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After a blitzkreig confirmation process and a hasty swearing-in ceremony, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump successfully installed Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court on Monday night.
The Senate voted 52-48. Every Democrat, Independent, + Susan Collins voted against Barrett, but it did nothing to McConnell’s ironclad majority.
After the vote, Trump put together a slapdash swearing-in ceremony on the South Lawn to get Barrett on the bench as fast as possible.
A new report based on internal company documents show the company has effectively covered up a major safety crisis at its warehouses.
The report adds that things have gotten much worse since Amazon brought in robots.
The documents consist of weekly data from 2016 through 2019 from more than one hundred and fifty Amazon warehouses.
They show that the company has profoundly misled lawmakers and the public about its mounting injury crisis.
A new report shows that Donald Trump used Facebook for a massive voter deterrence operation in 2016, targeting up to 3.5 million black voters in swing states with negative ads about Hillary Clinton in an attempt to suppress votes and “cultivate hopelessness" » »
The report by UK's Channel 4 is based on a massive data leak of Trump campaign advertising data that shows the campaign compiled files on 198 million US voters and then used an algorithm to sort them into categories based on their economic and domestic statuses and other data »
A major investigation finds it’s not just bad for the environment – it’s produced in conditions tantamount to slavery »»
A new @AP investigation offers the most comprehensive look yet at labor abuses in the palm oil industry.
The AP interviewed more than 130 workers from palm companies who labored on plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Those two countries produce most of the world’s palm oil
Protests that have been ongoing in Louisville picked up again after yesterday’s announcement that no officers would be charged directly with killing Taylor, despite a preemptive declaration of emergency by the mayor.
Online video showed white men carrying guns and wearing military-style uniforms patrolling the streets.
The vigilantes moved apparently unimpeded by police.
Two former intelligence officials have made some pretty stunning allegations: that Federal agents sent to quell protests in Portland Oregon also engaged in a classified cell phone cloning operation that aimed to lift information off of protesters phones.
Details of the operation are still classified, but @kenklippenstein reports that it included interceptions of protesters phone calls by either the DHS or other federal agencies involved, like the DOJ.
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Another woman has come forward with an allegation of sexual assault by Donald Trump.
Amy Dorris told the Guardian that Trump assaulted her when she was twenty four years old and he fifty one, and married to his second wife, Marla Maples.
The assault allegedly took place outside the bathroom in Trump’s VIP box at the US Open tournament in New York. It was September 5th, 1997.
Dorris had been invited there by her boyfriend at the time, who was in real estate and friendly with Trump. » »
Political primary season is over. And there were some stunning results this week in Delaware’s state primary.
A social worker won an upset victory over a forty-year incumbent in the state senate who had not faced a primary challenger since 1986.
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In the thirteenth district, social worker Marie Pinkney, a political newcomer running on a progressive platform, defeated the powerful and long-serving Senate President Pro Tem David McBride » »
New information emerged yesterday regarding the unsettling account of forced hysterectomies at a for-profit immigration detention center in Georgia.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal released a statement after meeting attorneys for women who were subjected to sterilization »
Jayapal said, "It has become clear that the initial reports are likely part of a horrific pattern of conduct. There may be, at minimum, seventeen women who were subjected to unnecessary procedures from just one doctor," » »
The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, who was murdered in her bed by police officers.
Money does not buy justice, but some kind of remuneration for the shocking crimes committed by the Louisville PD is the least the city can do.
The agreement was reached quickly, at least in relative terms, coming 6 months after Taylor was killed, and over 3 months of sustained protests throughout the city and country.
The city was not required to acknowledge wrongdoing in the settlement. That says about all of it.
That’s what Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang wrote in her last post on Facebook’s internal messageboard before she was fired.
The information Zhang's post revealed is both horrifying and in the public interest.
Zhang's post deals with what Facebook calls “inauthentic activity” around politics and elections.
Her team detected widespread disinformation campaigns and fake account networks for political causes in Honduras, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Spain, the US + more
On Fox News, Donald Trump makes it clear that he thinks his enemies deserve death at the hands of the state, no due process included.
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Donald Trump added one final escalation to the politically fraught story of Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-proclaimed anti-fascist who was suspected of the murder of a right-wing protester in Portland on August 29.
A new survey shows most Americans want to vote by mail this year, but even more aren’t confident that their ballot will be counted.
Meanwhile, Republican lawyers are working overtime to prevent states from mailing out voting packets in a timely fashion.
A poll commissioned by the Washington Post shows that six in ten registered voters nationwide want to cast their ballots before Election Day.
However, only three in ten say they are very confident that their mail-in ballots will be counted accurately.
The American West burns as scientific experts warn of rising global temperatures.
Meanwhile, at least one Democratic governor has had it with climate change deniers.
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Nearly one hundred wildfires are burning millions of acres across the American west, destroying towns and prompting mass evacuations. Eerie images showed red and orange skies filled with ash from the San Francisco Bay to the outskirts of Portland and beyond »
Yet another massive Trump Truck rally outside of Portland and other right-wing rallies around the state results in violence, as videos show right-wing hate group members chasing down anti-fascist activists with bats and mace while police look on.
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Video shot by journalists at the scene showed armed militia members and Trump supporters charging a group of anti-fascist counter-protesters, overhwhelming on with strikes from a bat.
A woman then maced the fallen activist on the ground.
At this point, open corruption should sort of be the norm for the Trump administration, but it’s always fun when some of the worst characters in it get caught red handed.
Up this weekend is Louis DeJoy, Trump’s toady Postmaster General »
DeJoy, Trump’s perfectly corrupt Postmaster General, was last seen gutting his own agency to appease Republican goals of voter suppression.
According to a new report by the @nytimes, DeJoy has been corrupt since way before Trump.
Over the weekend, it’s become a lot more clear what Donald Trump thinks his pathway to victory in November in. You probably won’t be surprised to know the answer: it’s white nationalism.
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The first new red flag came on Friday, when Trump ordered the federal government to cancel contracts that it had paid out for its branches to undergo racial sensitivity training.
Donald Trump clarifies that when he told people in North Carolina to vote twice, he meant that they should vote twice.
If he was soliciting voter fraud, that’s actually illegal in and of itself.
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As the Washington Post and the New York Times so delicately put it, Trump yesterday sought to clarify remarks he made late the previous day, in which he told supporters in North Carolina to vote twice.
In a shocking and damning move, the United States has imposed sanctions on senior officials of the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
The ICC prosecutes war criminals around the world.
The US sanctions include the ICC’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Bensouda was once justice minister of her home country, The Gambia.
Her experience in international justice includes advising a United Nations tribunal that prosecuted key figures in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
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The looming eviction crisis is so bad that even Donald Trump’s advisors have recognized that if it hits before the election, he’s screwed.
They'll use the CDC to issue a temp eviction moratorium on those making < $99k/year, but it comes with some pretty strict qualifications.
At this point, nobody should be expecting Donald Trump to condemn the things his supporters do, but after last week’s shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the president appears to have thrown his lot entirely behind the right-wing defense of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Rittenhouse shot 3, killing 2, during protests of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI.
When asked about it, Trump leaned into the right-wing narrative that Rittenhouse’s shootings were committed in self-defense, saying quote: “He probably would have been killed.”
