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News & Views | 7/30/20

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US President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion on donating plasma at the American Red Cross National Headquarters on July 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert Weissman
Trump's tweet was a shocking display of his authoritarian impulses and his very serious consideration of means to de-legitimize the November election in order to maintain his grip on power, no matter what.

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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"That seemed to me to be the most explicitly political Obama has been in his post-presidency."


An artist puts the finishing touches to a wax figure of US President Donald Trump as Madame Tussauds prepares to reopen its doors to the public on July 30, 2020 following the easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions in England. (Photo: Tolga Akmen AFP)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Trump doesn't have the authority to delay the election, but a lot of terrible things could happen if Trump believes he has the authority."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
With threat to postpone America's elections, said one Bolivian journalist, Trump is "taking lessons from his puppet dictator in Bolivia."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Fed needs to reduce systemic risk during this health and economic crisis and stop boosting the industry driving climate devastation."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Mnuchin and the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service appear to be exploiting this public health pandemic to hold the Postal Service to unreasonable loan terms without even consulting Congress."


Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Philadelphia City Hall on June 2, 2020 in Pennsylvania.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Groups call on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to appoint transition and cabinet officials determined to "serve no interest but the public's."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Enhanced unemployment insurance benefits expire tomorrow because congressional Republicans failed to extend them. 'Malpractice' is far too weak a word for this epic, cruel failure."


In this 2014 file photo, a worker from Homrich prepares to turn off water supply to a home in Detroit, Michigan over an unpaid utility bill. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"As moral leaders, we join with people coming together to demand that our basic human needs are met."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Children should not be targeted."


President Donald Trump exits the Oval Office and walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on July 15, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is how democracy dies in the USA."

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When looking at the possible death of democracy in the United States, for me the question is no longer, “Can it happen here?” The question is, “What are we going to do to about it?” (Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

by Barbara Miner
We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here.


Extend unemployment benefits to help people survive the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Robert Reich
This bill is perhaps our only chance to get COVID-19 under control, Americans fed, and the economy back up and running.


Without healthy planetary lungs we will die. (Photo: Matt Zimmerman/flickr/cc)

by Stuart Basden
Indigenous peoples are calling for an immediate moratorium on extraction from the Amazon.


Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Friday, July 24, 2020, on the extension of federal unemployment benefits. (Photo: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

by Alexander Reed Kelly
The Fed's crisis response exposes the faulty logic of moralizing, pro-austerity politicians and economists.


So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide. (Photo: At the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. AP photo)

by John Lewis
Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.


The idea of having billions of people come together for the collective good is what drives Holthaus’s theory of change. (Photo: Illustration by Fanatic Studio/Getty Images)

by Breanna Draxler
By decolonizing the atmosphere and making climate reparations, Eric Holthaus shows just how hopeful the next 30 years could be.

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