“He’s neutered without Twitter… Members are starting to wake up to the fact that he’s powerless,” an unnamed Republican congressional aide told the LA Times.
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“He’s neutered without Twitter… Members are starting to wake up to the fact that he’s powerless,” an unnamed Republican congressional aide told the LA Times.
Launch“Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination,” The Washington Post reports.
Launch“Fueled by a growing group of city leaders, philanthropists and nonprofit organizations, 2021 will see an explosion of guaranteed income pilot programs in U.S. cities. At least 11 direct-cash experiments will be in effect this year, from Pittsburgh to Compton,” Bloomberg reports.
Launch“The twenty-seven-year-old man who was arrested was part of a pro-Trump rally Saturday afternoon on the Capitol Campus. They eventually clashed with black-clad counter-protesters at Capitol Way South and 11th Avenue Southeast,” The Olympian reports. Allegedly, the man fired his gun at people protesting the Trump regime.
LaunchThe Los Angeles Times’ Janet Hook assesses the status of the non-transition transition from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, noting that Trump is making more of an effort to stay in power than actually do the job he already has.
LaunchThe Washington Post has published a discomforting report about America’s ineffective response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, which details the resistance to mask wearing and physical distancing in many parts of the country.
Launch“In 2020, Biden won 477 counties that account for seventy percent of the U.S. economy, while Trump won 2,497 counties amounting to just shy of thirty percent of the economy, according to an analysis by Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, and his team.”
Launch“White supremacist groups have carried out a majority of ‘terrorist plots and attacks’ this year, according to a report by a think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies,” the New York Times reports.
LaunchOn October 21st, 2020, President Barack Obama delivered a scathing and unsparing indictment of Donald Trump’s disastrous presidency from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LaunchA group of militant right wing extremists who were plotting to harm Governor Gretchen Whitmer have been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the federal government announced today.
LaunchUnsurprise: The paper’s reporters write that based on what the data shows, Trump “has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.”
LaunchThe New York Times reports on the concern and consternation many people feel around the world as the 2020 presidential election enters its final weeks.
LaunchVia The Oregonian, confirmation of what we already knew: “Racially motivated extremists and ad-hoc citizen militias appear to present the most pronounced threat of violence to human life, according to a Joint Intelligence Bulletin circulated to law enforcement in June by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center.”
LaunchArs Technica’s Timothy B. Lee has put together an incredibly good article that reiterates what security researchers and election integrity advocates have known for a long time: online voting is a terrible idea and should not be used for any elections for public office.
LaunchA wildfire has destroyed all the historic structures in California’s first state park, leaving conservation advocates like Sam Hodder in mourning.
LaunchUrquiza made one of the first night’s most memorable appearances, ripping Donald Trump for his refusal to step up and take on COVID-19, the novel coronavirus.
Launch“No one, even McConnell can herd these cats. The party – from top electeds to think tankers to party officials to voters — has become one big swarming mass of hack pundits competing to go viral.”
Launch“The disclosure is the most detailed yet from U.S. intelligence agencies about foreign efforts to interfere in the 2020 election between presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
LaunchDonald Trump’s recent comments “could serve to nudge more passive supporters of discriminatory housing policy toward a ‘come to density’ moment,” Eric Levitz argues.
LaunchAn enthusiastic Donald Trump backer who trusted Trump and Pence instead of public health experts and lost family members as a result has a warning for people who still think like he once did.
LaunchWhen it was her turn to spar with Trump’s enforcer, Pramila Jayapal made the most of it. Watch her take Bill Barr apart in this three minute video.
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