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Bombshell Revelations: Testimony details how Trump White House planned attack on the Capitol

Bombshell Revelations: Testimony details how Trump White House planned attack on the Capitol

Posted by | Jul 13, 2022

The June 28 testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol was explosive. It tied former president Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows directly to a plot to overturn the U.S. government. The witness was Cassidy Hutchinson, a 25-year-old aide to Meadows and congressional liaison who was well known on Capitol Hill. She was a staunch Republican who had worked for Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA), the second highest Republican in the House, and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). An aide to former House speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Brendan Buck,...

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Richard Nixon’s Heir: Trump was also intent on using presidential powers to subvert the Constitution

Richard Nixon’s Heir: Trump was also intent on using presidential powers to subvert the Constitution

Posted by | Jul 13, 2022

This is what Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the January 6 Congressional committee, said happened that day: As his shock troops stormed the U.S. Capitol chanting “hang Mike Pence,” Donald Trump told advisers that the man next in line for the presidency “deserves” it. That astonishing sentence requires repeating: The former president of the United States of America said that the former vice-president of the United States of America “deserves” to be executed. Trump agreed with his raging, White Supremacist, shock troops who invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that his groveling toady, Pence, deserved to...

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Audit finds Black applicants to be half as likely to receive Federal pandemic aid in Wisconsin as Whites

Audit finds Black applicants to be half as likely to receive Federal pandemic aid in Wisconsin as Whites

Posted by | Jul 12, 2022

A federal audit has uncovered what researchers into Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system have long suspected: People of color are less likely to receive jobless compensation than their White counterparts. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development previously said that it lacked data to know whether its systems might favor some groups over others, such as producing different outcomes around racial lines. But a June report by the Government Accountability Office — a nonpartisan watchdog that reports to Congress — found that Wisconsin was among the slowest to begin paying federal pandemic unemployment relief, and Whites received compensation at twice the...

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A COVID-19 Stalemate: As federal cash for vaccines dries up each state will need to fund its own pandemic care

A COVID-19 Stalemate: As federal cash for vaccines dries up each state will need to fund its own pandemic care

Posted by | Jul 12, 2022

State and local health departments remain in limbo over whether they will need to single-handedly fund their own COVID-19 vaccines and treatments as a stalemate in Congress drags into its fourth month. The Biden administration has raised alarm bells about the risk of inaction after sending Congress a request for $22.5 billion in early March. But U.S. lawmakers have been unable to pass two bipartisan agreements and no negotiations are underway at the moment, even as cases increase nationwide and the potential remains for a big wave of infections this winter. That has left state and local health departments...

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Trumpism without Trump: Why modern Conservative ideology continues to reflect the Confederacy

Trumpism without Trump: Why modern Conservative ideology continues to reflect the Confederacy

Posted by | Jul 8, 2022

Donald Trump promoted a modern Civil War in America this week on his social media platform. Civil War? Further confounding things, Republican candidates like Pennsylvania’s Kathy Barnette are openly running as ultra-MAGA candidates, having hijacked Trumpism without Trump himself. It is causing the media and political elites to have a “Huh? What?” moment. Trumpism without Trump? Could it even be a thing? Apparently so: candidates Trump has openly disavowed are claiming Trumpism as their standard, the flag they’ll carry into the election and into office if they win. Trumpism, they proclaim, is a coherent political philosophy of its own...

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Children will only be safe from guns when we change from a culture of violence to a culture of peace

Children will only be safe from guns when we change from a culture of violence to a culture of peace

Posted by | Jul 7, 2022

A deadly epidemic is hitting the U.S. and ordinary citizens are unable to stop it. The reason is simple: the laws protect the killers. And those responsible for making the laws have abdicated their responsibility. They do so even when the victims could be their children or grandchildren, engulfed in a wave of violence and death that is increasingly targeting schools. The Gun Violence Archive reports that mass shootings have increased from 269 in 2014 to 693 in 2021. Lawmakers — mostly Republican — systematically refuse to enact effective legislation to control arms sales. This is frustrating to most...

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