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Maybe so. But politics is all about, well, politics. Get used to it. There's too much on the table for statesmanship.Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The Failure of Biden To Denounce This Impeachment Is A Missed Presidential OpportunityJonathan Turley

I remember a newspaper article from 30 years ago about a young lad at court. The judge gave out the sentence and then asked him if he had anything to say. He got a lighter out of his pocket, held them to his face, and then said, beam me up, Scotty!In a study published in Physical Review Letters, a team led by academician Guo Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has made progress in high dimensional quantum...

Fueled maybe. But the rightwing media was created and amplified over decades by Rush, Rupert and Roger, for example. Now it is big business. For one thing, it was a cash cow owing to advertising and donation solicitation, and then, of course, there's the power thing. Those wielding media power also wield political power. This is probably the single-most significant factor in American politics and it is incendiary domestically.However, even more incendiary for the entire planet is the general...

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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