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News & Views | 10/7/20

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McConnell Trump Coronavirus

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump is turning his back on you," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "He doesn't care about workers and families. He only cares about himself."

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Medicare for All

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Mr. President: You attack 'socialized medicine' every single day. Well, let's be clear. The excellent care you received at Walter Reed was at a 100% government-funded, government-run hospital. For Trump, 'socialized medicine' is bad for everyone but himself."


Activists and relief groups in New York City join a "No Evictions, No Police" national day of action protesting against law enforcement who forcibly remove people from homes on September 1, 2020. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"When it comes to relief for struggling families, he's nothing but selfish and vindictive," Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the president.


Dr. Rick Bright listens during a House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on March 8, 2018. (Photo: Bloomberg/ via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Nine months into the pandemic, the United States continues to grapple with failed White House leadership," writes whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright in public resignation letter.


(Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We paid for this with our taxes. He doesn't even pay taxes."


House Democrats suggested breaking up Big Tech in a newly-released Judiciary Committee report published on October 6, 2020. (Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The totality of the evidence produced during this investigation demonstrates the pressing need for legislative action and reform," states congressional report following a 16-month probe.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Postal facilities are not Area 51," said Rep. Bill Pascrell.


People participate in a Tax Day protest on April 15, 2017 in New York City. Activists in cities across the nation are marching today to call on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns. (Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This is a good time to remind everyone that #WePaidMore in taxes than the president, and that Americans deserve to see the full picture of Trump's financial records."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Don't let the president's hysterical tweets distract you from the fact that he is refusing to provide Covid relief to American families and businesses unless he gets re-elected."


Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos with Amazon India Chief Amit Agarwal during the company's annual Smbhav event at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium on January 16, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The super-rich got even richer while millions of people around the world lost their jobs."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
" If Trump wins a second term expect more heartless, cruel, barbaric behavior towards infants and children."

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Despite Trump’s attacks on the election, voters still have the ability to clutch democracy from the jaws of death before it’s too late and begin what will be a long and arduous process of rebuilding it. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kimberly Atkins
Trump has shown us with disturbing deft how authoritarianism doesn’t suddenly march on democracy like a military parade. Instead, it creeps in bit by bit, being normalized at every step.


We need more transparency, to make rich Africans who hide their wealth in tax havens, but especially multinationals, pay. (Photo: Oxfam International)

by Léonce Ndikumana
That is why we are advocating for the introduction of a minimum global effective corporate tax rate of 25 percent.


The wax figure of US President Donald Trump stands behind a barrier and signs saying "Keep your distance from quarantine" at Madame Tussauds Berlin. Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo: Britta Pedersen/picture alliance via Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
This national soul-sickness may have begun with the wealthy and powerful, but it’s up to us to cure it—in ourselves, and in each other.


It’s not his DNA, of which he’s so inordinately proud, it’s the DNA of our legal code that protects dangerous Donald. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Laura Flanders
Trump’s adopted state of Florida has half a dozen HIV criminalization laws on the books, under which 266 people have been convicted.

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