Just before election day in 2016, I came across a video on social media that showed a confrontation in a parking lot between a black man and a white man. Though neither was yielding, the white man was angry and aggressive, while the black man remained measured and calm. Before using the n-word on camera,
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I was rushed to the bunker for an inspection. I was rushed to the hospital for a physical. I don’t know who marked Alabama on the map. I wouldn’t want to get into my favorite Bible verse because to me that’s very personal. I alone can fix it.

Monday morning, United States President Donald J. Trump, abruptly taking over a conference call scheduled between U.S. governors and Vice President Mike Pence, demanded that states accept the deployment of military troops in the face of nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Trump demeaned the governors. “Most of
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Our nation faces twin traumas: violent protests and police violence across America in the wake of the brutal police murder of George Floyd, and a deadly pandemic that threatens to resurge. President Trump’s handling of each crisis has been not merely grossly incompetent but also malevolent; his concerns regarding the pandemic have nakedly focused on
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After unleashing another torrent of tweets Saturday morning threatening violence against people who dare protest against him, Donald Trump added, “Tonight, I understand, is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???”  Later, asked about the tweet by reporters, Trump acted all coy, saying, “I have no idea if they are going to be here. I was
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Donald Trump and his henchman William Barr are seeking to destroy the rule of law, respect for truth, and our very nation. Over the past two days, in the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Trump has used Twitter to threaten violence against protestors, posting on Friday, “Any
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Donald Trump just vetoed the bipartisan student debt relief bill. Trump chose to stand with Betsy DeVos and the wealthy owners of predatory for-profit colleges, operations similar to his own fraudulent Trump University, and to stand against defrauded students, i.e. all the people that, as a candidate, he promised to help: veterans, “forgotten” working people,
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Just days after Republic Report published an article, based on interviews with former employees of Florida Career College, about abuses at the school, the college’s parent company wrote to ex-staffers warning them to keep quiet, or else possibly be sued.  In letters to former employees, attached to emails sent last week, Aaron Mortensen, general counsel
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