Salon.com: Will Trump and Bannon drag us into another big ground war? It could happen sooner than we think

February 23rd, 2017 [Tanks of War] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Will Trump and Bannon drag us into another big ground war? It could happen sooner than we think]( Heather Digby Parton Our president wants to "knock the hell out of ISIS" and "take the oil"; his key adviser longs for World War III [Paul Manafort] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was blackmailed over Russia ties after being hacked: report]( Matthew Rozsa A new report suggests that Paul Manafort's Russia connection was used by attempted blackmailers [Trump and Obama] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Can we finally ditch the “white working class” myth? Obama-to-Trump voters weren’t the problem]( Chauncey DeVega More white Obama voters switched to third-party candidates than voted for Trump, yet the media won't let it go [Screen Shot 2017-02-23 at 7.58.13 AM] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [WATCH: Stephen Colbert explains Alex Jones, President Trump’s “CAPS LOCK” adviser]( Taylor Link The Infowars leader is heavy on influence, and light on facts VIDEO [Will you take red or blue pill?] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Myth of the “unbortion”: Anti-choice legislators push the lie that “abortion reversal” is possible]( Amanda Marcotte Anti-choice conservatives go deep into alternative facts with the confusing pseudoscience of "abortion reversal" [Tom Cotton] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [“Donald Trump makes Mexicans not important”: Sen. Tom Cotton faces angry constituents at town hall meeting]( Matthew Rozsa The trend of Republican legislators receiving grief from their constituents continues with Tom Cotton [A lone water protector surveys the now-empty Standing Rock Oceti Sakowin camp.] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Standing Rock is burning in the snow and departing water protectors grieve DAPL progress]( Alli Joseph Standing Rock water protectors torched their teepees on Tuesday night, just so the Army Corps couldn't touch them [Marlon Brando] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Oscars 2017: How to piss off Trump and influence people]( Max Cea Will winners use their Oscar acceptance speech to the great political ends? [Katy Perry] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [In the face of the Trump presidency, Katy Perry asserts her political self, but to what end?]( Nico Lang Perry sells herself as woke, even as her discography is littered with distasteful undertones of of homophobia [Jerry Falwell, Jr.] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Hate is coming to a campus near you: Meet the evangelical bigot helping Trump deregulate America’s colleges]( Nico Lang Falwell has worked to both block and dismantle LGBT protections for decades and vulnerable populations will suffer [Donald Trump] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Trump campaign staff to White House: The president won’t make embarrassing tweets if he doesn’t read any negative publicity]( Matthew Rozsa Trump's campaign staff managed to curb his bad tweeting habits by keeping negative coverage away from him [California Storms] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [California farmers use floodwater to replenish aquifers]( John Upton, Climate Central Using a network of levees and irrigation gates, a farmer used gravity to drive water back into an ailing aquifer [Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Chris Christie, Mary Pat Christie] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Chris Christie may be leaving politics to focus on sports talk radio: report]( Jeremy Binckes Instead of trailing President Trump to Washington, the New Jersey governor may be hitting the airwaves instead [Powerball ticket] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Don’t live in Indiana? You didn’t win the $435 million Powerball jackpot]( AP Staff, Associated Press The winning ticket was sold in the town of Lafayette, 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis [Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Americans think President Trump’s conflicts of interest are unethical: poll]( Matthew Rozsa More than half of registered voters say Trump is either breaking the law or simply being unethical [Climate Change Results] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Red, rural America acts on climate change – without calling it climate change]( Rebecca J. Romsdahl, The Conversation Small town strategies can provide insights into how to make progress on climate policy with Trump in office [DEM 2016 Convention] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Why do right-wingers favor Keith Ellison in the DNC race? Various reasons, and they’re not pretty]( Matthew Sheffield Many on the right openly long for a Bernie-allied black progressive to become leader of the "anti-white" Democrats [Donald Trump] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Praise, criticism follow Trump’s transgender bathroom executive order]( AP Staff, Associated Press The Trump administration rescinds federal guidelines allowing transgender students leeway in using bathroom [Donald Trump] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Trump may get most federal judicial appointments since 1950s]( Steven Rosenfeld, [Alternet]( The Supreme Court seat wasn't the only seat that was hijacked by Senate Republicans [Andy Puzder] 7B%24cover%5Bi%5D.url%7D [Puzder’s failed nomination reminds us why the secretary of labor matters]( Raymond Hogler, The Conversation The labor secretary runs an institution aimed at improving the lives of American workers follow salon Most Read - [[Katy Perry] In the face of the Trump presidency, Katy Perry asserts her political self, but to what end?]( - [[Sean Spicer] "What universe are these people living in?" 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