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While we were obsessed with the firing of James Comey, Republicans across the country did several horrifying things that went largely underreported.

While it may or may not have been Trump’s intention to keep us distracted from significant stories that will impact millions of Americans that didn’t get the attention they deserved, we’ve included a few of those stories below.

1. Wisconsin Republicans bring back child labor

For all intents and purposes, children between the ages of 16 and 17 are now members of the workforce in Wisconsin, after the Republican-dominated legislature passed a business-backed bill loosening regulations on employing teenagers. The bill passed the state assembly, and most recently the state senate, on a party line vote of20 for and 12 against.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign reported that if Gov. Scott Walker signs the bill as expected, children as young as 16 years old will no longer need a parent or guardian to sign off on their employment, leaving businesses free to openly recruit high school students to work for them.

2. Trump-supporting media conglomerate to own news stations watched by 70 percent of American homes

Earlier this week, Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) bought Tribune Media for $4 billion. SBG already owns a significant market share of local TV news stations, but the Tribune acquisition means that they would own enough stations to have direct control of channels watched by 7 out of every 10 Americans. Their open support for President Trump means that pro-Trump messaging will likely inserted into newscasts piped into nearly every American household on a nightly basis.

In New York Magazine’s article on the acquisition, reporter Eric Levitz detailed how Jared Kushner — husband of First Daughter Ivanka Trump — promised Sinclair “exclusive” access to Donald Trump in the final three months of the campaign, when the billionaire real estate mogul was making his rounds across the most pivotal swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, in exchange for “fair” coverage. Sinclair landed 11 exclusive interviews with Trump, and interviewed his rival, Hillary Clinton, exactly zero times. SBG executives also ran anti-Clinton content and told local producers that they were mandated to broadcast it:

A “must-run” email from Washington managers to stations on Sept. 13 read this way: “DESCRIPTION: Why did Hillary Clinton struggle with disclosing her medical diagnosis? She has been repeatedly faced with previous questions of trust. Can a president lead with so many questions of transparency and trust?…There were no equivalent “must-run” stories examining Trump’s refusal to release his medical or tax records or about questions surrounding his charitable foundation.

While current FCC rules stipulate that no media company can own more than 39 percent of the television market share, FCC chairman Ajit Pai has stated he’s open to changing those rules. The FCC has not yet signed off on the acquisition as of this writing.

3. Trump puts vote suppressor Kris Kobach on “election integrity” commission

One executive order Trump signed this week that got little fanfare was one thatauthorized the creation of a bipartisan commission to examine current voting laws in all 50 states, and make recommendations as needed under the guise of election integrity.

However innocuous the commission may sound on its face, Trump’s decision to appoint Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to the commission virtually guarantees that any new recommendations from the commission will be even stricter voter ID laws that are overly burdensome to traditionally Democratic-leaning constituencies, like students, the elderly, and people of color. Kobach, who is the vice chair of the commission, has been successfully sued four times for suppressing legitimate votes.

Despite Kobach crusading nonstop against the specter of “voter fraud,” his own office only found nine individual cases of potential voter fraud out of 1.8 million voters in Kansas. That’s a rate of 0.0005, or five ten-thousandths of one percent, for those of you keeping track.

4. North Carolina has 99 percent of disaster relief denied

While it remains unclear if President Trump didn’t want to approve the funding needed for North Carolina to recover from a recent hurricane because the state has a Democratic governor, or just simply because he felt like it, the state is only receiving $6 million in disaster relief funds despite Governor Roy Cooper requesting $929 million. Cooper said the funding was necessary to “help communities and families fix homes, repair businesses and recover from the historic flooding.”

According to the Washington Post, Hurricane Matthew devastated a large portion of the state, with 50 of 100 counties in a state of emergency, and an estimated $2.8 billion in damage, on top of an additional $2 billion in damage to the state’s economy. Gov. Cooper has invited President Trump to take a tour of the state with him, but as of this writing, Trump has not yet responded.

5. Oklahoma Republican suggests handing over non-English speaking-children to ICE

Because Republicans are completely opposed to raising taxes, and because Oklahoma has a $900 million budget deficit as a result of not enough tax revenue, one Oklahoma Republican state representative Mike Ritze on Friday raised a particularly horrific proposal — turning over 82,000 vulnerable children to federal authorities.

“Identify them and then turn them over to ICE to see if they truly are citizens,” Ritze suggested. “Do we really have to educate noncitizens?”

Ritze’s proposal to round up non-English speakers as a means of saving money for state education would likely not pass judicial muster, since, as the Washington Post pointed out, a 1982 Supreme Court decision (Plyler v. Doe) ruled that states did not have the authority to deny public education to the children of undocumented immigrants.

6. Texas state senate licenses “baby jails” as child care facilities

In Texas, a bill written by for-profit, private prison corporation GEO Group looks like it may become law if Republicans have their way. Earlier this week, SB 1018 passed the Texas state senate on a party line vote, which would allow immigrant family detention centers, which are colloquially referred to as “baby jails,” as child care facilities officially recognized by the state of Texas. It would most likely ensure a steady stream of revenue for Texas’ two immigrant detention centers for children, which can collectively house more than 3,200 people.

Tom Cahill is a senior editor for the Resistance Report based in the Pacific Northwest. He specializes in coverage of political, economic, and environmental news. You can contact him via email at tom.v.cahill@gmail.com, or follow him on Facebook by clicking here. 

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Progressive Breakfast: What's At Stake When We Talk About Healthcare

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What's At Stake When We Talk About Healthcare

All across the country, citizens at town hall meetings are asking hard questions to the 217 Republicans like New York's John Faso and Elise Stefanik who voted in Congress to repeal Obamacare and cut back People's Action's Julie Chinitz offers some advice about how to talk with our leaders, family, friends and neighbors about what's at stake in the battle for healthcare.

Rollbacks and Paybacks

EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels. WaPo: “Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department are overhauling a slew of outside advisory boards that inform how their agencies assess the science underpinning policies, the first step in a broader effort by Republicans to change the way the federal government evaluates the scientific basis for its regulations.”

FCC bends rules to green light Sinclair Network’s epic expansion. Common Dreams: “Creating the nation’s largest local TV station conglomerate… conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group announced Monday it will buy Tribune Media for $3.9 billion. ‘Sure looks like a quid pro quo: friendly coverage and full employment for ex-Trump mouthpieces in exchange for a green light to get as big as Sinclair wants’.”

CHOICE Act starts rollback of Dodd-Frank financial reforms. IBT: “The bill, which committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R- Tex.) introduced April 26 as “an alternative to the failed Dodd-Frank Act,” eliminates a litany of measures that were meant to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis…In addition to bankrolling the campaigns of the lawmakers involved, financial industry firms and trade associations collectively spent millions on lobbying efforts related at least in part to the CHOICE Act in the first quarter of 2017.”

Chilling Dissent

Oklahoma governor signs anti-protest law. The Intercept: “A statute aimed at suppressing protests against oil and gas pipelines has been signed into law in Oklahoma, as a related bill advances through the state legislature. The two bills are part of a nationwide trend in anti-protest laws meant to significantly increase legal penalties for civil disobedience. The Oklahoma law signed this week is unique, however, in its broad targeting of groups “conspiring” with protesters accused of trespassing. It takes aim at environmental organizations Republicans have blamed for anti-pipeline protests that have become costly for local governments.”

Trumpcare advocates resort to lies to promote bill. Think Progress: “Price insisted that the proposed system will allow ‘greater flexibility so that more resources could be put to the seniors and disabled and appropriate resources could be put to the healthy moms and kids in a medicaid system.’ He did not explain how less money will create more flexibility, and he later claimed again — falsely — that ‘there are no cuts to the Medicaid program.'”

More from OurFuture.org:

Trump Tax Plan Creates Incentives For Evaders. Gil Manzon & Tim Gray: “The Trump administration wants to change the way the government taxes so-called pass-through entities. In a nutshell, the Trump proposal would dramatically lower the rates this category of filers pay. This would lead to very creative tax planning at best and outright evasion at worst, while prompting more companies to adopt this type of business structure to gain the huge benefits.”

Neoliberalism Defeats NeoFascism in France, for Now. Miles Mogulescu: “Neoliberal Emmanuel Macron has defeated neofascist Marine Le Pen to become France’s next president. That’s good news, but since neoliberalism is part of what has fueled Le Pen’s rise, it’s too early to break out the Beaujolais.”

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" No, he's working from a blueprint already extant and well-utilized by leaders in several countries – and they don't need to be geniuses. The Kremlin invented it, just as it invented the worldwide Marxist uprising script during the Soviet era. Remember my article on how all Trump's campaign tactics had been tried in the Tbilisi, Georgia election of 2012 by the pro-Russia candidate? And tried successfully.

Several signposts indicate the lineaments of a crafted process. How do populists gradually take over? They exclude and arrest journalists – already happening. They create beholden oligarchs – see Vanity Fair's piece about Trump's coup over the Comptroller's office. They especially create favored media oligarchs – see Sinclair Broadcast Group's recent acquisitions. They create incessant noise and fog. And as we see they set the state against itself. Among other things.

In short, Trump is getting expert guidance. One can continue disbelieving one's eyes because the whole notion seems so preposterous. Until, it's a fait accompli. "

Hidden Clues In The Trump-Comey Drama: It's Worse Than You Think

Comey was meant to function as the perfect temp: mortally wounded from his late-campaign move against Hillary, and his even later exoneration of her, he hung on by a thread. The Trumpsters merely left him in place twisting in the wind to see which way he would twist. He'd be a fool to cross them. Politically friendless, isolated, a virtual pariah whichever side he took, he looked ideally suited for the role of staying on and toeing the line. Trump was his last refuge, so they thought. Apparently, Comey couldn't bring himself to swallow that calculus. He continued to push the KremlinGate probe.

Various reports claim that last week he asked for more resources from the Justice Department to do just that. If the reports are right, in so doing he revealed his true intentions, no doubt knowing that the gambit would bring a decisive response. In my experience, after years of reporting on populist regimes from Turkey to Russia to Eastern Europe, I'd say that Comey thereby delivered a stealthy ultimatum. That is to say, on thorny issues populist regimes like to create endless indecision masked by distraction and fog while they consolidate power. The Trumpsters expected Comey to temporize, keep making contradictory noises, pursue Hillary on this and Obama on that, while intermittently letting steam out of the Russia matter. They gave him some leads. Example: Jason Chaffetz's allegations that Obama's people ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower. But Comey wouldn't play along. And finally he nudged them to act.

The Justice Department, for its part, firmly denies that Comey made any demand asking them for extra help on Kremlingate. Stay focused on this specific point for a moment. It speaks volumes, for this is how bureaucracies start to eat each other with a populist at the helm inciting deliberate crossfires. Back in January, I wrote a column entitled “What The Trump Era Will Feel Like: Clues From Populist Regimes Around The World”. In it, I said the following:

Already the intelligence services and Mr. Trump have squared off. Think about what Trump will do. He will appoint new chiefs. They will fight with their rank and file. He will try to downsize and defund. There will be pushback.

I went on to say “there will be incessant all against all in America's institutions... Confusion and uncertainty creates a yearning for strongman rule.” And finally this: “no normalization happens under the corrective effect of institutions. Instead institutions themselves get eroded.” In this case, we have a letter dated May 9 from the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from the Russia probe, asking that the very guy in charge of it be removed. And the by-now notorious letter from his Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein, critiquing Comey. As state institutions grind away against each other what happens? The end goal: deadlock of due process while the strong leader takes the strategic heights of state power.

 That's what Putin did, Erdogan, Chavez et al. In truth, one can't imagine Donald Trump having the deep Machiavellian patience to click all the pieces into place over time. So is it all just a paranoid fever-dream, our sense that Trump is pushing a hidden agenda? No, he's working from a blueprint already extant and well-utilized by leaders in several countries – and they don't need to be geniuses. The Kremlin invented it, just as it invented the worldwide Marxist uprising script during the Soviet era. Remember my article on how all Trump's campaign tactics had been tried in the Tbilisi, Georgia election of 2012 by the pro-Russia candidate? And tried successfully.

Several signposts indicate the lineaments of a crafted process. How do populists gradually take over? They exclude and arrest journalists – already happening. 

They create beholden oligarchs – see Vanity Fair's piece about Trump's coup over the Comptroller's office. They especially create favored media oligarchs – see Sinclair Broadcast Group's recent acquisitions. They create incessant noise and fog. And as we see they set the state against itself. Among other things.

In short, Trump is getting expert guidance. One can continue disbelieving one's eyes because the whole notion seems so preposterous. Until, it's a fait accompli. But surely, one might think, nothing like this can be happening to the indomitably democratic United States. This isn't Venezuela or Turkey, after all. True enough. 

The audacious scenario may yet be foiled. The American system is likely too transparent and too sensitive to public oversight. But just because such a plot might be foiled doesn't mean it's not happening. Consider one indelible detail: Trump recieves Lavrov publicly at the height of the outcry, the two of them laughing, backslapping, making a lurid display of triumph. Classic Putinist Theater. Commit every outrage openly but distort the optics so the public just can't believe what it sees. Rub their noses in it but continue to obfuscate. Hence the 'little green men' of the Crimea invasion, the 'popular uprising' in Ukraine's Donbass, the 'accidental' shoot-down of civilian airliner MH-17, the thinly disguised cyber-assaults on Western elections. You're witnessing a particularly distinctive KGB psy-ops technique infused with that tell-tale element of sadism. Attack, then laugh in their faces. We're talking about a kind of psychological fingerprint, a style, emanating out of a specific center of power.

Still incredulous? We will soon know from whatever legal and political time-delay fuses Comey left behind. Word is leaking profusely that multiple indictment-requests from the FBI to the Justice Department will emerge soonest. It's very curious that Comey demanded fresh resources from Justice to pursue Kremlingate. He didn't have sufficient manpower? Or finances? Hard to believe. In fact, the request seems so odd that I fully believe he did indeed make the request. Because it tells a story. Comey likely wanted to lay a trail. He passed the buck to the Justice Department so that no one could accuse him of inaction, the kind of inaction that Trumpsters wanted. He had waited long enough. He had prepared the groundwork. Now he needed to make it clear where the obstacle lay: not with him but with the Attorney General's office. They, in turn, are now backtracking on their role in firing Comey, at least Rod Rosentein is. He denies pushing for Comey's resignation despite the evidence of his letter. He blames Trump. Trump takes credit. He's the strong leader amid the chaos he created.

All of which may indicate that the American system is healthy and transparent and working fine. Or that the plan to deadlock the gears is well under way.

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We cannot keep publishing without your help. We rely on you to help us pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate Monday War and the State: Business as usual Part 6 of 6 parts: Deconstructing the State: Getting small By Arthur D. Robbins Suppose we chose to join hands with our anti-Federalist ancestors and decided we want to live in a Nation where, “peace, union, and industry, under a mild, free, and steady government” prevail (Storing, 67). Is such an outcome possible? How could we bring it about? Sauron rules in Washington By Paul Craig Roberts A reader asked why neoconservatives push toward nuclear war when there can be no winners. If all die, what is the point? House passes pay or die Trumpcare By Stephen Lendman Obamacare was bad enough—a deplorable rationing scheme to enrich insurers, drug companies and large hospital chains. America’s health is in the hands of GOP frat boys By Michael Winship This just in: Health care is not a game. It’s a matter life or death for millions and millions of Americans. But you sure wouldn’t know it from watching Donald Trump and House Republicans celebrate their narrow victory on Thursday. Deep State, shallow politics, dumb economics Evidence that this home of the master race of self-chosen people was the world’s greatest democracy even before Trump By Frank Scott In 1965, the USA had 780,000 people in prison, jail, on parole or on probation. Tuesday Puerto Rico declares bankruptcy By Stephen Lendman Colonized and exploited by America since 1898, its people, governor and other officials are powerless—ruled by US administrations and Congress. Marching in circles: Faustian thinking and the myth of science By Edward Curtin The recent marches on April 22 to promote science and to celebrate Earth Day were perhaps well-intentioned, but they were delusional and conducted without any sense of irony. They served power and its propaganda. Obviously, science has benefited us in certain ways, but it has become untethered from any sense of moral limits in its embrace of instrumental rationality and its unending efforts to sabotage faith in human freedom by rationally “proving” its illogical deterministic credo. And in doing so it has created and sustained a nightmarish world on the brink of destruction and undermined people’s will to resist this death march. Ostensibly rational, it has engendered a spiritual alienation that goes to the roots of the world crisis. The moral travesty of Trumpcare By Robert Reich Shame on every one of the 217 Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, and substitute basically nothing. It’s time to reawaken the spirit of Occupy for the starving millions By Adam Parsons The world is now facing an unprecedented emergency of hunger and famine, with a record number of people requiring life-saving food and medical assistance in 2017. Since the start of this year, the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war has continued to unfold, while the international community has failed to take urgent commensurate action. The extent of human suffering is overwhelming: more than 20 million people are on the brink of starvation, including 1.4 million children—a conservative estimate that is rising by the day. Famine has already been declared in parts of South Sudan, and could soon follow in Somalia, north-east Nigeria and Yemen. Neo-colonialism & living the Tea Party dream in Oklahoma By Jane Stillwater I’m still fascinated with the people of Oklahoma. The majority of them are good people, salt of the earth, friendly and hard-working. So how come so many Oklahoma residents seem to have such a grudge against Blacks, immigrants, women, liberals and gays? In her new book, Strangers in Their Own Land, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild just answered my question neatly. Wednesday How Trump mocks his voters By Eric Zuesse It usually comes from his actions, instead of from his words, but sometimes Trump mocks his voters verbally too, such as when the New York Daily News bannered on 9 December 2016, SEE IT: Donald Trump admits he doesn’t ‘care’ about locking up Hillary Clinton and opened: President-elect Donald Trump once again disassociated himself from his aggressive campaign rhetoric when he told a crowd in Michigan on Friday [9 December] that he doesn’t “care” about putting Hillary Clinton in jail anymore. No matter how hard we run, we always seem to be standing in the same place By Dave Alpert Political activism has been a part of my life for most of my adult years. I picketed, I marched, I signed petitions, and I collected signatures. I was fighting for change, for a better, more just life for people, not only for those of this country, but for those around the world. I became very familiar with Washington, DC. It was like a home away from home. ‘A scandal’: After FCC bent rules, right-wing Sinclair network to grow even bigger By Deirdre Fulton Creating the nation’s largest local TV station conglomerate—and raising the frightening prospect of a network that would rival Fox News—conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group announced Monday it will buy Tribune Media for $3.9 billion. Israel’s draft nation-state law codifies racism By Stephen Lendman The 1917 Balfour Declaration is its antecedent—“establish[ing] in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people,” at the expense of indigenous Arabs as things turned out. You are the true guardians of the galaxy: A graduation message for a tyrannical age By John W. Whitehead Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. Thursday Avoiding another war In North Korea By William John Cox During the Korean War, the United States dropped more bombs and napalm on North Korea than was used against the Japanese during World War II. The carpet bombing destroyed all of the cities and most of the villages in North Korea. More than 3,000,000 Korean civilians died in the war—most were in the North. Since the war ended with a cease fire in 1953, the North has been governed by the Kim family dictatorship, which uses the threat of American aggression to maintain its ironfisted physical and mind control of the North Korean people. Demanding special prosecutor, Democrats invoke Senate ‘slowdown’ By Nadia Prupis Senate Democrats announced a slowdown of committee business on Wednesday as the fallout from President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey continued. Donald Trump is attempting a coup—we must have a special prosecutor By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship So Donald Trump fired James Comey because the FBI director mistreated Hillary Clinton last summer over her use of private emails. Freedom Rider: Democratic Party death spiral By Margaret Kimberley The Democratic Party is in a death spiral that it cannot escape. The debacle continues with members of Congress singing lyrics, “Hey Hey Hey Good-bye,” from an old song. The juvenile display showed that they are up to their old tricks. They are again counting on Republican unpopularity to regain power. They have no intention of doing anything proactively that would energize their rank and file and reverse their string of defeats. Obscured American: Katy the bartender and nursing student By Linh Dinh Jonathan Revusky was in Philly for a few days, and I had a great time showing Jon around. We went to Kensington, Fishtown, Camden, Point Breeze, Little Cambodia and Rittenhouse Square, all but the last at the sinking end of the economic scale, places I’m well familiar with. At Jack’s Famous Bar, we ordered a cheesesteak and a roast beef sandwich for just $4 each, my kind of price, and I thought our lunch excellent. In Camden, I steered Jon to a bodega where a cheesesteak was just $3.50. Jon said, “I would never have walked into a place like that, if I wasn’t with you.” Most Americans wouldn’t go to Camden, period, even if you paid them. Friday Trump’s lawyers and the rule of law: Part 1 The president is playing with fire and his lawyers are fanning the flames. In the end, the nation will suffer the burns. By Steven Harper Shakespeare’s famous line has drawn conflicting interpretations. To some, it’s a 16th century lawyer joke. But to others focused on the anarchist who spoke them, it’s a nod to the role of law in underpinning a civilized society. Upon admission to the bar, the lawyers surrounding Donald Trump swore fealty to the US Constitution. When they assumed their current duties on behalf of all Americans, they reaffirmed that oath. When Trump attacks the rule of law, his advisers with legal degrees have a special responsibility to speak up. Whatever they’re saying to Trump privately, their public defense of his indefensible assault on the judiciary is no joke, and they know it. ‘More crazy than Nixon’: Critics shocked by Trump admission on Comey By Lauren McCauley While it’s hard to keep up with the shifting reports of how the decision to fire FBI Director James Comey came about, President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted to directly asking the former head of law enforcement if he was under investigation—a move many said presented a shocking conflict of interest. Trump’s Latin American brain trust: two neocon crooks, just like him By Wayne Madsen Donald Trump has showcased in Latin American policy by forging close relationships with two of Latin America’s most dishonest leaders: neoconservatives Mauricio Macri of Argentina and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru. After visiting Trump at the White House in April, Trump called the neo-fascist Macri his “regional ally,” adding that the Argentine is doing a “fantastic job.” Major media organize to rig web-search results By Eric Zuesse The New York Times, as Robert Parry has pointed out, “Cheers the Rise of Censorship”, but only of censorship of any allegations that expose the fraudulence of the NYT’s allegations. The Washington Post, Google, the TV networks, and practically all of the famous providers of ‘news,’ have joined forces in order to block from the internet any statements that contradict, or especially any evidence that disproves, what they collectively define to be ’true’; and, while they do this, they add a lie, that their sole aim in doing this rigging of web-search results is to prevent ‘misinformation’ from polluting your mind. They use as an excuse the existence of some flagrantly fabricated reports on obscure websites, but if the mainstream press can ban reports such as those, then they can also ban real news reports, which expose the mainstream’s own lies. In other words: they are implementing their collective power to block you from being able to know that they’re systematically lying. Will the public trust them with this power? Double standards R us By Frank Scott After being vilified as a Satan by neo-liberals for allegedly costing their anointed one the election—this was before Putin was appointed Greater Satan—the former FBI director is sanctified by neo-liberals as martyr to the cause of justice and democracy. This continues an American tradition born the day European immigrants began making this country great by taking it from its original inhabitants who were foolishly trying to live with nature instead of dominating it for profits.
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