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How Trump Declared Economic War on His Own People

David Dayen The American Prospect
The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

Tidbits-Aug. 27: Reader Comments: Trade War – With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega Post; 9 to 5; Resource – Election Defense Scenarios; What Is Democratic Socialism?;

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Reader Comments: Trade War - With Canada?; Dolly Parton-Life of Many Colors; Kate Bronfenbrenner; Germany’s Die Linke; Some Readers Respond on Ortega post; 9 to 5; Resource - Election Defense Scenarios; What is Democratic Socialism?; and more...

Minnesota Unions Are a Threat to Trump’s Authoritarianism

Shane Burley Jacobin
The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize union members for organizing against its immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year. That’s because it correctly sees labor as a threat to its authoritarian designs.

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Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion

Scott MacFarlane MeidasTouch Network
The investigation by the Judiciary Committee and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) detailed dozens of pardons which zeroed out unpaid fines and restitution of Trump allies and supporters, including money owed by January 6 Capitol rioters.
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