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A Club of G.O.P. Political Heirs Push Back on Trump

Mark Leibovich at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

Mitt Romney, Larry Hogan and Liz Cheney — descendants of sometimes rebellious or resolute Republicans of the past — are dissenting voices on a president who has taken over their party.

This group is late.

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How Novavax Won $1.6 Billion to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine

Katie Thomas and Megan Twohey at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

Novavax just received the Trump administration’s largest vaccine contract. In the Maryland company’s 33-year history, it has never brought a vaccine to market.

Trump likes to reward his friends.

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Government Executes Wesley Ira Purkey, Second Federal Death Row Prisoner in a Week

Hailey Fuchs at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

Wesley Ira Purkey was killed by lethal injection at the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., for killing a teenage girl more than two decades ago.

There is no justice in execution.

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Biden Gets Fund-Raising Help for 2020 Election From Big Democratic Donors

Shane Goldmacher at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

Mr. Biden is relying on some of his party’s wealthiest donors — and power brokers in Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Wall Street — to cut President Trump’s financial edge, new filings show.

It is obvious that Trump must go.

5 

Russian Hackers Trying to Steal Coronavirus Vaccine Research

Julian E. Barnes at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

The hackers have been targeting British, Canadian and American organizations researching vaccines using spear-phishing and malware.

The  research should be published.

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Government Executes Second Federal Death Row Prisoner in a Week

Hailey Fuchs at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

Wesley Ira Purkey was killed by lethal injection at the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., for killing a teenage girl more than two decades ago.

There is no justice in execution.

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Fauci Calls White House Criticism ‘Bizarre’

Giovanni Russonello at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

An under-fire public health expert gently hits back: This is your morning tip sheet.

Fauci has spoken only truth to power. 

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Colin Powell Still Wants Answers

Robert Draper at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago

In 2003, he made the case for invading Iraq to halt its weapons programs. The analysts who provided the intelligence now say it was doubted inside the C.I.A. at the time.

The president wanted war.

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Why Trump is Still in Trouble Even if the Polls Are Really Off

Nate Cohn at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago

Joe Biden’s lead is sufficient to cover a sizable error. And several of the biggest problems with polling in the last election have either been addressed or become less relevant.

The difference is much bigger than the error bars.

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U.S. Wants to Bar Members of China’s Communist Party. Who Are They?

Paul Mozur at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 9 hours ago

With more than 90 million members and led by Xi Jinping, the party encompasses people at the heights of Chinese power and the civil servants of everyday life.

 Trump wants trouble with the P.R.C.

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Trump and Biden Square Off Over Environment

Lisa Friedman and Katie Glueck at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago

Over two days, President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. laid out wildly divergent views on environmental regulations and climate change, helping to define the stakes of the presidential race.

There is no contest.    Biden wins.

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Trump Replaces Brad Parscale as Campaign Manager, Elevating Bill Stepien

Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

The replacement of Mr. Parscale with Mr. Stepien, who had served as deputy campaign manager, comes as the president has struggled in public and private polling.

That Trump is thrashing should not be a surprise.

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U.S. Weighs Sweeping Travel Ban on Chinese Communist Party Members

Paul Mozur and Edward Wong at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

The presidential order under consideration would be based on the same statute in the Immigration and Nationality Act used in a 2017 travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries.

Trump is behaving as a paranoid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpAANsoG8I

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‘Sole Source’ Contract for Covid-19 Database Draws Scrutiny From Democrats

Sheryl Gay Stolberg at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 18 hours ago

But two top federal health officials defended the decision, saying that the new database was necessary to expedite and streamline data.

The Trump administration is trying to hide.

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Can Doug Jones Fend Off Tommy Tuberville and Trump in Alabama?

Elaina Plott and Jeremy W. Peters at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 18 hours ago

Mr. Tuberville, the Republicans’ new Senate nominee, will most likely repeat the same pro-Trump strategy he used to beat Jeff Sessions in the primary.

Alabama Republicans are racists by breeding.

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Trump’s 2016 Campaign Strategy Falters in 2020

Lisa Lerer at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 18 hours ago

President Trump’s political strategy worked in 2016. Now he’s in charge and Americans aren’t happy.

"In 2020, the Trump show is in reruns."

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Asylum Officers Condemn What They Call ‘Draconian’ Plans by Trump

Zolan Kanno-Youngs at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 20 hours ago

A Trump administration plan to overhaul the asylum system would subject vulnerable families to danger and violate international law, officers who would carry out the policy said.

Trump has never thought well of asylum.

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When the President Shows You an Old Man Shouting ‘White Power’

Sam Anderson at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 22 hours ago

There are all sorts of interesting things you might learn from the video Donald Trump retweeted. The president, it would seem, noticed none of them.

Donald Trump is well described by his niece Mary.

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Chief Vaccine Scientist Will Not Be Forced to Disclose Pharmaceutical Stocks

Noah Weiland at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 23 hours ago

Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the chief adviser for the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine program, can remain a government contractor, thus shielding him from disclosure rules.

Donald Trump buys his friends.

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Feeling and Acting Powerful in Catastrophic Times

Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 23 hours ago

The United States is moving into a time of catastrophe. Thirty-two percent of people were unable to make either their rent or mortgage payments in July. Twenty-two percent of small businesses seem likely to go bankrupt. One-third of small independent farms are on the verge of bankruptcy. When these people lose their homes and wind […]

Excellent advice.

Vote every chance you get.


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