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Here We Go Again: Trump Administration Threatens Iran

National Security Advisor Mike Flynn came out on Wednesday to make a brief statement putting Iran “on notice.” Flynn complained about Iran’s ballistic missile tests, about a Yemeni Houthi attack on a Saudi naval vessel in the Red Sea and about “weapons transfers” and “support for terrorism.”

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Flailing Trumpsters Upset a Hijacked Nation

The Trump Gang, hardly two weeks in the White House, is giving strong, petulant signals that it is hijacking the checks and balances of our democratic institutions. Coupling the Boss’s easily brusiable ego, marinated in infinite megalomania, with ideologues harboring objectives that would have frightened Nixonites and Reaganites alike, a runaway train is leaving the station.

Russians Don’t Want to Live in the Middle Ages

In St. Petersburg the Vesna civil-society movement is holding a street action. In an improvised stage made from a boxing ring, activists present three scenes: an alcoholic beating an elderly pensioner, a husband punching his wife, and a child being physically punished by a parent.

Obama, in a rare move for an ex-president, breaks silence to criticize Trump on immigration

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 10. On Jan. 18, President Barack Obama told reporters in his final news conference that he would comment on his successor’s actions only at “certain moments where I think our core values may be at stake.” Obama, who is still on vacation with his family after leaving office this month, issued a statement through his spokesman Monday encouraging Americans to publicly protest President Trump’s move to ban citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries – as well as refugees from across the globe – from entering the United States.

Trump’s Reckless Muslim Ban Makes Americans Less Safe

President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban not only has nothing to do with preventing terrorism, it also helps the Islamic State, or IS, and makes Americans less safe. According to data on terrorist attacks in the United States in the Global Terrorism Database compiled at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, no American has ever been killed in a terrorist attack in the United States that has been carried out by a national of the now-banned countries.

Resistance Trumps Hate as Protesters Rally Against Anti-Immigrant Executive Orders

The sky was gray, a light snow fell, and the weather was bitingly cold. But the mood outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Saturday was red hot with anger, as dozens, and then hundreds, and then, as night fell, thousands arrived to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order barring entry into the United States of all refugees-including Syrian refugees, perhaps indefinitely-as well as visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority countries.

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Trump’s Mexico wall delights his flock

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is taking steps toward building a U.S.-Mexico border wall was welcome news for voters who say they’re glad he is following through on one of his biggest campaign promises. Trump’s renewed vow Wednesday to seize control of the border hit close to home for Peggy Davis, whose cattle ranch near Tombstone, Arizona, is about 25 miles north of the border.

Labor Sec. pick outsourced jobs

President Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary outsourced his fast-food company’s technology department to the Philippines, a move that contradicts Trump’s vow to keep American jobs in the U.S. Trump has blasted, threatened and tried to charm American companies that have so much as contemplated moving jobs overseas, saying he’s sticking up for American workers who aren’t feeling the economic recovery and form his political base. But a filing with the Labor Department on CEO Andrew Puzder’s company – and a spokesman’s acknowledgement that CKE continues to use the IT operation in the Philippines – provides a window into a key contradiction raised by the nomination.

What Are the Possible Motives Behind Donald Trump’s Voter Fraud Lie?

By “propagating the myth of his stolen popular vote,” Trump has attacked both the democratic process and the press, which, in its ideal, is free and independent, writes Amherst College law professor Lawrence Douglas at The Guardian. “The impulse to heap all of Trump’s lies together or to puzzle over his unusual psychology threatens a to deflect our attention from the politics of this particular claim, which contains two separate falsehoods: first, that immigrants robbed him of the popular vote; and second, that the media has conspired to suppress the story.

The Injustices of Chelsea Manning’s Ordeal

After overseeing the aggressive prosecution and near-seven-year incarceration of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, President Obama – in one of his last acts in office – commuted all but four months of her remaining sentence but ignored the fact that he had taken no action on the war crimes that Manning revealed. At his final news conference, Obama explained his reasons for commuting Manning’s record-setting 35-year sentence for leaking classified information to the public.

Advocate of ending U.S. birthright citizenship may be joining Trump administration

President Trump is joined by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security on January 25. A prominent advocate of ending U.S. birthright citizenship is in line to join the Trump administration in an immigration-related position at the Department of Homeland Security, according to two former U.S. officials informed of transition changes by department personnel. Jon D. Feere has been a legal policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative group that calls for added immigration restrictions.

How Reporters And Civil Servants Can Thwart Trump’s Anti-Transparency Agenda

On January 24, two anonymous sources at the Environmental Protection Agency told Reuters that the Trump administration had instructed EPA officials to remove the data-heavy climate change page from the agency’s website, and that the page could be taken down as soon as the following day. A public backlash quickly ensued, and the Trump administration at least temporarily backed away from its plan to shut down the website on January 25, as E&E News reported .

Fear and Fight in the Final Days of Deferred Action

As undocumented young people await news, every day many of them must decide whether to ask the Trump administration for renewal of their status. Immigrant rights advocates hold rally against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, January 14, 2017.

The So-Called Intelligence So-Called Community’s Dumb Isolated View of the Future

Thank you to Tom Engelhardt for pointing out that the people who couldn’t predict the end of the Soviet Union, the crimes of 9-11, the decency of numerous whistleblowers, the election of Donald Trump, the likelihood that utilities in Vermont would point out that they had not been hacked by Russians, or — I’m willing to bet — the timing of rush hour in Northern Virginia, have just predicted the shape of the future of everything. Of course they’ve gotten it all ridiculously wrong, but they have revealed things about themselves rather than about the world in the process.

Don’t Let Trump Get Away with ‘Alternative Facts’

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Call them what you will-whoppers, untruths, lies-but casual falsehoods have been the hallmark of President Donald Trump’s young political career.

Donald Trump Thanks Press For Great Reviews Of ‘American Carnage’ Inaugural Speech

A fantastic day and evening in Washington D.C.Thank you to @FoxNews and so many other news outlets for the GREAT reviews of the speech! But even Fox News on Saturday wrote, “The mainstream media has been vocal in proclaiming President Donald Trump’s inaugural address as “dark” and “radical.” Chuck Todd said, “There was a point there, Lester, where it felt as if he almost was insulting every living President that was sitting next to him – in very personal ways.

What Happens After the Women’s March?

What comes after the women’s march against Donald Trump? That’s the question a woman asked Micah White , a co-creator of the Adbusters campaign that launched Occupy Wall Street. “I’m not that interested in the march itself but in what comes afterwards,” the woman said.

White House Establishes The Cult Of Trump

Donald Trump swerved into messianic visions of himself during presidential campaign, when he declared that he was “the only one” who could save America from the evils of health care and cultural diversity. As soon as he was inaugurated, Trump ordered the White House web site to be edited to include the following description of Trump’s election as President: “his entry into politics and public service resulted in the Presidential victory in, miraculously , his first ever run for office.”

Bernie Sanders Said America Is Not a Compassionate Country. The Numbers Say He’s Right.

“No we are not a compassionate society,” Sen. Sanders interjected during Tom Price’s confirmation hearing on Wednesday as he pointed to the rate of child poverty and to the fact that so many “older workers have nothing set aside for retirement.” On Wednesday, Bernie Sanders had his chance to question Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Sign Help

I have a friend heading to the march in Washington, and we are looking for some ideas for a sign for her to carry. Personally, I would just carry a sign that says “FUCK THIS BULLSHIT” but I am a crude vulgarian. She would prefer something punny and clever.