Watch highlights from the eleventh episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Dan Levy, with Phoebe Bridgerton as the musical guest, including the cold open hosted by veteran SNL repertory player Kenan Thompson.
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Wyoming Republican ex-legislator on Trump: “I felt used and I felt lied to”
Speaking to The Washington Post, Amy Edmonds explained what has happened to her since she started questioning Donald Trump’s deep web of lies following the 2020 presidential election.
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SNL pays tribute to Peach State’s political metamorphosis with “BlueGeorgia” sketch
Watch highlights from the tenth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by John Krasinski, with Machine Gun Kelly as the musical guest, including the noteworthy “BlueGeorgia” sketch.
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Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse.
“Global ice loss has increased rapidly over the past two decades, and scientists are still underestimating just how much sea levels could rise, according to alarming new research published this month, ” The Washington Post reports.
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Reflections on four weird years fact checking every word from Donald Trump from CNN’s fact checker
CNN has published a look back at the Trump error from its senior fact checker Daniel Dale, who got his start debunking Trump’s 2016 campaign claims.
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Cooperation is a progressive value: How an unprecedented coalition of liberal groups prepared for Trump’s war on democracy
“By the time rioters ransacked the Capitol, the machinery of the left had already been primed to respond — prepared by months spent sketching out doomsday scenarios and mapping out responses, by countless hours of training exercises and reams of opinion research,” The New York Times reports.
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Watch the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be taking office and beginning their administration in a televised ceremony at the United States Capitol.
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Trump to flee D.C. and seek rehabilitation in a “MAGA” oasis
“Florida, in some freakish, horrible way, is the Trumpiest of states. This is the logical place for them to come,” Republican strategist Rick Wilson told The Washington Post.
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How did we get here? A call for evangelical reckoning on Trump
Ed Stetzer, head of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, is concerned that many evangelicals have lost their way and their moral bearings during the last few years.
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Jordan Klepper sees it all at the Capitol insurrection
In this almost seven minute segment, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper gets up close and personal with the American fascist cult that worships Donald Trump.
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Trumpers crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian
“The great silencing that right-wing zealots are shouting about to their millions of followers on social media, radio, TV and in newspapers is not an example of Orwellian repression. It’s a mirage of Orwellian double-think,” Ron Charles writes.
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Cascadia was poised to lead on climate. Can it still?
British Columbia, Washington and Oregon all aimed to slash emissions. After epic battles, they failed. Read The Tyee’s first installment on creating a zero-CO2 bioregion.
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With Trump off Twitter, window into cult chieftain’s mind goes dark
“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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Talk radio owner orders pro-Trump hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric
“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.
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We don’t know who won Georgia yet, but we do know this: Voter turnout was really high
Via Daily Kos Elections: “Just under 5 million votes were cast in November, so that means we could see runoff turnout at about 85% of Election Day turnout. By contrast, in 2008, which was the last time Georgia hosted a Senate runoff, turnout in the runoff was just 57% of Election Day.”
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Mijente staffer explains how they went about engaging Georgia’s Latino electorate ahead of the runoffs
“Bold, grassroots organizing is what wins elections,” Tania Unzueta Carrasco says, telling the story of how they successfully contacted every single Latino voter in the Peachtree State.
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2021 will be the year of guaranteed income experiments
“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.
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Watch Jon Ossoff turn the tables on a Fox Noise reporter trying to ask “gotcha” questions
Focused remarks? Check. Message discipline? Check. Making the most of an opportunity to speak to right wing voters and do some reframing? Check. Jon Ossoff shows how it’s done.
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Unsurprise: Fifty years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
A new paper from the London School of Economics reinforces what progressive activists and economists already know: Trickle down doesn’t. Tax cuts for the wealthy do not create jobs. In fact, they result in greater wealth hoarding and income inequality. It’s time to require the wealthy to pay their fair share in dues to our world community.
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SNL’s last episode of 2020 celebrates the arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccine and bids good riddance to Trump
Watch highlights from the ninth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Kristen Wiig, with Dua Lipa as the musical guest, including the Mike Pence vaccine cold open.
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SNL serves up spoof of Newsmax; needles Dr. Deborah Birx in December 12th cold open
Watch highlights from the eighth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Timothée Chalamet, with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as the musical guest, including the cold open spoofing Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx.
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