It’s all over but the shouty fact-free violence-inciting tweets, frivolous election lawsuits, sad state legislature / electoral college / Congress bluster, Bill Barr fake investigation, McConnell-McCarthy-GOP complicity, punitive firings, principled resignations, transition obstruction, supplemental super spreader rallies, marginal militia mobilizations, potential efforts to bargain, and likely total humiliation when he finally gives up. So it’s
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The major news organizations today called the election for Joe Biden, and the Biden team is moving ahead with the transition and serious plans to fight the pandemic, rebuild the economy, and address other challenges. But Donald Trump insists “this election is far from over…. Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in
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Editor’s note: After I drafted this, Donald Trump delivered remarks more vile and pathetic than any parody I could ever muster. But I’m posting this anyway for absolutely no reason. Maybe just catharsis, to be rid of this guy. The Washington Post has since reported, “Trump is unlikely to ever concede in the traditional sense,
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Biden’s coalition was ideologically diverse, from Bernie Sanders to Cindy McCain, but if he wants to vanquish Trumpism and build back better, his administration would need fewer elite lobbyists — and more people who look like they could fix a car.  American voters have spoken, and when the votes are counted they may have rejected
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Donald Trump’s desperate assault on the 2020 election includes new lawsuits in multiple states. The key lawyer for the Trump campaign’s lawsuit contesting votes in Georgia is Stefan Passantino, a former Trump administration White House lawyer. The Georgia case seems tiny — contesting at most 53 votes out of the 5 million cast in the
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  Pennsylvania Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar Complaint, 11-04-20, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania In re: Canvassing Observation Order denying motion, 11-03-20, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County Notice of Appeal to Commonwealth Court, 11-04-20, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar Motion Of Donald J. Trump For President,
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In recent months, we’ve highlighted on this site some for-profit and career colleges whose predatory abuses against students should disqualify them from eligibility for federal student grants and loans, yet the Donald Trump-Betsy DeVos education department keeps sending them millions of our tax dollars each month; Ashford University, Florida Career College, American Intercontinental/Colorado Tech, and
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Each year, the for-profit college lobby group CECU holds a November “CEO Summit,” a gathering where top industry executives take stock and address the challenges ahead. Notably, at the 2016 summit, the big speaker was former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who was both a close associate of CECU CEO Steve Gunderson, and an early supporter
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