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The Business Class Has Never Liked Democracy
Today, on Inauguration Day, we shouldn’t forget that the business class has long stoked fears of democracy — and bankrolled the conservative movement that gave us the events of January 6. Elites can never safeguard our freedom. ...[Read more]
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‘A Fitting End’: Hours Before Leaving Office, Trump Quietly Revokes Order Restricting Lobbying by Former Federal Officials
Making one final mockery of his 2016 campaign promise to "drain the swamp," President Donald Trump early Wednesday quietly revoked his own executive order barring administration officials from lobbying the agencies for which they worked for five years aft ...[Read more]
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Trump spent his final moments in the White House raging at Republican leaders on Capitol Hill: report
With no one else to blame for his own election defeat, President Trump has zeroed in on one of his earliest Congressional backers, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-CA.According to the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Trump is spending his fina ...[Read more]
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‘I’m the laughing stock of my family’: QAnon believers implode as they watch Biden getting sworn in
President Joe Biden was sworn into office on Wednesday, and some believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory have apparently realized that they have wasted years of their lives believing in a complete fabrication. As flagged by Jared Holt of Right Wing Watc ...[Read more]
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Trump Has Discussed Starting a New Political Party
President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to exert continued influence after he leaves the White House. Mr. Trump discussed the matter with severa ...[Read more]
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US coronavirus death toll passes 400,000 amid grim forecast over winter
More than 400,000 Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, a horrific marker of the misery the virus has spread across the country, as the rate of deaths from Covid-19 increases. The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center reported ...[Read more]
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Progressives Push Back as Trump, Pentagon, and ICE ‘Hijack’ MLK’s Message
Progressives are pushing back against President Donald Trump and federal agencies including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Pentagon that attempted to co-opt Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages Monday, saying they are in fact perpetrators o ...[Read more]
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Indigenous-Led Movement Credited With ‘Huge Victory’ as Biden Plans to Rescind Keystone XL Permit on Day One
"Our communities have been fighting KXL for over a decade, tooth and nail, in the dirt and in the courts." "A huge victory for Lakota and Indigenous front liners and Water Protectors. None of this would have been possible without their sacrifices," Nick E ...[Read more]
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QAnon extremists discussed trying to infiltrate Biden inauguration by posing as National Guard members: FBI
Members of QAnon were among the far-right extremists who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6. And according to an intelligence report the Washington Post has obtained, the FBI has been warning law enforcement agencies that QAnon membe ...[Read more]
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Linguists break down how Trump’s language shifted in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot
Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis and Leah Cathryn Windsor, University of MemphisOn Jan. 6, the world witnessed how language can incite violence. One after another, a series of speakers at the "Save America" rally at the Ellipse in Washington redouble ...[Read more]
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Virginia Man arrested at Capitol checkpoint for carrying 500 ammo rounds and fake Biden inauguration credentials
A heavily armed man who was arrested after trying to enter a Washington, D.C. security checkpoint with 'false' credentials, has claimed he is not a criminal and that the incident is a major misunderstanding. Wesley Allen Beeler, 31, from Front Royal, Vir ...[Read more]
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