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Wingnut Week In Review: Don't Know Much About History
This week, a Donald Trump supporter managed to somehow surpass even Donald Trump himself in sheer, unadulterated ignorance of our nation’s history regarding race.
Nothing Left But The Dog Whistle
The provincial anger, stoked for so long by the Republican Party, has finally boiled over. Donald Trump is telling those folks what they’ve been wanting to hear, exactly the way they’ve been wanting to hear it for a very long time.
Progressive Breakfast
Calls For Charlotte Video Release Demands rise for release of Charlotte police shooting video. NYT: "There is currently no law in North Carolina that regulates the public release of body camera video. Instead, each local law enforcement agency makes its own rules. The...
Immigrants Don’t Steal Jobs or Wages. Billionaires Do.
Not all anti-immigrant arguments are based on fear, dehumanization, or inappropriate analogies. Economically vulnerable populations are often told that immigrants “take our jobs” and drag down wages. Is it true?
Solutions To The Teacher Shortage Crisis Even Republicans Will Like
Public schools across the nation are experiencing severe teacher shortages that are apt to develop into a “crisis.” Here are good reasons even Republicans should embrace the crisis and support good solutions.
How Clinton Can Use The Debate To Change The National Discussion
This election season so far has been about Donald Trump, and not about the real problems facing the country and We the People. The national discussion certainly has not been about things that can be done to make people's lives better.
Trump Promises Nationwide Stop-And-Frisk Policing
Leave it to Donald Trump to stand in black church, before a somehow still overwhelmingly white audience, and promise to implement New York City’s racist, unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policing nationwide.
Union-Made Miracle on the Hudson
From Captain Sully to the ferry crews, it's union-trained workers who saved the passengers on Flight 1549.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Embraces Stop-and-Frisk Trump pursues odd strategy to win African-American votes. Politico: "...sold himself as the candidate who could fix the problems of urban America. Within hours, Trump was proposing a vast expansion of 'stop-and-frisk' policing policies...
Republicans 'Working The Ref' With War On IRS
The Republican IRS commissioner impeachment is an obvious attempt to kneecap the IRS and keep it from doing its work, which includes policing the misuse of nonprofit organizations to keep secret the sources of political cash.
