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Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America
Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America The CIA officially determined that Russia intervened in our election, and President-elect Donald Trump dismissed the story as if it were a piece of fake news. "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass...
Ex-CIA operative: We may need a new vote
Breaking: Former CIA Operative Robert Baer says if the CIA can prove that Russia interfered with the 2016 election then the US should vote again. Reuters: The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the...
CIA assessment: Russia tried to help Trump win 2016 election
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. [video width="1920"...
Climate change got you down? Get rid of the scientists!
Trump's transition team has asked the Department of Energy to list employees and contractors who attended United Nations climate meetings, along with those who helped develop the Obama administration’s social cost of carbon metrics, used to estimate and justify the...
The House GOP Just Revealed Its Plan To Cut Social Security
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Republican Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee of Ways and Means, Chairman Sam Johnson, introduced legislation late yesterday that would inflict deep cuts in Social...
Trump Administration Suspends First Amendment
The NPS, on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, filed a “massive omnibus blocking permit” for many of Washington DC’s most famous political locations for days and weeks before, during and after the inauguration on 20 January. Large swaths of the...
Prove It
"Steve Cohen and I made a follow up to Aftermath, for all of the people who voted for Trump who told me they were good people." Tess Rafferty https://vimeo.com/194758694 Since I’ve posted the video Aftermath: 2016, I have been told that good people voted for...
Faking a Mandate
UPDATE: Republicans threatening to shut down government to ram through Trump's defense secretary nomination https://medium.com/@michaelarnovitz/faking-a-mandate-a379c802e540#.oo2nd31nm In 1903 the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party broke into two competing...
Action Alert: Reject Dangerous Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
Anti-Muslim rhetoric currently receives widespread media coverage. In the face of a massive refugee crisis and growing instability across the Middle East and North Africa, the public discourse often eschews nuanced distinctions about extremism and misappropriation of...
The House Science Committee’s tweets are an embarrassment to science
It’s not just misleading to tweet about bad science. It’s dangerous. The collapse in Arctic ice formations is already putting major cities in the crosshairs of sea level rise, and leaders in the federal government need to act. Unfortunately, Lamar Smith (R-TX), an...
