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Feds offer forgiveness of $1 million in PPP loans to anti-vax business owners
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has granted millions in pandemic loan forgiveness to business owners who spread harmful disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, The Daily Beast reports. The publication reports that Paycheck Protection Progr ...[Read more]
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In Leaked Video, GOP Congressman Admits His Party Wants ‘Chaos and Inability to Get Stuff Done’
Newly leaked video footage of a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices shows Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas openly admitting that his party wants "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done" as President Joe Biden, ...[Read more]
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Trump told chief of staff Hitler did a lot of good things, book says
On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Donald Trump insisted to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.” The remark from the former US president on the 2018 trip, whic ...[Read more]
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With the rate things are going, Trump may come back
The social dynamics that created Trumpism are not being addressed. Inequality continues. People lack housing, healthcare, jobs. Retirees are struggling. Infrastructure is falling apart. Biden administration promised various things to solve these before ...[Read more]
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UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence
On June 28, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released a stunning 23-page report accompanied by a 95-page conference room paper for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) documenting systemic racism and human rights violations ...[Read more]
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Chomsky: Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power
Today’s Republican Party is an extremist force that no longer qualifies as a mainstream political party and is surely not interested in participating in “normal” politics. In fact, today’s GOP is so wrapped around extreme and irrational beliefs th ...[Read more]
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‘Neoliberal proto-fascism’: Noam Chomsky explains how Trumpism has made the GOP a ‘white supremacist’ cult
"The fascist symptoms are there, including extreme racism, violence, worship of the leader — sent by God, according to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — immersion in a world of 'alternative facts' and a frenzy of irrationality," Chomsky warned. ...[Read more]
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Alex Jones is claiming that he coordinated with the Trump White House on Jan. 6: report
Free Speech TV, in a page for David Pakman's show, explains, "The Infowars host made the claim last week that he even put up $500,000 of his own money to make it happen. Jones said, 'The White House told me three days before: We're going to have you lead ...[Read more]
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Three key forces seek to end American democracy and QAnon gives them the opportunity
There are people in this world who don't like ”and even hate€” democracy. They're on the move against it, particularly here in America, and the Qanon religion/cult is the glue that's bringing them all together. ...[Read more]
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How Stephen Miller inadvertently provided the playbook to fight white supremacy
The Nation has dissected Miller's playbook and highlighted ways the Biden administration could actually use it to combat the United States' decades-long white supremacy problem. "What Biden's team must understand is that the radicalized Republican Party i ...[Read more]
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Bitter about being abandoned by Trump, Proud Boys’ chats reveal preparations for ‘absolute war’
If anyone held out hope that the Proud Boys—with 18 members awaiting trial for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection—might eventually wither and blow away in its aftermath, they should read through the Telegram messages Ethan Nordean and his ...[Read more]
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