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Humphrey

Gordon Humphrey: A lone voice in the Trump wilderness

August 23, 2017 Renee Shur Congress, Constitution, Trump One comment

Gordon Humphrey isn’t a household name. But perhaps he should be. Humphrey, formerly a conservative Republican senator from the Granite State who served for

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Tracking Trump’s regulatory rollbacks: so far, so bad

August 19, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Community/Common good, Consumer issues, Energy, Environment, Good government, Trump 3 comments

While Donald Trump distracts us with bellicose pronouncements and internecine White House wars, his henchmen in regulatory agencies are methodically rolling back decades of

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resignation

Why they quit: Arts & Humanities Council’s letter of resignation [plus hidden message]

August 19, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Fine Arts, Literature/Arts/Film, Widgets: Letters of protest 2 comments

Donald Trump’s embrace of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups has alienated yet another of his showpiece “advisory” councils. All 17 members of

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DEA

DEA says “no” to Trump’s remarks on rough treatment of suspects

August 3, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Police, Trump, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

The acting chief of the Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] is not pleased with Donald Trump’s remarks to law enforcement officers, telling them not to

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reporters

Latest NY Times Trump transcript: Why do reporters clean it up for TV?

July 20, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Trump, Widget: Transcripts 3 comments

In his latest interview with the New York Times [July 19, 2017], Donald Trump did what he always does: He rambled, flitted from topic

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disappearing data

Disappearing data: A Trump administration vanishing act

June 27, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government Leave a comment

Where has all the data gone? Since the Trump wrecking crew took over, government data has been disappearing at an alarming rate. At first,

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Capitalism isn't working

Material Conditions First!

June 21, 2017 Adam Levin Activism, Capitalism, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Media, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Consider two anecdotes: The First: Recently I tried to get into the mind of a Trump supporter that had posted a status about the

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Trump flunks US Army’s own leadership checklist

June 18, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Legal issues/Law, Military Leave a comment

How unfit for the presidency is Donald Trump? The term “unfit” has been bandied about quite a lot since January 2017, when Trump was

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Stopping Trump: a once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity

May 31, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Republicans, Trump 3 comments

The current state of proliferating Trump scandals presents a once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity for the first Republican to truly stand up for what is right.

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nuke

Trump would probably flunk the military’s nuke test

May 7, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Nuclear weapons, Trump Leave a comment

Anyone in the U.S. military with any connection to nuclear weapons is required to pass the Personnel Reliability Program. Donald Trump would most likely

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