Two state lawmakers confront a deadly pandemic, a disputed election and a divided, angry America
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-30
'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns
Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows
N.Y. prosecutor hires forensic accounting experts as Trump criminal probe escalates
Why increasing the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 is a bad idea
The Playbook for Poisoning the Earth
Secret Service to make changes to presidential detail to bring on agents who worked with Biden
Nikki Haley’s mind-numbing inanity - "The mindless denunciation of policies Democrats are not pursuing, appealing to White grievance, reiterating delusions of Christian persecution and uttering empty platitudes about capitalism are what pass for Republican 'ideas' these days.
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"Republican 2024 aspirants think that appeals to White Christian victimology and cartoonish portraits of Democrats are the way to win over the MAGA crowd. Alas, I doubt that crowd is interested in a less inflammatory version of the message they have imbibed for four years, especially coming from slick politicians such as Haley."
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Monday, December 28, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-28
At Longwood Gardens, a new meadow for the ages
Biden put Wilmington on the map — but for garden lovers, it was already a destination
For D.C. protests, Proud Boys settle in at city’s oldest hotel and its bar
A Tycoon’s Deep-State Conspiracy Dive: Patrick Byrne, the former head of Overstock, had always been outspoken. Did an affair with a Russian agent push him too far? - "Emory University recently released the results of the most comprehensive analysis to date of people who are prone to conspiracy beliefs. According to the study, the personality profiles most often associated with such beliefs are entitlement, self-centered impulsivity, a sense of being wronged, and elevated levels of depressive moods and anxiousness.
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"Several times over the summer, Byrne predicted that Barr would soon be making arrests, but they never took place. The Durham report did not appear, either, although a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on Russian election interference was released in August. It mentioned Byrne several times, most significantly as someone Butina seemed to be using to connect with Rand Paul. The report was unequivocal: the Russian government had engaged in 'an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence' the outcome of the election, and it had done so with the aim of aiding Trump’s campaign. The conclusion of the committee, which is chaired by Rubio, effectively contradicted Trump’s assertion that Russian interference in the 2016 election was a hoax."
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-23
When my daughter asked if Santa was real, my answer was yes
The forgotten civil war history of two of our favorite Christmas carols
Activist posing as Smithfield CEO hoaxes Fox’s Maria Bartiromo
Democrats pressure McConnell to give in to Trump’s demand for $2,000 stimulus checks: ‘Let’s do it!’
What happened to Maria Bartiromo?
Republicans plunge into open battle over attempts to overturn Trump’s loss to Biden
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-22
On a Trump-loving island in the Chesapeake, a virus outbreak unites instead of divides
Why Sen. Kaine wants to save Trump Country from sinking into the Chesapeake - "While Eskridge may see changes in the climate — powerful storms, eerie low tides — he doesn't believe humans are responsible. He favors the biblical prediction that the world is approaching the end days before the rapture when Jesus will return to Earth."
Washington Football Team settled sexual misconduct claim against Daniel Snyder for $1.6 million
Monday, December 21, 2020
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
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Saturday, December 12, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-11
What we know about Rep. Eric Swalwell’s ties to an alleged Chinese spy
Texas has managed the near-impossible: Its presidential election lawsuit just got worse
Secession? Rush Limbaugh floats a startling notion — then quickly backs off.
Hatred of liberals is all that’s left of conservatism - "The Republican Party has proved that its hatred of liberals is so foundational that it will abandon any pretense of commitment to democracy, if democracy allows for the possibility that liberals might win an election. They have come to regard Democratic voters as essentially undeserving of having their will translated into power, no matter how large their numbers.
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"Trump fights and fights, angrily, bitterly, endlessly driven forward by his hatred of the people his supporters hate. That’s what the base loves, and every other Republican knows it."
Metro disputes audit that claimed rail control center was ‘toxic workplace’ environment
Policing protests: Demonstrators say officers are taking sides as D.C. hosts pro-Trump rallies Saturday - "District officials say police did their best to minimize harm in a delicate and difficult situation. But officers’ behavior at the November rally — posing for photos with supporters of President Trump, standing back as demonstrators in Make America Great Again garb vandalized Black Lives Matter signs, standing back as arguments escalated to physical conflict — has prompted many to question the role personal politics play in policing."
Biologists say a wider American Legion Bridge would destroy critical research site
Thursday, December 10, 2020
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The president and his party have gone to war against America - "When we look back on this dreadful era in our politics, I believe we’ll put this episode alongside Trump’s impeachment, because they share this sequence of events: A corrupt, narcissistic president engages in appalling misdeeds, then demands that his party defend those misdeeds, which they do."
Texas AG Asks the Supreme Court for a Coup: Ken Paxton and Donald Trump have a bizarre view of justice. [ed. note: author is a professor of law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter]
GOP Superlawyer Predicts Texas Election Suit Will Fail, Says Party 'Corroded' Under Trump
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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Who’s going to tell the GOP base that they’re being scammed? - "As long as those millions of suckers keep sending in their contributions and tuning in to their favorite shows, the people perpetrating the con will keep winding them up to greater heights of outrage. But what happens when President-elect Joe Biden actually takes office? Will they finally realize they got scammed? That their leaders knew all along that Trump lost but kept milking them for money anyway?
"Don’t bet on it. The GOP base’s eagerness to fall for every new iteration of this con is limitless, and nobody knows that better than the party’s leaders."
Biden to face wary allies after four years of Trump’s ‘America First’ rhetoric
Tamron Hall is betting on herself — and winning
TV’s gay Christmas movies are as benign, charming and cliche as we always hoped they’d be
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-08
The Fascist We Deserve: The Authoritarian Ideology of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy
Prominent evangelicals are directing Trump’s sinking ship. That feeds doubts about religion. - "When prominent Christians affirm absurd political lies with religious fervor, nonbelievers have every reason to think: 'Maybe Christians are prone to swallowing absurd religious lies as well. Maybe they are simply credulous about everything.' If we should encounter someone who believes — honestly and adamantly believes — in both the existence of the Easter Bunny and in the resurrection of Christ, it would naturally raise questions about the quality of his or her believing faculties. It would call into question the standard of evidence being applied and muddy the meaning of faith itself."
The Social Life of Forests: Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another? - "The razing of an old-growth forest is not just the destruction of magnificent individual trees — it’s the collapse of an ancient republic whose interspecies covenant of reciprocation and compromise is essential for the survival of Earth as we’ve known it."
Monday, December 7, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-07
Arizona Legislature 'cannot and will not' overturn election, Republican House speaker says
UPDATE: Kemp again refuses Trump’s demand to overturn election
Two cheers for the Never Trump conservatives
National Zoo’s giant pandas will head to China in three years
In the Georgia runoff, just showing up for the debate was apparently the hardest part
Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture. - "This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another."
A fight for forest equity in Southeast D.C. takes on new urgency amid pandemic
Florida police raid house of fired data scientist who alleged state manipulated covid-19 stats
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-03
Kayleigh McEnany and the Trump team are running out of voter fraud tricks
No, Joe Biden Did Not Only Improve in Four Major Swing-State Cities - "Is it true that Joe Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in 32 out of 36, and overperformed in Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, and Philadelphia? No, it is not. It is emphatically false:" [ed. note: National Review]
Trump escalates baseless attacks on election with 46-minute video rant - "The president’s latest salvo came a day after his attorney general, William P. Barr, said the Justice Department had found no evidence of voting fraud that could have changed the outcome of the election."
Their View: Bedford County's 'no shutdown' crowd gives aid to the enemy
Dr. Marvin James Farr - "Dr. Marvin James Farr, 81, of Scott City, Kan., passed away Dec. 1, 2020, in isolation at Park Lane Nursing Home. He was preceded in death by more than 260,000 Americans infected with COVID-19. He died in a room not his own, being cared for by people dressed in confusing and frightening ways. He died with COVID-19, and his final days were harder, scarier and lonelier than necessary. He was not surrounded by friends and family.
"Marvin was born May 23, 1939 to Jim and Dorothy Farr of Modoc, Kan. He was born into an America recovering from the Great Depression and about to face World War 2, times of loss and sacrifice difficult for most of us to imagine. Americans would be asked to ration essential supplies and send their children around the world to fight and die in wars of unfathomable destruction. He died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another."
Parler's got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network
Man, 41, had no teeth and could barely speak after his mother locked him in their suburban apartment for 28 years, say reports [ed. note: Stockholm, Sweden]
The most petulant 46 minutes in American history
Farah resigns as White House communications director in tacit nod to Trump’s loss
1-year-old Carmelo Duncan is the latest victim of gun violence in D.C. as homicides hit a 15-year high - "Houseal blames the violence on disruptions caused by the coronavirus — people home, out of work, out of money and out of options. 'These are survival crimes associated with people who are traumatized,' she said. 'There are lot of people who are struggling and they need support. … Lately, a lot of people have been acting out of desperation.'" [ed. note: shooting into a car is not a "survival crime"]
Legendary Afghan pilot in hiding after U.S. reverses decision to help him flee Taliban
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Reading archive 2020-12-02
Trump lays the groundwork for a massive government purge on his way out the door
D.C. Council votes to rename Lafayette rec center and park, honor long-ignored Indian treaty
A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade
By facing more of its racist truths, Kansas — and America — could heal more of its divides
Monday, November 30, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-30
These brutal police dog attacks were captured on video. Now some cities are curtailing K-9 use.
What it’s like to teach children about the election, and its results, in deep-red Trump country
Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem
Trump lashes out as former top DHS official reasserts that election was ‘secure’
No game days. No bars. The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships.
How Democrats should wage war on coming GOP obstructionism - "So when Republicans start talking about deficits, it should be greeted with derision, contempt and outrage — not over their hypocrisy, but because of what they’re trying to do to the country. Every Republican who says a word about deficits should be hit with 'Why are you trying to undermine the economy? Why don’t you want people to have jobs? How many Americans’ livelihoods are you willing to destroy just to knock down Biden’s approval ratings a few points? Is this what you were elected to do? How dare you?'"
Metro Proposes Cutting Weekend Trains, Closing 19 Stations And Slashing Bus Service
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-29
Iran’s political establishment faces a serious test of will. So will Joe Biden. - "We know that, following his loss in the U.S. election, President Trump asked his advisers to offer options for strikes on Iranian military installations. The intelligence community and top military advisers oppose the idea. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — America’s top 'diplomat' — shares with his boss the attitude that expertise doesn’t matter nearly as much as finding people to agree with you."
For Trump advocate Sidney Powell, a playbook steeped in conspiracy theories - At the Nov. 19 news conference, before a national television audience, she asserted that “communist money,” the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and a manipulated computer algorithm were all connected in a secret plot that had altered potentially millions of ballots and stolen the election from Trump.
Powell did not stop there. In an interview two days later with the conservative outlet Newsmax, she said she had been given evidence — which she said she could not disclose — that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican and an ally of the president, had taken bribes and conspired to orchestrate Trump’s defeat. Nationwide, she estimated that “thousands” of local elections officials knowingly helped carry out the master scheme to tamper with ballots. In fact, Powell claimed, if anyone bothered to look, they’d probably find that U.S. elections had been rigged for decades.
America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it.
Iran’s president blames Israel for killing nuclear scientist and vows to respond at the ‘right time’
Marco Rubio is already suiting up for the politics of destruction
Why they fight: The Democrats are a big-tent party. The GOP isn’t. That explains everything. - "In the short term, Democrats clearly have a coalition-management challenge: Big-tent politics requires a lot of work and leads to inevitable bickering. But over the long run, Republicans are confronting decline, not only because the Democrats' diversity better reflects the country, both now and in the future, but also because the GOP's coalition is aging. Among Trump's voters, 65 percent were 45 or older; only 56 percent of Biden's were — and Biden captured voters under 30 by a better than 3-to-2 margin. In fact, the only thing that has saved Republicans in presidential elections over the past three decades is an electoral college that privileges White and conservative voters. The GOP has won the popular vote in only one of the past eight elections. Republicans took heart in their gains among Latinos, but the Hispanic vote was nonetheless key to Biden's success in Arizona and Nevada — and to the Democrats' ongoing advantage in California, New Mexico and elsewhere.
"Still, 2020 did not bring about the larger-scale realignment that the Democrats hoped for (and that was mistakenly forecast by many polls). To nurture that possibility, Biden and the Democrats must find their inner Job, with a little help from Machiavelli. For starters, each camp within the party can acknowledge the truth of what their internal rivals say. The left is right that it provides a lot of energy, especially among young voters and in the urban areas that turned out big for Biden. But the moderates are right that, to win power, the party needs middle-of-the-road voters, particularly from swing districts. This may produce more cautious officeholders, but they are essential to building a congressional majority.
"Progressives are right that the quest for racial justice should not be compromised — and is, in fact, an electoral asset. (After all, 85 percent of Biden voters told the exit pollsters that the criminal justice system treats Blacks unfairly.) But moderates are right that slogans like 'Defund the police' can bring down moderate lawmakers, such as Staten Island's defeated Rep. Max Rose. Here's a rule for the future: Any slogan that requires five minutes to explain what it really means is not a good slogan."
What hunting Bigfoot taught a Republican congressman about politics
China sharply ramps up trade conflict with Australia over political grievances
20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election - "The 20 days between the election on Nov. 3 and the greenlighting of Biden’s transition exemplified some of the hallmarks of life in Trump’s White House: a government paralyzed by the president’s fragile emotional state; advisers nourishing his fables; expletive-laden feuds between factions of aides and advisers; and a pernicious blurring of truth and fantasy.
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"A simple and clear refutation of the president came Friday from a Trump appointee, when Judge Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit wrote a unanimous opinion rejecting the president’s request for an emergency injunction to overturn the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results.
"'Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy,' Bibas wrote. “Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.'"
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-26
Why Republican voters say there’s ‘no way in hell’ Trump lost - "The widespread rejection of the election result among Republicans reflects a new and dangerous dynamic in American politics: the normalization of false and increasingly extreme conspiracy theories among tens of millions of mainstream voters, according to government scholars, analysts and some lawmakers on both sides of the political divide. The trend has deeply troubling long-term implications for American political and civic institutions, said Paul Light, a veteran political scientist at New York University (NYU).
"'This is dystopian,' Light said. 'America could fracture.'"
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"Asked whether Trump might be duping his followers, he said it’s hard to fathom. 'If I’m being manipulated by Trump ... then he is the greatest con man that ever lived in America,' Caleb Fryar said. 'I think he’s the greatest patriot that ever lived.'"
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Monday, November 23, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-23
US election 2020: Is Trump right about Dominion machines?
US can kill its own citizens without review when state secrets are involved, DOJ lawyer argues
Sidney Powell: Trump team cuts ties with lawyer who peddled bizarre fraud claims
The Bengals failed Joe Burrow, and the NFL is worse for it
Republican national security experts call on Trump to concede, begin transition
EU urges Poland, Hungary to sign up to big money budget
Israeli prime minister makes historic visit to Saudi Arabia, intelligence official confirms
Michigan board votes to certify the state’s election results, dealing Trump another blow
Trump privately plots his next act — including a potential 2024 run
Trump’s post-presidency will be cluttered with potentially serious legal battles
Trump’s legacy may be an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party
General Motors’ parting shot at Trump bodes well for the Biden presidency
Reading archive 2020-11-22
In scathing opinion, federal judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania
Trump’s quest to overturn election runs into quiet resistance from local and state Republicans
Biden reaches out. The GOP slaps him in the face. - "...when politics is reduced to all slapping and no reasoning, and when the words 'take this country back' mean keeping the loser of a free election in power by manipulating the truth and the law, we have traveled a long way from the democratic tradition. Those who lack the conviction to sustain that tradition by defending rationality and the democratic rules of engagement forfeit their standing to ask the rest of us to believe that they are operating in good faith."
Trump’s overarching Middle East strategy reaches a disastrous dead end - "So what does President-elect Joe Biden do with this mess? First, he will want to remember the mistakes he and Obama made on their watch — above all, wrongly judging an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal to be the key to the region, and making it a priority despite the manifest unwillingness of the current leaders on both sides. But then he ought to revive Obama’s equilibrium strategy, which allows the United States to align itself against the aggression and human rights abuses of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, while gradually making the pivot away from the Mideast the past two presidents aimed for."
Friday, November 20, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-20
Just because an attempt to steal an election is ludicrous and ham-handed doesn’t mean it can’t work
Some famous rappers backed Trump’s campaign. Did it matter?
What ‘The Crown’ got right in portraying Princess Diana’s bulimia: It let her voice be heard
Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal
Trump uses power of presidency to try to overturn the election and stay in office
On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway: Why Is It So Hard for Democrats to Act Like They Actually Won?
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-19
Trump's election power play: Persuade Republican legislators to do what U.S. voters did not
Lawsuit: Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19
The Brainwashing of My Dad - "As Jen Senko tries to understand the transformation of her father from a nonpolitical Democrat to an angry Republican fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes under President Richard Nixon for a media takeover by the Republicans, the 1971 Powell Memo urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion (especially the media, universities, and courts), the 1987 dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine under President Ronald Reagan, and the signing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act under President Bill Clinton. The documentary aims to show how the media and the nation changed, which leads to questions about who owns the airwaves, what rights listeners and watchers have, and what responsibility the government has to keep the airwaves fair, accurate, and accountable." [ed. note: a film, as yet unwatched]
In the waning days of Trump’s presidency, White House press pool reports are getting snarkier
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-18
Half of Republicans say Biden won because of a 'rigged' election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Adopting mask mandates, some GOP governors give up the gospel of personal responsibility
Trump and his supporters are discovering how hard it is to sabotage election results
Former Army Green Beret admits conspiring to spy for Russia
Yet again, Daniel Snyder made sure to do the right thing — for himself
Trump team looks to box in Biden on foreign policy by lighting too many fires to put out
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-17
The examined life of Barack Obama: In his memoir, Obama is both the subject and the judge
Republicans sound alarm on Georgia Senate runoffs as they privately weigh Trump’s influence
Vegas may be betting on a post-presidential divorce, but Melania Trump seems all in for her husband.
Deadlocked board in key Michigan county fails to certify vote totals by deadline
Monday, November 16, 2020
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-14
Forty Fort man applied for a ballot for his deceased mother, detectives allege
Charges filed in father-son voter fraud case in Chester County
Trump Made the Economy His Message. Biden Won It
Alito homes in on gay marriage, gun rights, religious liberty in stern speech to conservatives
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide? - "To start with, the 2020’s sharpened economic divide forecasts gridlock in Congress and between the White House and Senate on the most important issues of economic policy. The problem—as we have witnessed over the past decade and are likely to continue seeing—is not only that Democrats and Republicans disagree on issues of culture, identity, and power, but that they represent radically different swaths of the economy. Democrats represent voters who overwhelmingly reside in the nation’s diverse economic centers, and thus tend to prioritize housing affordability, an improved social safety net, transportation infrastructure, and racial justice. Jobs in blue America also disproportionately rely on national R&D investment, technology leadership, and services exports.
By contrast, Republicans represent an economic base situated in the nation’s struggling small towns and rural areas. Prosperity there remains out of reach for many, and the party sees no reason to consider the priorities and needs of the nation’s metropolitan centers. That is not a scenario for economic consensus or achievement.
At the same time, the results from last week’s election likely underscore fundamental problems of economic alienation and estrangement. Specifically, Trump’s anti-establishment appeal suggests that a sizable portion of the country continues to feel little connection to the nation’s core economic enterprises, and chose to channel that animosity into a candidate who promised not to build up all parts of the country, but rather to vilify groups who didn’t resemble his base.
If this pattern continues—with one party aiming to confront the challenges at top of mind for a majority of Americans, and the other continuing to stoke the hostility and indignation held by a significant minority—it will be a recipe not only for more gridlock and ineffective governance, but also for economic harm to nearly all people and places. In light of the desperate need for a broad, historic recovery from the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic, a continuation of the patterns we’ve seen play out over the past decade would be a particularly unsustainable situation for Americans in communities of all sizes."
Friday, November 13, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-13
Passengers on first cruise in Caribbean test positive for coronavirus
Trump wasn’t wrong about China. But here’s how Biden can do a better job.
This is a massive failure of character among Republicans — with evangelicals out in front - "...U.S. politics would be better off if White evangelicals consistently applied their moral tradition to public life. Not only Christians, of course, can stand for integrity. But consider what would happen if White evangelicals insisted on supporting honest, compassionate, decent, civil, self-controlled men and women for office. The alternative is our current reality, in which evangelicals have often been a malicious and malignant influence in U.S. politics."
China strikes its worst blow yet against autonomy and rule of law in Hong Kong
Alito raises religious liberty concerns about Covid restrictions and same-sex marriage ruling - "Alito also reiterated what he had written in 2015, when he dissented from the court's decision to clear the way for same-sex marriage nationwide. 'I could see,' he said, where the decision would lead for those who 'cling to traditional views on marriage.' He reiterated that opponents of the ruling would risk being 'labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers and schools.'
Far-right protesters, counterdemonstrators plan to gather Saturday in D.C. amid pro-Trump rallies
A war among Trump’s kids shows this family won’t let us move on
In the United States, QAnon is struggling. The conspiracy theory is thriving abroad.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-12
Louisville police, county attorney's office hide 738,000 records in Explorer sex abuse case
Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money
In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting
'My friends were lied to': will coalminers stand by Trump as jobs disappear? - "Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has outlined a $2tn plan to generate millions of jobs in renewable energy, potentially providing a new path for threatened coal workers. But coalmining has deep roots in communities that many are unwilling to relinquish. 'It’s a damned joke,' said Bostic, of the West Virginia Coal Association. 'It’s an affront to a coalminer to say: 'We will take your job away for one that pays less well, and by the way, you have to pack your family up and move.''" [ed. note: FOAD, Jason]
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Reading archive 2020-11-10
Arkansas police chief resigns after demanding ‘death’ for Democrats: ‘Leave no survivors’
‘Election Day is over, and guess what?’: Tom Dean, a physician, on the dire situation in South Dakota
White House, escalating tensions, orders agencies to rebuff Biden transition team
Their county was once a bellwether. Now, these Obama-Trump voters wonder what the future holds.
Why Texas’s overwhelmingly Latino Rio Grande Valley turned toward Trump
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