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Forget Trump TV. Bernie Sanders has struck gold with his new Facebook Live show
Salon | Charlie May |04/03/17

While the establishment press focuses its time on Donald Trump's tweets, and the ongoing alleged Russia scandal, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is quietly growing his base and addressing the issues people are passionate about -- by creating his own Facebook Live show called "The Bernie Sanders Show."

Sanders "is viral gold," according to the senator's media producer, Armand Aviram, who says the statesman in his 70s has been able to capture the attention of millennials like no other politician. According to NBC News, the senator from Vermont has amassed 4.7 million followers on Twitter, and more than 7 million likes on Facebook. To add some context, he has more than twice the following of his closest competitors -- Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. ... Read more
Bernie TV EXPLODING Online, Media Pretends Not To Notice... | TYT | 04/03/17 | 8:45

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The Sanders Show: Welcome to 'Bernie TV' | 04/03/17 | 2:43

Trumpcare's Back -- and Worse Than Ever!
HP | Matt Fuller | 04/03/17

House Republicans still don't have a deal to revive their health care bill, but the White House is laying the groundwork for negotiations to move quickly, meeting individually Monday with moderates and conservatives to discuss a possible agreement.

That agreement, which is still far from a reality, would hinge on Republicans accepting changes to their health care bill that would violate a key promise from President Donald Trump, namely that insurers would have to offer plans to people with pre-existing conditions. ... Read more

Chomsky: Why Trump Is Pushing the Doomsday Clock to the Brink of Midnight
AlterNet | David Gibbs | 04/02/17

Noam Chomsky: One of the dangers is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats -- the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species -- one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion. Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is very consistent. That is: Do nothing about climate change except make it worse. And he's not just speaking for himself, but for the whole Republican Party, the whole leadership. It's already had impact, it will have worse impact. We'll talk about this next week, but if there are ways out of this, it's going to be not easy.

With regard to nuclear weapons, it's kind of hard to say. He's said lots of things. As you mentioned, the national security experts are terrified. But they're more terrified by his personality than by his statements. So if you read people like say Bruce Blair[i]1 one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, his statements are all over the map, but his personality is frightening, he's a complete megalomaniac. You never know how he's going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about three million votes, his instant reaction was insanity; you know, three to five million illegal immigrants somehow were organized in some incredible fashion to vote. On any little issue -- Miss Universe, or whatever it may be -- he's completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space. His guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing. ... Read more

In Trump Country, Shock at Trump Budget Cuts, but Still Loyalty
NYTimes | Nicholas Kristof | 04/01/17

McCracken's deep-rooted conservatism is matched by a passion to support Tulsa Domestic Violence Intervention Services, a nonprofit that helped her flee an ex- who she says beat and choked her, once until unconsciousness. She became teary as she described how staff members at the organization helped her and her son escape that relationship. "They saved my life, and my son's," she said, her eyes liquid.

So she is aghast that one of Trump's first proposals is to cut federal funds that sustain the organization. "My prayer is that Congress will step in" to protect domestic violence programs, she said. ... Read more
Trump Voters: He May Betray Me But I'll Never Betray Him | TYT | 04/03/17 | 8:50