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Noam Chomsky

• Good riddance to very bad rubbish: Here are 5 of the ugliest moments in the Steve King Hall of Shame
  On, Tuesday, June 2, there was a major bombshell in Iowa politics: far-right Rep. Steve King, in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, lost a GOP primary battle to Iowa State Sen.…
  Alex Henderson
• Copaganda: Most major media is still much too eager to embrace police-friendly framing
  Warnings that these dark times were coming were often laughed off as hyperbolic jokes. Well here we are, with the United States president threatening to send the military and every federal law…
  Sophia Tesfaye
• The 71-word oath that could save our democracy
  Now that Donald Trump dispatched the American military to stop a peaceful protest against police killings of black men and declared he will do the same nationwide, a little-known fact…
  David Cay Johnston
• ‘An unmitigated disaster’: Trump advisors dismayed by president’s continued botching of protest responses
  In a report from the Washington Post, one advisor to Donald Trump who works outside the White House complained about the president’s actions relating to the anti-police brutality protests– from…
  Tom Boggioni
• Trump is bleeding support from the only voters who have stuck with him since 2016
  President Donald Trump is losing support from his evangelical base as he lurches from one crisis into another. Numerous polls show that religious Americans, like most other Americans, disapprove of…
  Travis Gettys
• Paul Krugman: GOP would ‘cheer on’ Trump if he launched ‘a military coup’
  New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Friday warned that it’s wrong to compare President Donald Trump to President Richard Nixon, on the grounds that Trump is far worse and…
  Brad Reed
• Monuments to America’s racist history are getting toppled amid mass protests
  Monuments celebrating the nation’s racist history are coming down in several states after being targeted by protesters over the past week. On Wednesday, the city of Philadelphia removed a statue…
  Democracy Now
• A justification for unrest? Look no further than the Bible and the Founding Fathers
  by Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder and Samuel L. Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder The civil unrest seen across the United States following the killing of George Floyd brings…
  The Conversation
• The tale of a right-wing scam artist’s downward trajectory
  I didn’t want to report this in the first person, but here we are. Last week I received a press release from right-wing internet troll Jacob Wohl and his decades-older partner,…
  Roger Sollenberger
• Major medical journal retracts hydroxychloroquine study finding serious risks
  An article in the respected medical journal The Lancet which found that hydroxychloroquine use increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients was retracted on Thursday, with the authors admitting they could not “vouch” for…
  Matthew Rozsa