Attacks on Public & Democracy

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Polling could be wrong. The economy could recover just enough. He could announce his own October surprise.

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Posted in r/PublicFreakout by u/CantStopPoppin • 90,318 points and 9,767 comments

If Venezuela or Iran were perpetrating this nightmare, the US would stand against it. Instead, officials are promising more

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Interview on the “absolutely unprecedented scope and scale” of the protests against the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and why Trump's refusal to act to stop the impending catastrophe of climate change makes him “the worst criminal in human history.”

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Move over, James Buchanan.

The administration is pushing its pro-polluter agenda as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 rises.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about how the Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s policy proposals are especially apt amid the current coronavirus crisis.

President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.

Conservatives respond to fear more strongly than liberals do, says one neuroscientist who studies political anxiety.

The lies came at a rally in Georgia.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday ripped Republican lawmakers for promising voters that they will fight to ensure protections for pre-existing conditions, saying “they’re all lying.” Scarborough made the comments on “Morning Joe” after a montage of clips showed several GOP candidates saying that they support health-care protections for people with pre-existing conditions. {mosads}“Oh my God,…

Posted in r/politics by u/horseapplefarm • 15,831 points and 1,131 comments

The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

"If you wrote this plot into a movie, I would have said it was over-the top."

In August, the Puerto Rican government raised the official death count dramatically to 2,975, after maintaining for months that only 64 people had died.

Posted in r/politics by u/BuckRowdy • 12,154 points and 1,095 comments

Since authorities revealed the suspect in the killing of Mollie Tibbetts is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Iowa’s Latino communities have been the target of rising anti-immigrant sentiment.

Posted in r/worldnews by u/DoremusJessup • 189,350 points and 17,960 comments

During a press conference in Miami, Florida, GOP nominee Donald Trump tells NBC News’ Katy Tur to “be quiet” after she questions him for apparently calling on Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.