Surprise, Surprise: The DOJ's Hillary Clinton Investigation Has Been a Bust
 After more than two years, an inquiry into the Clinton Foundation and
 Clinton's tenure at State is nearly done - and there's reportedly
 absolutely nothing to show for it.
By Alison Durkee
January 09, 2020
 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/hillary-clinton-justice-department-investigation-results 


Fact check: Trump has spent far more time at golf clubs than Obama had
at same point
By Daniel Dale and Holmes Lybrand, CNN
Updated Mon May 25, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/25/politics/fact-check-trump-obama-golf/index.html 


'Old-boy-style racism' by small-town cops leads to $600,000 payout
to Portland man
Updated Feb 12, 2020
By Maxine Bernstein
 https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/02/west-linn-to-pay-600000-to-settle-wrongful-arrest-racial-discrimination-suit-stemming-from-former-chiefs-favor-for-a-friend.html 


Young people are the new corps of engineers the US has been waiting for
 We have more than enough work to go around for the next
 generation if we address one of our nation's biggest
 problems: infrastructure.
By Andrew Yang
Sep 23, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/21431542/andrew-yang-infrastructure-millennials-student-debt-unemployment 


Yes, the Senate is rigged for small states. But not for Republicans.
 Democrats can win in states we now consider deep red.
 And not that long ago, they did.
By Jeff Greenfield
November 19, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/senate-states-republican-control/2020/11/18/571573e0-2915-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html 


Why we're in tune with our emotions - but suck at judging our smarts
 "Know thyself" is a piece of wisdom handed down from the
 ancients - but a slew of delusions and biases means you
 might be better off asking someone else
09 December 2020
By Alison George 
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833122-000-why-were-in-tune-with-our-emotions-but-suck-at-judging-our-smarts/ 


The Billionaires Who Profited from the Pandemic Should Help Pay for Our Recovery
By John Cassidy
December 10, 2020
 https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-billionaires-who-profited-from-the-pandemic-should-help-pay-for-our-recovery 


The Plague Year
 The mistakes and the struggles behind America's coronavirus tragedy.
By Lawrence Wright
December 28, 2020
 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year 


The Panopticon Is Already Here
 Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his
 government's totalitarian control-and he's exporting this
 technology to regimes around the globe.
by Ross Andersen
September 2020
 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/ 


Moisture and Mass Timber
Mar, 2019
By Evan Schmidt
 Large Scale Research into Durability of Cross Laminated Timber
 (CLT) Connections
 https://www.structuremag.org/?p=14264 


Has the wooden skyscraper revolution finally arrived?
19th February 2020
by Oscar Holland
 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/wooden-skyscraper-revolution-timber/index.html 


The Plague Year
 The mistakes and the struggles behind America's coronavirus tragedy.
by Lawrence Wright
Dec. 28, 2020
 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year 


The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology
 Different measurements of the Hubble constant, the rate
 of space-time expansion, refuse to agree - meaning we
 may have to look beyond Einstein's theories to explain
 the universe
25 November 2020
By Stuart Clark 
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833100-800-the-universe-is-expanding-too-fast-and-that-could-rewrite-cosmology/ 


Lawmakers with stock holdings vote in ways that juice their portfolios,
data shows
 Amid calls for stricter regulation of congressional stock
 ownership, researchers find that financial self-interest
 outweighs party, ideology and other factors in policy
 decisions
By Christopher Ingraham
Dec 10, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/10/congress-votes-stock-portfolio/ 


The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation
Julie Hotard
Oct 20, 2020
 https://upine.medium.com/the-vast-reach-of-right-wing-disinformation-fbcee2715db7 


Trump Is Using the Pandemic to Undo Environmental Rules.
It's Hurting Black Americans.
June 10, 2020
Rebecca Leber
 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/06/trump-is-using-the-pandemic-to-undo-environmental-rules-its-hurting-black-americans/ 


Definitely Not the Armed Intelligentsia: Colorado's 3rd Congressional
District Called, Their Idiot Is Missing
by Adam L Silverman
January 4, 2021
 https://www.balloon-juice.com/2021/01/04/definitely-not-the-armed-intelligentsia-colorados-3rd-congressional-district-called-their-idiot-is-missing/ 


** Fact Check **
Trump Repeats Debunked Election Claims in Call With Georgia Official
 The president recited a number of viral online falsehoods
 involving dead voters, Dominion voting machines, shredded
 ballots and a water leak, among other baseless claims of
 fraud.
By Linda Qiu
Jan. 03, 2021
 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-georgia-call-fact-check.html 


Dave Troy comments on Parler
Nov 2020
 https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327253991936454663 


Read the full transcript of Trump's audio call with Georgia secretary of state
January 03, 2021
 https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/politics/trump-brad-raffensperger-phone-call-transcript/index.html 


Republicans Have a Friend in the Company That Counts Their Votes
Raising Some Questions about the Voting Machine Company Behind So Many Surprise Wins This Year
2020-12-13
By Alison Greene
 https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/31/ess-voting-systems-a-friend-to-republicans/ 


Why The Numbers Behind Mitch McConnell's Re-Election Don't Add Up
 How Does an 18% Approval Rating Result in a 58% Win?
2020-12-19
By Alison Greene
 https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/ 


Non-Lethal Byrna personal defense weapon
Jan 2021
 https://byrna.com/collections/all 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7Qe-prCQI 


Missing the forest
02 Jan, 2021
Steve Randy Waldman
 https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/8149.html 


Donald Trump's Turnberry resort posts losses of £2.3 million
 Donald Trump's flagship overseas property at Turnberry
 has posted annual losses of £2.3 million, marking the
 sixth year in a row it has failed to turn a profit under
 his ownership.
By Martyn McLaughlin
Saturday, 2nd January 2021
 https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/donald-trumps-turnberry-resort-posts-losses-ps23-million-3083417 


To reverse inequality, we need to expose the myth of the 'free market'
Robert Reich
09 Dec 2020 
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/inequality-free-market-myth-billionaires 


Why Did So Many Americans Vote for Trump?
 To the dismay of Democrats, the president's strategy
 of ignoring the pandemic mostly worked for Republicans.
By Will Wilkinson
Nov. 27, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/opinion/trump-democrats-coronavirus.html 


December 11, 2020
U.S. Congress bans anonymous shell companies
By Pete Schroeder
 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-banks/u-s-congress-bans-anonymous-shell-companies-idUSKBN28L2NV 


Opinion: Here's proof that tax cuts for the rich don't boost the economy
Last Updated: Dec. 16, 2020
By David Hope and Julian Limberg
 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-proof-that-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-dont-boost-the-economy-11608136674 


Contingent Election of the President and Vice President
by Congress: Perspectives and Contemporary Analysis
Updated  October 6, 2020
 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40504.pdf 


2020 in review: Nuclear fusion power is slowly getting closer
16 December 2020
By Adam Vaughan
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833135-500-2020-in-review-nuclear-fusion-power-is-slowly-getting-closer/ 


When Did Republicans Start Hating Facts?
 A straight line runs from Reagan to the Trump dead-enders.
By Paul Krugman
Dec. 14, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/opinion/republicans-reagan-disinformation.html 


Fox News's post-Trump identity crisis, explained by an expert
 We talked to Matt Gertz of Media Matters about Trump's
 one-sided feud with Fox, the rise of OAN and Newsmax,
 and where right-wing cable news is headed.
By Aaron Rupar
Dec 25, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/22187529/fox-news-post-trump-identity-crisis-matt-gertz-oan-newsmax-media-matters 


Several members of Trump's inner circle share a curious connection
 As Trump's sense of desperation grows, he's assembled
 a new inner circle of "misfits," several of whom have
 Russian connections.
Dec. 23, 2020
By Steve Benen
 https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/several-members-trump-s-inner-circle-share-curious-connection-n1252248 


Americans don't think like citizens. They think like shoppers.
 One political scientist says politicians should embrace
 this reality if they want to win.
By Sean Illing
Dec 18, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22150375/america-consumerism-shopping-ethan-porter-the-consumer-citizen 


Trickle-down economics doesn't work but build-up does - is Biden listening?
 A new study confirms tax cuts for the rich do not benefit
 the rest. Recovery from the pandemic is a chance to change course
Sun 20 Dec 2020
Robert Reich
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/20/joe-biden-trickle-down-economics-build-up 


A Political Obituary for Donald Trump
 The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.
January/February 2021 Issue
George Packer
 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/ 


Own a Racehorse? Need a Tax Break? Page 244 Has You Covered.
 The COVID relief bill making its way through Congress is
 long overdue, but there's something in there for everyone.
By Charles P. Pierce	
Dec 21, 2020
 https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35037514/covid-relief-bill-tax-break-racehorse/ 


America's hollow middle class
 The cost of living has risen, wages have not,
 and debt just keeps on accumulating. 
By Anne Helen Petersen
Dec 15, 2020
Illustrations by Julia Kuo for Vox
A family of three falls beneath a crowd of their peers
 https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22166381/hollow-middle-class-american-dream 


Talk Radio Is Turning Millions of Americans Into Conservatives
 The medium is at the heart of Trumpism.
By Paul Matzko
Oct 09, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/talk-radio-conservatives-trumpism.html 


Sinclair Broadcast Group
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group 


The Devil's Biggest Political Trick: Convincing the World Evil Doesn't Exist
Julie Hotard
Oct 05, 2020
 https://upine.medium.com/the-devils-biggest-political-trick-convincing-the-world-the-devil-or-evil-doesn-t-exist-79313ac34be7 


Why People Who Hate Trump Stick With Him
 Since 2018, I've conducted roughly 50 focus groups with
 Trump voters to understand the shifting dynamics within
 the Republican Party.
October 19, 2020
Sarah Longwell
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/why-people-who-hate-trump-stick-him/616758/ 


The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation
Julie Hotard
Oct 19, 2020
 https://upine.medium.com/the-vast-reach-of-right-wing-disinformation-fbcee2715db7 


A wild mink in Utah has Covid-19. Veterinarians fear this is just the beginning.
 Which animals can catch Covid-19, which can't - and why it matters.
By Brian Resnick
Dec 16, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/12/16/21826130/coronavirus-covid-19-in-animals-mink-dog-cats-gorillas-tigers 


'We want them infected': Trump appointee demanded 'herd immunity' strategy,
emails reveal
 Then-HHS science adviser Paul Alexander called for millions
 of Americans to be infected as means of fighting Covid-19
By DAN DIAMOND
12/16/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/16/trump-appointee-demanded-herd-immunity-strategy-446408?cid=apn 


Trump Organization must turn over documents to NY attorney general,
judge rules
By Sonia Moghe, CNN
December 15, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/politics/trump-organization-documents-ny-attorney-general/index.html 


Pro-Trump Protesters Chant "Destroy the GOP,"
Boo Georgia Senate Candidates at Rally
By Daniel Politi
Dec 12, 2020
 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/pro-trump-protesters-chant-destroy-gop-rally-washington.html 


Autonomous Vehicles Take Another Big Leap
 The Amazon-owned Zoox is unveiling an electric
 self-driving vehicle. But are we ready for
 driverless cars?
By Kara Swisher
Dec. 14, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/opinion/Zoox-Amazon-self-driving.html 


American Elites Still Don't Understand How COVID-19 Works
 Nine months into the pandemic, government leaders can't
 comprehend - or refuse to clearly say - what this virus
 is or how it spreads.
December 11, 2020
Derek Thompson
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/americas-bipartisan-covid-19-illiteracy/617368/ 


Kansas leads the nation in refusing federal dollars
Kansas Insight Ed Flentje
Aug 09, 2019
 https://www.ctnewsonline.com/opinion/article_12bf1bae-ba23-11e9-8843-d3ae4efbb33b.html 


Pro-Trump rally descends into chaos as Proud Boys roam D.C. looking to fight
By Peter Hermann, Marissa J. Lang and Clarence Williams
Dec. 13, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/proud-boys-protest-stabbing-arrest/2020/12/13/98c0f740-3d3f-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html 


Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect
 In one of the most sophisticated and perhaps largest hacks
 in more than five years, email systems were breached at the
 Treasury and Commerce Departments. Other breaches are under
 investigation.
By David E. Sanger
Dec. 13, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/politics/russian-hackers-us-government-treasury-commerce.html 


Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men
 Why women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed
 after a heart attack and 17 percent more likely to die
 in a car crash.
By Sigal Samuel
Updated Nov 22, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/17/18308466/invisible-women-pain-gender-data-gap-caroline-criado-perez 


Alex Pareene
December 08, 2020
Neal Katyal and the Depravity of Big Law
 The Democratic lawyer's sickening defense of corporate
 immunity in a Supreme Court case reveals a growing
 moral rot in the legal community. 
 https://newrepublic.com/article/160481/neal-katyal-depravity-big-law 


Trump Spent $15 Billion On Border Wall But Skimped On Vaccines
Stuart Anderson
Dec 09, 2020
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/12/09/trump-spent-15-billion-on-border-wall-but-skimped-on-vaccines/?sh=752e52676a9d 


To reverse inequality, we need to expose the myth of the 'free market'
Robert Reich
09 Dec 2020
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/inequality-free-market-myth-billionaires 


U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye discloses breach, theft of hacking tools
By Christopher Bing, Joseph Menn
December 8, 2020
 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fireeye-cyber-idUSKBN28I31E 


Why a CIA Psychiatrist Called Trump Nuts
 Jerrold Post said 'the period between the election
 and the inauguration will be a very dangerous period.'
07Dec2020	
Peter Eisner
 https://www.spytalk.co/p/why-a-cia-psychologist-called-trump 


'DeSantis sent the Gestapo': Fired Florida Covid data scientist films
home being raided by police
 Rebekah Jones says officers pointed guns at her children
 during operation
by Graeme Massie
 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-covid-data-scientist-raid-desantis-b1767723.html 


Trump just admitted on live television he will 'terminate' Social
Security and Medicare if he wins reelection
by Jon Queally and Common Dreams
August 09, 2020
 https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trump-just-admitted-on-live-television-he-will-terminate-social-security-and-medicare-if-he-wins-reelection/ 


Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered
in late summer to sell the U.S. more vaccine doses.
Dec. 07, 2020
By Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/trump-covid-vaccine-pfizer.html 


The police shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., who was killed in front
of his Ohio home, explained
 Goodson's family say he was holding a sandwich
 when police shot him. Police say the shooting
 was "justified."
By Rachel Ramirez
Dec 07, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/22159513/casey-goodson-jr-police-killing-columbus-ohio 


David Neiwert
July 18, 2018
Freedom to Bash Heads
 You are cordially invited to have a civil discussion with the Proud Boys
 https://thebaffler.com/latest/freedom-to-bash-heads-niewert 


Lawyers say Trump administration has handed over new data that
will help reunite separated migrant families
 The ACLU's Lee Gelernt said he's often asked whether
 the Trump administration has helped reunite families.
 He said that rather than help, it has withheld data.
Dec. 02, 2020
By Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff
 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-trump-admin-has-handed-over-data-will-help-n1249782 


Trump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets
suggesting Trump declare martial law
By Nathan McDermott, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
December 4, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/trump-nominee-pentagon-martial-law/index.html 


Calls for martial law and US military oversight of new presidential election
draws criticism
by Howard Altman, Davis Winkie, Sarah Sicard, Meghann Myers, and Leo Shane III
Dec 02, 2020
 https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/12/02/calls-for-martial-law-and-us-military-oversight-of-new-presidential-elections-draws-criticism/ 


A surprising number of government agencies buy cellphone location data.
Lawmakers want to know why.
 Private companies collect location data on millions of
 Americans and provide it to the DHS, IRS, FBI, and DEA
 - no warrants needed.
By Sara Morrison
Dec 02, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/recode/22038383/dhs-cbp-investigation-cellphone-data-brokers-venntel 


Pro-Coup Trumpist Lawyer Lin Wood Seems to be Legit Bonkers
By Josh Marshall
December 2, 2020
 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pro-coup-trumpist-lawyer-lin-wood-seems-to-be-legit-bonkers 


Why Did So Many Americans Vote for Trump?
 To the dismay of Democrats, the president's strategy
 of ignoring the pandemic mostly worked for Republicans.
By Will Wilkinson
Nov. 27, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/opinion/trump-democrats-coronavirus.html 


Fired director of U.S. cyber agency Chris Krebs explains why President
Trump's claims of election interference are false
 Chris Krebs, a lifelong Republican, was put in charge of the
 agency handling election security by President Trump two years
 ago. When Krebs said the election was the country's most secure
 ever, Mr. Trump fired him. Now, Krebs speaks to Scott Pelley.
Scott Pelley
Nov 29, 2020 
 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chris-krebs-presidential-election-security-60-minutes-2020-11-29/ 


Nov. 24, 2020
Children of Quarantine What does a year of isolation and anxiety
do to a developing brain?
By Lisa Miller
 https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/covid-19-pandemic-kids-mental-health.html 


Here's what happened when NBC News tried to report on the alleged
Hunter Biden emails
 Analysis: Trump complains the media isn't reporting on
 Hunter Biden's emails. But NBC News met obstacles,
 including Rudy Giuliani, when it tried.
Oct. 30, 2020
By Ken Dilanian and Tom Winter
 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/here-s-what-happened-when-nbc-news-tried-report-alleged-n1245533 


France's War on Islamism Isn't Populism. It's Reality.
Liberal critics of Emmanuel Macron's campaign against radicalism
misunderstand the crisis his country faces.
By Benjamin Haddad
November 3, 2020
 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/03/frances-war-on-islamism-isnt-populism-its-reality/ 


Biden reaches out. The GOP slaps him in the face.
by E.J. Dionne Jr.
November 22, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-reaches-out-the-gop-slaps-him-in-the-face/2020/11/20/5111029e-2b76-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html 


How the Trump administration's 'midnight rule-making' could leave a big mark
on government
 The new rules are "like booby traps" for the incoming Biden administration,
 a liberal policy analyst said. "You have to find all of them and disarm them."
Nov. 15, 2020
By Suzy Khimm
 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/how-trump-administration-s-midnight-rule-making-could-leave-big-n1247773 


Trump's student loan cliff threatens chaos for Biden
 Biden could inherit the confusion of monthly payments restarting
 for tens of millions of Americans amid a pandemic.
By MICHAEL STRATFORD
11/15/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/15/trump-biden-student-loan-cliff-436470 


Living electrodes for linking brains to computers tested in rats
13 November 2020
By Michael Le Page
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259846-living-electrodes-for-linking-brains-to-computers-tested-in-rats/ 


Refusing to concede, Trump blocks cooperation on transition
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER
09Nov2020
 https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-virus-outbreak-elections-voting-fraud-and-irregularities-2d39186996f69de245e59c966d4d140f 


Trump Won't Accept Defeat. Ever.
 His forever campaign is just getting started.
November 6, 2020
Anne Applebaum
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trumps-forever-campaign-is-just-getting-started/617021/ 


Trump can still make it very hard for the FBI to investigate him next year
From a self-pardon to ordering Justice Department memos, the president has the power to protect himself
By Asha Rangappa
November 9, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/09/trump-justice-department-pardon/ 


How much damage can Trump do on his way out? Expect the worst.
Opinion by Eugene Robinson
November 5, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-much-damage-can-trump-do-on-his-way-out-expect-the-worst/2020/11/05/1f8fa774-1f9c-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html 


QAnon believer in alleged Philly convention center threat
linked to far right Va. senator
 The suspect described coronavirus as a "psyop" and
 appears to justify killing people responsible for
 the pandemic in blog posts published to accounts he
 owns. Senator Amanda Chase says he was a volunteer
 who was never paid by the campaign.
Max Marin and Ryan Briggs
06Nov2020
 https://billypenn.com/2020/11/06/qanon-believer-in-alleged-philly-convention-center-threat-linked-to-far-right-va-senator/ 


A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath
 America will have to contend with that fact.
04Nov2020
Tom Nichols
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/large-portion-electorate-chose-sociopath/616994/ 


USPS disregards court order to conduct sweeps in 12 postal districts
after more than 300,000 ballots can't be traced
 A federal judge had ordered mail service and law enforcement
 agents to comb processing plants for votes as delays continue
By Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham
November 3, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/03/election-ballot-delays-usps/ 


Republicans: Trump Will Be Our Leader, Even if He Loses
 The president won't go quietly even if things don't go well
 Tuesday night. Beyond that, politics have forever been
 changed by his presidency.
by Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng, Sam Stein
Updated Nov. 02, 2020
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-and-republicans-agree-trumps-here-to-stay-even-if-he-loses-the-election?ref=home 


Republicans, Not Biden, Are About to Raise Your Taxes
 People making from $10,000 and $30,000 - nearly one-quarter
 of Americans - are among millions slated to pay more in 2021.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Oct. 31, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/opinion/republicans-biden-taxes.html 


The Day After Election Day
 Current and former Trump administration officials are
 worried about what might happen on Nov. 4.
By Ron Suskind
Oct. 30, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-election-officials.html 


Bad balance: why dangerous falls are on the rise around the world
 Modern lifestyles are making our balance worse - and leaving
 us more vulnerable to devastating trips and falls. The good
 news is, it's never too late to regain your poise
07 October 2020
By Caroline Williams
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833030-800-bad-balance-why-dangerous-falls-are-on-the-rise-around-the-world/ 


It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
By Caroline Delbert	
Oct 22, 2020
 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34372005/solar-cheapest-energy-ever/ 


What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years
 A big tax cut, unprecedented environmental degradation,
 Wall Street unleashed, and a whole lot of judges.
By Matthew Yglesias
Dec 2, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/2/20970521/trump-administration-achievements 


Facebook and Twitter don't censor conservatives. They hire and promote them.
 Republicans used a Senate hearing to complain that social media
 doesn't do enough for them. The problem is conservatives don't
 want to play by any rules.
Oct. 29, 2020
By Angelo Carusone, president and CEO, Media Matters for America
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/facebook-twitter-don-t-censor-conservatives-they-hire-promote-them-ncna1245308 


'People Are Going To Be Shocked': Return of the 'Shy' Trump Voter?
 In 2016, pollsters Arie Kapteyn and Robert Cahaly saw Trump
 coming. In 2020, they see polls again underestimating his
 support.
By ZACK STANTON
10/29/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/29/2020-polls-trump-biden-prediction-accurate-2016-433619 


Wilbur Ross Remained on Chinese Joint Venture Board
While Running U.S.-China Trade War
 Chinese documents show that the U.S. commerce secretary
 did not successfully step down from all his corporate
 commitments.
By Isaac Stone Fish
October 29, 2020
 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/29/ross-china-board-trade/ 


Fact check: Thin Blue Line flag has taken a prominent place at Trump rallies
Laura Schulte
Oct. 28, 2020
 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/28/fact-check-thin-blue-line-flag-prominent-trump-rallies/6058924002/ 


Er, Can I Ask a Few Questions About Abortion?
 You know who really reduced abortion numbers in the U.S.?
 President Obama, with the Affordable Care Act.
By Nicholas Kristof
Oct. 28, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/opinion/abortion-america-politics.html 


Let's Count All the Errors and Lies in Brett Kavanaugh's Defense
of Voter Suppression
By Mark Joseph Stern
Oct 27, 2020
 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/brett-kavanaugh-voter-suppression-wisconsin-mistakes.html 


Survey: CMS Cuts Will Harm Patients by Reducing Access to Surgical Care
 Cuts will force surgeons to make tough choices on patient intake and staffing
September 23, 2020
 https://www.surgicalcare.org/2020/09/23/survey-cms-cuts-will-harm-patients-by-reducing-access-to-surgical-care/ 


If there's another Trump term the FBI will turn into the
'Ministry of Truth' for his foes: ex-FBI agent
October 26, 2020
By Sarah K. Burris
 https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/if-theres-another-trump-term-the-fbi-will-turn-into-the-ministry-of-truth-for-his-foes-ex-fbi-agent/#.X5cjjISKD9Q.twitter 


They're Afraid. They're Buying Guns. But They're Not Voting for Trump.
 The drumbeat of national crisis is driving first-time gun sales
 across the country. The buyers aren't who you might expect.
By Ciara O'Rourke
10/25/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/25/first-time-gun-sales-not-voting-for-trump-430310 


Trump's execution list: President will immediately fire
'FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel,
Defense Secretary Mark Esper AND a long line of senior
officials' if he wins the White House
*   The names of the officials are reportedly atop Trump's
    post-election 'execution list', with multiple other
    senior officials also in the firing line 
*   Firing Wray, who has been in charge of the FBI since
    2017, will reportedly be Trump's first course of action,
    followed by the ousting of Haspel from the CIA 
*   The two sources told Axios that both Wray and Haspel
    are almost unanimously 'despised and distrusted' by
    Trump's inner circle 
*   Trump's ire was apparently struck with Wray after he
    failed to launch a formal investigation into Hunter
    Biden, the son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden 
*   As for Haspel,the opinion among the West Wing is that
    she sees her job as 'manipulating people and outcomes'
    causing suspicion over her motives 
*   Esper was said to have fallen from the president's favor
    when he rebuffed the idea of sending soldiers into the
    streets to combat racial injustice protests 
By Luke Kenton
Updated: 25 October 2020
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8878305/Trump-plans-fire-heads-FBI-CIA-Pentagon-wins-election.html 


How Fox News molds reality into a serialized TV drama
 The No. 1 news network tells "stories" in a surprisingly
 similar fashion to a show like Lost.
By Emily VanDerWerff
Oct 08, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/culture/21503196/fox-news-tv-drama-serialized-lost 


Facebook tries to sideline NYU research into political ad
targeting citing ban on bulk-data collection
Oct. 24, 2020
By Jeff Horwitz
 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-tries-to-sideline-nyu-research-into-political-ad-targeting-citing-ban-on-bulk-data-collection-2020-10-24 


Hospitals are full but some parts of Idaho refuse mask rules
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press
October 22, 2020
 https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article246658003.html?ac_cid=DM308519&ac_bid=-1657613734 


'Stunning' Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service
 President Trump's new directive allows thousands of
 federal jobs now filled through competition to be
 turned into at-will positions.
by Erich Wagner
October 22, 2020
 https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/10/president-trump-signs-directive-would-potentially-pull-thousands-federal-employees-policy-making-positions-out-competitive-service-making-them-will-employees/169481/ 


President Donald J. Trump Is Taking Action to Promote Good Governance
and Accountability Within the Federal Workforce
Issued on: October 21, 2020 
 To empower our civil servants to best help others, the
 government must always operate more efficiently and
 more securely.
President Donald J. Trump
 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-taking-action-promote-good-governance-accountability-within-federal-workforce/ 


Analysis: Questionable 'N.Y. Post' Scoop Driven By Ex-Hannity Producer
And Giuliani
October 17, 2020
David Folkenflik 
 https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924506867/analysis-questionable-n-y-post-scoop-driven-by-ex-hannity-producer-giuliani 


Donald Trump's biggest flaw: He's not that bright
By Steve Chapman
Nov 03, 2017
 https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/steve-chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-donald-trump-dumb-20171103-story.html 


What is Campus Reform?
August 2020
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Rj9_JFcPxTsuAkRUyroeprtT813nZO7zT_E5-fsTdk/edit 


Why the Alt-Right's Most Famous Woman Disappeared
 Lauren Southern could spew racist propaganda like no other.
 But the men around her were better at one thing:
 trafficking in ugly misogyny.
by Daniel Lombroso
October 16, 2020
 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/alt-right-star-racist-propagandist-has-no-regrets/616725/ 


How inequality is changing the Republican Party - and breaking American politics
 A new book tries to untangle the relationship between white
 identity politics and skyrocketing inequality.
By Ezra Klein
Aug 06, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/8/6/21354453/inequality-trump-election-populism-plutocracy-hacker-pierson-let-them-eat-tweets 


'Straight to Gunshots': How a U.S. Task Force Killed an Antifa Activist
 New accounts from the scene raise questions about whether
 Michael Reinoehl, suspected of killing a far-right Trump
 supporter, pulled out a gun before officers fatally shot him.
By Evan Hill, Mike Baker, Derek Knowles and Stella Cooper
Oct. 13, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/police-killing-portland-antifa-reinoehl.html 


Fetal Tissue Research Trump Opposes Used To Develop Antibody Therapy
He Praises As 'Cure'
Oct 09 2020
 https://khn.org/morning-breakout/fetal-tissue-research-trump-opposes-used-to-develop-antibody-therapy-he-praises-as-cure/ 


Oct. 5, 2020
Trump's New Supreme Court Is Coming for the Next Dozen Elections
By Richard L. Hasen
 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/trumps-new-supreme-court-is-coming-for-the-next-elections.html 


Will robots and AI take our jobs in covid-19's socially distanced era?
 Coronavirus has put a rocket under plans for more automation,
 roboticisation and use of AI. Should we fear for our jobs -
 or will we just get better ones?
07 October 2020
By Sandy Ong
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833031-000-will-robots-and-ai-take-our-jobs-in-covid-19s-socially-distanced-era/ 


Trump Engineered a Sudden Windfall in 2016 as Campaign Funds Dwindled
 Tax records expose more than $21 million in highly unusual payments
 from the Las Vegas hotel Donald Trump owns with Phil Ruffin, routed
 through other Trump companies and paid out in cash.
By Susanne Craig, Mike McIntire and Russ Buettner
Oct 09, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/09/us/donald-trump-taxes-las-vegas.html 


Michigan sheriff says accused terrorists were within their rights
to 'arrest' Gov. Whitmer
Jen Hayden
2020/10/09
 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/9/1985118/-Michigan-sheriff-says-accused-terrorists-were-within-their-rights-to-arrest-Governor-Whitmer 


The White House Bet on Abbott's Rapid Tests. It Didn't Work Out.
 Federal officials relied too heavily on the tests, then
 took the results for granted, experts say.
By Katherine J. Wu
Oct 06, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/health/covid-white-house-testing.html 


Chris Murphy thread on trump's coverup campaign to disguise
russian interference in election
Oct 01, 2020
 https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1311772832234385409 


A Citizen's Guide to Defending the Election
 Now is the time to prepare. Here's how.
06 Oct 2020
Anne Applebaum
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/a-citizens-guide-to-defending-the-election/616574/ 


Scientist create TRANSPARENT wood as clear as glass but stronger,
lighter and five times more thermally efficient
 * Scientists transformed wood from balsa trees into clear
   material that could replace conventional glass 
 * The team bleached the wood until it was nearly clear and
   then added a  synthetic polymer called polyvinyl alcohol
 * The innovation is five times more thermally efficient
   than traditional glass
 * It is also stronger and will bend instead of shattering
   if damaged  
By Stacy Liberatore
05 October 2020
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8807515/Scientist-create-TRANSPARENT-wood-clear-glass-five-times-thermally-efficient.html 


A mentally ill man, a heavily armed teenager and the night Kenosha burned
 Cast by conservatives as a battle between antifa agitators
 and a right-wing 'patriot,' this summer's deadliest
 protest-related incident was not quite what it seemed
By Robert Klemko and Greg Jaffe
October 3, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/03/kenosha-shooting-victims/ 


3,000 Ring Doorbell and Camera Accounts May Be Vulnerable to Hackers
 Ring users should change their passwords and enable two-factor authentication
By Daniel Wroclawski
December 19, 2019
 https://www.consumerreports.org/hacking/ring-doorbell-accounts-may-be-vulnerable-to-hackers/ 


Largest study of COVID-19 transmission highlights essential role
of super-spreaders
By Shashank Bengali
Sep. 30, 2020
 https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-30/largest-covid-19-transmission-study-highlights-super-spreaders 


Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy's changes with eye on election
 Many USPS employees see recent cost-cutting changes that
 have slowed mail delivery as violating the spirit, if not
 the letter, of the law.
By Jacob Bogage
September 29, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/29/usps-workers-election-mail/ 


How drones are waging a stealth war on the way we think about society
 Must-read book The Drone Age by Michael J. Boyle reveals how
 drone technology is challenging everything we do - and how
 we think about war and peace
30 September 2020
By Simon Ings
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833020-300-how-drones-are-waging-a-stealth-war-on-the-way-we-think-about-society/ 

In Profane Rant, Melania Trump Takes Aim at Migrant Children and Critics
 The audio recording puts the first lady's frustrations
 on full display just weeks before President Trump faces
 the voters in his bid for a second term.
By Michael D. Shear
Oct 01, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/politics/melania-trump-tapes.html 


THE ATTACK ON VOTING
 How President Trump's false claim of voter fraud is
 being used to disenfranchise Americans.
By Jim Rutenberg
Sept. 30, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/magazine/trump-voter-fraud.html 


How Trump Voters View His Position on Pre-existing Conditions
 He has pursued policies to weaken insurance protections,
 but that's not reflected in polling of Republicans.
By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz
Oct. 1, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/upshot/trump-pre-existing-conditions-polls.html 


American Hostage's Family Blasts Star NY Times Reporter's 'Lies'
 "If she told me it was sunny outside, I'd double check,"
 one senior Times journalist said about their high-profile
 colleague Rukmini Callimachi.
by Lachlan Cartwright, Maxwell Tani
Updated Oct. 01, 2020
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-foleys-family-blasts-star-ny-times-reporter-rukmini-callimachis-lies 


Hitler's Bullyboys: The Role of the SA in Nazi Germany
Graham Land
08 August 2018
 https://www.historyhit.com/hitlers-bullyboys-the-role-of-the-sa-in-nazi-germany/ 


Lying for Trump Comes With a Cost
The Atlantic Column / By Anne Applebaum
September 25, 2020
 https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2020/09/25/lying-for-trump-comes-with-a-cost/ 


The President's Taxes
Long-Concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance
 The Times obtained Donald Trump's tax information extending over
 more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast
 write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt
 coming due.
By Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire
Sept. 27, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html 


Modern Day Islamophobia Starts with the US and Israeli Right-Wing
But Ends With Saudi Arabia and the UAE
CJ Werleman
28 September 2020
 https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/28/modern-day-islamophobia-starts-with-the-us-and-israeli-right-wing-but-ends-with-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae/ 


The Contempt of "Notorious ACB"
 Applying Ruth Bader Ginsburg's nickname to Amy Coney Barrett
 is deliberately degrading.
By Dahlia Lithwick
Sept 27, 2020
 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/notorious-amy-coney-barrett-contempt.html 


Amy Klobuchar tearing Ted Cruz and his repubs a new one
Sept 26, 2020
 https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1310135204741353478?s=20 


They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won't Anybody Listen?
 This is a story about frustration, about watching the West
 burn when you fully understand why it's burning - and
 understand why it did not need to be this bad.

by Elizabeth Weil Aug. 28, 
 https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen 


Foreign Masks, Fear and a Fake Certification: Staff at CSL Plasma
Say Conditions at Donation Centers Aren't Safe
 Trump's FDA authorized emergency use of plasma therapy
 for COVID-19, despite a lack of proof that it saves lives.
 Staff at CSL Plasma, an industry leader, raised alarms
 about faulty masks as donors flooded in, but the FDA and
 OSHA were slow to act.
by J. David McSwane
Sept. 21, 2020
 https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-masks-fear-and-a-fake-certification-staff-at-csl-plasma-say-conditions-at-donation-centers-arent-safe 


Retired top general who advised Trump is among nearly 500 national
security experts endorsing Biden
By Michael Callahan and Kate Sullivan, CNN
September 24, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/politics/paul-selva-general-joe-biden/index.html 


Trump administration proposes punishing sites for 'censoring lawful speech'
or hosting illegal content
 The bill mirrors other Section 230 overhauls
By Adi Robertson
Sep 23, 2020
 https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/23/21453028/trump-justice-department-recommendations-section-230-reform-proposal-congress 


Secret CIA assessment: Putin 'probably directing' influence operation
to denigrate Biden
by Josh Rogin
September 22, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/ 


The Age of Electric Cars Is Dawning Ahead of Schedule
 Battery prices are dropping faster than expected.
 Analysts are moving up projections of when an
 electric vehicle won't need government incentives
 to be cheaper than a gasoline model.
By Jack Ewing
Sept. 20, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/electric-cars-batteries-tesla-elon-musk.html 


A Notorious COVID Troll Actually Works for Dr. Fauci's Agency
 Bill Crews is a PR official at the National Institutes of Health.
 But he also has another job: an anonymous RedState editor who
 rails against the agency for which he works.
By Lachlan Markay
Updated Sep. 21, 2020 
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/redstate-covid-troll-streiff-is-actually-bill-crews-and-he-actually-works-for-dr-anthony-fauci/ 


Tens of thousands rally against the government in Thailand,
inspired by student leaders
By Paritta Wangkiat and Shibani Mahtani
September 19, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tens-of-thousands-rally-against-the-government-in-thailand-inspired-by-student-leaders/2020/09/19/7686fada-f3e8-11ea-8025-5d3489768ac8_story.html 


The Russian opposition wins at the polls - while their leader
recovers from poisoning
by Vladimir Kara-Murza
September 18, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/18/russian-opposition-wins-polls-while-their-leader-recovers-poisoning/ 


An Experiment in Wisconsin Changed Voters' Minds About Trump
 Changing voters' minds is famously difficult, but a recent
 progressive effort found real success.
September 17, 2020
David A. Graham
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/experiment-wisconsin-might-reveal-key-defeating-trump/616367/ 


The Only Way to Change a Voter's Mind
 Inside the progressive effort to talk Trump voters
 into switching sides, one deep conversation at a time.
by Harry Cheadle
July 14, 2020
 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4wn/how-to-change-a-voters-mind-is-deep-canvassing 


Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. These 2 movies celebrate her legacy.
 On the Basis of Sex and RBG tell the late Supreme Court
 justice's story from two directions.
By Alissa Wilkinson
Sep 18, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/culture/21446224/ruth-bader-ginsburg-movies-basis-sex-rbg 


Trump Health Aide Falsely Alleges Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt
 Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of health for public
 affairs, told a Facebook audience without evidence that
 left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection,
 and he accused C.D.C. scientists of "sedition."
By Sharon LaFraniere
Sept. 14, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/caputo-virus.html 


Why Is This Happening? Explaining why Reality Winner is still in prison
with Kerry Howley: podcast and transcript
 Chris Hayes talks to New York Magazine's Kerry Howley about
 Reality Winner, convicted of leaking information about Russian
 election hacking.
Jan. 24, 2020
By Why Is This Happening?
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/explaining-why-reality-winner-still-prison-kerry-howley-podcast-transcript-ncna1119756 


This is Ascento 2
 (Reminds me of the Anime Rideback)
Feb 11, 2020
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yvoZhRTX-U 

QAnon site shutters after reports identifying developer
By Kaelan Deese
09/12/20
 https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/516146-qanon-site-shutters-after-reports-identifying-developer 


"Trumpism is an intense desire to get back at those 'other people.'"
 https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1303468159022723072?s=20 


The Biggest Trump Financial Mystery? Where He Came Up With the Cash
for His Scottish Resorts.
 Donald Trump dumped $400 million into his clubs in Aberdeen
 and Turnberry. Now, lawmakers in Edinburgh want to investigate
 him for money laundering.
Russ Choma
September/October 2020 Issue
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/the-biggest-trump-financial-mystery-where-he-came-up-with-the-cash-for-his-scottish-resorts/ 


NASA Chief No Longer Wants 'Expansion Of Human Knowledge' To Be A NASA Objective
William James
11Sep2020
 https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/science/nasa-chief-no-longer-wants-expansion-of-human-knowledge-to-be-a-nasa-objective-mawt8zWiykChca0jGME5Iw 


'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus
in new Woodward book
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN
September 9, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html 


Why every year-but especially 2020-feels like the worst ever
 Unfettered media consumption skews our perception of the present.
 Here's how to break the cycle.
By Rebecca Renner
September 4, 2020
 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/why-2020-feels-like-the-worst-year-ever/ 


New Study Finds Transgender Kids' Brains Resemble Their Gender Identity
William James
Sept 08, 2020
 https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/science/new-study-finds-transgender-kids-brains-resemble-their-gender-identity-MAK4hCDgAU61w7arUZKY-g 


Science: If You Want To Make A Lie Seem True Keep Repeating It
JakeThomas
Sept 2020
 https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/science/science-if-you-want-to-make-a-lie-seem-true-keep-repeating-it-XHWbxdk3302DRlgr--GkxQ 


A national US power grid would make electricity cheaper and cleaner
 The top 5 reasons to stitch together America's balkanized grids.
By David Roberts
Jun 20, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/20/21293952/renewable-energy-power-national-grid-transmission-microgrids 


How the Pandemic Defeated America
 A virus has brought the world's most powerful country to its knees.
by Ed Yong
September 2020 Issue
 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ 


QAnon is conspiratorial, dangerous, and growing.
And we're talking about it all wrong.
by Brian Stelter, CNN Business
August 15, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/media/qanon-news-coverage/index.html 


The Market for Voting Machines Is Broken. This Company Has Thrived in It.
 Half the country votes on machines made by ES&S. Many experts
 and election officials say the manufacturer remains dominant
 because there's little government regulation and almost no
 oversight.
by Jessica Huseman
Oct. 28, 2019
 https://www.propublica.org/article/the-market-for-voting-machines-is-broken-this-company-has-thrived-in-it 


Louis DeJoy's rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say
By Aaron C. Davis, Amy Gardner and Jon Swaine
September 06, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html 


Kyle Rittenhouse and his militia defense ignores that
private paramilitaries are illegal
 A militia operates under the authority of the president
 or a governor; if it doesn't, it's just an armed mob.
Sept 05, 2020
By Erik Schechter,
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kyle-rittenhouse-his-militia-defense-ignores-private-paramilitaries-are-illegal-ncna1239397 >/a?


Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather
 Royal decree ordered Friedrich Trump to leave Bavaria
 and never come back after he failed to do military service
Kate Connolly
21 Nov 2016 
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree 


This Is a Story About Abortion, No One Will Read It
Marie Solis
01Sep20
 https://jezebel.com/this-is-a-story-about-abortion-no-one-will-read-it-1844778770 


Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world's oceans
01 September 2020
By Mark Harris 
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732980-500-silicon-valley-billionaires-want-to-geoengineer-the-worlds-oceans/ 


Did Putin order Russia's latest poison attack?
What Navalny's Novichok diagnosis tells us
 No matter who is pulling the strings, the poisoning of
 Alexei Navalny clearly reflects the growing impunity
 with which Russia's security services are operating at
 home and abroad.
Sept. 03, 2020
By Aric Toler, director of research and training at Bellingcat
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/did-putin-order-russia-s-latest-poison-attack-what-navalny-ncna1239143 


Trump Stopped Going to Dover AFB To Receive Bodies After Getting Berated
On First Visit
S.V. Date
September 01, 2020
 https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/donald-trump-dover-afb-returning-soldiers-bodies-lie-230020927.html 


Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased.
Prosecutors say that's not what happened.
By Matt Zapotosky
September 3, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-claims-a-man-collected-1700-ballots-and-filled-them-out-as-he-pleased-prosecutors-say-thats-not-what-happened/2020/09/03/923aafac-ee2e-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html 


Why Is Georgia GOP Sending Absentee Ballot Applications To New Jersey?
 An update to our story from Pennsylvania. State GOPs are sending
 absentee ballot applications to people who never lived in their
 state. It smells very fishy
By Frances Langum
09/02/20
 https://crooksandliars.com/2020/09/why-georgia-gop-sending-absentee-ballot 


Trump Stopped Going to Dover AFB To Receive Bodies After Getting Berated
On First Visit
S.V. Date
Sept 01, 2020
 https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/donald-trump-dover-afb-returning-soldiers-bodies-lie-230020927.html 


Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'
 The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of
 service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept
 out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
Jeffrey Goldberg
03Sep2020
 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ 


Pasco's sheriff uses data to guess who will commit crime.
Then deputies 'hunt down' and harass them.
 A Times investigation into an intelligence program
 that turned into a system of organized harassment.
By Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi
03Sep20
 https://www.tampabay.com/news/pasco/2020/09/03/pascos-sheriff-uses-data-to-guess-who-will-commit-crime-then-deputies-hunt-down-and-harass-them/ 


The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals
of Color
 A respected, combat-tested Black colonel has been passed over
 three times for promotion to brigadier general. What does his
 fate say about the Corps?
By Helene Cooper
Aug. 31, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/us/politics/marines-race-general.html 


'A downright dirty plan': Trump admin quietly pulls funding
for disinfecting N.Y. subways, schools
By Chris Sommerfeldt
Sep 03, 2020
 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-coronavirus-trump-pulls-funding-20200903-5nlxvmprwneifpk4lgmcb7hpwa-story.html 


'I want the people of God to enjoy liberty': Pastor at Maine
super-spreader wedding gives defiant indoor sermon
By Zoe Greenberg
August 31, 2020
 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/31/metro/i-want-people-god-enjoy-liberty-pastor-maine-super-spreader-wedding-gives-defiant-indoor-sermon/ 


DHS withheld July intelligence bulletin calling out Russian attack
on Biden's mental health
 The Trump campaign has repeatedly engaged in a similar line of attack.
By Josh Margolin, Lucien Bruggeman, Will Steakin, and Jonathan Karl
September 2, 2020,
 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-withheld-july-intelligence-bulletin-calling-russian-attack/story?id=72747130 


International Criminal Court officials sanctioned by US
Sep 02, 2020
 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54003527 


I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared
That I Was Black.
 Most of my colleagues crossed the U.S. border with barely
 a glance. Why was I usually detained and harassed? 
By TIANNA SPEARS
08/30/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/30/black-us-diplomat-customs-border-protection-cbp-detained-harassed-325676 


Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings
 Footage appears to show a teenager shooting three people during
 protests in Wisconsin. We tracked his movements that night.
By Haley Willis, Muyi Xiao, Christiaan Triebert, Christoph Koettl,
   Stella Cooper, David Botti, John Ismay and Ainara Tiefenthäler
Published Aug. 27, 2020, Updated Aug. 28, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting-video.html 


Infected by doubt
 A 26-year-old film editor's descent into coronavirus vaccine
 conspiracy theories
By Peter Jamison
August 31, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/08/31/covid-19-vaccine-conspiracy-theories-public-support/ 


Secret White House Coronavirus Task Force Reports Contradict
Public Claims by Trump, Pence
Ramsey Touchberry
31Aug2020
 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newspolitics/secret-white-house-coronavirus-task-force-reports-contradict-public-claims-by-trump-pence/ar-BB18yl1B?ocid=DE_20200831_ENUS_coronavirus_2 


Here's What You Need to Know About the Fatal Shooting of a Trump
Supporter in Portland
 "Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the
 first time in decades that America has seen this level of
 violence?" asked the visibly angry mayor of Portland.
by David Gilbert
August 31, 2020
 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dzaqd/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-fatal-shooting-of-a-trump-supporter-in-portland 


Kenosha police arrested volunteers who were on their way to deliver
food to protesters
By Harmeet Kaur
31Aug2020
 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kenosha-police-arrested-volunteers-who-were-on-their-way-to-deliver-food-to-protesters/ar-BB18z11j?ocid=DE_20200831_ENUS_coronavirus_3 


DOJ kept investigators from completing probe of Trump ties to Russia: report
By Zack Budryk
08/31/20
 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/514371-doj-kept-investigators-from-completing-probe-of-trump-ties-to-russia 


'I Moved on Her Very Heavily': Part 1
 Fifteen years ago, the writer Natasha Stoynoff went
 to Mar-a-Lago to interview Donald and Melania Trump
 on the occasion of their first anniversary.
Story by E. Jean Carroll
August 26, 2020 
 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/i-moved-on-her-very-heavily-trumps-accusers-speak/615664/ 


The most shocking line in Vice President Pence's 2020 RNC speech
 Pence blames right-wing violence on a vague leftist enemy.
 (when the shooting he referenced was actually the action of a
  Boogaloo Boy)
By Ian Millhiser
Aug 27, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/8/27/21403670/mike-pence-vice-president-boogaloo-boys-rnc-2020-dave-patrick-underwood 


Why police encouraged a teenager with a gun to patrol Kenosha's streets
 Police in Wisconsin told armed militia members that "we
 appreciate you guys." Some new research helps us understand
 the racial roots of their irresponsible behavior.
By Zack Beauchamp
Aug 27, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/8/27/21404117/kenosha-kyle-rittenhouse-police-gun-populism 


Long-awaited Celera 500L 'bullet' plane is finally revealed
Maureen O'Hare, CNN
28 August 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/celera-500l-plane/index.html 


Kenosha shooting suspect called a friend to say he 'killed somebody,'
police say, and then shot two others
By Faith Karimi, CNN
August 28, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting/index.html 


New Hot-Mic Video: What Trump Told His Lawyer When He Didn't Know
a Camera Was Rolling
 The revealing footage was shot during a deposition in the
 Trump University fraud case.
David Corn
27Aug20
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/new-hot-mic-video-what-trump-told-his-lawyer-when-he-didnt-know-a-camera-was-rolling/ 


The 8 Types of People You Meet at the Trump Hotel
A field guide to Trumpworld's "breeding ground."
Zach Everson
September/October 2020 Issue
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/the-8-types-of-people-you-meet-at-the-trump-hotel/ 


Trump had public meltdown over missed phone call from Putin,
former No 10 aide says
 'If Putin wants a call with me you just put him through,'
 US president yelled according to Theresa May's former
 chief of staff 
Adam Forrest
27Aug20
 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-meltdown-missed-phone-call-putin-mike-flynn-theresa-may-meeting-a9691001.html 


The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally
In January
 Kyle Rittenhouse's social media is filled with references to
 "Blue Lives Matter."
Ellie Hall, Amber Jamieson, Tasneem Nashrulla
August 26, 2020
 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/kenosha-suspect-kyle-rittenhouse-trump-rally 


Suspect arrested after 2 are killed at Kenosha protest
MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and SCOTT BAUER
Aug 26th 2020
 https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/08/26/suspect-arrested-after-2-are-killed-at-kenosha-protest/24600259/ 


Now showing in Manhattan Federal Court: Pirates of the Film Studios
Aug 25th, 2020
 https://pastebin.com/USsRynXr 


Former Trump DHS officials launch anti-Trump group
 Miles Taylor has recruited current and former Trump
 administration officials to the cause.
By DANIEL LIPPMAN
08/24/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/24/trump-miles-taylor-group-story-401226 


Air pollution is much worse than we thought
 Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.
By David Roberts
Aug 12, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths 


Court pares back federal Anti-Riot Act
 But 4th Circuit judges uphold the use of the 1968 law
 to convict two men for violence at the "Unite the Right"
 rally in Charlottesville, Va.
By JOSH GERSTEIN
08/24/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/24/court-pares-back-federal-anti-riot-act-400999 


Trump was too focused on white men to make the economy truly great
 He could have induced a generation-defining boom. He chose not to.
By Jim Tankersley
August 20, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-was-too-focused-on-white-men-to-make-the-economy-truly-great/2020/08/20/d948e886-ddae-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html 


In secretly recorded audio, President Trump's sister says
he has 'no principles' and 'you can't trust him'
By Michael Kranish
August 22, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maryanne-trump-barry-secret-recordings/2020/08/22/30d457f4-e334-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html 


Exclusive: FDA enforcement actions plummet under Trump
By Charles Piller
Jul 02, 2019
 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/exclusive-fda-enforcement-actions-plummet-under-trump# 


March 31, 2020
Michael Hobbes, Matt Giles, Una Janicijevic, Gladeye 
 https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/ 


A national US power grid would make electricity cheaper and cleaner
 The top 5 reasons to stitch together America's balkanized grids.
By David Roberts
Jun 20, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/20/21293952/renewable-energy-power-national-grid-transmission-microgrids 


The Biggest Trump Financial Mystery? Where He Came Up With the Cash
for His Scottish Resorts.
 Donald Trump dumped $400 million into his clubs in Aberdeen
 and Turnberry. Now, lawmakers in Edinburgh want to investigate
 him for money laundering.
Russ Choma
September/October 2020 Issue
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/the-biggest-trump-financial-mystery-where-he-came-up-with-the-cash-for-his-scottish-resorts/ 


The US food system is killing Americans
by Akash Goel, Michel Nischan, Bill Frist and Tom Colicchio
August 7, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/opinions/us-nutrition-insecurity-snap-goel-nischan-frist-coliccio/index.html 


Aug 05, 2020
'Caste' Explodes The Myth Of American Exceptionalism
 Isabel Wilkerson's ambitious new book seeks to reframe
 American racism - and place it among a pantheon of
 other brutal caste systems.
By Claire Fallon
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isabel-wilkerson-caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents_n_5f296473c5b68fbfc88811b3 


Schumer's overblown attack on GOP proposal for medical malpractice lawsuits
By Salvador Rizzo
August 06, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/06/schumers-overblown-attack-gop-proposal-medical-malpractice-lawsuits/ 


Aug. 9, 2020
The Good (But Not Great) News About T-Cells and Herd Immunity
By David Wallace-Wells
 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/reasons-for-covid-19-optimism-on-t-cells-and-herd-immunity.html 


Anon is conspiratorial, dangerous, and growing.
And we're talking about it all wrong.
Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN Business
August 15, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/media/qanon-news-coverage/index.html 


What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?
By Nick Romeo
August 18, 2020
 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-can-america-learn-from-europe-about-regulating-big-tech 


Trump dropped into Iowa - and didn't even try to understand the devastation
 The climate crisis is hitting the heartland hard - but Republicans
 just want to force our kids into COVID schools
by Jeff Biggers
August 19, 2020
o https://www.salon.com/2020/08/19/trump-dropped-into-iowa--and-didnt-even-try-to-understand-the-devastation/ 


The Top Five "Revelations" of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia Report
 We knew most of this stuff already. What's shocking is how it
 would end most presidencies - but not Trump's.
By Jeremy Stahl
Aug 18, 2020
 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/senate-intelligence-russia-report-mueller-comparison.html 


How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
 Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be
 the key to Qanon's spread - and the originators'
 financial gain.
By Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins
Aug. 14, 2018
 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531 


Why Recent Republican Presidents Have Been Economic Failures
 Joe Biden should remind Americans that Democrats have
 been better stewards of the economy for decades.
By Michael Tomasky
Aug. 20, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/opinion/democrats-republicans-economy.html 


America Has Two Feet. It's About to Lose One of Them.
 For decades, U.S. metrologists have juggled two
 conflicting measurements for the foot. Henceforth,
 only one shall rule.
By Alanna Mitchell
Aug. 18, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html 


'Like Armageddon': Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities
amid cutbacks
By Laura J. Nelson, Maya Lau
Aug. 20, 2020
 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-20/usps-cutbacks-post-office-chaos 


How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
 Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to
 be the key to Qanon's spread - and the originators'
 financial gain.
Aug. 14, 2018
By Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins
 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531 


Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting
 'This will slow mail processing,' a union official wrote
 on one of the documents announcing the machine removals.
by Aaron Gordon
August 14, 2020
 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyv4k/internal-usps-documents-outline-plans-to-hobble-mail-sorting 


Postmaster Louis DeJoy Gave Millions to Republican Candidates.
Will the GOP Bite the Hand that Fed Them?
 Top Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy
 took DeJoy's campaign cash. Can they hold him accountable?
By Tim Dickinson
August 19, 2020
 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/can-republicans-honest-oversight-millionaire-postmaster-dejoy-1046382/ 


How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights - and fueled the viral
anti-mask phenomenon
 Researchers and experts say QAnon has emerged in recent
 months as a sort of centralized hub for conspiracy and
 alternative health communities.
By Ben Collins
Aug. 14, 2020
 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-qanon-rode-pandemic-new-heights-fueled-viral-anti-mask-n1236695?utm_source=pocket-newtab 


Six revelations in Senate intel report on 2016 Russian interference
 The bipartisan report provides new details on Trump's
 conversations with Roger Stone and the activities of
 the president's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
By Ken Dilanian
Aug. 18, 2020
 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/five-revelations-senate-intel-report-2016-russian-interference-n1237184 


What Is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory?
 Explaining the "big tent conspiracy theory" that
 falsely claims that President Trump is facing down
 a shadowy cabal of Democratic pedophiles.
By Kevin Roose
Aug. 18, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html 


Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: Election Threat Update
for the American Public
ODNI News Release No. 29-20
Friday, 07 August 2020 13:07 
 https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public 


What's wrong with the mail
 As November nears, the Postal Service is facing a
 crisis that could interfere with the election.
By Adam Clark Estes
Aug 17, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/7/21358946/postal-service-mail-delays-election-trump-mail-in-ballots 


How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects
in 11 lines of JavaScript
 Code pulled from NPM - which everyone was using
23 Mar 2016
Chris Williams
 https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ 


The Alarming Scope of the President's Emergency Powers
 From seizing control of the internet to declaring martial
 law, President Trump may legally do all kinds of
 extraordinary things.
January/February 2019 Issue
by Elizabeth Goitein
 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/ 


August 16, 2020
Rewriting the limits of presidential powers
Story produced by Deirdre Cohen. Editor: Ed Givnish.
 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rewriting-the-limits-of-presidential-powers/ 


QAnon Promotes Pedo-Ring Conspiracy Theories. Now They're Stealing Kids.
 The far-right fringe group infamous for promoting nutjob
 conspiracy theories about pedophile rings has moved on to
 criminally meddling in child custody cases.
Will Sommer
Aug. 15, 2020
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-promotes-pedo-ring-conspiracy-theories-now-theyre-stealing-kids 


I Resigned from U.S. Government After My Own Leaders Began to
Act Like the Autocrats I Analyzed
by Kyle Murphy
August 13, 2020
 https://www.justsecurity.org/72008/i-resigned-from-u-s-government-after-my-own-leaders-began-to-act-like-the-autocrats-i-analyzed/ 


'QAnon' book claiming Democrats eat children is climbing the Amazon charts
Published: March 5, 2019
By Shawn Langlois
 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/qanon-book-claiming-democrats-eat-children-is-climbing-the-amazon-charts-2019-03-05 


QAnon Followers Are Hijacking the #SaveTheChildren Movement
 Fans of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory are clogging
 anti-trafficking hotlines, infiltrating Facebook groups
 and raising false fears about child exploitation.
By Kevin Roose
Aug. 12, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/qanon-save-the-children-trafficking.html 


South Dakota health officials watch for the coronavirus as motorcyclists descend
By Chelsea Janes
August 11, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/south-dakota-health-officials-watch-for-the-coronavirus-as-motorcyclists-descend/2020/08/11/73cf9f30-dbfc-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html 


The Republican Party just took another step toward a dangerous conspiracy theory
By Chris Cillizza
August 12, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-georgia-donald-trump/index.html 


From Reagan to Trump:
Here's how stocks performed under each president
By Matt Egan, Annalyn Kurtz, Tal Yellin and Will Houp
Data updated August 12, 2020 
 https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/business/stock-market-by-president/ 


Military helicopter shot at over Virginia, injuring a crew member
By Barbara Starr and Zachary Cohen
August 12, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/fbi-investigating-air-force-helicopter-shooting/index.html 


Covid-19 in the classroom becomes stark reality for parents
who've sent their children back to school
By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris
August 12, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/georgia-schools-parents-coronavirus-wellness/index.html 


Black teens who were victims of a knife attack had guns drawn on them
by deputies, lawyer says
By Alex WigglesworthStaff Writer 
Aug. 10, 2020
 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-10/sheriffs-deputies-held-black-teens-at-gunpoint-after-they-were-called-to-help-attorney-says 


Campaign fact check: Here's how Kamala Harris really prosecuted marijuana cases
 As district attorney, Harris oversaw 1,900 convictions for pot offenses
By Casey Tolan
UPDATED: September 12, 2019
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/ 


Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump's Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies
 Last year, intelligence officials gathered to write a classified
 report on Russia's interest in the 2020 election. An investigation
 from the magazine uncovered what happened next.
By Robert Draper
Published Aug. 8, 2020, Updated Aug. 10, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/magazine/us-russia-intelligence.html 


How Often Do Men and Women Think About Sex?
 The scientist behind a new study explains the results.
Brian Mustanski Ph.D.
Posted Dec 06, 2011 
 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-sexual-continuum/201112/how-often-do-men-and-women-think-about-sex 


What if It's All Burned Down Already?
 If fusionist conservatism is in ashes, then it's time to build something new.
by Robert Tracinski
August 09, 2020
 https://thebulwark.com/what-if-its-all-burned-down-already/ 


The Numbers Behind Maureen Dowd's 21-Year Long Campaign Against Hillary Clinton
 72 Percent Of Dowd Columns Negative Towards Clinton
Written by Oliver Willis & Hannah Groch-Begley
Published 06/18/14
 https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/numbers-behind-maureen-dowds-21-year-long-campaign-against-hillary-clinton 


Anti-maskers explain themselves
 "If I'm going to get Covid and die from it, then so be it."
By Emily Stewart
Aug 07, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/8/7/21357400/anti-mask-protest-rallies-donald-trump-covid-19 


U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working With Russia to Reelect Trump
By Jonathan Chait
07Aug2020
 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/russia-ukraine-trump-biden-intelligence-foreign-interference-election.html 


Two Black moms took their kids to the Mall. Secret Service officers
confronted them with guns, they said.
By Katie Mettler
August 03, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/two-black-moms-took-their-kids-to-the-mall-secret-service-confronted-them-with-guns-they-said/2020/08/03/be4dfa8c-d4f1-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html 


Can a Group of Policy Experts Prevent an Election Catastrophe in 2020?
 COVID-19, Russia, hurricanes, and Trump-the threats to
 American democracy are many.
David Corn
June 30, 2020
o https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/can-a-group-of-policy-experts-prevent-an-election-catastrophe-in-2020/ 

It was all a lie
By Michael A. Cohen Globe Columnist
Updated August 1, 2020
 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/01/opinion/it-was-all-lie/ 


Inside Trump's Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus
 The roots of the nation's current inability to control the pandemic
 can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly
 rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on.
By Michael D. Shear, Noah Weiland, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman
   and David E. Sanger
Published July 18, 2020
Updated July 28, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-response-failure-leadership.html 


System Failure
A small federal agency focused on preventing industrial disasters is on
life support. Trump wants it gone.
By Alexia Fernández Campbell
2020-06-30
 https://www.vox.com/2020/6/30/21295779/trump-system-failure 


Lured to America - then trapped
 Visas for farmworkers have surged under Trump. But the
 program has subjected some workers to horrific abuse.
By Suzy Khimm and Daniella Silva
July 29, 2020
 https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/h2a-visa-program-for-farmworkers-surging-under-trump-and-labor-violations/index.html 


'You cannot imagine my guilt': Trump voter thought COVID-19 was a 'hoax'
- then it swept through his family
July 28, 2020
By Alex Henderson, AlterNet
 https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/you-cannot-imagine-my-guilt-trump-voter-thought-19-was-a-hoax-then-it-swept-through-his-family/ 


'Umbrella man' who sparked Minneapolis riots identified as racist
biker gang member
July 28, 2020
By Travis Gettys
 https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/umbrella-man-who-sparked-minneapolis-riots-identified-as-racist-biker-gang-member/ 


Why the national security adviser's Covid-19 infection is a national
security problem
by Samantha Vinograd
July 27, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/opinions/national-security-adviser-obrien-covid-vinograd/index.html 


Are Americans Receiving Unsolicited Mailings of Seeds from China?
 Numerous U.S. residents have reported receiving seeds in
 the mail from China that they did not order.
David Mikkelson
25 July 2020
 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-seed-mailings/ 


Big Tech Funds a Think Tank Pushing for Fewer Rules. For Big Tech.
 Google, Amazon and Qualcomm finance a George Mason University
 institute teaching a hands-off approach to antitrust regulators
 and judges.
By Daisuke Wakabayashi
July 24, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/technology/global-antitrust-institute-google-amazon-qualcomm.html 


American exceptionalism was our preexisting condition
By Dan Zak
July 23, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/american-exceptionalism-was-our-preexisting-condition/2020/07/22/158f5ab0-cabc-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html 


CREW Offers New Evidence of Misconduct Against Pence Chief of Staff
July 02, 2020
CONTACT: Jenna Grande
 https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/crew-offers-new-evidence-of-misconduct-against-pence-chief-of-staff/ 


Fair Elections During a Crisis: Bipartisan and Diverse Blue-Ribbon
Group of Scholars and Thinkers Releases Report on Urgent Changes
Needed for November U.S. Elections
 Ad Hoc Committee for 2020 Election Fairness and Legitimacy
 Issues Recommendations in Law, Tech, Politics, and Media
 to Advance Election Legitimacy and Voter Confidence
04-28-2020 
 https://www.law.uci.edu/news/press-releases/2020/fair-elections-report.html 


The November Election Is Going to Be a Mess
 Disaster is avoidable - if lawmakers act now.
July 22, 2020
Norm Ornstein
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/november-election-going-be-mess/614296/ 


Blocked gun sales skyrocket amid coronavirus pandemic
 Background-check data shared with POLITICO shows that
 blocked gun sales more than doubled this spring.
By BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN
07/23/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/23/blocked-gun-sales-skyrocket-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-379452 


One roadblock to police reform: Veteran officers who train recruits
 Field trainers teach new police officers "the old way of doing
 things," according to a former Justice Department lawyer who
 investigated them.
July 22, 2020
By Simone Weichselbaum
 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-roadblock-police-reform-veteran-officers-who-train-recruits-n1234532 


Flapping drone can fly, dart and hover like a bird
By Jason Arunn Murugesu
22 July 2020
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2249612-flapping-drone-can-fly-dart-and-hover-like-a-bird/ 


Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents
 After Trump said he would send agents to more cities, Philly's
 district attorney lays out how he might criminally charge federal
 officers.
By Brentin Mock
July 22, 2020
 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/philly-d-a-threatens-to-arrest-federal-agents 


What Could Happen if Donald Trump Rejects Electoral Defeat?
By Masha Gessen
July 21, 2020
 https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-could-happen-if-donald-trump-rejects-electoral-defeat 


The New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail
 In a trove of documents published online, Roy Den Hollander
 directed misogynistic and racist insults at U.S. District
 Court Judge Esther Salas, and expressed support for the
 president.
Joshua Benton
21Jul2020
 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/judge-esther-salas-shooting-suspect-left-pro-trump-paper-trail/614425/ 


Jul 21, 2020
How Donald Trump Moved Millions From His Campaign Donors To His Private Business
 Millions from his campaign, millions from the RNC, millions
 from committees. While other billionaires spend big on the
 election, the Donald is raking it in.
By Dan Alexander, Michela Tindera
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/07/21/how-donald-trump-moved-millions-from-his-campaign-donors-to-his-private-business/ 


Violent protest clashes turned Portland into a 'right-wing boogeyman.'
Here's how it happened.
By Katie Shepherd
July 21, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/21/portland-feds-protests/ 


This Republican governor just totally missed the point on the school
reopening debate
Chris Cillizza
July 20, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/politics/mike-parson-missouri-governor-school-reopening/index.html 


Portland's Pretext: Barr's Long History Manipulating Law to Put
Federal Forces on U.S. Streets
by Ryan Goodman and Danielle Schulkin
July 19, 2020
 https://www.justsecurity.org/71512/portlands-pretext-barrs-long-history-manipulating-law-to-put-federal-forces-on-u-s-streets/ 


Mayor of Portland to Trump: Get Your Troops Out of the City
 The ACLU of Oregon said the federal agents appear to
 be violating citizens' rights.
Associated Press
17 July 2020
 https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/07/17/mayor-of-portland-to-trump-get-your-troops-out-of-the-city/ 


Police didn't alert dispatch about Breonna Taylor until 27 minutes after
they shot her. An injured officer was on his way to the hospital within
10 minutes of being shot.
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
17Jul2020
 https://www.insider.com/breonna-taylor-alive-after-police-shot-her-wasnt-treated-2020-7 


Border Patrol Responsible for Portland Arrest
 An internal memo, obtained exclusively by The Nation,
 details a coordinated program of domestic counterinsurgency.
By Ken Klippenstein
17Jul2020
 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/border-patrol-portland-arrest/  https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/07/17/the-federal-police-operations-will-not-stay-in-portland/?updated=1595014735#comment-7781436 


Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off
Portland Streets
by Jonathan Levinson and Conrad Wilson
July 17, 2020
 https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/ 


US travel bans came too late for New York City, CDC study finds
By Jen Christensen and Devan Cole
July 16, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/us-travel-bans-late-new-york-city-coronavirus/index.html 


About the period in 1970 when the student Union fire occured, when the National Guard deployed in Lawrence, when we had curfews.
16Jul2020 is the day I read this page
 https://watkinsmuseumexhibit.wixsite.com/daysofrage 


More Than Just a Fire: The Implications of the Bonhomme Richard Catastrophe
Bryan McGrath
July 16, 2020
 https://warontherocks.com/2020/07/more-than-just-a-fire-the-implications-of-the-bonhomme-richard-catastrophe/ 


Mike Huckabee's History For Kids Company Accused Of Scamming Parents
 Learn Our History's $1 gift promotion comes with a hidden (and costly) catch.
By Jesselyn Cook
07/15/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-huckabee-history-kids-company-scam-parents_n_5f0f2d39c5b6df6cc0b46c1c 


The nation is in a downward spiral. Worse is still to come.
Opinion by George F. Will
July 15, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-national-decline-looks-like/2020/07/14/ef499fd4-c5f0-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html 


Rush Limbaugh invokes the Donner party as an example of the republican way
14Jul2020
 https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1283184343553277953?s=20 


'My son died the worst kind of death': Horrific details of violent
unrest in Ethiopia
Zecharias Zelalem
14 Jul 2020
 https://mg.co.za/africa/2020-07-14-my-son-died-the-worst-kind-of-death-horrific-details-of-violent-unrest-in-ethiopia/ 


'A lot of uncertainty': Staffers at renowned McClatchy newspapers
mull bankruptcy sale to tabloid-owning hedge fund
By Paul Farhi
July 14, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-lot-of-uncertainty-staff-of-renowned-mcclatchy-newspapers-mull-bankruptcy-sale-to-tabloid-owning-hedge-fund/2020/07/13/0264079a-c537-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html 


A Teenager Didn't Do Her Online Schoolwork.
So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.
 A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the
 coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not
 completing her schoolwork violated her probation.
 "It just doesn't make any sense," said the girl's
 mother.
by Jodi S. Cohen
July 14, 2020
 https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention 


Don't Fall For The 'Cancel Culture' Scam
 Anecdotes are not data, free speech is not under attack
 - and elite journalists should find something else to
 write about.
headshot
By Michael Hobbes
07/10/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cancel-culture-harpers-jk-rowling-scam_n_5f0887b4c5b67a80bc06c95e 


Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so
By Robert S. Mueller III
July 11, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/ 


Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist
and sexist remarks in online forum
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
July 10, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html 


Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in federal virus aid
By BRIAN SLODYSKO
05Jul20
 https://apnews.com/2edf8670a491a702ecfb7312f507f83a 


How tragic that a Republican president is undermining economic and
political freedom
by Anne Applebaum
September 13, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-tragic-that-a-republican-president-is-undermining-economic-and-political-freedom/2019/09/13/d9ba1d1a-d640-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html 


Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench
By MICHAEL BERENS and JOHN SHIFFMAN
June 30, 2020
 https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-judges-misconduct/ 


This town of 170,000 replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers.
It's worked for over 30 years
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
July 5, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/cahoots-replace-police-mental-health-trnd/index.html 


Circles in space made of radio waves are like nothing we've ever seen
03 July 2020
By Jason Arunn Murugesu
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247978-circles-in-space-made-of-radio-waves-are-like-nothing-weve-ever-seen/ 


How Trump Could Lose the Election-And Still Remain President
Timothy E. Wirth and Tom Rogers , Editor-at-Large for Newsweek
July 03, 2020
 https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975 


The GOP Is Abandoning the American Idea
 Do we still hold the proposition that "all men are created equal"
 to be self-evident? The party of Trump is turning instead toward
 the idea of the Confederacy.
by George Thomas
July 3, 2020
 https://thebulwark.com/the-gop-is-abandoning-the-american-idea/ 


'The Most Ignorant and Unfit': What Made America's Worst Ever Leader?
David Rothkopf
July 03, 2020
 https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/07/03/the-most-ignorant-and-unfit-what-made-americas-worst-ever-leader/ 


'Burned to the ground': Anti-Trump Republicans set new goal of
defeating the GOP Senate
By David Catanese and Alex Roarty
July 02, 2020
 https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article243939577.html 


Jeff Sessions appears to refer to celebrated Black scholar as 'some criminal'
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
July 01, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/jeff-sessions-henry-louis-gates/index.html 


Money actually can buy happiness, study finds
By Tara Bahrampour
July 1, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/money-can-buy-happiness/2020/07/01/3c2fc554-bb5a-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html 


You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument
 The black people I come from were owned and raped by the
 white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate
 them?
By Caroline Randall Williams
   Ms. Williams is a poet.
June 26, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html 


The data is in: Fox News may have kept millions from taking the
coronavirus threat seriously
By Margaret Sullivan
June 28, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-data-is-in-fox-news-may-have-kept-millions-from-taking-the-coronavirus-threat-seriously/2020/06/26/60d88aa2-b7c3-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html 


Poll: A growing number of Americans think the worst of the coronavirus is over,
even as cases spike
 Pew Research Center found a growing share of Americans
 - and most Republicans - believe the US has already
 been through the worst of Covid-19.
By Riley Beggin
Jun 27, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/27/21305526/poll-40-percent-americans-think-worst-coronavirus-over-even-as-cases-spike 


What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality
 What our senses allow us to experience may not reflect what
 actually exists. It may be a creation of our own consciousness,
 or a computer simulation designed by superintelligent beings
Physics 29 January 2020
By Donna Lu , Alison George , Daniel Cossins and Layal Liverpool
 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532670-800-what-you-experience-may-not-exist-inside-the-strange-truth-of-reality/ 


Russian operation targeted coalition troops in Afghanistan, intelligence finds
By Ellen Nakashima, Missy Ryan, John Hudson and Shane Harris 
June 27, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-operation-targeted-coalition-troops-in-afghanistan-intelligence-finds/2020/06/26/ac710092-b80f-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html 


Feds Point to Daily Caller Writer as Part of Abramoff Payola Scheme
 Derek Hunter says he wasn't paid by the disgraced lobbyist
 to plug his bitcoin project. But the SEC cites his article,
 among others, in their complaint.
Will Sommer
Updated Jun. 26, 2020
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-point-to-daily-caller-writer-as-part-of-jack-abramoff-payola-scheme 


Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops,
Intelligence Says
 The Trump administration has been deliberating for months
 about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.
By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz
June 26, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html 


New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have
intensified the severity of the pandemic
 The three studies paint a picture of a media ecosystem that
 entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from
 taking steps to protect themselves and others
By Christopher Ingraham 
June 25, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/25/fox-news-hannity-coronavirus-misinformation/ 


** 25Jun2020 - today would have been Tamir Rice's 18th birthday
In Tamir Rice Case, Many Errors by Cleveland Police, Then a Fatal One
By Shaila Dewan and Richard A. Oppel Jr.
Jan. 22, 2015
 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/us/in-tamir-rice-shooting-in-cleveland-many-errors-by-police-then-a-fatal-one.html 


GOP aghast as Trump's polls sink amid divisive racial rhetoric:
'It's been a bad couple weeks'
By Manu Raju, Kevin Liptak, Ryan Nobles and Donald Judd, CNN
Thu June 25, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/republican-reaction-trump-racist-rhetoric/index.html 


Dead wrong: Feds sent $1.4B in stimulus checks to over a million deceased
Rich Gardella and Dartunorro Clark
25Jun2020
 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dead-wrong-feds-sent-1-4b-in-stimulus-checks-to-over-a-million-deceased/ar-BB15XWp6 


Out there, somewhere on the internet,one or more people are teaching crazy....
24Jnu2020
 https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1275854598146871296 


Above the Law: The Data Are In on Police, Killing, and Race
June 23, 2020
By Lyman Stone
 https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65309/ 


How conspiracy theories about the NYPD Shake Shack 'poisoning' blew up
By Craig McCarthy
June 22, 2020
 https://nypost.com/2020/06/22/how-nypd-faked-shake-shack-controversy-and-conspiracy-theory/ 


Top Democrats say Trump is sitting on $14B for coronavirus testing,
contact tracing
 Sens. Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray are calling on the
 administration to immediately free up the funds.
June 22, 2020
By Rebecca Shabad
 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/top-democrats-say-trump-sitting-14-billion-coronavirus-testing-contact-n1231688 


A national US power grid would make electricity cheaper and cleaner
 The top 5 reasons to stitch together America's balkanized grids.
By David Roberts
Jun 20, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/20/21293952/renewable-energy-power-national-grid-transmission-microgrids 


21Jun2020
from several twitter posts, but not verified anywhere I can find,
    A door count placed the Trump rally officially placed crowd at 6,116.
    Of those, 2,837 were paid gig actors & 986 were Trump Campaign 2020,
    532 were WH/Trump propaganda machine employees, 183 were plainclothes
    security meaning: 1,578 WERE TOTAL REAL ATTENDEES. 


Whatever Happened to Smaks?
 You Asked and We Answered
Jonathan Bender
October 9th, 2017
 https://www.flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/happened-smaks/ 


How to buy the best ergonomic office chair, according to experts
 Poor ergonomics can lead to negative health effects.
 The new remote work norm might mean you need a better
 sitting solution. We consulted experts on finding the
 best chair for your workstation.
By Hanna Horvath
June 18, 2020
 https://www.nbcnews.com/shopping/work-from-home/best-ergonomic-office-chair-n1231359 


Donald Trump spends 14 minutes at Tulsa rally talking about
that time he walked slowly down a ramp
 Today, Donald Trump held his first political rally in months.
 It included one stunning stream of consciousness that lasted
 14 minutes.
Sam Clench
June 21, 2020
 https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/donald-trump-spends-14-minutes-at-tulsa-rally-talking-about-that-time-he-walked-slowly-down-a-ramp/news-story/f89ad254685379709eb092f5cdaed1f9 


Trump comeback rally features empty seats, staff infections
June 20, 2020
By Kevin Freking and Jonathan Lemire
 https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/20/trump-comeback-rally-features-empty-seats-staff-in/ 


Leaked document makes Trump campaign's use of Nazi-era symbol look worse
By Greg Sargent
June 19, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/19/leaked-document-makes-trumps-use-nazi-era-symbol-look-worse/ 


Tulsa motel guard's deadly encounter with guest raises issues of race,
private-security oversight
 The former sheriff's sergeant was charged with manslaughter
 after the fatal shooting of a black father of three. State
 officials say they lack authority to review allegations of
 racial discrimination in granting security-guard licenses.
By Katie Mettler and Brittany Shammas 
June 19, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/19/tulsa-security-guard-shooting/ 


Undercounting Those Killed by the N.Y.P.D.
 A never-released report shows that the number of people
 killed by police activity in New York is more than twice
 what has been reported.
By Mara Gay
June 19, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/police-involved-deaths-new-york-city.html 


Trump baselessly claims Covid-19 testing is "overrated" and people wear
masks to spite him
 Trump's strange new claims perfectly encapsulates the US's
 inadequate Covid-19 response.
By Dylan Scott
Jun 18, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/6/18/21295826/coronavirus-us-update-trump-wsj-interview-masks-tests 


Trump asked China's Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book
By Josh Dawsey 
June 17, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17/d4ea601c-ad7a-11ea-868b-93d63cd833b2_story.html 


Trump Considers Suing His Niece Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA
 The president has long favored using legal threats to stop people
 from writing bad books about him. Going after his own family may
 be next.
Asawin Suebsaeng - White House Reporter, Lachlan Cartwright - Senior Reporter
Updated Jun. 16, 2020
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-considers-suing-his-niece-mary-trump-over-her-tell-all-book-saying-she-signed-an-nda 


Rubio Adds to Viral Freak Out Over Hippie Jugglers Mistaken for Antifa Invaders
By Josh Marshall
June 12, 2020
 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rubio-adds-to-viral-freak-out-over-hippie-jugglers-mistaken-for-antifa-invaders 


Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle's protests,
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
June 12, 2020
By Jim Brunner
 https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/fox-news-runs-digitally-altered-images-in-coverage-of-seattles-protests-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/ 


Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
Officer A. Cab
Jun 06, 2020
 https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 


Southern Poverty Law Center
In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser
 Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist
 immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols
 after Dylann Roof's murderous rampage, according to leaked emails
 reviewed by Hatewatch.
November 12, 2019
 https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails 


Body cams show police killing Javier Ambler while filming an A&E
television show
 "I can't breathe," "save me," the unarmed black man pleads
 during a traffic stop.
By Aaron Ross Coleman
Jun 09, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/6/9/21285378/body-cams-police-killing-javier-ambler-filming-a-e-television-show-black-lives-matter 


Meet the Propagandists and Conspiracy Theorists Behind the
One America News Network
 The president has taken a shine to the far-right channel's
 fictional pro-Trump reports.
by Ali Breland
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/ 


What It's Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride
By Olivia Nuzzi
June 08, 2020
 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get-doxed-for-taking-a-bike-ride.html 


In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over antifa, which never showed up
 Towns from Washington state to Indiana have seen armed groups
 begin patrolling the streets after rumors spread on social
 media about an antifa invasion.
By Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins
June 6, 2020
 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/klamath-falls-oregon-victory-declared-over-antifa-which-never-showed-n1226681 


There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
June 07, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/us/what-is-defund-police-trnd/index.html 


The "kettling" of protesters, explained
 The police crowd-control tactic has been used at protests across the country.
By Jen Kirby
Jun 6, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/6/6/21282509/george-floyd-protests-kettling-new-york-nypd 


How to Beat the Bully in His Bunker
 Democrats can learn from the people who know Trump's base best
 -the Never Trump Republicans.
By Timothy Egan
June 05, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/republicans-lincoln-project-trump.html 


Ukrainian prosecutors find no evidence against Hunter Biden
 Audit probed energy company Burisma, of which Biden was a
 board member from 2014-2019
Reuters in Kyiv
Thu 04Jun2020
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/04/ukranian-prosecutors-finds-no-evidence-against-hunter-biden 


American Kakistocracy
 There's a case to be made that the United States is
 governed by the least scrupulous of its citizens.
Norm Ornstein
October 9, 2017 
 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/american-kakistocracy/542391/ 


6 Atlanta Officers Charged After Brutally Pulling Students From Car
Kate Brumback
06/02/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atlanta-officers-charged-students-car_n_5ed67c37c5b6e8198b5d2948 


A man kneeling in a group, in front of a line of cops, is singled out and
grabbed by the cops.
 https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1267926069367144448?s=20 


College admissions scam rekindles scrutiny of Kushner's Harvard acceptance,
$2.5M pledge
Christal Hayes
Published March 12, 2019, Updated March 13, 2019
 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/12/college-admissions-scam-kushner-harvard-acceptance-under-scrutiny/3147027002/ 


Esper Encourages Governors to 'Dominate the Battlespace' to put down Nationwide 
Protests
by Meghann Myers
June 01, 2020
 https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/06/01/secdef-encourages-governors-to-dominate-the-battlespace-to-put-down-nationwide-protests/ 


These videos show the police aren't neutral. They're counterprotesters.
 Some law enforcement officers are treating America like a battlefield.
By Anna North and Catherine Kim
Jun 1, 2020
o https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21276669/protests-george-floyd-police-brutality-brooklyn-seattle 


Coronavirus: What did China do about early outbreak?
08 May 2020
 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52573137 


How the Supreme Court Lets Cops Get Away With Murder
 The courts protected police abuses for years before
 George Floyd's death. It's time to rethink
 "qualified immunity."
May 29, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/Minneapolis-police-George-Floyd.html 


The Psychopath in Chief
 I spent hundreds of hours with Donald Trump to ghost-write
 'The Art of the Deal.' I now see a deeper meaning behind
 his behavior.
Tony Schwartz
May 28
 https://gen.medium.com/the-psychopath-in-chief-aa10ab2165d9 


For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
 The U.S. high court's continual refinement of an obscure legal
 doctrine has made it harder to hold police accountable when
 accused of using excessive force.
By ANDREW CHUNG, LAWRENCE HURLEY, JACKIE BOTTS, ANDREA JANUTA
   and GUILLERMO GOMEZ
Filed May 8, 2020
 https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/ 


Donald Trump Is America's First Vigilante President
 The consequences of a U.S. president encouraging extralegal violence.
by Austin Sarat and Jonathan Obert
May 31, 2020
 https://thebulwark.com/donald-trump-is-americas-first-vigilante-president/ 


The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think
May 27, 2020
By Robert Evans and Jason Wilson	
 https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/ 


City of Atlanta
Killer Mike - Good speech w/resp to murder of George Floyd and about the
protests and burning.
29May2020
 https://twitter.com/i/status/1266587297706893312 


Why are liberals more afraid of the coronavirus than conservatives?
 Covid-19 and the complex politics of fear.
By Ezra Klein
May 21, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/5/21/21262329/coronavirus-liberals-conservatives-polls-afraid-psychology-distacing 


When American conservatism becomes un-American
By George F. Will
May 29, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-american-conservatism-becomes-un-american/2020/05/28/336a953a-a0f6-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html >/a>


Rush to Vote-by-Mail could cost Dems the Election
 Mail-in Voting puts Millions of Minority Ballots at Risk
by Greg Palast
April 16, 2020
 https://www.gregpalast.com/rush-to-vote-by-mail-could-cost-dems-the-election/ 


Appeals court ruling suggests little legal traction for Trump's
anti-Twitter campaign
 D.C. Circuit decision spurns claims that social media giants
 broke the law by banning a conservative provocateur
By JOSH GERSTEIN
05/27/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/trump-twitter-court-ruling-284632 


When a CNN camera hit the ground, America saw the world through
George Floyd's eyes
By
Philip Kennicott 
May 29, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/when-a-cnn-camera-hit-the-ground-america-saw-the-world-through-george-floyds-eyes/2020/05/29/d941b8ca-a1ba-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html 


** Sounds like "intent" to me **
At 8:25, about 5 minutes after Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck, the officer said it again. Another officer checked Floyd's wrist for a pulse and said "I couldn't find one." 

Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck for two minutes after that.
 https://twitter.com/obarcala/status/1266444468129071105?s=20 


Neil Young's "Ohio"
Lydia Hutchinson
May 04, 2017 
 http://performingsongwriter.com/neil-young-ohio/ 


May 28, 2020
Rudy Giuliani Is Looking for $10 Million to Finance a Ukraine-Biden Film
 Is Trump's personal lawyer orchestrating foreign involvement
 in the 2020 election?
by David Corn, Dan Friedman, Russ Choma
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/rudy-giuliani-is-looking-for-10-million-to-finance-a-ukraine-biden-film/ 


The Psychopath in Chief
 I spent hundreds of hours with Donald Trump to ghost-write
 'The Art of the Deal.' I now see a deeper meaning behind
 his behavior.
Tony Schwartz
May 28, 2020
 https://gen.medium.com/the-psychopath-in-chief-aa10ab2165d9 


Anti-Lockdown Protesters Now Calling for Dems to Die
 The head of Cowboys for Trump says a good Democrat is a dead one.
 And protesters in Kentucky hanged the governor in effigy.
Will Sommer
May. 27, 2020
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-lockdown-protesters-now-calling-for-dems-to-die 


Pennsylvania House Democrats accuse Republicans of keeping GOP member's
positive Covid test from them for a week
By Veronica Stracqualursi and Paul LeBlanc, CNN
May 28, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/pennsylvania-lawmakers-coronavirus/index.html 


Trump is set to announce an executive order against social media companies
By Brian Fung, Ryan Nobles and Kevin Liptak, CNN
May 28, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/trump-twitter-social-media-executive-order/index.html 


The great video chat faceoff: Six apps. Dozens of heads. One came out on top.
 Our first and hopefully last pandemic Chatty Awards compares
 Facebook Rooms, FaceTime, Google Meet, Houseparty, Skype and
 Zoom - and crowns some surprising winners
By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Heather Kelly 
May 20, 2020
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/20/best-video-chat-apps/ 


As Tara Reade's Expert Witness Credentials Are Questioned, So Are Verdicts
By Lisa Lerer, Jim Rutenberg and Stephanie Saul
May 21, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/tara-reade-credentials.html 


Jane Roe's Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion 'All an Act'
Paid for by the Christian Right
 The new FX documentary "AKA Jane Roe," out May 22, contains
 a shocking revelation: Roe (of "Roe v. Wade" fame) played
 the part of an anti-abortion crusader in exchange for money.
Cassie da Costa
May. 19, 2020
 https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right 


A New Report Shows What Really Happened With China's Coronavirus Response
 It's not good for the regime - or for Trump.
David Corn
May 15, 2020
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/a-new-report-shows-what-really-happened-with-chinas-coronavirus-response/ 


Trump's Weekend of Scandal Was Hiding in Plain Sight
 It's going on right now and no one can see it because of the chaff.
by Tim Miller
May 18, 2020
 https://thebulwark.com/the-biggest-scandal-of-trumps-presidency-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/ 


'Manipulative, deceitful, user': Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved
acquaintances
 A number of those who crossed paths with Biden's accuser
 say they remember two things: She spoke favorably about
 her time working for Biden, and she left them feeling duped.
By NATASHA KORECKI
05/15/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/tara-reade-left-trail-of-aggrieved-acquaintances-260771 


Court documents from 1996 appear to corroborate Tara Reade's claims
of sexual harassment
 A 1996 court filing reveals the former Capitol hill staffer
 spoke about harassment allegations with her ex-husband
Roger Sollenberger
May 12, 2020
 https://www.salon.com/2020/05/12/court-documents-from-1996-appear-to-corroborate-tara-reades-claims-of-sexual-harassment/ 


May 15, 2020
New Reporting Increases Doubts on Tara Reade's Allegation Against Joe Biden
By Jonathan Chait
 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/tara-reade-joe-biden-allegation-reporting-vox-pbs-doubts.html 


'Art Of The Deal' Co-Author Spells Out Why Coronavirus Deaths
'Don't Matter' To Trump
 "The deaths, I know this is extreme, the deaths don't matter to him,"
 Tony Schwartz told MSNBC's Ari Melber.
By Lee Moran
05/16/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tony-schwartz-donald-trump-coronavirus_n_5ebf85dfc5b64d3dbf40ee28?ncid=APPLENEWS00001 


From the Justice Department to the Intelligence Community,
Donald Trump and William Barr Have Won
By David Rohde
May 14, 2020
 https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/from-the-justice-department-to-the-intelligence-community-donald-trump-and-william-barr-have-won 


New York Times: EPA declines to regulate water contaminant
linked to fetal damage
By Devan Cole, CNN
May 14, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/environmental-protection-agency-water-regulation-perchlorate/index.html 


how taxes were made "more fair"
 https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1260645957651185665 


Inside Trump's coronavirus meltdown
 What went wrong in the president's first real crisis -
 and what does it mean for the US?
Edward Luce
May 13 2020 
 https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed 


The Black PSYOP IX: The Unmasking of Obamagate
by Adam L Silverman
May 13, 2020
 https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/05/13/the-black-psyop-ix-the-unmasking-of-obamagate/  


Bigamy is no longer a felony in Utah
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN
Tue May 12, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/us/bigamy-decriminalized-utah-trnd/index.html 


Does Anyone Actually Work for Trump?
 All the holes and temps in the government have led to a permanent crisis.
By Jennifer Senior
May 10, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/opinion/trump-cabinet-coronavirus.html 


He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus
 An examination reveals the president was warned about the
 potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack
 of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a
 halting response.
By Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear,
   Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes
Published April 11, 2020, Updated May 4, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html 


Ideology of Affluence: Rich Americans' Explanations for Inequality
and Attitudes toward Redistribution
Elizabeth Suhay, Marko Klasnja, and Gonzalo Rivero, Dr. Elizabeth Suhay
August 27, 2019
 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/709672 


We Are Living in a Failed State
 The coronavirus didn't break America. It revealed what was already broken.
June 2020 Issue
George Packer
 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/ 


Reality-based community
 GW Bush staffer: "when we act, we create our own reality"
2004
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community 


He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus
 An examination reveals the president was warned about the
 potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack
 of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a
 halting response
By Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear,
   Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes
Published April 11, 2020, Updated May 4, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html 


Before pandemic, Trump's stockpile chief put focus on biodefense.
An old client benefited.
By Jon Swaine, Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Aaron C. Davis 
May 4, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-pandemic-trumps-stockpile-chief-put-focus-on-biodefense-an-old-client-benefited/2020/05/04/d3c2b010-84dd-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html 


F E A R I N G F O R  HIS L I F E
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner.  The video
traveled far, but it wouldn't get  justice for his dead
friend. Instead, the NYPD  would exact their revenge through
targeted  harassment and eventually imprisonment -  Orta's
punishment for daring to show the  world police brutality.
By Chloé Cooper Jones
March 13, 2020
 https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety 


The Troublesome Tara Reade Story
 Left- and right-wing Biden haters demanded that the media
 investigate her sexual assault charge. It did - and uncovered
 many reasons to doubt.
By Joan Walsh
April 15, 2020
 https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tara-reade-joe-biden-democrats/ 


Trump's Two Horrifying Plans for Dealing With the Coronavirus
 If he can't confine the suffering to his opponents, he is
 prepared to incite a culture war to distract his supporters.
April 19, 2020
David Frum
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/trump-trading-lives-poor-economic-growth/610264/ 


Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's Two Months of Magical Thinking
 Obsessed with impeachment and their enemies and worried about
 the stock market, the president and his son-in-law scapegoated
 HHS Secretary Alex Azar, and treated the coronavirus as mostly
 a political problem as it moved through the country.
By Gabriel Sherman
April 28, 2020
 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/donald-trump-jared-kushners-two-months-of-magical-thinking 


Trump orders meat plants to stay open in pandemic
 Facilities are declared critical infrastructure for their
 role in the nation's food supply even as many become virus
 hot spots
By Taylor Telford, Kimberly Kindy and Jacob Bogage 
April 28, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/trump-meat-plants-dpa/ 


William Barr Is Neck-Deep in Extremist Catholic Institutions
 His troubles don't only involve his obeisance to Donald Trump.
 He's a paranoid right-wing Catholic ideologue who won't respect
 the separation of church and state.
By Joan Walsh
October 15, 2019
 https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/william-barr-notre-dame-secularism/ 


Leaked White House emails reveal behind the scenes battle over chloroquine in coronavirus response
by Christina Wilkie
24Apr2020
 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/leaked-white-house-emails-reveal-behind-the-scenes-battle-over-chloroquine-in-coronavirus-response/ar-BB13a09p 


Coronavirus is invading Red America, new data show. That's ominous for Trump.
By Greg Sargent
April 23, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/23/covid-is-invading-red-america-new-data-show-thats-ominous-trump/ 


Researchers reviewed thousands of gun policy studies and teased out a consensus
 The findings on stand-your-ground and child access prevention
 laws are conclusive, the report says
By Christopher Ingraham 
April 23, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/23/definitive-guide-which-gun-safety-policies-actually-work/ 


Health Chief's Early Missteps Set Back Coronavirus Response
 HHS Secretary Alex Azar waited for weeks to brief the president
 and oversold his agency's progress
By Rebecca Ballhaus and Stephanie Armour
Updated April 22, 2020
 https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-chiefs-early-missteps-set-back-coronavirus-response-11587570514 


Director of key federal vaccine agency says his departure was retaliation
By Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Diamond and Betsy Klein
April 22, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/rick-bright-barda-trump-coronavirus/index.html 


Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump,
says his web traffic is at record levels
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
April 18, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/18/media/matt-drudge-trump/index.html 


Coronavirus at meat packing plants worse than first thought,
USA TODAY investigation finds
By Kyle Bagenstose, Sky Chadde and Matt Wynn
April 22, 2020
 https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-in-iowa-meat-packing-plants-covid-choice-worker-health-food-tyson-smithfield-jbs/3002446001/ 


Environmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19.
What It Brings Next Could Be Far Worse.
 A virus that originated in animals has upended life across
 the globe. But the next deadly pandemic could make this look
 like "a warmup."
By Jimmy Tobias and Chris D'Angelo
04/21/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emerging-disease-environmental-destruction_n_5e9db58fc5b63c5b58723afd 


Trump's support for right-wing protests just got more ugly and dangerous
By Greg Sargent
April 20, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/20/trumps-support-right-wing-protests-just-got-more-ugly-dangerous/ 


Poll: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of
coronavirus outbreak
By Justin Wise
04/19/20
 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/493534-poll-majority-of-americans-disapprove-of-trumps-handling-of 


Trump team's use of big insurer to dispense recovery funds comes under scrutiny
 A White House economist with close ties to UnitedHealth is
 helping oversee a program administered by the firm.
By MAGGIE SEVERNS and DANIEL LIPPMAN
04/18/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/18/unitedhealth-trump-coronavirus-recovery-funds-193716 


Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration
By Karen DeYoung, Lena H. Sun and Emily Rauhala 
April 19, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-at-world-health-organization-transmitted-real-time-information-about-coronavirus-to-trump-administration/2020/04/19/951c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html 


Capitalism is turning us into addicts
 How Big Business shapes our habits and desires.
By Sean Illing
Apr 18, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/10/17/18647521/capitalism-age-of-addiction-phone-david-courtwright 


The coronavirus' impact on Social Security is now plainly visible
Sean Williams
April 18, 2020
 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-coronavirus-impact-on-social-security-is-now-plainly-visible/ar-BB12PhBR 


Why Is Trump Gutting Regulations That Save Lives?
 Smart safeguards, designed by specialists,
 protect public health and safety.
By Cass R. Sunstein
  Mr. Sunstein was administrator of the Office of Information
  and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration.
April 17, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/opinion/coronavirus-trump-regulations.html 


Trump and His Allies Are Worried About More Than November
 The temporary imposition of popular relief programs in
 response to the coronavirus makes Republicans nervous.
By Jamelle Bouie
April 17, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/opinion/coronavirus-relief-trump.html 


Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus
By Lee Brown
April 13, 2020
 https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/virginia-pastor-who-held-packed-church-service-dies-of-coronavirus/ 


State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying
bat coronaviruses
By Josh Rogin
April 14, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/ 


Tax change in coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires,
congressional body finds
 The provision, included by Senate Republicans, would cost
 taxpayers approximately $90 billion in 2020
By Jeff Stein 
April 14, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/14/coronavirus-law-congress-tax-change/ 


The horrendous reality at the heart of Trump's pandemic response
By Michael Gerson
April 13, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/13/trumps-deadly-negligence-is-now-demonstrated-beyond-reasonable-doubt/ 


A Corporate Merger Cost America Ventilators
 The United States' flawed approach to consolidation in the
 health care industry can endanger public health.
By Tim Wu
April 12, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/opinion/ventilators-coronavirus.html 


'There Will Be Losses': How a Captain's Plea Exposed a Rift in the Military
 The coronavirus crisis aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt
 spurred another chapter in the hollowing out of the Navy's
 leadership, in particular under the Trump administration.
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper and John Ismay
April 12, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/coronavirus-roosevelt-carrier-crozier.html 


Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response
 The president retweeted a post calling for the government's
 top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor
 acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have
 saved lives.
By Peter Baker
April 12, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/trump-fauci-coronavirus.html 


They Watch Trump's Virus Briefings Daily. Here's What They Have to Say.
 The president has millions of viewers for his daily appearances,
 but even in a pandemic that has paralyzed the nation, a stark
 partisan divide runs through how they see him.
By Annie Karni, Nate Schweber and Christina Capecchi
April 12, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-briefings.html 


Pressure for quick action on next relief bill strains GOP unity
By Alexander Bolton
04/12/20
 https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/492312-pressure-for-quick-action-on-next-relief-bill-strains-gop-unity 


Examining Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden
 Ms. Reade, a former Senate aide, has accused Mr. Biden of
 assaulting her in 1993 and says she told others about it.
 A Biden spokeswoman said the allegation is false, and former
 Senate office staff members do not recall such an incident.
By Lisa Lerer and Sydney Ember
April 12, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html 


The New York Times Just Published Documents Showing Trump's COVID-19
Response Was Worse Than We Knew
Apr 11, 2020
Ben Dreyfuss
 https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/04/trump-coronavirus-response-new-york-times/ 


Oversight erased, Supreme Court hijacked: Trump turns the presidency
into a dictatorship
Kurt BardellaA
pril 10, 2020
 https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/09/trump-removes-inspectors-general-blatant-corruption-column/2973535001/ 


Burning Cell Towers, Out of Baseless Fear They Spread the Virus
 A conspiracy theory linking the spread of the coronavirus
 to 5G wireless technology has spurred more than 100 incidents
 this month, British officials said.
By Adam Satariano and Davey Alba
April 10, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/technology/coronavirus-5g-uk.html 


Oversight erased, Supreme Court hijacked: Trump turns the presidency
into a dictatorship
 Trump has stripped away the levers of independent oversight
 until there's nothing left. Our democracy is in the midst
 of a three-alarm fire.
By Kurt Bardella, Opinion columnist 
April 10, 2020
 https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/09/trump-removes-inspectors-general-blatant-corruption-column/2973535001/ 


Watchdog: Treasury Acted Appropriately on Trump Tax Returns
By The Associated Press
April 10, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/10/business/bc-us-trump-tax-returns.html 


A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it's not from the White House
 In the absence of federal direction, states and America's
 top experts forge the path ahead.
By Lena H. Sun, William Wan and Yasmeen Abutaleb 
April 10, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/10/contact-tracing-coronavirus-strategy/ 


The Far-Right Helped Create The World's Most Powerful Facial Recognition
Technology
 Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several
 far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found.
By Luke O'Brien
04/07/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48 


NYC forbids schools from using Zoom for remote learning due to privacy
and security concerns
By Alex Zimmerman 
04Apr2020
 https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/04/04/nyc-forbids-schools-from-using-zoom-for-remote-learning-after-privacy-concerns-emerge/ 


Genreal Honore interview
March 02, 2020
 https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1245978270459465729?s=20 

Andrew Cuomo Uses Budget To Cut Medicaid, Settle Political Scores
 The New York governor's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has
 made him a star, but progressives say the new state budget shows
 his true colors.
By Daniel Marans
04/03/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/governor-andrew-cuomo-new-york-budget-cuts-medicaid-coronavirus-pandemic_n_5e86b371c5b6a9491833f612 


The Coronavirus and the Conservative Mind
 The pandemic has put psychological theories of politics
 to a very interesting test.
By Ross Douthat
March 31, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/opinion/covid-conservatism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage 


The Political Genius of Donald Trump
 The president is transmuting his calamitous failures into political gold.
March 31, 2020
Frida Ghitis
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/trump-genius/609142/ 


Beyond Originalism
 The dominant conservative philosophy for interpreting the
 Constitution has served its purpose, and scholars ought to
 develop a more moral framework.
March 31, 2020
Adrian Vermeule - Professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/ 


The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life
 The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus
 - but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic
 proportions
by Ed Pilkington and Tom McCarthy
28 Mar 2020; Last modified on Tue 31 Mar 2020
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/trump-coronavirus-politics-us-health-disaster?CMP=share_btn_tw 


Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early
Response to Coronavirus
 The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials
 and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it
 gained a foothold in the United States, according to hundreds
 of pages of documents ProPublica obtained.
by Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen and Lexi Churchill
March 26, 2020
 https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus 


Steve Mnuchin: Record 3.3 Million Jobless Claims 'Are Not Relevant'
 The treasury secretary's belief that things will be fine after
 legislation passes is wishful thinking.
By Amanda Terkel and Zach Carter
03/26/2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-mnuchin-unemployment-not-relevant_n_5e7cb949c5b6256a7a25ecec 


A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany
By Jennifer Szalai
March 17, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/books/review-hitlers-first-hundred-days-peter-fritzsche.html 


U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned
about a likely pandemic
By Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey and Ellen Nakashima
March 20, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html 


Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar
 In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed
 why he's lost faith in the court.
By Dahlia Lithwick
March 13, 2020
 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/judge-james-dannenberg-supreme-court-bar-roberts-letter.amp 



Coronavirus is the Trump catastrophe we've been terrified of
 It's Hurricane Maria all over again, but the storm is coming for us all.
By Matthew Yglesias
Mar 12, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21176750/trump-coronavirus-response-disaster 


Step Aside for Powell and Pelosi
 Republicans, it turns out, can't do economic policy.
By Paul Krugman
March 16, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/opinion/pelosi-powell-coronavirus.html 


Before Trump's inauguration, a warning: 'The worst influenza pandemic
since 1918'
 In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president
 took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on
 a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now.
By NAHAL TOOSI, DANIEL LIPPMAN and DAN DIAMOND
03/16/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 


Nearly 90 percent of men - and women - are biased against women, UN study finds
By Alaa Elassar, CNN
Fri March 6, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/us/study-90-percent-bias-against-women-trnd/index.html 


Trump's Media Attacks Are Always Shameful.
But in the Middle of the Coronavirus Crisis, They're Dangerous.
 A new campaign email takes his assault on the news to the next level.
David Corn
March 09, 2020
 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/trump-campaign-email-attacks-media-coronavirus/ 



Trump just got bad news from Neil Gorsuch's mentor in a big Medicaid case
 When you've lost David Sentelle ...
By Ian Millhiser
Feb 14, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21137865/trump-medicaid-work-requirement-arkansas-david-sentelle-neil-gorsuch 


Health officials ordered to clear all statements about coronavirus
with Vice President Mike Pence
By Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman
Feb 27, 2020
 https://www.courant.com/nation-world/ct-nyt-donald-trump-mike-pence-coronavirus-messaging-20200227-lp66ujvjb5h5dfzielc4c5ief4-story.html 



What the Ring hacks tell us about tech's backward approach to security
 It's not your fault if you get hacked. Blame tech companies
 for not forcing you to be more secure.
By Rani Molla
Feb 28, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/28/21137692/tech-amazon-ring-hacks-security-blame 


Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a 'hoax'
 At South Carolina rally on the eve of the Democratic primary,
 the president sought to manage Americans' expectations about
 the White House's response to the outbreak
By NANCY COOK and MATTHEW CHOI
02/28/2020
 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/trump-south-carolina-rally-coronavirus-118269 


Egypt's music ban is part of a more disturbing cultural repression
By Ezzedine C. Fishere
Feb. 28, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/28/egypts-music-ban-is-part-more-disturbing-cultural-repression/ 


These 26 words 'created the internet.' The US government is coming for them
By Brian Fung, CNN Business
Tue February 25, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/tech/section-230-doj/index.html 


Your Doorbell Camera Spied on You. Now What?
 Amazon's popular Ring security cameras have gaping security
 holes. Here's how to protect yourself.
By Brian X. Chen
Feb. 19, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/technology/personaltech/ring-doorbell-camera-spying.html 


Mike Bloomberg isn't the anti-Trump juggernaut he seems to be
By Helaine Olen
Feb. 14, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/14/mike-bloomberg-isnt-anti-trump-juggernaut-he-seems-be/ 


The most radical 2020 candidate
Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst
February 16, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/opinions/most-radical-2020-candidate-trump-zelizer/index.html 


Trump just got bad news from Neil Gorsuch's mentor in a big Medicaid case
 When you've lost David Sentelle ...
By Ian Millhiser
Feb 14, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21137865/trump-medicaid-work-requirement-arkansas-david-sentelle-neil-gorsuch 


Two Federal Judges Suggest All Labor, Business or Wall Street
Regulation Is Unconstitutional
Ian Millhiser
Apr 16, 2012
 https://thinkprogress.org/two-federal-judges-suggest-all-labor-business-or-wall-street-regulation-is-unconstitutional-733591066b8/ 


Five myths about George Washington
No, he didn't wear a wig, and he wasn't a great military commander.
By Alexis Coe
Feb. 14, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-george-washington/2020/02/13/eed41ea8-42e2-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html 


The Golden Age Of White Collar Crime
 Elite lawbreaking is out of control. This is the grotesque
 story of an existential threat to American society.
Story By Michael Hobbes
February 10, 2020
 https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/ 


I Don't Want to Be the Strong Female Lead
 In pop culture, women are often objectified and disposed of.
 But even when we're not being victimized, the alternative
 leaves much to be desired.
By Brit Marling
  Ms. Marling is a filmmaker.
Feb. 07, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/sunday/brit-marling-women-movies.html 


Coronavirus tests U.S. medical system's unhealthy reliance on China
for drugs, supplies
 The basic building blocks of U.S. health care are now under
 the control of the Chinese Communist Party.
By Tim Morrison, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute
Feb. 06, 2020
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-tests-u-s-medical-system-s-unhealthy-reliance-china-ncna1131211 


Republican state legislatures are overturning ballot initiatives
 The conservative suspicion of the demos is alive and well
Apr 20th 2019
 https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/04/20/republican-state-legislatures-are-overturning-ballot-initiatives 


We finally have a new US maternal mortality estimate. It's still terrible.
 Among 10 similarly wealthy countries, "the US would rank 10th."
By Julia Belluz
Jan 30, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21113782/pregnancy-deaths-us-maternal-mortality-rate 


Trump's immigrant 'wealth test' hurts the economy and undermines the American dream
 This policy should scare every single American who, unlike Trump,
 is not able to get "a small loan of a million dollars" during times
 of financial hardship.
Jan. 29, 2020
By María Teresa Kumar,
  president and CEO of Voto Latino
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-immigrant-wealth-test-hurts-economy-undermines-american-dream-ncna1125586 


01/29/2020
What Happens To Women Who Can't Get Abortions
 Pregnant women who are turned away from clinics spiral into
 debt and bankruptcy at startlingly high rates, according to
 a groundbreaking new study.
By Emily Peck
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-happens-to-women-who-cant-get-abortions_n_5e30bedec5b693878a8822e6 


Science ranks grow thin in Trump administration
By Annie Gowen, Juliet Eilperin, Ben Guarino and Andrew Ba Tran
Jan. 23, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/science-ranks-grow-thin-in-trump-administration/2020/01/23/5d22b522-3172-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html 


Australia wildfires unleash millions of tons of carbon dioxide
 Researchers are concerned that huge pulses of carbon emissions
 from devastating wildfires could overwhelm natural reservoirs
 that store carbon dioxide.
Jan. 22, 2020
By Denise Chow
 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/australia-wildfires-unleash-millions-tons-carbon-dioxide-n1120186 


How Technology Saved China's Economy
 To outsiders, China may seem like a surveillance state.
 But tech has fueled growth and helped stave off recession.
By Ruchir Sharma,
  author, global investor and contributing opinion writer.
Jan. 20, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/china-technology-economy.html 


New book portrays Trump as erratic, 'at times dangerously uninformed'
By Ashley Parker 
Jan. 15, 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-book-portrays-trump-as-erratic-at-times-dangerously-uninformed/2020/01/15/4d45bf44-370f-11ea-a01d-b7cc8ec1a85d_story.html 

	
Alan Dershowitz: Trump Could Give Away Alaska And Be Protected By SCOTUS
BY Brian Krassenstein
July 10, 2018
 https://hillreporter.com/alan-dershowitz-scotus-protecting-donald-trump-impeachment-3551 


We need a President who will help all Americans -- not just the rich
Opinion by Jeffrey Sachs
Fri January 17, 2020
 https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/opinions/prosperity-gap-2020-election-opinion-sachs/index.html 


Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump.
It found nothing of consequence.
By Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky 
Jan. 09, 2020 
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html 


What is private equity, and why is it killing everything you love?
 Private equity led to the closing of Toys R Us and cost
 30,000 workers their jobs - and it's hardly the only
 example of a deal gone wrong.
By Emily Stewart
Jan 6, 2020
 https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/6/21024740/private-equity-taylor-swift-toys-r-us-elizabeth-warren 


Deceased GOP Strategist's Daughter Makes Files Public
That Republicans Wanted Sealed
January 5, 2020
Hansi Lo Wang
 https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strategists-daughter-makes-files-public-that-republicans-wanted-sea 


How open-source software took over the world
Dec 14 2019
Katie Brigham
 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/14/how-open-source-software-became-the-new-industry-standard.html 


The Trump administration just snuck through its most devious coal subsidy yet
 How a new FERC order will help old, polluting power plants stay alive.
By David Roberts
Dec 23, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/12/23/21031112/trump-coal-ferc-energy-subsidy-mopr 


A new government study shows how Trump's tariffs have backfired
 Trump promised to revive manufacturing with tariffs. A Federal
 Reserve study finds he did the opposite.
By Zeeshan Aleem
Dec 29, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/29/21041238/trump-tariffs-trade-war-federal-reserve-manufacturing-consumer-prices 


The energy agency that could thwart Democrats' climate plans
 Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have endorsed a call
 to reshape FERC as a climate regulator, but is it necessary
 for a Green New Deal?
By GAVIN BADE
12/28/2019
 https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/28/energy-agency-democrats-climate-plans-089892 


Trump Tariffs Hurt U.S. Manufacturing, Cost American Jobs:
Federal Reserve Economists
 The "small positive effect" of U.S. tariffs was more than offset
 by rising import costs and retaliatory tariffs, their paper concludes.
By Mary Papenfuss
12/27/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariffs-manufaturing-jobs-federal-reserve_n_5e06afe2e4b0843d360668f0 


Killer Slime, Dead Birds, an Expunged Map: The Dirty Secrets of European
Farm Subsidies
By Matt Apuzzo, Selam Gebrekidan, Agustin Armendariz and Jin Wu
Dec. 25, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/25/world/europe/farms-environment.html 


Are We Ready for the Breastfeeding Father?
 He has intrigued and disgusted for millenniums.
 He has also remained largely hypothetical, until now.
By Carl Cederstrom
  Mr. Cederstrom is an associate professor at Stockholm University.
Oct. 18, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/sunday/men-breastfeeding.html 


A Trump Policy 'Clarification' All but Ends Punishment for Bird Deaths
By Lisa Friedman
Dec. 24, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/climate/trump-bird-deaths.html 


The vaping black market is hiding in plain sight
By Amanda Sealy and Dr. Sanjay Gupta
December 24, 2019
 https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/24/health/black-market-vapes/index.html 


Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off
 Workers have paid vacation days in Turkmenistan, Brazil,
 and the European Union - but not in the US.
By Brigid Schulte
Dec 24, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/24/21035628/new-york-paid-time-off 


A 'forever chemical' poisons drinking water near military bases
 Communities nationwide have found levels of PFAS in their water
 hundreds, sometimes thousands, of times higher than the level
 recommended by the EPA.
Dec. 16, 2019
By Hannah Rappleye, David Douglas and Anne Thompson
 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/forever-chemical-poisons-drinking-water-near-military-bases-n1101736 


China's Companies Binged on Debt. Now They Can't Pay the Bill.
 Rising bond defaults raise new questions about whether Beijing
 can effectively address its huge debt problem.
By Alexandra Stevenson
Dec. 12, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/business/china-default.html 


America's Red State Death Trip
 Why does falling life expectancy track political orientation?
By Paul Krugman
Dec. 02, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/opinion/life-expectancy-united-states.html 


What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years
 A big tax cut, unprecedented environmental degradation,
 Wall Street unleashed, and a whole lot of judges.
By Matthew Yglesias
Dec 2, 2019



What Joe Biden Actually Did in Ukraine
By Glenn Thrush and Kenneth P. Vogel
Published Nov. 10, 2019
Updated Nov. 11, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/us/politics/joe-biden-ukraine.html 


Opinion
The Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany
 In 1919, John Maynard Keynes foresaw the chaos that would follow
 from the Versailles peace treaty.
By Jonathan Kirshner
    professor of political science at Boston College.
Dec. 07, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/opinion/keynes-economic-consequences-peace.html 


Democrats' wealth tax numbers don't add up
 Opinion by Edward J. McCaffery
December 06, 2019
 https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/27/opinions/democrats-wealth-tax-voodoo-economics-mccaffery/index.html 


What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years
 A big tax cut, unprecedented environmental degradation, Wall
 Street unleashed, and a whole lot of judges.
By Matthew Yglesias
Dec 2, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/2/20970521/trump-administration-achievements 


Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better.
 Argue better - with science.
By Brian Resnick
Updated Nov 26, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/2016/11/23/13708996/argue-better-science 


Democrats' wealth tax numbers don't add up
Opinion by Edward J. McCaffery
November 27, 2019
 https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/27/opinions/democrats-wealth-tax-voodoo-economics-mccaffery/index.html 


Coal Knew, Too
 A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry,
 like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate
 change.
By Élan Young
11/22/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coal-industry-climate-change_n_5dd6bbebe4b0e29d7280984f 


7 Federal Misdemeanors "Worse" Than Illegally Crossing the Border
 Here's how Trump's "zero tolerance" policy would affect
 sentencing of these federal misdemeanors.
By Shelley Puhak
June 28, 2018
 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/7-federal-misdemeanors-worse-than-illegally-crossing-border 


Americans Steal Kremlin's Playbook, for Clicks and Profit
 An investigation found that a former Fox News executive hired
 Macedonians to write culturally and politically divisive content
 for his websites.
By Nicole Perlroth
Nov. 21, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/technology/LaCorte-edition-news.html 


Russia's Media Mentions of 2020 Democratic Candidates
Post by: Clint Watts
Nov 10, 2019
 https://www.fpri.org/fie/russia-media-mentions/ 


The End of Babies
By Anna Louie Sussman
Nov. 16, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/opinion/sunday/capitalism-children.html 


Ex-Ethics Chief Uses Donald Trump's Own Words Against President's Defenders
 "May you be remembered for them always," tweeted Walter Shaub.
By Lee Moran
11/16/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walter-shaub-donald-trump-words_n_5dcfa33ee4b02947481788e9 


How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
 Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we're facing
 consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.
By Eugene Linden
Nov. 8, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html 


Speech pathologist teaches her dog to use a soundboard and
now it communicates in sentences
Tod Perry
11.08.19
 https://www.upworthy.com/speech-pathologist-teaches-her-dog-to-use-a-speech-pad-and-now-it-communicates-in-sentences 


Centrists, Progressives and Europhobia
 Who's out of touch with reality, again?
By Paul Krugman
Nov. 7, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/europe-economy.html 


Russia Raided a Physics Institute. Kremlin Watchers Are Mystified.
 The armed operation targeting scientists in Moscow prompted outrage
 and questions about over-the-top actions by the country's
 increasingly aggressive security forces.
By Andrew Higgins
Nov 07, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/world/europe/russia-raid-physics-institute.html 


Are Men Really Having A 'Friendship Crisis'?
 It's lonely being a dude, but it doesn't have to be.
ByBrittany Wong
11/06/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/men-friendship-crisis_l_5dbc9aa7e4b0576b62a1e90f 


Trump's awful new 'transcript' tweets demonstrate how his propaganda works
By Greg Sargent
November 4, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/04/trumps-awful-new-transcript-tweets-demonstrate-how-his-propaganda-works/ 


Democrats' Baffling Blind Spot On Cars
 Transportation is the greatest source of greenhouse gases in
 the United States. Why are all the 2020 candidates so scared
 to say it?
By Michael Hobbes
11/04/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-democrats-baffling-blind-spot-on-carbon-emissions_n_5da4db19e4b0cad669a9b705 


For Elizabeth Warren, The Wealth Tax Is About More Than Money
 The feud between Warren and economist Larry Summers is a reckoning
 with the Democratic Party's relationship with the super-rich.
By Zach Carter
11/03/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-wealth-tax-larry-summers_n_5dbcbb23e4b0d8b441cef1eb 


Emergency powers!
 https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1190368488709332993 


It's been a year since 20,000 Google employees walked off the job.
And they're madder than ever.
 The search giant's workers have become more political and critical,
 and they show no signs of quieting down - despite management's
 efforts to rein in the debate.
By Shirin Ghaffary
Nov 01, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/1/20942234/google-walkout-one-year-anniversary-unionization-organizing-tech-activism-we-wont-built-it 


Ex-Ethics Chief Issues Ominous Warning About 'Anti-Patriots' Backing
Donald Trump
 "We are in dangerous territory," Walter Shaub cautioned in
 a lengthy Twitter thread.
By Lee Moran
10/26/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walter-shaub-donald-trump-democracy-dangerous-territory_n_5db3eb46e4b079eb95a3e62b 


The Education of Fanatical Centrists
 Will they finally admit what the G.O.P. has become?
By Paul Krugman
Oct. 7, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/opinion/republicans-trump-moderates.html 


The S.E.C.'s Clayton Turns Oversight Partisan
 What is happening at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
 should alarm everyone. The Trump administration is eroding its
 independence.
By Arthur Levitt
 Mr. Levitt is a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Oct. 24, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/opinion/clayton-sec-pcaob.html 


What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?
 As she injects chaos into the 2020 Democratic primary by accusing
 her own party of "rigging" the election, an array of alt-right
 internet stars, white nationalists and Russians
By Lisa Lerer
Published Oct. 12, 2019, Updated Oct. 18, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard.html 


'There's an Automation Crisis Underway Right Now, It's Just Mostly Invisible'
October 13, 2019
 https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/10/12/211219/theres-an-automation-crisis-underway-right-now-its-just-mostly-invisible 


Chinese app on Xi's ideology allows data access to 100 million users' phones,
report says
By Anna Fifield 
Oct. 12, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-app-on-xis-ideology-allows-data-access-to-100-million-users-phones-report-says/2019/10/11/2d53bbae-eb4d-11e9-bafb-da248f8d5734_story.html 


Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground
By Anton Troianovski and Chris Mooney
Photo and video by Michael Robinson Chavez
Oct. 3, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-siberia/ 


When GoFundMe Gets Ugly
 The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror
 to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.
Paul Spella
Nov 2019
 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/gofundme-nation/598369/ 


The Fragility of American Citizenship
 Some people are learning that their birth or naturalization
 certificates aren't enough to prove citizenship - a problem that
 the Fourteenth Amendment should ideally prevent.
09Oct2019
Amanda Frost
 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/fourteenth-amendment-protects-citizenship-politics/599554/ 


How Amazon's Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells
 Here's everything we know about Amazon's video doorbell
 and the controversies surrounding it.
By Rani Molla
Sep 24, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/2019/9/5/20849846/amazon-ring-explainer-video-doorbell 


Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
 Ring, Amazon's home surveillance company, is teaching police how to
 convince residents to share camera footage with them.
by Caroline Haskins
Aug 05 2019
 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to-obtain-surveillance-footage-without-a-warrant 


Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said 'No' to Law Enforcement Requests
Dell Cameron
8/30/19
 https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-said-no-to-law-e-1837713840 


EU nations can force Facebook to remove content worldwide, court rules
 The ruling could let EU nations override other countries' own laws,
 critics say.
Kate Cox
10/3/2019
 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/eu-nations-can-force-facebook-to-remove-content-worldwide-court-rules/ 


Farm-state fury creates pressure for Trump as trade, energy pain collide
By David J. Lynch 
Oct 01, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/farm-state-fury-creates-pressure-for-trump-as-trade-ethanol-pain-collide/2019/10/01/74a94d4a-df16-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html 


Media's legal defeats trouble First Amendment advocates
By JOSH GERSTEIN
09/23/2019
 https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/23/legal-defeats-media-first-amendment-1508565 


Exclusive: Russia Carried Out A 'Stunning' Breach Of FBI Communications System,
Escalating The Spy Game On U.S. Soil
 The brazen counterintelligence operation stretched from the Bay
 Area to the heart of the nation's capital, according to former
 U.S. officials.
Zach Dorfman, Jenna McLaughlin and Sean D. Naylor
09/16/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-russia-carried-out-a-stunning-breach-of-fbi-communications-system-escalating-the-spy-game-on-us-soil_n_5d7f73dee4b077dcbd6159b1 


Congress is supposed to decide how the U.S. spends money.
Soon, it won't be able to.
By Eugene Steuerle
Sept 12, 2019
 www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/congress-is-supposed-to-decide-how-the-us-spends-money-soon-it-wont-be-able-to/2019/09/12/3a7f77f8-d411-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html 



The Justice Department's outlandish and arrogant position on congressional
subpoenas
By Harry Litman
Sept 10, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/10/justice-departments-outlandish-arrogant-position-congressional-subpoenas/ 


Republican Gerrymander Whiz Had Wider Influence Than Was Known
By Michael Wines
Sept. 10, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/republican-gerrymander-thomas-hofeller.html 


Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria.
It's about to lose $400M more to Trump's border wall.
 The Pentagon is taking money from 127 projects in 23 states and
 three territories to build Trump's long-promised wall along the
 southern border.
By Dareh Gregorian, Mosheh Gains and Alex Moe
Sept. 4, 2019
 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-taking-over-400-million-funding-military-projects-puerto-rico-n1049811 


The 'reasonable' rebels
 Conservatives say we've abandoned reason and civility. The Old
 South used the same language to defend slavery.
By Eve Fairbanks
August 29, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/29/conservatives-say-weve-abandoned-reason-civility-old-south-said-that-too/ 


How Paying for College Is Changing Middle-Class Life
 When getting a degree is seen as a moral obligation,
 families will spend whatever it takes.
By Caitlin Zaloom
 Dr. Zaloom is an anthropologist.
Aug. 30, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/opinion/sunday/college-tuition.html 


Europeans want to break up with America. Deep down,
they should know that they can't.
 An independent pole isn't plausible.
By James Kirchick
  James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution
  and author of "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the
  Coming Dark Age."
May 22, 2018
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/22/europeans-want-to-break-up-with-america-deep-down-they-should-know-they-cant/ 


Why Brexit is a strategic disaster for the United States
By John R. Deni
August 19, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/19/why-brexit-is-strategic-disaster-united-states/ 


Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook
- fueled rise of The Epoch Times
 Started almost two decades ago with a stated mission to "provide
 information to Chinese communities to help immigrants assimilate
 into American society," The Epoch Times now wields one of the
 biggest social media followings of any news outlet.
By Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins
Aug. 20, 2019
 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121 


The Trump vs. Obama economy - in 15 charts
By Heather Long
August 20, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/20/trump-v-obama-economy-charts/ 


The World Has a Germany Problem
 The debt obsession that ate the economy.
By Paul Krugman
Aug. 19, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/opinion/trump-germany-europe.html 


'This will be catastrophic': Maine families face elder boom,
worker shortage in preview of nation's future
By Jeff Stein
August 14, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/this-will-be-catastrophic-maine-families-face-elder-boom-worker-shortage-in-preview-of-nations-future/2019/08/14/7cecafc6-bec1-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html 


China's military is going from strength to strength under Xi Jinping
By Ben Westcott, CNN
March 4, 2019
 https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/asia/china-military-xi-jinping-intl/index.html 


Experts warn US at risk of losing war with Russia or China
By Ryan Browne
November 14, 2018
Updated 10:26 PM ET, WedNovember 14, 2018
 https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/14/politics/us-defense-strategy-risk/index.html 


China could overwhelm US military in Asia in hours, Australian report says
By Brad Lendon, CNN
August 20, 2019
 https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/asia/australia-china-us-military-report-intl-hnk/index.html 


The ICE raids aren't just wrong - they're expensive
 Does it make sense to spend $50,000 locking up someone for
 supporting her family?
By HEMANTH C. GUNDAVARAM
08/09/2019
 https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2019/08/09/immigration-customs-enforcement-raids-000941 


Trump's use of immigration as 2020 wedge could backfire on other policies
 Detractors and even some supporters say it has undermined everything
 from Trump's effort to weaken Iran's Islamist regime to his attempts
 to strike a trade deal with Mexico.
By NAHAL TOOSI
08/11/2019
 https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/11/trump-immigration-2020-1456177 


Climate change is sapping nutrients from our food
- and it could become a global crisis
By Samuel Myers
August 8 
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/08/climate-change-is-sapping-nutrients-our-food-it-could-become-global-crisis/ 


White House Violated Law With Plan To Move Hundreds Of USDA
Workers: Inspector General
 Just days earlier, Trump's budget director bragged about how
 many workers quit because of the pending relocation.
By Dave Jamieson
08/07/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mick-mulvaney-usda-relocation_n_5d4ae71ee4b09e72973fab05 


Trump, Tax Cuts and Terrorism
 Why do Republicans enable right-wing extremism?
By Paul Krugman
Aug. 05, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/republicans-white-terrorism.html 


Trump's Trade Quagmire (Wonkish)
 He just keeps escalating as his strategy fails.
By Paul Krugman
Aug. 03, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/opinion/trumps-trade-quagmire-wonkish.html 


Trump's Secret Foreign Aid Program
 He's giving away billions to overseas investors.
By Paul Krugman
July 25, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/opinion/trump-foreign-investors.html 


"45 is a puppet": Trump spoke in front of an altered presidential seal
and nobody knew
 In the altered seal, a two-headed bald eagle clutches golf
 clubs and cash.
By Catherine Kim
Jul 25, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/2019/7/25/8930035/trump-altered-presidential-seal 


The Backfire Effect
David McRaney
June 10, 2011	Articles	
 https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/ 


Laboratories of democracy: what Seattle learned from having the highest
minimum wage in the nation
 The city adopted a $15 minimum wage four years ago.
 Here's what happened.
By Matthew Zeitlin
Jul 22, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/7/13/20690266/seattle-minimum-wage-15-dollars 


Health Facts Aren't Enough. Should Persuasion Become a Priority?
 Those with the least understanding of science oppose it the
 most and also think they know the most, a study showed.
By Aaron E. Carroll
July 22, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/upshot/health-facts-importance-persuasion.html 


State and Local Taxes Are Worsening Inequality
 Most states lean heavily on lower-income families.
 An Illinois referendum is a step toward correcting the problem.
By The Editorial Board
July 20, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/opinion/sunday/inequality-taxes.html 


Federal Law Says 'Go Back To Where You Came From' Counts As Discrimination
 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cites the phrase
 President Trump recently used against four congresswomen as workplace
 harassment.
By Sanjana Karanth
07/16/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/federal-law-go-back-came-from-discrimination_n_5d2e815de4b085eda5a390cc 


Space station mold survives 200 times the radiation dose that would kill a human
By Richard A. Lovett
Jun. 28, 2019
 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/space-station-mold-survives-200-times-radiation-dose-would-kill-human 


Journalist Carole Cadwalladr has a question for tech workers:
Are you okay with your bosses enabling "techno-fascism?"
 One whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, changed the course of
 Cadwalladr's reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
 Are there more people like him out there?
By Eric Johnson
Jul 08, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/8/20685566/carole-cadwalladr-guardian-observer-cambridge-analytica-kara-swisher-podcast-interview-recode-decode 


Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The
Housing Crisis
 Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are taking extreme measures
 to block much-needed housing and transportation projects.
By Michael Hobbes
07/06/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/as-cities-try-to-fix-housing-boomers-are-radicalizing-to-stop-progress_n_5d1bcf0ee4b07f6ca58598a9 


Jul 01 2019
New study shows Russian propaganda may really have helped Trump
by Ken Dilanian
 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/new-study-shows-russian-propaganda-may-really-have-helped-trump-n1025306 


The Sack Of Washington
 Emails show long-time corporate mercenaries on the march
 at the Environmental Protection Agency.
By Paul D. Thacker
06/30/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-trump-pollution-science_n_5d163910e4b082e5536893ee 


06/27/2019
Asylum Officers Slam Trump's Border Policies As Contrary To America's
'Moral Fabric'
 A union representing federal employees said workers were "duty bound
 to protect vulnerable asylum seekers."
By Nick Visser
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asylum-official-border-migrants-trump-administration_n_5d141630e4b0e455603740ce 


Notes on Excessive Wealth Disorder
 How not to repeat the mistakes of 2011.
By Paul Krugman
June 22, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/opinion/notes-on-excessive-wealth-disorder.html 


Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable.
And They're Starting a New Global Arms Race.
 The new weapons - which could travel at more than 15 times the
 speed of sound with terrifying accuracy - threaten to change
 the nature of warfare.
By R. Jeffrey Smith
June 19, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/magazine/hypersonic-missiles.html 


The latest charge against Trump is as credible as Juanita Broaddrick's
against Clinton
By George Conway
June 22, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/22/george-conway-juanita-broaddricks-claims-against-bill-clinton-are-credible-latest-accusations-against-trump/ 


'Most of Government Is Unconstitutional'
 Did the Supreme Court just suggest that it is prepared to agree
 with that statement?
By Nicholas Bagley
June 21, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/sunday/gundy-united-states.html 


by Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly
This Father's Day, dads need listen to why their daughters are so angry
-and join the fight
 Fathers are often mystified by their daughters' displays of frustration.
 But when they challenge their own biases, girls benefit - and so does
 everyone else.
June 15, 2019
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/father-s-day-dads-need-listen-why-their-daughters-are-ncna1017786 


In Stores, Secret Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move As you shop, "beacons" are watching you, using hidden technology in your phone.
By Michael Kwe
June 14, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html 


Google can still use Bluetooth to track your Android phone when
Bluetooth is turned off
By David Yanofsky
January 24, 2018
 https://qz.com/1169760/phone-data/ 


Deceased Strategist's Files Detail Republican Gerrymandering in North
Carolina, Advocates Say
By Michael Wines
June 06, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/us/north-carolina-gerrymander-republican.html 


In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc
By Nicole Perlroth and Scott Shane
May 25, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html 


Plastics Aren't Just Polluting - They're Making Climate Change Worse
 But it's not too late to act, according to a new report.
By Catharine Smith
Updated May 17, 2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/plastic-climate-change_n_5cdd8f4be4b09648227ca194 


Moms spend even more time on housework when a man's in the house. Here's why.
By Liana C. Sayer and Joanna R. Pepin
May 08, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/moms-spend-even-more-time-on-housework-when-a-mans-in-the-house-heres-why/2019/05/08/319da006-71ba-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html 


American Women Are Dying From Pregnancy Up To A Year After They Deliver
 A damning new CDC report shows most maternal deaths are fully preventable.
By Catherine Pearson
05/07/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-women-dying-pregnancy_l_5cd1a2c4e4b0548b7360689c 


Shocking New Report On Loss Of Nature Paints A Terrifying Picture
For The Future Of Humanity
 Up to 1 million species are at risk of extinction.
By John Vidal
05/06/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biodiversity-report-ipbes-nature-crisis_n_5ccee4e1e4b0e4d757341215 


STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS
DOJ Alumni Statement
May 06, 2019
 https://medium.com/@dojalumni/statement-by-former-federal-prosecutors-8ab7691c2aa1 


04/29/2019
Poll: 30% Of Conservatives, 15% Of GOP Say They Won't Vote For Trump
 Republican critics of the president say the numbers spell big
 trouble for his reelection bid.
By S.V. Date
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-poll-republicans-conservatives-reelection_n_5cc75b54e4b07c9a4ce7bc8e 


Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got 'Greedy.'
 How America's obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.
By Claire Cain Miller
April 26, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/upshot/women-long-hours-greedy-professions.html 


Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans.
Here's how to respond.
By Hillary Clinton
April 24, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-mueller-documented-a-serious-crime-against-all-americans-heres-how-to-respond/2019/04/24/1e8f7e16-66b7-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html 


Russian attack and obstructed resulting investigations, an impeachable offense
 What kind of patriotic American wouldn't reject and report a
 foreign offer to collaborate against our country?
By Evan McMullin,
  Former presidential candidate and co-founder of Stand Up Republic
April 22, 2019
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/mueller-report-proves-trump-failed-sound-alarm-russia-impeachable-offense-ncna997076 


Barr's Playbook: He Misled Congress When Omitting Parts of Justice
Dep't Memo in 1989
by Ryan Goodman
April 15, 2019
 https://www.justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-playbook-he-misled-congress-when-omitting-parts-of-justice-dept-memo-in-1989/ 


These Are The States With The Highest And Lowest Taxes Overall
 Surprise: Florida's not on top.
By Adriana Belmonte, Yahoo Finance
04/11/2019 02:52pm ET | Updated April 12, 2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/states-with-highest-lowest-taxes_l_5caf89abe4b0ffefe3ad8197 


Everything Americans think they know about recycling is probably wrong
 Recyling is important, but a lot of the products Americans put in
 their recyling bins end up in landfills anyway.
April 14, 2019
By Erin Biba
 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/everything-americans-think-they-know-about-recycling-probably-wrong-ncna994261 


Trump made two remarkably authoritarian remarks in one day
 Did you even notice?
By Aaron Rupar
Apr 05, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/2019/4/5/18297113/trump-authoritarian-comments-immigration-judges-media 


04/05/2019
Trump Homeland Security Official Suggested Antifascists Were
'The Actual Threats'
 Here's what Katie Gorka has been up to at work.
By Jessica Schulber
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-violent-extremism-katie-gorka-life-after-hate-mpac-antifa_n_5ca787d7e4b0a00f6d3f2e73 


Elizabeth Warren Actually Wants to Fix Capitalism
 She has big ideas for repairing the American economy.
 The other Democratic candidates should too.
David Leonhardt
March 15, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/sunday/elizabeth-warren-president-2020.html 


A C.E.O. Who's Scared for America
 Capitalism, he says, is slowly committing suicide.
By David Leonhardt
March 31, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/opinion/peter-georgescu-capitalism.html 


A Texan's Big Bet on a Fossil-Fuel Future for California
 Andrew Beal, a poker-playing billionaire and major Trump backer,
 could upend California's carbon-free power goals with a case
 before federal regulators.
By Ivan Penn and Thomas Kaplan
March 29, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/business/energy-environment/andrew-beal-california.html 


Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record High In 2018: IEA
 China, the United States, and India together accounted for nearly
 70 percent of the rise in energy demand.
Nina Chestney
03/25/2019
 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/global-carbon-emissions-record-high-2018_n_5c9975cee4b0f7bfa1b59668 


Fake milk is real news, as synthetic alternatives threaten traditional
dairy farms
 To prevent consumers from becoming confused between regular milk
 and plant-based milk, dairy farmers are asking the FDA to enforce
 the definition of milk as ¿lacteal secretion from milking one or
 more healthy cows."
Feb. 19, 2019
By Cassie Slane
 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/fake-milk-real-news-synthetic-alternatives-threaten-traditional-dairy-farms-n973236 


How Republicans bought their own tax cut snake oil
By Paul Waldman
February 18, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/18/how-republicans-bought-their-own-tax-cut-snake-oil/ 


How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand
 A law professor explains how corporations commodify people of color.
By Sean Illin
Feb 16, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong 


Bill and Melinda Gates and the problem of the "good billionaire"
 A new wave of critics say even the most generous billionaires are bad.
 Are they right?
By Dylan Matthews
Feb 16, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/16/18225498/bill-melinda-gates-annual-letter-2019 


She Spoke Up About Sexual Harassment At Ernst & Young And Got Caught
In A Web Of Retaliation
 Ernst & Young says it's committed to gender diversity.
 A former partner tells a different story.
By Emily Peck
02/11/2019 
 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ernst-and-young-sexual-harassment-karen-ward_us_5c14080ee4b009b8aea73086 


Massive insect decline could have 'catastrophic' environmental impact,
 study says
By Euan McKirdy
February 11, 2019
 https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/health/insect-decline-study-intl/index.html 


Sep 03, 2012
The Strike That Shook America
 As the United States commemorates Labor Day, take a look back at
 a landmark victory for American workers: the 1912 Bread and Roses
 Strike.
by Christopher Klein
 https://www.history.com/news/the-strike-that-shook-america-100-years-ago 


Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office
 Hard work and discipline help girls outperform boys in class, but
 that advantage disappears in the work force. Is school the problem?
By Lisa Damour
Feb.07, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/sunday/girls-school-confidence.html 


The ecological disaster that is Trump's border wall: a visual guide
 New sections of wall will cut through a Texas wildlife refuge
 and the habitat of beautiful cats.
By Eliza Barclay and Sarah Frostenson
Feb 05, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/4/10/14471304/trump-border-wall-animals 


The robot revolution will be worse for men
 Demographics will determine who gets hit worst by automation.
 Policy will help curb the damage. 
By Rani Molla
Jan 28, 2019
 https://www.recode.net/2019/1/28/18185061/robot-automation-jobs-employment-revolution-worse-men-brookings 


01/28/2019
GOP Tax Cut Had No Major Impact On Business Investment Or Hiring: Survey
 The White House had predicted the massive fiscal stimulus package
 would boost business spending and job growth.
Reuters
 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-tax-cut-trump-impact_us_5c4f6199e4b00906b26c2c60 


If you want to understand the age of Trump, read the Frankfurt School
 Why now is a great time to dust off this forgotten school of criticism.
By Sean Illing
Jan 26, 2019
 https://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/12/27/14038406/donald-trump-frankfurt-school-brexit-critical-theory 


The Myth of Middle-Class Liberalism
 The bourgeois are supposed to ensure open, democratic societies.
 In fact, they rarely have.
By David Motadel
  Dr. Motadel is a historian at the London School of Economics
  and Political Science.
Jan. 22, 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/opinion/middle-class-liberalism-populism.html 


The Abortion Wars Have Become a Fight Over Science
 Forty-six years after Roe, the two camps increasingly disagree on
 basic facts about abortion - and who has the authority to
 determine them.
By Mary Ziegler
 Ms. Ziegler is a law professor.
Jan. 22, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/opinion/abortion-roe-science.html 


The Covington Scissor
 Welcome to another controversy algorithmically designed to tear America apart.
By Ross Douthat
Jan. 22, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/opinion/covington-catholic-march-for-life.html 


January 11, 2019
An actual engineer explains why the wall is
 'a disaster of numerous types waiting to happen.'
by Annie Reneau
 https://www.upworthy.com/an-actual-engineer-explains-why-the-wall-is-a-disaster-of-numerous-types-waiting-to-happen 


What's behind the confidence of the incompetent? This suddenly popular
psychological phenomenon.
 The Dunning-Kruger effect explains why unskilled people think they
 know it all and tend to be overconfident.
By Angela Fritz
January 07, 2019
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/01/07/whats-behind-confidence-incompetent-this-suddenly-popular-psychological-phenomenon/ 


The Economics of Soaking the Rich
 What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy? A lot.
By Paul Krugman
Jan 05, 2019
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tax-policy-dance.html 


How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success
 With "The Apprentice," the TV producer mythologized Trump - then
 a floundering D-lister - as the ultimate titan, paving his way
 to the Presidency.
By Patrick Radden Keefe
January 7, 2019
 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/how-mark-burnett-resurrected-donald-trump-as-an-icon-of-american-success