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Election office puts mail in ballots into a container (George Frey/Getty Images)

USPS warns of voter disenfranchisement

Roger Sollenberger

The USPS warning poses an "overwhelming, statewide risk of disenfranchisement for significant numbers of voters"

U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House May 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills/The New York Times-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump has "started to sound desperate"

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

“Voters do not like desperation for power. What they like even less is desperation to maintain it"

An election worker handles vote-by-mail ballots coming out of a sorting machine (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Plans to "slow mail processing" exposed

Brad Reed - Raw Story

“The United States Postal Service proposed removing 20% of letter sorting machines it uses around the country"

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When elections lead to violence

Paul Rosenberg

Scholar Nathan Kalmoe on how partisan division fueled bloody conflict in the 1860s — and how it could happen again

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5G first stage of the US-China tech war

Prabir Purkayastha - Independent Media Institute

It is very much game on for Huawei and China in the tech war with the United States

"We Are Radical Monarchs" (Courtesy of Brooke Anderson/PBS)

Social justice troop for girls of color

Helene Alafriz

Watch the doc about the troop, who earn badges for Black Lives Matter, radical pride, disabillity justice, and more

People Line Up For Unemployment Applications During COVID-19 Crisis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

GOP axing state aid could cost 4M jobs

Igor Derysh

The GOP's refusal to help states and cities could cost millions of jobs. Unemployment cuts would cost even more

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"Election tampering is a huge industry"

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"Massive campaign funding in the last days can have a major effect, as seems to have happened in 2016"

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Former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during an event at the Alexis Dupont High School on Aug. 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Kamala Harris to Trump: Out of my way

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Harris is the perfect running mate for Joe Biden — she signals to the big changes coming in America's future

Health workers are working while sick

Health workers are working while sick

Emmarie Huetteman - KFF Health News

In a recent survey, a third of 1,200 health workers said they had to work while sick

Woman shows her sticker after she voted in the Florida presidential primary in Cape Coral, Fla. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Hindsight in 2020 is 20/20

John A. Tures - The Conversation

As the old joke goes, it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future

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Trump's UAE-Israel "deal" is a sham

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold

This power play by UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed is a boon for Trump and Netanyahu. It won't bring real peace

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Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo., a 10-term incumbent and Congressional Black Caucus member who was defeated by activist Cori Bush in the Democratic primary held on Aug. 4, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Black progressives face pushback

Igor Derysh

Black elected leaders are being challenged by a new wave of progressives of color. They're not happy about it

Donald Trump | USPS (Getty Images/Salon)

USPS: GOP condemned for doing nothing

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"Donald Trump knows that if the people are heard in November, he and Republicans up and down the ballot will lose"

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Maddow narrates "Disloyal" excerpts

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Cohen's tell-all book, "Disloyal: A Memoir," is set to be released before the November election

"Rick and Morty" (Adult Swim)

"Cancel ‘Rick and Morty’" gains steam

Chris Lindahl - Indiewire

Harmon apologized for the video then, but now the clip is resurfacing with hashtags used by followers of QAnon

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Donald Trump; Michael Cohen (Getty/Salon)

Cohen opens up about "golden showers"

Roger Sollenberger

Cohen will revisit the alleged "pee tape" from the explosive Steele Dossier on Trump's Russian ties in his new book

Election workers sort vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Officials "worried" about USPS sabotage

Roger Sollenberger

"I hope it's not an attempt to scare people into not voting by mail in general," Steve Simon tells Salon

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Pentagon launches UFO task force

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

The Pentagon announced that it is launching a task force to better understand UFOs

Kevin McCarthy (Getty/Jim Watson)

GOP "livid" with Leader McCarthy: report

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

GOP House members are reportedly "livid" with McCarthy

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U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists as he departs the White House May 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Emission rules: Trump EPA plows ahead

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Twenty-five percent of the human-caused warming over the past 20 years is due to methane

Dolly Parton attends a press conference before a performance celebrating her 50-year anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry at The Grand Ole Opry on October 12, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

Dolly: "Of course Black lives matter"

Claire Shaffer - Rolling Stone

“There’s such a thing as innocent ignorance, and so many of us are guilty of that,” country singer says

"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (NBC)

Is late night showing how TV returns?

Melanie McFarland

As Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert & more return to the studio, we hope some, like Seth Meyers, stay at home with us

Sasheer Zamata in "Spree" (Dreamcrew Entertainment)

A comedic influencer killing "Spree"

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Salon spoke to the comic and the director of the new horror movie, in which Joe Keery is "killing for attention"

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