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President Donald Trump told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Thursday that he is blocking needed funds to the United States Postal Service as a way to thwart Democrats’ efforts to have mail-in voting during the 2020 presidential election.“Now they need that money in order to make the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and milli…

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That could mean a different conflict of interest given President Donald Trump can’t stand Amazon because it’s owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, a newspaper that Trump can’t stand because it fact-checks his lies. In 2018, Trump tried to increase prices for Amazon to ship packages. The U.S. Treasury also got a loan deal with…

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https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1293656197803933699

Not only does Trump want to permanently defund Social Security, he wants to give another huge capital gains tax break to the 1%. Well, I've got bad news for the president. We are not going to let him defund Social Security. We are going to expand Social Security and tax the rich. https://t.co/FUJhOhqhOy

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) August 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1293589539513077761

‘Cause y’know he just COMPLETELY gave up his morals and beliefs when he was cheated out of the ‘Nom.

A federal judge in New York has invalidated rule changes by the Trump administration that allowed individuals and corporations to kill scores of birds as long as they could prove they did not intentionally set out to do so.

In a blistering ruling that cited Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”, U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni rippe…

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This spring, for the first time, Angel Manners found purpose and pride at the supermarket where she has worked the past decade. Customers praised her as a hero for putting herself at risk during the pandemic. Bosses boosted her hourly pay by $2. Suddenly, her job was essential.

Nearly five months in, and it is all gone.

“We’ve lost our…

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On Tuesday, as Florida set a daily record for covid-19 deaths, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods prohibited his deputies from wearing masks at work. His order, which also applies to visitors to the sheriff’s office, carves out an exception for officers in some locations, including hospitals, and when dealing with people who are high-risk or s…

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reached out to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday in an effort to renew stalled coronavirus relief talks, but their conversation did not appear to break the impasse.

Following the conversation, Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) issued a joint statement accusing…

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Declaring that Congress must act swiftly to “stop the Trump administration’s deliberate sabotage” of the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the November elections, House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled legislation that would reverse Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s disruptive new policies and prevent additional changes at the agency until the end of…

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The head of the Iowa Postal Workers Union alleged Tuesday that mail sorting machines are “being removed” from Post Offices in her state due to new policies imposed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor to President Donald Trump whose operational changes have resulted in dramatic mail slowdowns across the nation.

Asked by NP…

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Covid-19 has given us a brilliant, thorough autopsy of neoliberalism, indeed of capitalism itself. The corpse is on the table, in glaring light, every vein, artery, organ and bone staring us in the face. You can see all the leeches – privatisation, corporate globalism, extreme concentration of wealth, levels of inequality unseen in living m…

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Kamala Harris might be the perfect lens to reveal who the Democrats really are.  A good run-down on her track record highlights her assertion that “It is not progressive to be soft on crime.”  As a San Francisco social worker, I sat on the school district committee that met with families of chronically truant students.  Once, when we asked…

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Six former heads of the United States government agency tasked with protecting the environment have called for a reset following President Donald Trump’s first term, in which he broadly chopped regulations in favour of what he has called a more business-friendly approach to the environment.
The group of six represent almost all living former…

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The training session was billed as “cutting edge,” and dozens of law enforcement professionals signed up to learn about “New Tools for Detecting Deception” from a human lie detector who calls herself “Eyes for Lies.” Her real name is Renee Ellory, and she claims that she’s one of just 50 people identified by scientists as having the ability t…

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In a July 1, 2020 email to all employees of Epic Systems, a health records software company based in Verona, Wisconsin, billionaire CEO Judy Faulkner discussed the company’s plans to phase out working from home (WFH), emphasizing the firm’s workplace culture as a key reason to reopen the offices. “Even if work gets done [remotely] — we are los…

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Congress has now resoundingly failed to reach an agreement to extend COVID-19–related relief and benefits for millions of Americans facing the cruelest economic calamity since the Great Depression. Even if lawmakers do forge some kind of arrangement in the coming days, the sluggishness of America’s withered state bureaucracies will ensure that wha…

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