'This is a very dangerous period': Author says Trump is the most 'traitorous' official since the Civil War rawstory.com/trump-traitoro…
"The final year of Donald Trump's presidency has had such a negative impact that U.S. birthrates are predicted to decrease in 2021."
2/ "Unless immediate relief is offered millions of Americans may face eviction. More than 10 million Americans are now at least $5,000 behind in rent payments...
3/"There are long lines for free food and other essentials in cities and towns across the country, and all regions of America are experiencing near-record levels of unemployment and underemployment."
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"The Trümperdämmerung is finally here, and it is every bit the raging dumpster fire that we, the unlucky audience for this drama, have come to expect."
2/ "Is there anyone left who is surprised that the President is careening through the last days of his Administration with a reckless disdain that simply has no precedent in American public life?"
‘These are Trump’s thugs’: Steve Schmidt pins responsibility for DC Proud Boy violence on presidential incitement rawstory.com/2020/12/these-…
With reports of stabbings and gunfire, Schmidt linked to clips of the far-right white nationalists roaming the streets and stopping cars, calling the members of the group “Trump’s thugs.”
2/“Look at this closely. These right-wing fascists are instigating political violence in the name of a defeated President who is inciting them. This is the Capitol of the United States. This is a glimpse of our future. This must be crushed at the ballot box.”
Pelosi can blackball Republicans who backed Trump’s election plot from serving in Congress: report rawstory.com/2020/12/pelosi…
"That’s because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment literally says that anyone who has tried to rebel against the Constitution after having pledged to protect it can’t hold political office. "
2/ "This would include any GOP House members who signed onto an amicus brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bogus Supreme Court case seeking to toss hundreds of thousands of votes in four swing states, so that Trump can steal a democratically decided election."
On first day as L.A. County D.A., George Gascón eliminates bail, remakes sentencing rules latimes.com/california/sto…
"The dramatic reversals of deeply ingrained, traditional law enforcement strategies in the nation’s largest district attorney’s office, also will include a review of thousands of old cases to determine whether lighter sentences or prisoner releases should be sought,
2/ Gascón said in a speech during his swearing-in ceremony.
“I recognize for many this is a new path … whether you are a protester, a police officer or a prosecutor, I ask you to walk with me.
"Still, the reality is that this cannot and should not be laughed off. As Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has written, this whole exercise is a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
2/ Sedition is a serious charge, but it’s the right word. Most House Republicans and 17 state attorneys general are standing against the right of Americans to choose their own leaders.
‘I’m very frightened about the future’: Paul Krugman warns Trump’s ‘cult of personality’ isn’t going away rawstory.com/2020/12/im-ver…
As he wrote in his first tweet “The GOP spent most of 2020 rejecting science in the face of a deadly pandemic; now it’s rejecting democracy in the face of a clear election loss. How did we get to this point? One step at a time. But I’d argue that the wrong turn began under Reagan
Using charts he explained, “For one thing it was the beginning of the great mortality divergence. America used to have about the same life expectancy as other rich countries;