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  • Prof Patty
  • November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism

I’ve been thinking about how much the past 3.5 years reminded me of the assent of the dangerous demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy. This is why it is really important to know your history. I’ll

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Trump’s Deliberate Deception

Woodward quoted Dan Coats, Trump’s former director of national intelligence, saying: “To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He doesn’t know the difference between the t

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NY Times

  • Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks
  • Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba
  • In Florida’s Panhandle, a Hearing on School Vaccine Mandates Gets Heated
  • Risk-Based Screening Works as Well as Yearly Checks After 40 in Finding Breast Cancers
  • In a Hamlet Built on Forbidden Love, a Cyclone Buried It All

NPR

  • Amputees often feel disconnected from their bionic hands. AI could bridge the gap
  • For 50 years, Rockalina the turtle lived on a kitchen floor. Now she has a new friend
  • An exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a volcanoes-Black Death link
  • Forget flowers: These ancient plants attract pollinators by getting hot
  • Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

The Progressive

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FactCheck.org

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Snopes.com

  • What we know about claims of Army veteran George Retes' arrest and detention
  • Did Dolly Parton pull her music from Amazon to protest Bezos-Trump alignment?
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