Yesterday, Face the Nation featured Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation's most trusted voice on the pandemic. Fauci told the audience that "this is going to be a bad week... unfortunately, if you look at the projection of the curves, of the kinetics of the curves, we're going to continue to see an escalation.
Ibram X. Kendi is the director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. About 5 weeks ago The Atlantic published a piece he wrote about what he fears a conservative Democrat winning the nomination. He refers to the conservative wing-- incorrectly as just as the corporate media wants him to-- as moderates. His analysis is so good, it's a shame he doesn't understand the importance of not ceding that word-- moderate-- to the right.
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, the Southern Poverty Law center issued a report on the impact of the campaign on the nation's schools-- and not in terms of what Betsy DeVos has done to harm them since Trump installed her. According to the report, "survey data indicate that the results of the election are having a profoundly negative impact on schools and students.
Remember what Chris Hayes said about looking at the 2020 candidates as the cycle kicked off? I saved the video to remind you. Let's use it as a quick lens to look at Status Quo Joe. Who will he fight for? What will he fight for? Well, who has he always fought for? His own career, his family, his family's lobbying clients, Big Banks, Wall Street, corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex Eisenhower warned us about. Can he be trusted to do what he says? According to PolitiFact, 84% of Trump's checked statement have been lies. No one can compete with that...
As you can see from the map above, New Mexico has 3 congressional districts. NM-01 is basically Albuquerque (most of Bernalillo County) and its surroundings in much less populated Sandoval (blue), Torrance (red) and Santa Fe (red) counties. The PVI is D+7 and Obama won it with big margins both times he ran. Hillary didn't do nearly as well but still beat Trump convincingly-- 51.6% to 35.1%.
Florida has 29 electoral votes, same as New York. The only states with more are California (55) and Texas (38). There really is no path to reelection for Trump that doesn’t include Florida. Winning Florida doesn’t guarantee him a 2020 victory but losing Florida guarantees him a 2020 loss. And Florida has been the swingiest of swing states in presidential elections in recent years.
The Dismantling Of American Democracy by Nancy OhanianAll these polls came out in the last few days showing both Bernie and Biden beating Trump in 2020 match-ups. Tuesday's Quinnipiac poll showed virtually everyone beating Trump-- Biden by 13, Bernie by 9, Harris by 8, Warren by 7, even McKensey Pete and Booker by 5 points each!
A USA Today OpEd Saturday morning gets to the heart of the Biden problem Democrats serious about denying Trump a second term are facing: within the Democratic Party, Biden is the candidate of the oligarchy.
Virtually every major Western corporate media outlet and a who’s who of pundits circulated a blatantly false report that North…
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RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss how the establishment mainstream media and various politicians who aggressively opposed Julian Assange after the 2016 US Presidential election, have now suddenly had a change of heart, after realizing the imminent danger to their own hides, that the Espionage Act indictment of Assange presents.
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