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With the necessary caveat that there's still a lot that we don't know, the fact that Alexey Navalny, the only real leader of the Russian opposition, is allegedly poisoned just as Putin deliberates what to do with the protests in #Belarus sure is a funny coincidence.— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 20, 2020 … [Read more...] about Putin’s Enemies Tend to Suffer Acute Tea Intolerance

USW International President Tom Conway issued the following statement in response to President Trump's tweet calling for a Goodyear boycott: "During the past year, our union and our individual members reached out directly to the President and his White House staff on countless occasions as Goodyear was closing its 90-year-old American tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., which … [Read more...] about USW: Trump Prioritizes Politics over Manufacturing Jobs

The worst world's tyrants ranked by two-factor model: negative impact on the world, negative impact on their own country. 1. Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China 2. Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran 3. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey 4. Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader of North Korea 5. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia 6. Bashar al-Assad, … [Read more...] about Tyrants Ranked: The World Would Be a Better Place Without Them

Gov. Jay Inslee issued a statement today in response to the Trump administration's actions to limit the ability of the U.S. Postal Service to process vote-by-mail ballots. "Mail-in ballots are the easiest, safest, most reliable voting method there is and Washington's vote-by-mail system is proof of that. Our system has worked well for years without incident, and I am … [Read more...] about Inslee statement on threats to vote-by-mail and USPS

Democracy: representation by a very narrow selection of people whose principal attributes & skills are that they are very, very good at being elected.— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 15, 2020 … [Read more...] about Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Democracy