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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Friday testified following President Donald Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis that the Trump family can't be expected to take precautions, while also claiming the spread of the coronavirus is a matter of "individual responsibility."


The only thing that matters politically is the decisive defeat of Trump next month, and his expeditious removal from office by January 20, 2021. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
Donald Trump has been laying waste to our Constitution, our democracy, and our very society.


President Donald Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 2, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland. The president announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19 early Friday morning. (Photo: Alex Edelman/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The American public must have truthful and timely information about how sick Donald Trump truly may be," said Public Citizen's president.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Now is not the time to be euphemistic about Trump's recklessness. His disregard for basic health protocols has been bad not just for himself and his staff, but also for countless Americans."


The film— entitled "Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair"— is a sequel to last year's "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" and runs with the idea that the year 2020 became an "historic turning point" for the world, one in which "the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings against racism drive us to build back a better society in which no one is sacrificed, and everyone is essential." (Image: The Leap/The Intercept/Illustration by Moll Crabapple)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"The true power and possibility of this project is not onscreen," explains executive producer Naomi Klein. "That resides in the movement of movements that is fighting for this vision of radical repair every day.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
A new analysis by the Washington Post found that the coronavirus recession has eliminated low-wage jobs at around eight times the rate of high-wage jobs.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you believe in democracy, if you believe in the Constitution and in the rule of law, Trump has got to go."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump has repeatedly made it clear that he considers violent white supremacists to be a valued part of his base, even after people are murdered."


In this long exposure photo, the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues to burn in the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, California on August 21, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The resolution's success, said one organizer, "is a testament to the social movement power demanding both transformative climate action and concrete steps to remedy the legacy of systemic racism."


Donald Trump tax returns

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He contributed less to funding our communities than waitresses and undocumented immigrants," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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