Новости за 14.10.2020

According to reports, Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker has released a statement declaring that he will not be supporting President Trump for reelection. “The governor cannot support Donald Trump for president and is focused on seeing Massachusetts through the pandemic. He’ll leave the election analysis to the pundits,” Lizzy Guyton, the governor’s communications director, said in […]

Texas social workers are criticizing a state regulatory board’s decision this week to remove protections for LGBTQ clients and clients with disabilities who seek social work services. The Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners voted unanimously Monday to change a section of its code of conduct that establishes when a social worker may refuse […]

I’m guessing TH Luhrmann was trying to be reassuring. In a piece published Tuesday in The Atlantic, the Stanford professor of anthropology argued that Amy Coney Barrett, as the next justice on the US Supreme Court, will be less predictable than her critics contend. This article was originally published at The Editorial Board This is because of “the […]

A new report says militia groups and far-right factions linked to the leader of a 2016 armed standoff with federal authorities at an Oregon wildlife refuge is gaining steam as the new front against government restrictions designed to stem the spread of coronavirus, the Kansas City Star reports. The report from the Institute for Research […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday sought to explain his earlier remarks referring to the “good old days of segregation.” Graham made the reference while questioning Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. During a break in Barrett’s confirmation hearing, Graham was asked about the remark. “If anybody was listening to who I am and what […]

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) continued his exposure of the shadowy network of right-wing billionaires who are rigging the judicial system in their own favor. The Rhode Island Democrat laid out evidence of how that network identifies and promotes friendly judges during Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, and on Wednesday he explained, using the […]

“Happily giving a white supremacist a platform despite the impact on society” Americans are angrily denouncing NBC News and MSNBC after network executives announced Wednesday they will hold a town hall for President Donald Trump on Thursday, directly competing with ABC’s town hall for Joe Biden. The two presidential nominees were to appear together in […]

Leaked videos taken from inside a secretive right-wing organization show many top conservative operatives openly advocating ballot harvesting during the 2020 presidential election, even as President Donald Trump accused Democrats of using such tactics to steal elections. The Washington Post reports that the videos show longtime evangelical operative Ralph Reed boasting of his plans to […]

The far-right QAnon conspiracy cult not only opposes abortion — it also opposes the use of any type of fetal tissue for medical research. But in Vice, journalist Anna Merlan notes a major contradiction: President Donald Trump, who QAnon idolizes, was recently treated with a drug that was “developed using a stem cell line made from aborted fetal tissue.” When […]

The View co-host Sara Haines blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after she clashed with CNN host Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday night. Pelosi had accused Blitzer of pushing pro-GOP talking points after the CNN host asked why she wouldn’t accept the president’s latest coronavirus stimulus offer. “Even members of your own caucus, Madam Speaker, want […]

A new poll out of Michigan doesn’t just show Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden beating President Donald Trump — it also shows that a large chunk of Trump’s own voters don’t like his behavior. CBS News reports that its most recent battleground poll of Michigan shows that 34 percent of Trump voters in the state […]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) pressed Amy Coney Barrett to explain why she’d keep an open mind on President Donald Trump hypothetically delaying the election, and said that undercut her guiding legal philosophy. The Supreme Court nominee has repeatedly refused to say whether she believed the president had the right to change the election date, which […]

More than 3,000 Amazon employees have signed a petition asking the technology and retail giant to provide a holiday for voting in the November 3 US election, organizers said. The petition was organized by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a group active on several social issues involving the company. “Removing barriers to voting is critical […]

I keep hearing from progressives who lament that even if Biden wins, Trump and McConnell have tilted the playing field forever. They point to McConnell’s rush to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, after blocking President Obama’s nominee for 293 days because it was “too close” to the next election. And to the […]

Originally published by The 19th RANGELEY, Maine — On a crisp, sunny day in late September, Susan Collins was on a campaign bus tour through Maine, the state she’s represented in the U.S. Senate since 1997. Collins, up for reelection in November, had started the day’s bus tour at a sawmill in nearby Dixfield — […]

If former Vice President Joe Biden carries every state that 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won four years ago and flips Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, he will defeat President Donald Trump in November and be sworn in as president of the United States in January 2021. Biden, of course, has other possible paths to […]

Staffers at NBC, CNBC and MSNBC were said to be angry this week after learning that President Donald Trump was offered the opportunity to hold a solo town hall event. NBC announced on Wednesday that the network will host a 90-minute town hall event for Trump opposite a similar event for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, […]

Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society published a working paper earlier this month studying disinformation around the subject of mail-in voting, Recode reports. Analyzing millions of social media posts, the study found that President Trump was one of the main sources of debunked claims that mail-in ballots are being used in election fraud. […]

On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Amy Cooper, the white woman who called 911 on a Black birdwatcher in Central Park, with false reporting — and according to The Daily Beast, revealed that she placed a second, even more incriminating phone call to the police. “Cyrus R. Vance, the Manhattan district attorney, said in a statement Wednesday that Cooper […]

In the spring, Congress created a program to save aviation worker jobs. Then the Trump administration undermined that program by granting hundreds of millions of dollars in relief to aviation companies for jobs they’d already largely eliminated, according to a House report released Friday. As a result, thousands of workers at airline caterers and other […]

Amy Coney Barrett’s involvement in the court fight over the 2000 presidential election, when she was a member of George W. Bush’s legal team, shows she is willing to bend the law to benefit Republican candidates, says Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman. “That’s what’s so disturbing about Amy Coney Barrett, because that’s exactly what President […]

Environmentalists were appalled—if not necessarily surprised—by Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s statement Tuesday that she does not “have firm views” on climate change, an ostensibly neutral comment that critics said is tantamount to denial of the science. “This has been the standard, canned answer that climate deniers have given for years. But now it’s […]

On Wednesday, writing for CNN, fact-checker Daniel Dale documented the most egregious falsehoods in President Donald Trump’s “dishonesty bombardment” at his Tuesday-night rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. “Trump made numerous false or misleading claims at his Tuesday rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, his second falsehood-filled rally since he was hospitalized with the coronavirus,” wrote Dale. “We’re still […]

The House Democrats’ impeachment attorney raised major questions about a New York Post report on Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine. The New York Post reported that Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at the energy firm Burisma in 2015, which the right-wing tabloid suggests is improperly linked to the […]

[The]  bombshell New York Times’ report on Donald Trump is an important deep dive into how business interests sought and received favors from President Trump after spending big money at his properties, and making large donations to Trump’s political machine. The Times says that this is “the swamp that Trump built” — but the insinuation is a bit off. Yes, […]