'We've Built the Most Toxic Marriage Ever': Why Political Opposites in the U.S. Despise Each Other

 I blame Fox News for starting the schism:

https://time.com/5904504/political-ideology-division/

Data Disappeared--This is an Accounting of the Damage

 Lots of detail on Trump's putting politics above science, corrupting both:

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/article/disappearing-data/index.html?ncid=newsltushpmgnews#introduction

How Joe Biden Is Positioning Himself as a Modern FDR

If so, Biden could make some powerful positive changes:

https://time.com/5904569/joe-biden-fdr/

‘We Are Being Eaten From Within.’ Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism

What a shitshow:

https://time.com/5647304/white-nationalist-terrorism-united-states/

China Suddenly Pledges to Become Completely Carbon Neutral

 Letting China get ahead of us on climate change technology is foolish:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-pledges-become-completely-carbon-neutral

A Greenhouse Mega-Catastrophe Killed Nearly All Life on Earth – Here’s What Happened

 A critical warning:

"Hana Jurikova adds: “Ancient volcanic eruptions of this kind are not directly comparable to anthropogenic carbon emissions, and in fact all modern fossil fuel reserves are far too insufficient to release as much CO2 over hundreds of years, let alone thousands of years as was released 252 million years ago. But it is astonishing that humanity’s CO2 emission rate is currently fourteen times higher than the annual emission rate at the time that marked the greatest biological catastrophe in Earth’s history.""

https://scitechdaily.com/a-greenhouse-catastrophe-killed-nearly-all-life-on-earth-heres-what-happened/

US signs anti-abortion declaration with group of largely authoritarian governments

 Deplorable and against the rights granted to US citizens:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/us-trump-administration-signs-anti-abortion-declaration

Trump’s Fake Payroll Tax Cut Is A Big Mess

 Everything he touches turns to shit:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps-fake-payroll-tax-cut-is-a-big-mess_n_5f903d12c5b6b005f5f198a8?ri18n=true&ncid=newsltushpmgnews

Most Presidents Who Lose Deal With Shame. Trump Could Have To Deal With Prison.

 Oh PLEASE let him end up in prison:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-loss-prison-statutes-of-limitations_n_5f8f5353c5b62333b23ff0a0

The Evangelical Movement’s Bad Bargain

 The evangenitals have really screwed the pooch by supporting Trump:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/the-evangelical-movements-bad-bargain/616760/

Will ‘Nones’ Bring a Progressive Future?

 Let's hope we succeed:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2020/10/will-nones-bring-a-progressive-future/

A Plot Against an Embattled Governor? Militias Disrupting Elections? It Happened in the 1850s—And Holds a Lesson for Today

 This is scary:

https://time.com/5900218/governor-plot-slavery-history/

COVID cases since June

 Impressive dynamic chart. Notice how it starts out with a lot of blue states but ends up almost entirely red states?

https://dangoodspeed.com/covid/total-cases-since-june

The Stock Market Does Better When Democrats Are In The White House

 Reinforcing the point that Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-vs-republicans-stock-market_l_5f853971c5b6e6d033a6f26f?ncid=newsltushpmgnews

Who’s the Tax Cheat: The Lady in Jail or the Man in the White House?

 An interesting assessment of the inequalities in financial justice between the rich and poor:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/opinion/sunday/trump-taxes.html

Will America’s disregard for science be the end of its reign?

 It's just depressing to think this may just be an unavoidable consequence of our culture:

https://bigthink.com/videos/anti-science-pro-conspiracy-america

Who is Donald Trump's base? Why is he popular? Why are people voting for him? Why do people like and support him?

 This is probably the best explanation for the irrational behavior of Trump supporters:

https://qr.ae/pNMkTT

Here's Why Trump Has Lost So Much Support in the Active Duty Military

 Wow, he's done a LOT to alienate the military:

https://time.com/5898258/trump-lost-support-military/

Covid drug given to Trump developed using cells derived from an abortion

 Trump likely didn't know about it when he got the treatment, but he surely does now. Will he be a hypocrite or change his recommendation for everyone to get it?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/08/trump-covid-drug-developed-using-cells-derived-from-abortion

How a Road Trip Through America's Battlegrounds Revealed a Nation Plagued by Misinformation

 I've encountered this level of ignorance on my YouTube channel and the Nextdoor app. One wonders how to get through to them:

https://time.com/5897887/swing-states-2020-election/

Job Growth By President

This must REALLY irk Trump, but look a little closer. Even though there have been more Republican presidents since WWII, Democratic presidents have created more than DOUBLE the number of jobs (D=70 million vs. R=31 million). So much for Republicans being the job creators.... 

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1313856721497083905?s=20 

How the pandemic and politics gave us a golden age of conspiracy theories

This is a good explanation for why so many fall for conspiracy theories, especially in times of crisis:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/us/conspiracy-theories-why-origins-pandemic-politics-trnd/index.html

The media’s 2020 moment

 The media is underfunded and understaffed, but it's the reason why so many things the Trump administration has tried to hide have been exposed:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-5933fdb2-f24a-4a41-864d-c1a2dd1d6fbf.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

What if Donald Trump is proven right by history?

He WAS proven right!

https://qr.ae/pN4Arm