tue Jun 30, 2020
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump tweeted that he was “studying” the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule - claiming that it is “devastating” to America’s suburbs, and that former Vice President Joe Biden would make it “MUCH WORSE” if elected president. More»

Donald Trump tweets video showing a MAGA fan yelling 'white power'
Daily Mail - Sun Jun 28, 2020
Donald Trump deleted a post Sunday where he shared a video of senior citizens clashing over their support and opposition of him where one pro-Trump protester could be heard yelling white power. More»

NYC Judge Rejects Effort To Halt Publication Of Tell-All Book By Trump’s Niece
PBS - Thu Jun 25, 2020
A New York City judge has dismissed a claim by Donald Trump’s brother that sought to halt the publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece. More»

65 faculty members from AG Barr's law school alma mater say he has 'failed to fulfill his oath of office'
CNN - Tue Jun 23, 2020
Law professors and faculty from George Washington University Law School, Attorney General William Barrs alma mater, said in a letter Tuesday he has "failed to fulfill his oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. More»

President Trump Fires Top U.S. Prosecutor Who Investigated His Allies
NPR - Sat Jun 20, 2020
President Trump has removed Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, from office, ending the tenure of a top Justice Department official whose office has overseen the prosecutions of several of the presidents associates. More»

Georgia election disaster condemned as result of deliberate GOP voter suppression: "This is by design"
AlterNet - Wed Jun 10, 2020
Photos of would-be Georgia voters standing - and, in some cases, sitting - in long lines after 11 pm to cast their ballots in the states primary on Tuesday encapsulated what rights groups and lawmakers decried as a disastrous day for democracy and an entirely predictable result of years of deliberate voter suppression efforts by Republican lawmakers and the US Supreme Court. More»

General James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
The Atlantic - Wed Jun 3, 2020
James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. More»

Trump Declares War On His Own Country
CNN - Mon Jun 1, 2020
Declaring himself "your president of law and order," President Donald Trump vowed Monday to return order to American streets using the military if widespread violence isnt quelled, even as peaceful protesters just outside the White House gates were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets. More»

Trump Signs Social Media Executive Order
Huffington Post - Thu May 28, 2020
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could weaken legal protections for social media companies, days after Twitter labeled two of his misleading missives with a fact-check addendum. More»

Trump threatens to 'strongly regulate or close' social media
Daily Mail - Wed May 27, 2020
Donald Trump demanded Wednesday that social media platforms clean up your act as he warned his administration will begin to regulate and even shutter such websites after Twitter, for the first time ever, fact-checked his tweets. More»

Trump's new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
Salon - Mon May 18, 2020
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million in stock options in a company that has received federal funding to develop such a vaccine. More»

The conservative victimhood complex has made America impossible to govern
The Week - Sat May 16, 2020
The United States has had the worst national response to the coronavirus pandemic among rich nations largely because President Trump is an incompetent leader whose narcissism means he can focus on little beyond his own approval ratings. More»

Trump Pushes CDC to Revise Down Its COVID Death Counts
Daily Beast - Wed May 13, 2020
President Donald Trump and members of his coronavirus task force are pushing officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change how the agency works with states to count coronavirus-related deaths. More»

Trump is culpable in deaths of Americans, says Noam Chomsky
The Guardian - Sun May 10, 2020
Donald Trump is culpable in the deaths of thousands of Americans by using the coronavirus pandemic to boost his electoral prospects and line the pockets of big business, Prof Noam Chomsky has said. More»

Trump says doing too much coronavirus testing makes the US 'look bad'
Business Insider - Thu May 7, 2020
Though public health experts have consistently said the US needs to ramp up testing for coronavirus in order to contain and defeat it, President Donald Trump does not see it that way. More»

Lindsey Graham: Congress Will Extend Unemployment ‘Over Our Dead Bodies’
Huffington Post - Sun May 3, 2020
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (South Cafolina) promised business leaders that Congress would not extend enhanced unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 crisis, saying such a continuation would only happen “over our dead bodies”. More»

The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE
New England Journal of Medicine - Sun Apr 19, 2020
As a chief physician executive, I rarely get involved in my health systems supply-chain activities. More»

Trump fumes after CNN's Jim Acosta asks if his coronavirus briefings are just "happy talk"
Raw Story - Fri Apr 10, 2020
During Fridays coronavirus task force press briefing, President Donald Trump lost his patience with CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta when he questioned whether the hearings were whitewashing the challenges facing the government. More»

Trump says mass COVID-19 testing not needed
CNN - Thu Apr 9, 2020
President Donald Trump said Thursday that there have been more than two million coronavirus tests completed in the United States but suggested that mass testing is not going to happen. More»

Trump demands appreciation from governors for coronavirus response
Yahoo News - Sun Mar 29, 2020
WASHINGTON - President Trump used his daily coronavirus briefing to attack Democratic governors who in his estimation had shown insufficient gratitude for his administrations response to the pandemic. More»

Donald Trump sends broken ventilators to blue state
KRON-TV - Sat Mar 28, 2020
SAN JOSE, California - As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the United States - where it has the most cases in the world - local, state and federal governments have been working together to slow the spread of the deadly virus. More»

Trump Campaign Threatens TV Stations That Air Ad Critical Of President
Huffington Post - Sat Mar 28, 2020
Not removing the ad about rising US coronavirus cases “could put your station’s license in jeopardy,” the Trump campaign warned. More»

Amid a Viral Pandemic, the Republicans Reveal Their Contempt for Working Americans
The Editorial Board - Thu Mar 26, 2020
It’s still unclear to me what Lindsey Graham was complaining about last night. More»

GOP's Coronavirus Insider Trading Scandal
Raw Story - Fri Mar 20, 2020
In a series of bombshell news reports, two GOP senators, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, are facing serious questions surrounding their dumping of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars worth of stock as the coronavirus began to unfold and become a major international news story. More»

How did Matt Gaetz get a coronavirus test when the rest of us can't?
Raw Story - Fri Mar 13, 2020
I got the COVID-19 text at 8:30 Tuesday night, three days after returning from a journalism conference in New Orleans. More»

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