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With hospitals full of COVID-19 patients, Idaho board repeals mask mandate
"Something's making these people sick, and I'm pretty sure that it's not coronavirus," board member Allen Banks told medical professionals who testified. "So the question that you should be asking is, 'What's making them sick?'"
What "civil" debate? The one I watched revealed Donald Trump as a cold-blooded psychopath
A calmer tone only exposed Trump's lack of basic empathy about the pandemic, family separation or anything else
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Amanda Marcotte
Journos keep describing last night's debate as "civil". I don't know what debate they were watching, because the one I saw was a full blast of Trump's cold-blooded psychopathy.
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Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters
President Trump’s campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania’s attorney general says.
Amanda Marcotte
Trump continues to set up his legal argument for getting drop off ballots thrown out in en masse. We must be ready to hit the streets to defend the right of votes to be counted.
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Scoop: Rudy Giuliani declined offer of alleged Hunter Biden emails and images in May 2019
Giuliani turned the offer down out of credibility concerns, a source familiar with the meeting tells Salon
Amanda Marcotte
Scoop from @SollenbergerRC and @Salon: Sources say Giuliani was first offered a laptop of allegedly of Hunter Biden's stuff in May 2019, but Giuliani declined because it was too shady. He apparently changed his mind!
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Amanda Marcotte
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Also, wisdom for Trump from Bjork: "And if you complain once more/You'll meet an army of me".
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‘There Is a Stench’: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children
Inspectors and lawyers traveling to border facilities in Texas described tremendous overcrowding and filthy conditions for hundreds of children and other detainees.
Did Trump direct CDC to bluff about vaccine timeline? Scientists skeptical of fall launch date
"This sort of timeline is beyond anything I've ever heard": Scientists weigh in on the pre-election vaccine promise made by Trump's CDC
Whoops, Trump did it again — the same blackmail scheme that got him impeached
Trump was impeached for blackmailing Ukraine's president. Now he's trying the same scheme on his own FBI director
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Amanda Marcotte
Susan Collins said she felt Trump would "learn" his "lesson" from being impeached. But he is once again doing the thing that got him impeached: Trying to blackmail a government official into bolstering his conspiracy theory against Biden.
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QAnon believers hunting for child kidnappers should start at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue | Will Bunch
While Trump makes a blatant QAnon pitch, his agents commit real atrocities against children wrenched at the border from parents who can't be found.
I can't believe we have to say this: Pulling a "New Yorker Zoom Incident" at work is a bad thing
First came the jokes about Jeffrey Toobin's reported "incident." Then came the rush to sympathy
Amanda Marcotte
Co-signed with @eekshecried about the Toobin incident. I like Jeffrey, but there's no way people would be bending into pretzels making excuses for a serious breach of professionalism for anyone who wasn't a straight man.
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Trump attacks his Democratic rival as "Beijing Biden." He owns a mysterious bank account in China
The account paid nearly $200,000 in taxes to China from 2013 to 2015. Trump regularly paid none in the U.S.
Melania Trump expressed surprise over Vogue selection of Beyoncé for 2018 cover
In a secretly recorded conversation, the first lady also spoke about Vogue's decision to choose a Black photographer to shoot the cover for the magazine's September 2018 issue.
Amanda Marcotte
Boy, all that “free Melania” crap was sure misguided. She’s as obsessively racist as her husband.
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A Guide to In-Person Voting vs. Mail-In Voting
In 2020, every state’s voting process has changed in response to the coronavirus. Regardless of whether you plan to vote in person or by mail, there are many things to consider. Here are some of the most important.
Salon’s 2020 Election Roundtable, Part 2
Join Salon politics writers and editors for our 2020 Election Roundtable tonight at 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT, live on Facebook.
How will Trump handle having...
Amanda Marcotte
ICYMI: Roundtable for @Salon in which we talked coronavirus relief, the debate, QAnon, Amy Coney Barrett and Giuliani's hands in his pants.
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Mitch McConnell admits he's blocking coronavirus bill — will media finally stop blaming Democrats?
Republicans clearly never intended to pass a new relief bill — so why has the media consistently blamed Democrats?
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Amanda Marcotte
Republicans obviously are the ones blocking a coronavirus bill, but the press has been blaming Democrats. Now this "both sides do it" narrative is, once again, blowing up.
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Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film
Trump’s personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat’s daughter in hotel room during pandemic
Laura Ingraham and her guests have promoted at least 7 unproven treatments for COVID-19
Amanda Marcotte
This sort of thing is so incredibly frustrating, especially if you have relatives who are Fox News heads. Because people are taking risks and not wearing masks, because Laura Ingraham assured them that it's fine to get COVID-19.
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Salon
Join Salon politics writers and editors for our 2020 Election Roundtable tonight at 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT, live on Facebook.
How will Trump handle having his mic cut at the debate? Why won’t the...
Amanda Marcotte
Tune in at 5PM to get some piping hot chat about the debate, the stimulus, QAnon, and Amy Coney Barrett. And maybe about Giuliani promising to eat a bat for sex.
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A Masturbation Lawsuit Is Rattling Christian Homeschoolers
The sexual abuse lawsuit against 'Biblical Patriarchy' leader Doug Phillips is dividing Christian homeschoolers.
Amanda Marcotte
It was only a few years ago that the Christian right world had a scandal because of just this: Doug Philips and his wife had a single woman living with them and surprise surprise, he pressured her into being his "personal sex slave".
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Revealed: ex-members of Amy Coney Barrett faith group tell of trauma and sexual abuse
People of Praise hire lawyers to investigate historical sexual abuse allegations as former members speak of ‘emotional torment’
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Amanda Marcotte
You will not be surprised to find that Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise group walks like a cult and quacks like a cult for a reason.
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