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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Trump has continuously sought to undermine LGBTQ rights and to suggest otherwise is simply wrong.


Tuesday, July 28, 2020

A gun lobbyist turned White House lawyer helped lift the ban on gun silencer sales to foreign buyers, enacted by the State Department to protect U.S. troops abroad.

Michael B. Williams [33 years old] spent nearly two years helping to run a trade group focused on expanding sales of firearm silencers by American manufacturers.

But try as he might, he could not achieve one of the industry’s main goals: overturning a ban on sales to private foreign buyers enacted by the State Department to protect American troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere.


Monday, July 27, 2020

Trump was elected with Putin's help to do Putin's bidding.  He is doing this in ways we can't even imagine.

Russia routinely exploited a US policy of increased information sharing to target Chechen dissidents, according to three law-enforcement and intelligence officials in Europe.

The practice emerged after the Trump administration backed a policy of sharing more secret information with Russia, in hope of strengthening relations.


Wednesday, July 22, 2020

If you think for one minute that Trump or Republicans gives one damn about working class people, read below and then vote.

On April 28th, forty-eight hours after Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest meat company, ran a full-page ad in several newspapers warning that “the food supply chain is breaking,” Trump issued an executive order defining slaughterhouse workers as essential.  The executive order commanded meat-processing facilities to “continue operations uninterrupted to the extent possible.”


Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Redlining: If you’re not sure of what it is, google it. One of the many ways that racism and discrimination still exist.

Since Trump took office, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has quietly shelved at least six investigations of discrimination and redlining....  The OCC has historically prioritized the well-being of banks over bank customers, said current and former examiners, but the balance has shifted even further under the Trump administration.


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