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Friday, November 09, 2018

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Judge Blocks Construction of Keystone XL Pipeline

Ginsburg Has Been Released From The Hospital, Is Working From Home

Why Nancy Pelosi is still confident she’ll become House speaker

Right On Schedule, Another 'Brooks Brothers Riot' In Florida

Driven by the firehose of fake news coming out of the Right Wing noise machine, a Republican mob of protestors is chanting "lock her up" in Broward County, Florida.

The "her" is Dr. Brenda Calhoun Snipes, supervisor of elections for Broward County. She's a JEB BUSH APPOINTEE. Also an African-American woman, and target of some very ugly racist signs in that crowd.

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https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/right-schedule-another-brooks-brothers

New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is battling measles outbreaks. Vaccine deniers are to blame.

Democrat Favored In Maine’s Ranked-Choice Vote

Trump Fundraises Off Of Likely Florida Recount

Wall Street Journal: Trump personally orchestrated hush payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal

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https://boingboing.net/2018/11/09/wall-street-journal-trump-per.html

robertreich

TRUMP’S 30 BROKEN PROMISES
Trump voters: Two years in, here’s an updated list of Trump’s 30 biggest broken promises.

1. He told you he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his 2017 tax law has done the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans — 53 percent — will pay more in taxes. As Trump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, “You all just got a lot richer.”

2. He promised that the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of the tax law. You bought it. But real wages for most Americans are lower today than they were before the tax law went into effect.

3. He promised to close special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers, especially the notorious “carried interest” loophole for private-equity, hedge fund, and real estate partners. You bought it. But the new tax law kept the “carried interest” loophole.

4. He promised to bring an end to Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program. You bought it. Kim Jong-Un hasn’t denuclearized.

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http://robertreich.tumblr.com/post/179669212960

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