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One Million Displaced by Harvey A week after Harvey, cities deluged and one million displaced. Reuters: "A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, no let-up in rescue efforts was expected on Friday as large pockets of land remained under water after one of...
Harvey Won't Be The Last Thousand-Year Storm
The sight of thousands displaced by Hurricane Harvey is painfully familiar in New Jersey, where we're still waiting on the help we were promised after Superstorm Sandy. The road home will be long, but we can get there if we work together.
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Hurricane Aftermath Threatens Drinking Water, Chemical Plants Blasts, ‘chemical reactions’ rock storm-crippled chemical plant in Texas as Harvey flooding persists. WaPo: "The remnants of Hurricane Harvey carried its wrath up the Mississippi Delta on Thursday, but not...
Trump's Tax Plan Is a Confidence Scam
Trump's tax plan is the essential confidence scam: he's peddling a plan that does not yet exist on paper, using populist bluster to sell what will be a one-percenter's dream. The only question is if Americans are gullible enough to buy it.
Our President, the White Supremacist
The President of the United States is a white supremacist. He is not just a defender or apologist for bigots and hatemongers. He is one of them, and no one who’s been paying attention can be shocked to learn this. Here's what that means.
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Mexico Offers Support to Hurricane Victims Mexico says nope to Trump's wall but offers Harvey disaster relief 'as good neighbors do'. DailyKOS: "Mexico has reasserted that their nation 'will not pay, under any circumstances and under any circumstances, a wall or...
Grow Up and Apologize, Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz is a champion hypocrite. He leads Texas Republicans' call for federal disaster aid, yet insists they were right to try to deny aid to those in need after Hurricane Sandy. It's time for Cruz to grow up, and admit he was wrong.
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UN Issues Warning on Rise of US Racism U.N. issues warning on U.S. Racism. UN News Centre: "The United Nations body monitoring implementation of the global convention on prohibiting racial discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the...
The Destruction Left By Hurricane Trump
The Trump presidency, like a monster hurricane, is doing unprecedented damage to our democracy and to our progress toward being a nation that is more equitable and fair.
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Trump Pardons Arpaio Arpaio pardon dangerously accelerates Trump’s assault on the rule of law. New Yorker: "Since Watergate and the release, in 1976, of the Church Committee report, which detailed wider executive-branch abuses, this vast federal bureaucracy has...
