Thursday, August 17, 2017

Line of people in Durham waiting to turn themselves in for toppling the Confed statue

Resist!

All the companies who are saying hate groups can’t use their services anymore


Tech companies unite against neo-Nazis, KKK, white supremacists - in clear contrast w/ Trump's abhorrent ambiguity


FEATURES Forget Charlottesville – Russia is still the true Trump scandal


Trump, the alt-right and the Kremlin: White supremacists’ Russia links are no secret


A Putin-Friendly Oligarch’s Top US Executive Donated $285,000 to Trump


Sen Graham Responds to Thug Trump


Lawrence: President Trump is the Divider in Chief

Donald Trump has divided the country in his mind Lawrence O'Donnell argues, between those who voted for him, and those who didn't. Now, he's continuing to divide the country and even the people who once supported Trump are starting to call it quits.


Steve Bannon, Unrepentant


GOP splintering over Trump's response to white supremacists

Republican Governor John Kasich called Trump's response to Charlottesville "pathetic" but congressional Republicans are struggling to criticize the president. Former Republican and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will joins Lawrence O'Donnell.


Republicans, This Is Your President


Experts are warning Intel committee members’ recent appeals for campaign cash could undermine everyone's credibility


Whoa - check this statement from the Mayor of Phoenix! Disinviting Trump. Says he fears Trump's plan was to publicly pardon Arpaio!


How the chief executives of the nation's largest companies moved to cut ties with President Trump


Alabama AG sues Birmingham over covered Confederate memorial

Mayor William Bell of Birmingham, Alabama talks with Rachel Maddow about his decision to cover up the city's Confederate Memorial and the legal pushback from the state for doing so.


Trump hammers Lindsey Graham's 'disgusting lie' over Charlottesville criticism


With grim poll numbers, it is questionable whether Trump can lead the country anywhere, writes St Collinson


A plan to resist emboldened racists: keep Trump small, use laws

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about how best to anticipation and counter the political ambitions of racist groups emboldened by succor from Donald Trump.


Trump launders Russian money through properties in Florida....

ICYMI

Trump race crisis a test for Congress to take real action

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Congress can do more than the bare minimum of tweeting condemnation of racism to address the actual problem with legislation.


NEW: 4 Pincchios to President Trump's false claim that counter-demonstrators lacked a permit


Trump-appointed Justice to appear at Trump hotel as emoluments case works its way through the courts -p.s. SCOTUS has no formal ethics code!


Russia still helping Trump, hacked mail story suggests

Rachel Maddow looks at the timeline of a Trump-promoted, hacked e-mail-driven conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton collusion with Ukraine as it made its way through the White House, a Russian web site, and Fox News on its way to Trump supporters.


The hacker who created the malware that infiltrated the DNC has talked to the FBI


Alabama has had an unusual number of voters moved to inactive status today. Sec'y of State must publicly explain the process & number


Chuck Todd Knocks GOP Lawmakers for Not Calling Out Trump: ‘Who’s Going to Step Up?’


GOP Congressman Met With Julian Assange

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Bannon: Alt-Right ‘a Collection of Clowns’

If you say so Chuckles...

Heather Heyer's mother inspires round of applause: "They tried to kill my child to shut her up, well guess what, you just magnified her."


Nazis coming to town? Here's a positive and creative response


Prominent investigator exits Mueller Trump Russia team

Rachel Maddow reports on the surprising departure of Peter Strzok, a prominent counter-espionage investigator who had been working on Robert Mueller's Trump Russia investigation.


Lots of talk, no resignations over Trump racist rally remarks

Rachel Maddow notes that contrary to expectations and the indications of a lot of sternly worded condemnations, no members of the Trump team actually resigned in the wake of his comments on the racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.


Military chiefs condemn racism in disavowal of Trump


Trump’s isolation grows in the wake of Charlottesville


Trump lawyer not helping with pro-Confederacy e-mail

Rachel Maddow shares a new report from The New York Times that Donald Trump's lawyer forwarded an e-mail arguing no difference between Robert E. Lee and George Washington.


Piercing the Veil of Secrecy Shrouding the Trump Deal in the Republic of Georgia