Trump Watch May 11 2018

Day 452:

Keep the focus on inequality

Tax the rich, or eat the rich, let the rich decide.

Further Reading:

Vowing to End Corporate Bullying of Organized Workers, Sanders Unveils Bill to Restore Union Power

Trump Has Now Broken Every One of His Economic Populist Promises

Many public college students in Massachusetts go hungry while trying to earn degrees

Robocaller hit with record $120 million fine

Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show

Philippine Supreme Court removes chief justice. Duterte now controls all the branches of the government.

As Trump re-imposes sanctions on Iran, we should revoke his Scottish golf course licence in protest

Conservative Media Group ‘Pressured’ Its Employees to Be More Pro-Trump During the 2016 Election: Report

First look: Mueller gains credibility among swing voters

Documents Reveal How Russian Official Courted Conservatives In U.S. Since 2009

Oliver North Vows to “Counterpunch” Parkland Students, Claims NRA is Victim of “Civil Terrorism”

Americans With No Religion Greatly Outnumber White Evangelicals

AT&T wins ethics award — and three hours later the company gets tied to Michael Cohen’s money mess

John McCain’s Family Outraged After White House Official Mocks Senator: ‘He’s Dying Anyway’

Poll: Independent voters in swing states say Mueller is more trustworthy than Trump

‘Don’t You Dare Talk to Me Like That’: Maxine Waters Schools MAGA-Spouting Republican

Steve Schmidt: ‘Fraud’ Pence shows Trump ‘slobbering servility’

Graham on White House official mocking McCain: ‘Nobody is laughing in the Senate’

Crowd at Indiana rally cheers when Trump suggests he deserves an ‘extension’ on his presidency beyond two terms

Global Warming Age Gap: Younger Americans Most Worried

Scott Pruitt needs to be fired

Tweeters Erupt Over Trump Aide’s Cruel Taunt About John McCain

(Were they outraged when john McCain spent his entire political life fucking up the country?

Spare me your outrage at trump, McCain helped create him, McCain helped build the political landscape that would allow him to succeed.

Trump is a monster, but its a monster people like McCain created.

You reap what you sow.)

White House official mocked ‘dying’ McCain at internal meeting

If people on food stamps made Jared Kushner’s paperwork mistakes, they might starve

W.H. official Kelly Sadler raises eyebrows with McCain comment ““It doesn’t matter” because “he’s dying anyway.”

Novartis paid Trump’s lawyer’s firm far more than any of its actual lobbyists

Facebook hit with class action lawsuit over collection of texts and call logs – Plaintiffs claim social network’s ‘scraping’ of information including call recipients and duration violates privacy and competition law

The new Republican farm bill will dismantle our programs to feed the needy

Billionaires Have Too Much Political Power

George W. Bush warns of “dangers of isolationism” in impassioned speech

(no one should care what George W. Bush (the war criminal that tortured people, spied on his own citizens, who ended his term with sub 30% approval rates). He destroyed this country, and the world economy, was horrible in almost every way.

He should be in a cave for the rest of his life, too embarrassed to stick his head out for what he has done.

DO NOT LET THE MEDIA REHAB THIS MONSTER.)

Costa Rica to ban fossil fuels and become world’s first decarbonised society

Did Michael Cohen Get $600,000 From AT&T So Trump Would Kill Net Neutrality and OK a Merger?

 

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Call the “White House”:

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Monitor Trumps Conflict of Interests:

From CNN of all people.

The Atlantic

General Guides:

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