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[News & Opinion] "Already an embarrassment": Legal experts shred Judge Aileen Cannon for granting Trump "delay" ( www.salon.com )

The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents case on Friday temporarily paused a series of significant pre-trial deadlines pertaining to prosecutors' sharing of sensitive materials that the former president is entitled to while building his defense, The Messenger reports....

[News Analysis] GOP waging a "coordinated national effort to undermine American elections," says leading official ( www.salon.com )

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers....

"I call for help from the highest courts": Trump cries out in fear of “Trump-hating" prosecutor ( www.salon.com )

Donald Trump has been on a prolific Truth Social tear, calling for the execution of a top US military general, vowing revenge on NBC Networks and demanding that Republican leaders take action against automatic voter registration to protect him from once again losing the popular vote. All of that was over the weekend. On Monday,...

PragerU's Confederate classroom propaganda: Co-opting history to prop up modern insurrectionists ( www.salon.com )

It’s ironic that the team at PragerU hates communism so much since they produce dishonest agitprop that rivals anything the Soviet Union’s most shameless propagandists produced. The “curriculum” — a word that really overrates what’s now being used as educational materials in public schools in Florida and Oklahoma —...

[Opinion] Trump's plans to become a dictator: It's time to get real about Project 2025 - Chauncey DeVega - Salon ( www.salon.com )

Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom....

Tommy Tuberville tears down the last pillar of the GOP's claim to patriotism ( www.salon.com )

There are a number of crazy political events taking place right now, from the impeachment trial of embattled Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate to the GOP threat to remove a Democratic Supreme Court Justice in Wisconsin and the impending impeachment of Joe Biden. (Oddly, the only one that’s justified is...

Why the Proud Boys' sentences matter: They're scaring the rest of MAGA straight ( www.salon.com )

At the sentencing hearings for the five Proud Boys convicted for some of the most serious crimes related to the January 6 insurrection, the crocodile tears were flowing. Perhaps hoping for mercy from the Donald Trump-appointed federal judge, Timothy Kelly, one member of the neo-fascist gang after another claimed to have seen the...

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