Jon Queally, staff writer
Jon Queally is managing editor for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @jonqueally
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News Tuesday, September 29, 2020 'Fascism at Our Door': Asked to Condemn White Supremacist Groups, Trump Tells Them to 'Stand By' Instead President Donald Trump was asked point-blank during Tuesday night's presidential debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden if he would denounce armed white supremacist groups like the Proud Boys and ask them to "stand down" in order to quell violent confrontations at racial justice rallies in U.S... Read more |
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News Tuesday, September 29, 2020 'Would You Shut Up, Man': Disastrous, Chaotic, Nearly Unwatchable Presidential Debate After First 20 Minutes The first twenty minutes of Tuesday night's debate was denounced in real-time as a nearly " unwatchable " and tedious " charade " after Fox News moderator Chris Wallace proved incapable of refereeing exchanges between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. "Would you just shut up... Read more |
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News Monday, September 21, 2020 1 Million+ People in Less Than 3 Days Sign Petition Demanding RBG Seat Not Be Filled Until 2021 Showing evidence of Democratic voter resolve and the rapid pace at which the progressive grassroots is mobilizing in response to the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, a petition calling for her seat not to be filled until after the inauguration of the next president in... Read more |
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News Friday, September 18, 2020 Right-Wing Operatives Accused of Trying to Entrap Progressive Pro-Democracy Groups in North Carolina to Undermine Their Election Work Major investigations by news outlets in North Carolina published Friday exposed what appears to be a coordinated—and well-funded—effort by right-wing, Trump-supporting operatives who tried to use donations and fake volunteers to infilrate, possibly with the intent to entrap, pro-democracy advocacy... Read more |
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News Monday, September 14, 2020 "It'll Start Getting Cooler, You Just Watch": Trump Spits Climate Denialism Right in California's Face "It'll start getting cooler, you just watch." "Trump is offering only conspiracy theories and weak excuses at a time when the planet desperately needs coherent American leadership on climate. He is unfit to lead." —Kristin Urquiza, climate activist That is what President Donald Trump said during a... Read more |
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News Monday, September 14, 2020 'No One Should Be Fooled': Trump Executive Order on Drug Prices Denounced as Election Year Charade Advocates for lowering drug prices in the United States are raising alarm over an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Sunday that the White House purports would challenge the nation's pharmaceutical industry but which critics say is just an election year ploy to make it look like... Read more |
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News Monday, September 07, 2020 Postmaster General Urged to 'Immediately Step Aside' as North Carolina AG Backs Probe Into Campaign Finance Fraud Allegations With less than two months before U.S. elections in November and amid demands for his immediate firing , high-level Democrats in Congress and the Attorney General of North Carolina called for both state and federal investigations into Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after explosive reporting Sunday... Read more |
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News Sunday, September 06, 2020 'This Is Against the Law and DeJoy Must Be Fired': Postmaster General Accused of Criminal Violation of Campaign Laws New calls went up for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to be fired from his job Sunday after it was reported that former employees of the GOP megadonor and logistics executive now running the U.S. Postal Service reimbursed workers at the company for donations they made to the Republican Party at his... Read more |
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News Sunday, September 06, 2020 50,000-Foot Smoke Plumes and Record-Shattering Heatwave as Climate Emergency Grips California Smoke plumes rising tens of thousands of feet into the air over California could be seen from outer-space overnight and into Sunday as massive wildfires that touched off this weekend amid a statewide heatwave triggered dramatic rescue efforts for hundreds of people trapped in a U.S. national forest... Read more |
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News Saturday, September 05, 2020 'Nightmare Scenario': Sanders Warns Nation That Trump Is Laying Groundwork for Election Result Mayhem Warning of the very real chance of a "nightmare scenario" in which President Donald Trump misleads the American people over the results of the November election—or refuses to leave office voluntarily if voted out—Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the alarm and mobilizing his army of supporters to be... Read more |