Donald Trump’s Scheme to Bribe Seniors With $200 Gift Cards Is Not Obviously Legal
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
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Overnight Billionaires: Airbnb
It turned ordinary neighborhoods into tourist destinations, and ordinary people into backdoor innkeepers.
COVID Didn’t Destroy New York City. Austerity Just Might.
The state’s power brokers are so afraid of the impoverished 1970s that they’re inadvertently bringing them back.
Trump’s drug card plan sows confusion – even within administration
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
U.S. coronavirus case count passes 7 million
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
How Trump is undermining his own vaccine race
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
Member of health secretary’s security detail tests positive for coronavirus
It is the first known instance of a staffer with regular proximity to the health secretary testing positive for coronavirus.
Help! My Boyfriend’s Best Friend Is Urging Him Not to Marry Me.
I think the next step is an ultimatum.
The Secret Weapon That Frazzled, Frayed Parents Already Have at Home
They just need time to enjoy it.
My Wife’s Wild Sexual Past Is Now Haunting Me in More Ways Than One
I’m now convinced this may be a reason not to be so promiscuous in younger years.
2020 is the Year Trump Was Worried About
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
Trump stokes a new threat to Wall Street: Election chaos
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Internal memo reassured Trudeau that virus’s economic hit would be ‘manageable’
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.
Fed expects to keep rates near zero through 2023
The central bank shed more light on its pledge not to raise interest rates until prices begin to rise more rapidly.
“Without Love, We Won’t Make It”: Bishop Michael Curry on Faith & What’s at Stake in November
We speak with Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and the first African American to lead the denomination, about systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 2020 election and President Trump’s use of faith as a political prop. “The church must not be used for partisan political purposes,” Curry says. “The faith, the Christian faith, is not up for sale.
Bernie Sanders on How to Block Trump from Stealing Election & Preserve American Democracy
In an address to the country, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has issued a stark warning about the threat posed by President Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the November election. Trump, who has made spurious claims of voter fraud and election-rigging against Democrats for months, recently ramped up his efforts to discredit the election results by suggesting he will refuse to concede if he loses.
“The Election That Could Break America”: Inside How Trump & GOP Could Steal the Vote
As President Trump refuses to commit to accepting the results of the upcoming election, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman, whose latest piece in The Atlantic looks at how Trump could subvert the election results and stay in power even if he loses to Joe Biden. “Trump’s strategy is never to concede. He may win, he may lose, but under no circumstances will he concede this election,” says Gellman.
“Two Systems of Justice”: Jacob Blake’s Father on Son’s Case, Breonna Taylor & Black Lives Matter
As outrage mounts over the grand jury ruling in the police killing of Breonna Taylor, we look at the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where an investigation is in its final stages. The case sparked renewed national protests in August after viral video showed Kenosha police shooting the Black father in the back seven times, paralyzing him. We speak with Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr.
Uh oh, NY Times got Trump’s taxes, and it’s even worse than anyone could’ve imagined
So the assumption was always that impeached soon-to-be-outgoing president Donald Trump hid his taxes for a couple of reasons: he wasn’t as rich as he claimed, and it might provide clues to financial crimes. But mostly, because he wasn’t as rich as he claimed.
Now that The New York Times has 15 years of his taxes, it’s all that and even more—he’s also a tax cheat.
Sunday Night Owls. driftglass: Let the creators of our disaster off the hook and they’ll do it again
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
driftglass writes—Once Again The Real Complaining Party at the Bar in This Courtroom Is Civilization:
If this sounds like a repost of an earlier essay, well, it is.
And once again the coming elections are vitally important. Critically important.
Period. Full stop.
Brad Parscale Reportedly Surrenders Himself To Police After Wife’s 911 Call
The former Trump campaign manager was demoted in July during a late-in-the-race staff shake-up.
Responding to new story showing massive business losses, Trump can only bluster about ‘fake news’
In an oddly subdued Sunday evening Donald Trump press conference dedicated mostly to repeating a laundry list of alleged voting conspiracies and crimes, Trump was asked about the new New York Times story revealing that Trump paid only $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017—largely due to ongoing, massive business failures.
His response? Total denial. “It’s fake news. It’s totally fake news. Made up, fake.
Trump’s former campaign manager hospitalized after threatening to harm himself
Reports are coming out of Florida that former Trump campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was taken from his Fort Lauderdale home after suffering some kind of health crisis. According to Local 10 News, officers went to visit after calls were made to 911 saying there was a man threatening to harm himself.
How brASS Burlesque fuses sexy, silly performance art with social justice
This story is part of Prism’s series on sex positivity and the arts. Read the rest of the series here.
by jazabel jade, exHOTic other, and Miss AuroraBoobRealis
At a time like this, BIPOC women and femmes and our communities deeply need some laughter and joy to help us process the pain of living in America’s sadistic brand of white supremacy. That’s where burlesque comes in.
Trump Holds $421 Million In Debt, Could Owe IRS $100 Million In Penalties, Times Says
The bombshell report detailed the president’s large debt and his increased reliance on controversial businesses he’s refused to divest.
‘Freeloader-In-Chief’: Twitter Afire Over Explosive Trump Tax Return Report
“Raise your hand if you pay more taxes than supposed ‘billionaire’ Donald Trump.
Trump Blasts Bombshell Report On His $750 U.S. Tax Bills As ‘Fake News’
Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of 15 years before 2016, The New York Times reported.
Trump Paid $750 In Income Taxes In 2016, 2017: NY Times Report
The New York Times published a damning report that showed President Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.
Rhode Island: Images of the Ocean State
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the U.S., but with a population of just over 1 million people, it is also the the second-most densely populated state. From Woonsocket and Pawtucket, through Providence, Bristol, and Newport, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Rhode Island and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.