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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to members on Friday that she's spoken to the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley about preventing President Trump from accessing the nuclear codes.Why it matters: Pelosi's message surfaced an uncomfortable reality about America's nuclear control structure: if the president wants to use nukes, there is no clear way to stop him.... AxiosCracks emerge in nuclear command and controlBryan Walsh

Twitter. Which is why a lifetime ban is so noxious to him.PoliticoHow @realDonaldTrump Changed Politics — and AmericaDerek Robertson

Trump's approval rate not affected according to Rasmussen polling.Rasmussen ReportsTrump Approval Index History

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WORKING PAPER SHOWS DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN SURROUNDING THE RISK OF VOTER FRAUD ASSOCIATED WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS FOLLOWS AN ELITE-DRIVEN, MASS MEDIA MODEL; SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYS A SECONDARY ROLE IN 2020Add in the voter register fraud too (Greg Palast), and what have you got? The claim that election fraud is a major concern with mail-in ballots has become the central threat to election participation during the Covid-19 pandemic and to the legitimacy of the outcome of the election across the...

 The security guards were scared! Chris Hayes: “It is entirely possible that there were people in that crowd, looking to apprehend, possibly harm, and possibly murder the leaders of the political class that the President, and people like Mo Brooks, and even to a certain extent Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, have told them have betrayed them."[embedded content] 

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Michael Roberts reports on the recent American Economic Association Conference.Michael Roberts Blog — blogging from a marxist economistASSA 2021 – part one: the mainstream dilemmaMichael Roberts

I highly respect Jonathan Turley as a lawyer, but I think he may be too dismissive here. This is going to be debated for some time, even if it is not litigated.Why am I not on board as a libertarian of the left? While I highly value a rights-based system over a rule by men and agree in principle with his argument, the context here is more complicated than he makes out. This incident was orchestrated over a period of time to the degree that it is genuinely perplexing as to why the security...

 In what analysts say could be a “game changer” for China’s new digital currency as well as access by the nation’s rural poor, the People’s Bank of China this week tested out a “phone-free” digital yuan for the first time. According to People’s Daily, a hospital in Shanghai became the first testing ground for the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) “hardware wallet” — a smart card-like device that can be used for payments with the digital yuan without needing a mobile phone or the...