Today I left my neighborhood for the first time since Friday, March 13, to join a few of my friends from the Remove Trump collective and We Will Not Be Silent in making a little statement. Just kidding about the “little” part! This banner is 20′ by 30′ — so it was easy to hold it…
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ProPublica For the Win, With All the Receipts
During yesterday’s White House press briefing, Sean Spicer was asked about a story published by MrB’s organization, ProPublica, that morning. ProPublica’s Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw wrote that previously unreported changes to a trust document allow Trump to draw money from the supposedly “blind” trust for his more than 400 businesses, at any time, without…
Recommended Reading: The Coal Country Canard
Last week, Trump gathered a bunch of coal miners around him and announced the rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations, claiming that would help bring back jobs in the coal industry. In response, Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times this weekend about the myth of coal country. In case you missed it,…