PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-natured and decent, he bookended the ang...

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He is the only president to be impeached twice; and if AG Bill Barr hadn’t buried the Mueller report, it could have been three.  He refused to accept defeat after the biggest voter tu...

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Trump's plans for inauguration morning https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-inauguration-departure-plans_n_60055a2ac5b6efae62fa1c92The outgoing president is reportedly leaving for Mar...

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Astounding new video from the Capitol invasion (thanks to JT for the link) https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-capitol-siege  GOPers who encour...

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Okay, I have tried not to say it. I don't like to be alarmist. But we are facing an inauguration in which Trump, his lying Republican buddies, and right-wing media have created the false belief t...

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Could Trump lose the impeachment vote in the Senate? https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/will-the-senate-convict-trump-impeachment-mcconnell.html The process: https://www.axios....

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Check. . . check . . . check . . . and . . . check (thanks to AG for the link) https://www.facebook.com/richard.botterill.5/posts/10208449296612012 Only the lonelyhttps://www.huffpost.com/en...

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The GOP is done with Trump -- and one reason they may vote to convict him in the Senate is to block him from ever running again  https://politicalwire.com/2021/01/13/republican-sentiment-rap...

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This is the 6000th issue of Progressive Blog Digest. I started it in 2004 when I was on sabbatical in Belgium and desperate to keep up with U.S. news overseas. The tortures at Abu Ghraib had just...

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Is anyone in charge right now?https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/who-running-federal-government/617634/More: https://politicalwire.com/2021/01/11/white-house-is-in-meltdown/Trump a...

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The final days https://politicalwire.com/2021/01/10/trump-plans-defiant-final-week/“Banned from social media and abandoned by some staff after inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol, Presiden...

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More violence to come? https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/us/online-extremism-inauguration-capitol-invs/index.html John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab -- a group at the Un...

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Sure enough, we find out that Trump's lifeless and pro forma "concession" video was nothing but another half-assed attempt at damage control -- after all the damage had already been done htt...

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Republicans may have finally learned the lesson: if you defend and enable Trump he only gets worsehttps://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/trump-loyalty-capitol-attack-455667Trump loyalty disinte...

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Let's be very clear: Trump knew exactly what he was doing. He welcomed these groups to DC, he predicted that it was going to be "wild," he called on them to march on the Capitol, and only later, ...

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In Georgia: Warnock wins, Ossoff leads narrowly. If these results hold, the Dems will control the Senatehttps://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/21534292/senate-2020-results-democrats-win-schumer-biden ...

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The full transcript and phone call showing Trump trying to pressure/threaten the Georgia Sect'y of State to "find" 11,780 votes and overturn the electionhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/politics/tr...

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Mitch McConnell thought that when he told the Senate GOP that voting to overturn the election results would hurt the party, they would listen to him. First it was just Josh Hawley going rogue -- ...

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Trump is throwing everything at the wall to try to stay in office -- which is kind of strange since he has made quite clear that he has no interest in doing the work of actually being president.&...

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Trump "demands" a $2000 stimulus payment (really, just endorsing the Dem position), and then does absolutely nothing to make it happen. So, of course, it doesn't happen.  On this, on th...

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Trump comes back to DC early from his golfing break in Florida -- so you know there's something going on that he really cares about https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/31/2005051/-Donald-Tru...

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One way or another, Trump is going to lose on January 6  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/30/electoral-college-biden-trump-452081President Donald Trump’s last-gasp bid to overturn his...

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What is Trumpism? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/deep-story-trumpism/617498/ Can the GOP channel the energy of his most fervent supporters and advance a sort of Trumpism w...

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We are learning more about how the handlers around Trump talked him into backing down on the COVID bill https://www.axios.com/why-trump-signed-coronavirus-relief-5fd23003-ac26-45e0-a09e-cdde...

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I was going to say that maybe Trump's refusal to sign the COVID bill, the government funding bill, and the Defense bill wasn't because of any strategy or principled opposition to what is in them,...

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