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The Best of the Rest of the News. — The fossil fuel industry is apparently paying off Republicans — in a practice legalized by Republicans on the Supreme Court — to make sure Congress never passes legislation to hold them accountable for all the death and destruction they've caused by lying about climate change for the past 50 years. — Convicted Felon Trump now has the "Scarlet F": Our first felon President. — It's not just social media that's giving violent white supremacists a pass... — Greedy insurer interrupts cancer surgery in shocking mid-procedure call... — Indiana Republicans want to threaten rape victims with felonies if they try to get an abortion. — Wondering why Trump is on a jeremiad against Panama? — James Carville suggests Jeff Bezos is trying to buy Trump via Melania. — Crazy Alert! Greenlanders really hate Trump, so Don Jr. had to hire homeless people to make it look like somebody was welcoming him. — Hunter in a Farmer's World: ADHD: Wrong or Different? — Wisdom School: Talking Circles — Knights Templar: Challenging Reality: The Mind-Matter Connection

Trump has long admired dictators who weaponize civilian gangs to crush dissent. Will his next chapter involve unleashing his own militias to terrorize the American public? One of the most common characteristics of rule by an authoritarian who's taken over a democracy is his use of unofficial civilian paramilitary groups and militia gangs to terrorize or even kill his political opponents. Back in the day, Hitler had his Brownshirts, Mussolini his Blackshirts. The practice has since become far more widespread — routine, almost — as we can see across multiple formerly democratic nations taken over — by election — during the past three decades.

While other nations offer universal benefits, we double down on serving billionaires' interests… Yesterday, Congress certified the electoral vote count making a billionaire president again, starting after he's sworn in on January 20th. Yes, we chose a billionaire. Again. After other billionaires spent billions to convince us to make that choice. As you're reading these words, billionaires from America and around the world are making pilgrimages to his shabby golf motel to kiss our upcoming billionaire president's ass and hand him envelopes with $1 million checks that represent a few hours (at most) of income for most of them or their companies. Meanwhile, our billionaire president-in-waiting is packing his cabinet — the heads of all of the most important federal agencies — with even more billionaires. This is all being celebrated over on billionaire-owned Fox "News" and on billionaire-owned hate radio networks, as well as in the billionaire-owned Washington Post, LA Times, and the roughly half of American local newspapers owned by billionaire hedge funds. Other countries enjoy benefits like free healthcare and college; modern mass transit; and affordable housing, food, and drugs.

Kris Kobach’s national debut was as a speaker on the first day of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. I attended that convention and broadcast my show from there, sitting next to Sean Hannity, interviewing and meeting many of the GOP luminaries. And most of what they wanted to talk about was the same as Kobach’s speech: the danger of Mexicans sneaking into the United States and voting (along with robbing, raping, and drug running). Ironically, they didn’t seem so concerned with Mexicans taking American jobs. When I repeatedly brought up with Republicans how Ronald Reagan had pretty much stopped prosecuting employers after his 1986 amnesty for five million “illegals,” and how entire industries that used to have an all-American labor force and were heavily unionized, like construction and meat packing, were now mostly just employing people who were in the country illegally, they’d just shrug their shoulders. One said, “Well, it did help break the unions” or words to that effect.