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May 12, 2017

More Bad News for Trump: His Poll Numbers Just Hit a Bunch of New Lows

Aaron Blake The Washington Post

The new Quinnipiac poll also shows the president's favorable rating dropping to a new low of 35 percent. The percentage of Americans who strongly approve of him is tied for an all-time low at 25 percent.

May 12, 2017

American Fascism, 1944 and Today

Henry Scott Wallace The New York Times

My grandfather, Henry A. Wallace was asked to write about "The Danger of American Fascism." And in my view, he predicted President Trump.

May 12, 2017

Greg Palast: Trump Picks the Al Capone of Vote-Rigging to Investigate Federal Voter Fraud

Greg Palast Alternet

Kris Kobach is the GOP mastermind behind a secretive system that purged 1.1 million Americans from the voter rolls.

Stephen Reacts to Trump Calling Him 'A No-Talent Guy'

May 12, 2017

President Trump finally got around to addressing one of the biggest threats to America: Stephen Colbert.

Mother's Day for Peace

May 12, 2017

Gloria Steinem, Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Fatma Saleh, Alfre Woodard, Ashraf Salimian, Christine Lahti and Mother's Day for Peace talk about the origin of Mother's Day by Julia Ward Howe as a protest against war.

Net Neutrality II

May 12, 2017

John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure with attacks on Internet freedom to the FCC by visiting www.gofccyourself.com

John Lee Hooker - Serves Me Right To Suffer

May 12, 2017

This song written and performed by bluesmaster John Lee Hooker was first released in 1965, performed here for the Seattle Folklore Society.

Elizabeth Warren: Trump Fires the Investigators

May 12, 2017

Senator Elizabeth Warren says nobody believes Trump fired the FBI director because he was 'mean to Hillary Clinton.'

May 12, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | May 12, 2017

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Elizabeth Warren: Trump Fires the Investigators. John Lee Hooker - Serves Me Right to Suffer. John Oliver | Net Neutrality II. Mother's Day for Peace. Stephen Colbert Reacts to Trump Calling Him 'A No-Talent Guy'.

May 11, 2017

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: On Locking up Our Own

Adam Shatz London Review of Books

If anyone doubted Black Americans still today suffer unfairly from incarceration rates and other horrific inequities out of all proportion to their numbers in the population, the case was closed by Michelle Alexander in her masterly The New Jim Crow (2010). Comes now James Forman Jr., to argue convincingly that key sections of the black community themselves abetted the criminalizing of black youths in a misguided effort to make so-called law and order work for them.