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News & Views | 10/16/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Pro-democracy advocates are organizing more than 170 events in anticipation of President Donald Trump illegitimately declaring victory in the Nov. 3 election before all the votes are counted, or potentially refusing to accept the election results.

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Larry Kudlow

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Wonder how the 14% of households with kids who reported that they didn't get enough food to eat in the last seven days feel about the 'gales of creative destruction.'"


Former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, gives a speech on July 11, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The next White House should belong to the people, not corporate America," said Jamaal Bowman, a New York Democrat.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is the time when we could be entering one of the worst periods of our epidemic and one of our worst periods in modern American public health. I'm very worried for the nation."


Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists before their April 4, 2018 protest at Kings Bay Navy Base in Georgia. (Photo: Kings Bay Plowshares 7)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Father Stephen Kelly and Patrick O'Neill were sentenced to nearly three years and 14 months in prison, respectively.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Many town leaders believe herd immunity is a dangerous Covid-19 strategy... Please wear a mask."


Trump critics hold signs

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Like a lot closer.”


Activists took to the streets of Washington, D.C. on September 27, 2019 to demand an immediate end to the age of fossil fuels and a swift and just transition to renewable energy. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Yes it is. And we're going to do it," countered Jamie Henn of Fossil Free Media.

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Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. (Photo by Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)

by Ruth Conniff
Trump's Supreme Court nominee has no regard for Americans protected by the Affordable Care Act.


The president has repeatedly made baseless allegations of voter fraud, urged his followers to intimidate voters at the polls, and overruled FDA vaccine safety guidelines in an attempt to push out a Covid vaccine before the election, against the advice of scientific experts. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
The problem is that the media continue to operate as if a normal democratic election is being held in this country, when it clearly is not.


Move­ment politi­cians under­stand that real change comes from peo­ple demand­ing it in the streets. (Photo: Ryan Olbrysh/In These Times)

by Natalie Shure
It’s not just AOC, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib. This crop of organizers-turned-politicians—alongside the Squad—plans to usher in a progressive revival in the House of Representatives.


A silent protest in New York's World Trade Center on Jan. 6, 2020 in support of children who have died in ICE custody. (Photo: Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Silky Shah
The nation’s attention may have moved on, but the crisis remains.


It all begins with putting Trump’s exhausting psychodrama behind us and getting back to loving and caring for one another as Americans. (Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Tom Weis
A societal reckoning is required to fulfill our founding promise of liberty and justice for all.


A major force behind this change is a legal nonprofit that is heavily funded by the foundation of billionaire industrialist and Republican megadonor Charles Koch. (Photo: @lizaveta9 on Twitter)

by Alex Kotch
The CDC's eviction moratorium update "is symptomatic of a system that has always and continues to work to benefit the profiteers."

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