“It was very surgical and corporate. They had their model, this is how they’re going to do it. Their thing was, ‘We don’t have to
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign to participate in Wisconsin presidential recount
[N]ow that a recount is underway, we believe we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton
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A Minority President
George Lakoff on why the polls failed, and what the majority can do.
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News as entertainment set stage for Trump win
Television doesn’t know the difference between fact and fiction, and over time, viewers have also inevitably conflated the two in their minds. — David Wiegand:
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Students across the country are walking out following Trump’s victory — like these in East Bay
“Holding signs reading ‘Not our president’ and defiantly chanting Wednesday morning, thousands of students spilled out of East Bay high schools, taking to the streets in anti-Donald Trump protests — the latest round of action across the Bay Area following the New York billionaire’s election to the highest office in the land,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Similar events are happening in other cities.
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Powerful video: Khizr Khan addresses crowd before Hillary Clinton rally
Raw video: Khizr Khan addresses crowd before Hillary Clinton rally
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FBI more out of control than we knew
“It would seem that basically everyone at the FBI is leaking their sides of various internal disputes and turf wars, largely tied to various investigations of the Clintons or attempts to start investigations of the Clintons. That alone paints a picture of Director James Comey as having totally lost control of the organization,” writes Josh Marshall.
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Top Trump operative: “We have three major voter suppression operations under way”
We have three major voter suppression operations under way. — A top Trump operative, admitting to Bloomberg that Trump is trying to keep Democratic voters
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Fiscal foolishness
“Over all, Chris Wallace was better than I expected. But he was pretty bad on fiscal issues,” writes Paul Krugman.
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Obama to Republicans: You built Trump
They stood by while this happened, and Donald Trump as he’s prone to do, he didn’t build the building himself — he just slapped his
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Warren Buffett just released his own tax data to hammer Trump
Billionaire and Hillary Clinton supporter Warren Buffet today released data from his own federal income tax returns to put pressure on Trump to release his. “I have been audited by the IRS multiple times and am currently being audited. I have no problem in releasing my tax information while under audit. Neither would Mr. Trump — at least he would have no legal problem,” Buffet said, in a dig at Trump. Trump’s campaign declined to respond to Buffet’s statement for obvious reasons.
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Donald Trump vows retaliation as Republicans abandon him
The Republican Party is caught in a theater fire; people are just running to different exits as fast as they can. — Steven Law, a
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October unsurprise: Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005
“Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone, saying that ‘when you’re a star, they let you do it,’ according to a video obtained by The Washington Post.” David A. Fahrenthold reports.
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Trump’s organization did business with Iranian bank later linked to terrorism
“Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program,” the Center for Public Integrity reports.
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SNL returns to mock the 2016 election — with Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump
Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) and Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) face off in the first presidential debate, moderated by Lester Holt (Michael Che). SNL also aired
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It figures: Trump tax records obtained by NYT reveal he could have avoided paying taxes for nearly two decades
“Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show.”
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As America sleeps, Donald Trump seethes on Twitter
As Hillary Clinton says: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”
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A spoiled brat named Little Donnie Thwimp: The importance of sound symbolism
“As strange as it may sound, the sound symbolism of a name has become an unnamed central issue in the 2016 presidential campaign. As a cognitive linguist, my job is to study the issue and, at the very least, to name it,” George Lakoff writes.
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Who will win the presidential debates: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?
“Who will win the debates? Trump’s approach was an important part of his strength in the primaries. But will it work when he faces Clinton onstage?” asks James Fallows in an in-depth analysis for The Atlantic.
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Unwinding a lie: Donald Trump and ‘birtherism’
The New York Times’ Michael Barbaro: “The essential question — why promote a lie? — may be unanswerable. Was it sport? Was it his lifelong quest to court media attention? Was it racism? Was it the cynical start of his eventual campaign for president?”
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Hillary Clinton’s twenty questions that Donald Trump needs to answer — now
Earlier today, Hillary Clinton’s campaign tweetstormed a host of questions that Donald Trump should be compelled to answer after Newsweek published a piece by Kurt
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