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Tom Engelhardt | Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview): The 25/8 News Cycle Is Already Rolling, but the Looting of America Hasn't Really Begun
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Donald Trump's presidency is the story of the second - each second of every day - giving us two-plus weeks of coverage the likes of which are historically unique."
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Donald Trump's presidency is the story of the second - each second of every day - giving us two-plus weeks of coverage the likes of which are historically unique."
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Pence Breaks Senate Tie Over Cabinet Nomination of Betsy DeVos
Ron Elving, NPR
Elving writes: "Vice President Pence has done something that his predecessor, Joe Biden, did not do even once in his eight years in the same office. He cast a tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate. The occasion is Tuesday's confirmation of Betsy DeVos as President Trump's secretary of education."
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Ron Elving, NPR
Elving writes: "Vice President Pence has done something that his predecessor, Joe Biden, did not do even once in his eight years in the same office. He cast a tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate. The occasion is Tuesday's confirmation of Betsy DeVos as President Trump's secretary of education."
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Ordinary Americans Carried Out Inhumane Acts for Trump
Chris Edelson, The Baltimore Sun
Edelson writes: "When we worry and wonder about authoritarian regimes that inflict cruelty on civilians, we often imagine tyrannical despots unilaterally advancing their sinister agendas. But no would-be autocrat can act alone. As a practical matter, he needs subordinates willing to carry out orders."
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Chris Edelson, The Baltimore Sun
Edelson writes: "When we worry and wonder about authoritarian regimes that inflict cruelty on civilians, we often imagine tyrannical despots unilaterally advancing their sinister agendas. But no would-be autocrat can act alone. As a practical matter, he needs subordinates willing to carry out orders."
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White House List Contradicts Trump Claim That Terror Attacks Go Unreported
Brian Naylor and Jessica Taylor, NPR
Excerpt: "President Trump, in another broadside against the news media, on Monday accused 'the dishonest press' of failing to report terrorist attacks. But in a list put out by the White House later Monday evening, many of the attacks cited, such as the attack the Orlando night club shooting last June and 2015 attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Paris were extensively covered by the media around the clock."
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Brian Naylor and Jessica Taylor, NPR
Excerpt: "President Trump, in another broadside against the news media, on Monday accused 'the dishonest press' of failing to report terrorist attacks. But in a list put out by the White House later Monday evening, many of the attacks cited, such as the attack the Orlando night club shooting last June and 2015 attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Paris were extensively covered by the media around the clock."
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Government by White Nationalism Is Upon Us
Jamelle Bouie, Slate
Bouie writes: "It's not just rhetoric anymore. It's a political program that could set American democracy back 150 years."
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Jamelle Bouie, Slate
Bouie writes: "It's not just rhetoric anymore. It's a political program that could set American democracy back 150 years."
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Up to 13,000 Secretly Hanged in Syrian Jail, Says Amnesty
Martin Chulov, Guardian UK
Chulov writes: "As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria's most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country's civil war as part of an extermination policy ordered by the highest levels of the Syrian government, according to Amnesty International."
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Martin Chulov, Guardian UK
Chulov writes: "As many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in one of Syria's most infamous prisons in the first five years of the country's civil war as part of an extermination policy ordered by the highest levels of the Syrian government, according to Amnesty International."
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Why Is California Building Fossil-Fuel Power Plants It Doesn't Need?
Nathanael Johnson, Grist
Johnson writes: "Californians have done a great job of conserving energy; electricity usage peaked in 2008. Even relatively new power plants have been shut down in recent years because the state doesn't need their electricity. But utilities keep building new generators."
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Nathanael Johnson, Grist
Johnson writes: "Californians have done a great job of conserving energy; electricity usage peaked in 2008. Even relatively new power plants have been shut down in recent years because the state doesn't need their electricity. But utilities keep building new generators."
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