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Trump bucks Barr’s request to stop tweeting about Justice Dept., declaring a ‘legal right’ to seek intervention in criminal cases | Washington Post

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Trump bucks Barr’s request to stop tweeting about Justice Dept., declaring a ‘legal right’ to seek intervention in criminal cases | Washington Post

Now that he's packed the courts with people that will do almost anything for him, who will challenge his decree?

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Walter Shaub on why post-impeachment Trump is the most dangerous Trump - Vox

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Walter Shaub on why post-impeachment Trump is the most dangerous Trump - Vox

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Ralph Nader Interview

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The Next Generation of Psychopathic Leaders

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The Lancet -- Medicare for All analysis

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Opinion | Have Zombies Eaten Bloomberg’s and Buttigieg’s Brains? - The New York Times

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The Lancet -- Medicare for All analysis

"Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually (based on the value of the US$ in 2017). The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer health care would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo. "

WOW... Mandatory reading for democrats and republicans alike...

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A Immigrant From Brazil Has Changed Lives as a Coach. Is That Enough to Stay in the U.S.? - The New York Times

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Absolutely monstrous:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...y-reports-ice/

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Rod Blagojevich scandal and Trump’s commutation of his sentence, explained - Vox

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Post-impeachment, Trump declares himself the ‘chief law enforcement officer’ of America | Washington Post

Which page of the constitution was this on? I must have missed this bit...

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Storm Dennis brings mass flooding to U.K., while Brits ask, ‘Where’s Boris?’ | Washington Post

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Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer on fighting the GOP’s “asshole advantage” - Vox

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Mexico Tightens Border After Trump Pardons White-Collar Criminals | The New Yorker

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Bloomberg to Spend Ten Billion Dollars to Buy Entirely Different Personality | The New Yorker

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Mississippi Guards Face Attacks in Understaffed Prisons | The Marshall Project

Very low pay, bad job conditions & low prestige have led to 50% of MS prison guard positions unfilled. Leads to unsafe and inhumane prisons for guards and inmates alike. With prison funding the absolute last priority of legislature, this is a crisis only feds or courts will fix.

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"Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually (based on the value of the US$ in 2017). The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer health care would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo. "

WOW... Mandatory reading for democrats and republicans alike...

And, an interview with one of the authors of the study...

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Opinion | Warren, Bloomberg and What Really Matters - The New York Times