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Elections are tricky to understand. It takes a significant amount of information to understand the results of an election, coupled with nuanced thinking about people and their views on complicated problems. Unfortunately, the Trump administration seems...
by Andexer
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 09:29 PM PST
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Democratic lawmakers held a rally on the steps of the Supreme Court this evening to condemn Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-refugee executive order; included were House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi:
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by Hunter
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 03:36 PM PST
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Why aren't more American business leaders speaking out against Trump's destructive immigration orders? Take a wild guess.
A few chief executives joined protests against President Donald Trump's temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim...
by Hunter
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 01:05 PM PST
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Trump press secretary Sean Spicer is a liar. He's lying about this too.
Praise for a Trump-signed Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that explicitly did not mention the Jews targeted has been damn hard to come by. In a brief perusal of news and...
by Hunter
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 12:06 PM PST
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We've gone through this before, but let's go through it again: Donald Trump's stupidly written executive order will not make America safer. And his administration’s stated excuses for the ban are,
by Hunter
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on Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 02:25 PM PST
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There are two groups that have ecstatically welcomed the Trump regime's ban on travelers from Muslim nations. The first: American white supremacist groups. Terrorist groups .
Jihadist groups on ...
by Hunter
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 05:40 PM PST
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The Trump White House sent Kellyanne Conway out to do the Sunday shows and demonstrate that the current administration has some shred of basic human decency tucked away somewhere. (Why those shows ...
by Hunter
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 04:35 PM PST
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As protests continue nationwide, a roundup of the today's news on Trump's anti-American 'Muslim ban'.
by Hunter
269 comments
on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 05:05 PM PST
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The statement from San Francisco International Airport on the Trump Muslim entry ban and resulting protests is a thumb in Trump's eye.
We appreciate all those who have so passionately expressed their concerns over the President's Executive Order...
by Hunter
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 12:24 PM PST
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One of the odder low-level differences between the last presidential administration and this one? The weird, hostile press releases. As nationwide protests again today sprout up in opposition to the ...
by Hunter
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 12:00 PM PST
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The Trump team's asinine ban of legal travelers and refugees from Muslim nations was the result of a campaign promise to his overtly racist base. But we should also take yet another moment to, just ...
by Hunter
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 10:30 AM PST
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As we watch the turmoil that is the Trump regime, fear descent into authoritarianism, and mobilize/execute resistance to these anti-Democratic fascist forces in charge of the US government, Steve Bannon is a clear nexus and strategist for the disaster...
by A Siegel
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 08:45 AM PST
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Daily Kos readers may be unfamiliar with John Mauldin, who is a very widely read reporter and commentator on economic matters. Usually he focuses strictly on business or economic policy, but this week he took a board meeting in DC as an opportunity to...
by monkeybrainpolitics
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 06:42 AM PST
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Meet the Republican cowards. While green card holders and war refugees are being denied entry at our nation's airports, here's what America's least American lawmakers are talking about instead. Fun ...
by Hunter
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 03:30 PM PST
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While Republicans hold their cowardly tongues, here is a roundup of reactions from Democratic lawmakers on Trump's stupid, malevolent and white nationalist-inspired ban of Muslim war refugees—and ...
by Hunter
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 02:15 PM PST
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As green card holders returning to America and already-vetted and approved refugees are being detained at our airports , and as the same Republican leaders who condemned Trump's rancid notion of a ...
by Hunter
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 12:30 PM PST
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January 27, 2017. 12:00 PM EST
As of noon Eastern time today, it has been only 168 hours since Donald Trump became President*. The first of those hours brings to mind the title of Arthur Koestler's classic 1940 novel about Stalinist Russia under a...
by Robert S McElvaine
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 09:28 AM PST
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To get an idea of what to expect from Donald Trump for the next four years, we only have to examine his first week in office.
January 20: Trump was sworn in and delivered a dark inaugural address; a shorter versions of his "Make America Great Again"...
by bobburnett
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 06:09 AM PST
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At last Tuesday's press briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave the first question of the day to a "news" outlet you've probably never heard of. LifeZette is a website founded by conservative ...
by Hunter
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 07:00 AM PST
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In this story we learn that a member of the Trump administration called the New York Times to brag about his election victory, repeatedly berate the news organization as "humiliated" and "wrong," lash out at the cruel stories reporters were generating,...
by Hunter
253 comments
on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 01:18 PM PST
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