Category: Reading List

Show Notes 1/20/2017

Listen to my podcast below, or on You Tube in our notes. On Inauguration Day we focus on eliminating the noise and keying in on who stands to benefit the most from Donald Trump’s rise to power. We remind listeners that as an agent of chaos, Trump will distract us while our treasury is looted and our planet is poisoned by incompetent errand boys working for the richest one percent.

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Donald Trump Has Picked History’s Worst Cabinet

Paul Waldman goes through Trump’s cabinet picks and offers this sobering, yet too true assessment.

Donald Trump’s cabinet brings with it a combination of ethical problems, inexperience, hostility to the missions of the departments its members are being called to lead, and plain old ignorance that is simply unprecedented.

And then…

An extraordinary combination of inexperience, ignorance, ethical problems, and hostility toward the very agencies they’ll lead.

Source: Donald Trump has assembled the worst Cabinet in American history – The Washington Post

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This is What ProPublica is Now Covering

Today is the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Like many in journalism, we’ve been thinking hard these past few months about where and how we should focus our newsroom. Our work remains the same as when we started nine years ago: hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustices — and that can bring change.…

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