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Impeach and Convict Trump to Bar Him From Holding Future Office (Video)

Impeach and Convict Trump to Bar Him From Holding Future Office (Video)

Only three presidents have been impeached in American history: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump in 2019. After Wednesday’s treasonous coup attempt at the Capitol for which Donald Trump is undeniably culpable, there is growing support for making Trump the only president to possibly be impeached twice. But with only 10 days left of his presidency, some see this…

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The Double-Standard of the Attempted Capitol Coup (Video)

The Double-Standard of the Attempted Capitol Coup (Video)

Five months ago, Donald Trump tweeted the following: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1287877621380837378 He was responding to “left-wing violence,” “dangerous radical leftists,” and “radical ANTIFA” supposedly wreaking havoc in Portland, Ore. during Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests this summer over the hyper-militarization of America’s police forces in the wake of the Minneapolis…

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Public Oversight Boards Among Several Police Reforms Coming This Year (Video)

Public Oversight Boards Among Several Police Reforms Coming This Year (Video)

Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it. Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times. One of the changes set to take effect this year results from the groundswell of protests over the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Jacob Blake. Election day signaled a potential shift in accountability…

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Trump Just Got Caught Abusing His Power--Again (Video)

Trump Just Got Caught Abusing His Power–Again (Video)

Republicans had an opportunity to remove Donald Trump from office a year ago. Yet, despite incontrovertible evidence of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress leading to Trump being the third president to be impeached, the Senate GOP overwhelmingly decided he was still fit to hold the nation’s highest office. Fast forward one year. Donald Trump has two weeks left in office. One of the very…

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Voting This Year Was a Mess--Just a Taste of What the GOP Has in Store (Video)

Voting This Year Was a Mess–Just a Taste of What the GOP Has in Store (Video)

Record turnout in this year’s election is throwing Republicans into a tailspin. They do not want democracy. They want oligarchy. But they know Americans outside the extremely wealthy do not. So to maintain their wealthy donors’ hegemony, they work tirelessly to prevent voters from exercising their civic duty to choose whom they want to represent them. Why else would they be working so hard to…

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Although the lamest of lame ducks, Donald Trump still possesses the enormous power we entrusted him with four years ago. One of the most awesome (and monarchical) powers the Constitution entrusts to the president is the ability to grant “reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States” to just about anyone. Trump is wasting no time exercising this authority, issuing half the 90…

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We Are Not Out of the Woods Yet--Trump Could Still Foment a Coup

We Are Not Out of the Woods Yet–Trump Could Still Foment a Coup

Donald Trump and his “elite strike force” have failed at overturning the Electoral College-certified election. Every federal court to which Trump’s lawyers have brought legal challenges intended to steal Joe Biden’s victory has backfired. So that’s it, right? Joe Biden is going to be president in 24 days, and Donald Trump is best just wiling away his remaining time playing golf. Before we breathe…

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Democrats Need to Take Advantage of Trump's Repudiation of McConnell

Democrats Need to Take Advantage of Trump’s Repudiation of McConnell

$600. Unless things change, that’s all some of us will be getting from the 5,593-page $900 billion relief package Congress passed Monday night. It is half what the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act delivered in April, just as the pandemic was beginning to tear through the United States. Expected to receive the $600 are those who earn less than $75,000. There is also a…

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Russians Hacked Government Agencies--Is Anyone Surprised? (Video)

Russians Hacked Government Agencies–Is Anyone Surprised? (Video)

Is anyone surprised Russian hackers appear responsible for the worst US government cyber attack in history? Is anyone surprised Donald Trump is downplaying it? Last week news broke about suspected Russian government hackers infiltrating computer systems for the Defense Department, the Commerce Department, the Treasury Department, the State Department, Homeland Security, and the branch of the the…

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Comcast, Disney+, Netflix Set to Raise Rates at Height of the Pandemic (Video)

Comcast, Disney+, Netflix Set to Raise Rates at Height of the Pandemic (Video)

We’ve been stuck at home a lot this year. Maybe you’ve been working at your Netflix list. Perhaps you’ve discovered The Mandalorian on Disney+. Quarantines, lockdowns, and general anxiety about going out in public have been boons to streaming media companies. So at a time when unemployment rates are soaring, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and people have more time to watch television, some…

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Conn. Becomes the First State Requiring Multi-Cultural School Courses (Video)

Conn. Becomes the First State Requiring Multi-Cultural School Courses (Video)

We live in interesting times. We may not stop too often to consider it, but as we speak we are at the mercy of a global pandemic the likes of which the world has not seen in a hundred years. We spent the past four years flirting with fascism after an anachronistic constitutional loophole elevated to the nation’s highest office a political neophyte with a soft spot for white supremacists. Hate…

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CBO Report Shows Medicare-for-All Costs Less Than Previously Thought

CBO Report Shows Medicare-for-All Costs Less Than Previously Thought

If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it’s our societal inequities.

When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies in the reality that we spend the most money on healthcare–20% of our national income–of any Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country on the planet, yet we are not the healthiest country.

Most countries…

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Environmental Activists Celebrate NY's Divestment From Fossil Fuels (Video)

Environmental Activists Celebrate NY’s Divestment From Fossil Fuels (Video)

Responding to pressure from environmental groups, New York has become the first state to divest its massive public pension fund from fossil fuel companies.

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Wednesday the Empire state will begin transitioning $226 billion to net-zero-emissions portfolios by 2040.

The fund, DiNapoli explained, is planning to complete an investments review within five years to…

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Economic Relief Package Stalls For Corporate Immunity and the Pentagon (Video)

Economic Relief Package Stalls For Corporate Immunity and the Pentagon (Video)

12 million workers are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas if Republican lawmakers continue withholding funding for federal COVID-19 relief programs, threatening workers with evictions, student loan bills, and other expenses as the pandemic ramps up again.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday decided to make their pain even worse.

Amid fervent congressional…

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Provision in Trump Tax Scam May Raise Taxes Just As Biden Takes Office (Video)

Provision in Trump Tax Scam May Raise Taxes Just As Biden Takes Office (Video)

Your taxes are about to go up.

But it isn’t because Joe Biden was elected president.

Three years ago, almost to the day, when the Republican party held in the majority in both congressional chambers, Donald Trump signed into law the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” a $1.5 trillion-dollar permanent tax cut to corporations and the wealthy.

It promisedto “deliver more jobs, higher wages, and massive tax…

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COVID-19 Is Claiming Another Casualty: Public Education (Video)

COVID-19 Is Claiming Another Casualty: Public Education (Video)

The pandemic could be killing more than those infected with COVID-19.

Due to its impact on in-person instruction, it might also be delivering a death blow to American public education.

School districts are experiencing a noticeable decline in enrollment as they head into the winter months continuing the remote and hybrid learning models with which they began the year.

New York City schools alone…

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Mitch McConnell and the Senate GOP Are Creating a Humanitarian Crisis (Video)

Mitch McConnell and the Senate GOP Are Creating a Humanitarian Crisis (Video)

We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.

Hunger.

In the richest country in world history–where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief than those losing their jobs and homes, where the rich are getting obscenely richer–hunger is growing.

According to recent reporting from the Wa…