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In Other News: Trump’s Biggest Conflict of Interest To Date? Reporting you might have missed. Continue reading

Bill Moyers talks Facebook, journalism and the Trump media machine. Continue reading

Jay Clayton is Trump’s top pick to replace Berman as federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. Clayton has never served a day as a prosecutor at a state or federal level. There’s an awful lot of folks in the Southern District of New York who would stand to benefit if it gets a Wall Street crony as its federal prosecutor. Continue reading

Lawlessness in Trump’s Fascist State

Trump in a mire: Russian bounties, COVID-19, Obamacare and golf

This evening, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both broke extraordinary news. Months ago, American intelligence officials concluded that during peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan, a Russian military intelligence group offered to Taliban-linked fighters bounties for killing American troops. They paid up, too, although it is unclear which of the twenty US deaths happened under the deal. But this wasn’t breaking news for the National Security Council. Continue reading

Fourteen years after Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to felony fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials — he’s back pleading guilty to charges of criminal conspiracy and failing to register as a lobbyist.  Continue reading

June 25, 2020 Just before midnight tonight, the Department of Justice filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — the health care law that has enabled millions of Americans … Continue reading

Bill Moyers talks with journalist Jeff Sharlet, whose reporting for Vanity Fair describes how Trump the orator has turned his re-election campaign into a militant crusade fueled by conspiracy theories and rhetoric that incites violence.

Sharlet goes inside Trump rallies and a political Christian conservative group, The Family.