Black People Politics : When Trump Becomes President - What Will it Look Like?

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Al Franken just set climate deniers’ last strawman on fire
The Senator is right: ‘Humans are entirely the cause’ of recent warming

Last week, Energy Secretary Rick Perry lost his cool when Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) informed him that scientists have determined “humans are entirely the cause” of recent warming.
Perry is so used to denying the overwhelming consensus that humans are responsible for most recent warming, he simply couldn’t get his head around the fact that scientists’ best estimate is humans are actually responsible for all recent warming ...

https://thinkprogress.org/al-franke...rely-the-cause-of-recent-warming-ddda0077308a

CREDIT: John Cook, Skeptical Science

Joe Romm
Dr. Joe Romm is Founding Editor of Climate Progress, “the indispensable blog,” as NY Times columnist Tom Friedman describes it.
Jun 28

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Donald Trump vs. CNN: How the White House Just Escalated Its War on the Free Press

... Far more troubling was the response of the pro-Trump camp, which zealously sought to discount all journalism on the basis of those two mistakes, to weaken an emboldened press corps by revealing its supposed anti-Trump biases. Those biases may exist, but if they do, the White House has done a marvelous job of confirming them at every opportunity with its own incompetence, maliciousness and dishonesty ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-vs-cnn-white-001238223.html

Trump CNN





Alexander Nazaryan,
Newsweek•June 28, 2017

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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White House vigorously defends Trump’s sexist tweets about Mika Brzezinski
You’d think that the president ridiculing a female journalist’s looks and calling her crazy would be universally condemned


... Some swooped in quickly to defend and normalize Trump’s comments, principle Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, asked about the tweets on Fox News, said:
The First Lady’s office, which does not usually get involved in such stories, defended the comments ...

https://thinkprogress.org/defense-trump-sexist-brzezinski-tweets-c4ad5d59577c

In this Nov. 29, 2016 file photo Mika Brzezinski waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. CREDIT:AP Photo/Evan Vucci







Ryan Koronowski
Research Director at ThinkProgress. Contact me rkoronowski@thinkprogress.org.
Jun 29

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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The Supreme Court’s take on the Muslim ban has already created a huge mess
Maybe they should have just said that banning Muslims is unconstitutional


... Yet, the Court provided little other guidance on just how “close” a close familial relationship must be to overcome Trump’s ban, leading Justice Clarence Thomas to warn in a partial dissent that the majority opinion “will invite a flood of litigation until this case is finally resolved on the merits” ...

https://thinkprogress.org/the-supre...-has-already-created-a-huge-mess-e60ca4a856cd

CREDIT: AP Photo/John Locher, File

Ian Millhiser
Justice Editor, ThinkProgress. Author of Injustices: SCOTUS’ History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted imillhiser@thinkprogress.org
Jun 29

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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NRA recruiting video stops just short of calling for violence against anti-Trump progressives
“The only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth”


... In the one-minute spot, conservative media personality and NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch says progressives “bully and terrorize the law abiding,” adding that “the only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight the violence of lies with the clenched first of truth.”

Here’s the video, followed by a full transcript ...

https://thinkprogress.org/nra-recruiting-video-violence-dana-loesch-1abc41393d5c

Dana Loesch

CREDIT: screengrab

Aaron Rupar
Journalist, ThinkProgress. Twitter: @atrupar
Jun 29