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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truth #1 Michael Moore Sep 25   The “mug shots” of the 147 Republican U.S. Senators and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives who, just hours after the January 6th insurrection and attempted coup was put down, voted to overturn the certified 2020 election results and prevent Joe Biden from taking his rightful seat as President of the United States. 44 days from today, the tens of millions of us who have had enough, are going to descend upon the polls en masse — a literal overwhelming, unprecedented tsunami of voters — and nonviolently, legally, and without mercy remove every last stinking traitor to our Democracy.  And for the next 44 days I’m going to give you the proof of my belief that this is  actually going to happen! Each day here on my Substack I’ll give you one quick, solid, shareable reason how and why the anti-Democratic forces are going to go down in a bonfire of defeat. A 2-minute daily read is what I promise.  I...

    SEP 16 Trump's latest threat is a doozy And what we must do about it   ROBERT REICH       Yesterday, Donald Trump  threatened  that if he is indicted on a charge of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, there would be “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before,” adding “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” These words followed on last month’s  threat  by Senator Lindsey Graham that if Trump is prosecuted, there would be “riots in the street.” Trump appeared to endorse Graham’s threat,  sharing  a video link on his Truth Social platform. Trump’s latest threat requires four responses: 1.  Trump is daring the Justice Department to prosecute him, in effect asserting he is above the law.  He is not above the law. The Justice Department is methodically and carefully sifting through evidence and presenting it to a grand jury. Neithe...

  What must we expect of journalism in this crisis? To tell America the unvarnished truth Robert Reich Sep 3 Biden’s core message Thursday night was clear. American democracy is under attack. But Friday’s media coverage of the speech was just more he-said/she-said reaction — as if the media were covering a typical political race instead of a contest between democracy and authoritarianism. The New York Times  quoted Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy as claiming Democrats are the ones “dismantling Americans’ democracy.” The  Times  failed to point out that McCarthy’s claim is inaccurate, and that McCarthy himself was one of 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election even after the attack on the Capitol. The same article quoted Ronna McDaniel , the chair of the Republican National Committee, as calling Biden “the divider in chief” and accusing him of exhibiting “disgust and hostility towards half the country.”...