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Trump Calls For ‘Patriotic Education,' Says Anti-Racism Teachings Are ‘Child Abuse'
NBC New York - Fri Sep 18, 2020
President Donald Trump on Thursday accused schools of teaching students "hateful lies about this country" and said he would be taking steps to "restore patriotic education" as he continued his opposition to efforts to raise awareness about racial inequalities. More»

Georgia ACLU Published Its 7-Year Study of Republicans' Unconstitutional Voter Disenfranchisement Scheme
Hill Reporter - Mon Sep 7, 2020
The state of Georgia has been quietly and illegally purging hundreds of thousands of valid registered voters from the state rolls for the better half of a decade, according to a blockbuster report from the American Civil Liberties Union, which was commissioned in 2013 by the ACLU and conducted by the Los Angeles-based non-partisan Palast Investigative Fund. More»

Surveillance video shows bags of USPS mail being dumped in parking lot
KTLA-TV - Sun Sep 6, 2020
Piles of mail were found in two separate locations in Glendale Thursday morning, including one incident where a rented truck was captured on surveillance video dumping bags of unopened letters and packages in the parking lot of a business. More»

Trump: Americans Who Died In War Are ‘Losers’ And ‘Suckers’
The Atlantic - Thu Sep 3, 2020
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. More»

Longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to leave White House
NBC News - Mon Aug 24, 2020
Kellyanne Conway, the longtime adviser to President Donald Trump and wife of outspoken Trump critic George Conway, is leaving the White House at the end of August, she said in a statement Sunday. More»

Trump advisor Steve Bannon arrested on charges of defrauding donors in fundraising scheme
CNBC - Thu Aug 20, 2020
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign "We Build the Wall. More»

Trump signs executive order forcing Chinese owner of TikTok to sell US assets within 90 days and destroy all American user data
Daily Mail - Fri Aug 14, 2020
President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in the United States. More»

Postal Service warns 46 states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots
Washington Post - Fri Aug 14, 2020
Anticipating an avalanche of absentee ballots, the US Postal Service recently sent detailed letters to 46 states and DC warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted - adding another layer of uncertainty ahead of the high-stakes presidential contest. More»

Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré Calls For March On Washington Over USPS Slowdown
Crooks & Liars - Fri Aug 14, 2020
Lieutenant General Russel Honoré cannot get his medication because its delivered through the Postal Service, which Trump has slowed down in an attempt to fix the election in his favor. More»

Postal service seen hauling mailboxes away in trucks as Trump's pick for USPS makes controversial changes before election
The Independent - Fri Aug 14, 2020
New reports of US Postal Service workers hauling away mailboxes in flatbed trucks and locking shut convenient drop slots have caused widespread concerns among Oregon residents about mail-in voting during the presidential election in November. More»

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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