What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán understand about your brain

"[T]hroughout history, speeches by dictators and autocrats have one thing in common: they use dehumanizing metaphors to instill and propagate hatred of others," Marcel Danesi writes.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2023/07/what-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-and-viktor-orban-understand-about-your-brain/

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Donald Trump indicted again – this time, finally, for assaulting American democracy

The indictment is the result of careful, methodical work by Special Counsel Jack Smith and many hardworking investigators at the Department of Justice, who have labored to ensure that the work done to expose what happened on January 6th didn't merely pass into history as a report, but led to charges. 

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/08/donald-trump-indicted-again-this-time-finally-for-assaulting-american-democracy.html

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Ultra MAGA Republicans give RFK’s wayward son another platform to spew his bile

The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan, invited Robert F. Kennedy's son to entertain them with conspiracy theories and misinformation on July 20th.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/07/ultra-maga-republicans-give-rfks-wayward-son-another-platform-to-spew-his-bile.html

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Second Trump indictment lands, this one from federal charges filed by special counsel

The indictment charges that Trump unlawfully took and retained classified information that did not belong to him after exiting the White House, and that he lied about his actions and obstructed the federal government's efforts to recover the documents, because he didn't want to give them back.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/06/second-trump-indictment-lands-this-one-from-federal-charges-filed-by-special-counsel.html

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Slimy Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gets impeached by his fellow Republicans

The saga of Paxton, now suspended from office pending a Senate trial, carries national lessons in the lengths to which the political right shows loyalty, and meet out punishment to those who dare to question even conduct that is outrageous.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/05/slimy-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-gets-impeached-by-his-fellow-republicans.html

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