Facebook bans ads for award-winning Votes for Women board game’s new Kickstarter, claims it is a “sensitive social issue” (boardgamewire.com)
MLK Was An Inferior Pastor And ‘Communist,’ Said Top GOP Candidate For N.C. Governor (www.huffpost.com)
In unearthed Facebook posts, Mark Robinson also called the civil rights movement “crap” and vowed to work on MLK Day because he’s “not a leach."...
A War on Blue America. In a second term, Trump would punish the cities and states that don’t support him (www.theatlantic.com)
During his term in the White House, Donald Trump governed as a wartime president—with blue America, rather than any foreign country, as the adversary. He sought to use national authority to achieve factional ends—to impose the priorities of red America onto Democratic-leaning states and cities. The agenda Trump has laid out...
Sanders says Trump reelection would be the ‘end of democracy’ (thehill.com)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the reelection of former President Trump would be the “end of democracy” in an interview released Saturday by The Guardian....
There Is No “Both Sides” to Donald Trump’s Threat to Democracy (www.vanityfair.com)
Abbott: Texas Would Shoot Migrants, But Biden “Would Charge Us With Murder” (www.motherjones.com)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has told a right-wing radio host that there’s only one tool the state isn’t using to stop migrants from crossing the border into Texas: gun violence, because it would prompt a response from the pesky federal government....
“What Trump said was so damaging to him”: Experts say NY AG “struck gold” with Trump court rant (www.salon.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s Thursday courtroom tirade could backfire, legal experts warn....
Insulin Just Got Cheaper Thanks To Biden. Will Voters Take Notice? (www.huffpost.com)
Lots of Americans say they are prepared to vote against President Joe Biden in November. Among the many reasons seems to be a persistent belief that Biden has accomplished “not very much” or “little or nothing” (according to an ABC-Washington Post poll from the summer), or that his policies have actually hurt people...
Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ in Iowa town hall (www.independent.co.uk)
January 6 Is Exactly What the Fourteenth Amendment Was Talking About | And ignoring its clear dictate is a dangerous choice to make. (www.theatlantic.com)
As the Colorado Supreme Court wrote, January 6 meets the bar for insurrection “under any viable definition” of the term. The legal scholar Mark Graber, who has closely studied the Fourteenth Amendment’s history, argues that “insurrection” should be understood broadly—an act of organized resistance to government...
Former Obama Advisor David Axelrod: It’s ‘deeply, deeply’ unhelpful to dismiss concerns about Biden polling as ‘bedwetting’ (thehill.com)
Nikki Haley’s pretend slavery ‘gaffe’ told us what this election is about (www.theguardian.com)
Voters will decide the unresolved question of the civil war: do we move backwards, or forwards toward true democracy?...
Trump Explodes in Unhinged Tirade in Courtroom, Attacks Judge and Prosecutors, Then Storms Out (www.meidastouch.com)
Trump told European leaders that US ‘will never come to help you’ (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said....
How a horny beer calendar sparked a conservative civil war (www.vox.com)
It’s called “Calendargate,” and it’s raising the question of what — and whom — the right-wing war on “wokeness” is really for....
Trump Says He WANTS the Economy to Crash Because It Will Hurt Biden (www.thedailybeast.com)
Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans (slate.com)
Red states would rather let a patient die than let her terminate a dangerous pregnancy. And they’re barely pretending otherwise....
Maine House votes down GOP effort to impeach official who removed Trump from ballot (abcnews.go.com)
Democrats who control the Maine Legislature on Tuesday rejected a Republican effort to impeach the state’s top election official for her decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol....
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity (thehill.com)
Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution....
It sure looks like Donald Trump was disguised as 'Doe 174' in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents (www.businessinsider.com)
Trump Loses Federal Appeal on Immunity in E. Jean Carroll Case (themessenger.com)
Trump just promised an authoritarian ‘task force’ to impose Christian ideology (www.msnbc.com)
The former president is still feeding the Christian right’s persecution complex...
Claudine Gay’s ousting reveals that the messenger is still an easier target than the message | Kenan Malik (www.theguardian.com)
Retiring House Republican says $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'Most of us don't have wealth' (www.businessinsider.com)
Rank-and-file members of both the House and Senate are paid $174,000 a year....
Joe Biden campaign volunteers are quitting in "droves" (www.newsweek.com)
In a letter published Wednesday on Medium, an anonymous group of Biden's campaign staffers demanded the president call for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing concerns that not shifting his policy on the issue could hurt his 2024 chances....
