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January 31, 2017

Progressive Activists Beaten and Hospitalized as Trump-Era Political Violence Intensifies

Two progressive activists were hospitalized Sunday night after being beaten and, in one case, thrown down a flight of stairs at an event hosted by conservative James O'Keefe, a self-styled investigative journalist and an established fraud. Both were released Monday with minor injuries; police have made no arrests.

The violence ensued when Ryan Clayton, who blogs for The Huffington Post, took the mic for questions at a "Friends of Abe" event in midtown Manhattan. Clayton runs Americans Take Action, which recently took part in a counter-sting operation against O'Keefe's Project Veritas. The former had begun singing before he was identified, grabbed from behind and put in a chokehold. "I felt a pop-pop-pop-pop-pop, and then there was nothing left to pop," he said. "There was a moment I thought, 'Oh God, this is how I die.' Last night was the most terrifying night of my life."

Clayton was sent tumbling down a staircase before his fall was broken by a man standing mid-way down. He claims he was kicked in the head.

Jason Charter, the other activist injured in the melee, reports that he too was assaulted and that his camera, phone, wallet, glasses and tie were all stolen. "Somebody looked at my neck tie and I was thrown to the ground," he said. "I had a foot placed on my neck and held down. My lower right abdomen is very sore from the kicks."

More: http://www.alternet.org/activism/progressive-activists-beaten-and-hospitalized-trump-era-political-violence-intensifies

January 31, 2017

Breaking: Trump Fires ICE Director Daniel Ragsdale, Appoints Thomas Homan

President Donald Trump has fired acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Daniel Ragsdale and appointed Thomas Homan as acting director.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced the appointment Monday night, just after the White House announced Trump had fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

This story is developing and will be updated.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-fires-ice-acting-director_us_589004a0e4b02772c4e8e7db

January 31, 2017

Betting odds for Trump impeachment are even!

The Odds of Donald Trump Being Impeached Just Got Better

A UK betting house says current odds are 11/10 that he'll be impeached or resign before the end of his first term.

James GrebeyDonald TrumpJanuary 30, 2017
Donald Trump is going to be the President of the United States. But if oddsmakers are right, there’s a good chance that he won’t hold office for that long. There are many reasons Donald Trump could be impeached or resign before his first term ends.

On January 30, Trump’s odds of leaving office before his first term are 11/10.

https://www.inverse.com/article/26292-donald-trump-impeachment-odds

January 31, 2017

Rudy Giuliani Admits It Is a Muslim Ban

You can skip to around the 3:00 mark

Snip> "When Trump first came to me he asked how we could do a Muslim ban legally" then ass fuck told him how to lie and do it legally

January 29, 2017

Neil Diamond - America

When can we make America great again like the America that inspired this song?

January 23, 2017

Trump strategy is to cast doubt on the press tells me all kinds of shit is going to hit the fan

down the pike. I don't see why they would think it's a good strategy otherwise. His approval is going to be stuck in the upper 30's with the continual confrontational approach. This administration is off to the worst start perhaps in American history.