WaPo: Behind a father-and-son protest, a history of laughter and struggle
** PERTINENT LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL NEWS **
Traveling this weekend? Here’s what you need to know before you go
Yelm Cinemas to reopen in time for long Labor Day weekend
COVID-19 prompts new TSA security measures at Sea-Tac Airport
Washington Secretary of Health: Vaccine must be proven safe, effective before use
Washington Governor Inslee says President Trump ‘cannot and will not defund us’
Need a lift? Intercity Transit is set to expand bus service Sept. 20 [Yelm frequency increased]
Facebook bans new political ads in week before election as Zuckerberg warns of unrest
Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages
“We’re Listening” – Moving ad from Joe Biden For President 2020
Vote Vets.org: Rachel Maddow Features Gold Star Father Ad and Trump Losing Ad
Olympia’s Harbor Days ‘Lite’ goes virtual to keep the maritime tradition afloat
Want another stimulus check? US deficit hitting World War II levels may complicate it
NSA Surveillance Program Exposed by Snowden was Illegal, Rules Appeals Court
Nearly half of people collecting unemployment benefits may not qualify for aid in 2021
INC.com: “I Flew on Delta to New York City During the Pandemic. I Didn’t Expect This” – It’s a lesson in the extraordinary power of expectations. [Ed. note: I have also flown Delta and Alaska Air and found both airlines to have outstanding protocols.]
** CORONAVIRUS NEWS **
Key to Preventing Covid-19 Indoors: Ventilation
Republican states death rate more than double Democratic states
As Labor Day approaches, fears of COVID-19 spikes loom
** TRUMP GASLIGHTS AMERICA **
Trump supporters didn’t become conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theorists became Trump supporters
The Atlantic: Trump said Americans who died in war are ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’
Polls this week, even from Fox News, have nothing but bad news for Trump
Russia’s disinformation campaign made worse by compliance of Trump and his appointees
[USA’s leading Constitutional Scholar] Laurence Tribe on Trump: ‘For a law and order president, there isn’t a lot of order and certainly no law’
Trump threatens to defund Seattle, Portland after riots [Ed. Note: Congress should defund the Office of the Attorney General.]
Fmr. Nixon counsel John Dean talks ‘pure authoritarianism’ of Trump, Barr
Barr justifies Trump’s suggestion about sending feds to polling places
Opinion: The ’60-day rule’ for elections Barr may be willing to bend for Trump
Trump suggests his supporters should try to vote twice. In case you wondered if he knows he’s losing [Ed. Note: Trump is desperate. Encouraging voters to vote twice is a felony in North Carolina.]
North Carolina warns voting twice is illegal after Trump urges people to do so
Fox News viewers in key battleground state less likely to wear masks, says new poll
Trump’s new strategy against Biden faces signs of trouble, polls show
New Lincoln Project: “POW” ad – “No Donald…thought we forgot?”
“What’s the worst that could happen? The election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis”
Twitter slaps warning labels on Trump tweets that suggest voting twice
Anti-Trump Lincoln Project to unleash Facebook army to get out the vote for Biden
Isolated cases of people traveling for protests, but no indication of Trump’s ‘thugs’ on a plane
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Fmr. Nixon counsel John Dean talks ‘pure authoritarianism’ of Trump, Barr
In Robert Paxton’s THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM, he asks whether fascism is possible today. He answered that it depends on one’s understanding of fascism and that it would not likely resemble the repugnant fascism of Hitler and Mussolini. He lists five stages that he sees as necessary for its revival: “1)the creation of movements – [Make America Great Again]; 2. the rooting in political systems – [Trump Republican Party]; 3. their seizure of power [Senate control of all legislation]; 4. the exercise of power; 5. and, finally, the long duration, during which the fascist regime chooses either radicalization or entropy.” The brackets are my observations.
I think we have achieved three of the five stages. God help us!
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