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Further Reading: Can Trump pardon anyone? Himself? Can he fire Mueller? Your questions, answered. John McCain Has Brain Cancer, Senator’s Office Says The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities Battle for the Net Sam Ervin White House press secretary Spicer resigns Why there's a growing rift in GOP over law and order White County Inmates Given Reduced Jail Time If They Get Vasectomy...

Further Reading: Hobby Lobby Bought More Smuggled Artifacts Cyber Force (Superhero Team) Historic Day of Action for Net Neutrality breaks Records Free Press - The Fight for Better Media Begins Here Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria” Battle for the Net Support Civil Politics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/civilpoliticsradio

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Further Reading: Donald Trump is not well ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts and Trump Bring National Enquirer Into Their Feud Republicans condemn Trump for crude tweets about ‘Morning Joe’ host Late-night hosts on Trump tweets: 'He's not a symptom, he's the disease' In answer to lawsuit, Northampton says Forbes Library should be considered public body for purposes of budget, open records law Wells Fargo unit hi...

Further Reading: GOP turnout confounds pollsters in Georgia election Only 58 percent of eligible voters turned out for the Georgia special election 5th Republican senator comes out in opposition to health care bill Pelosi Strikes Back: ‘I Think I’m Worth the Trouble’ Every Insult the Right Uses to Troll Liberals, Explained Every Insult the Left Uses to Troll Conservatives, Explained What Does Mist...

Further Reading: Juneteenth History Official Status of Juneteenth The history behind Loving v. Virginia In D.C., Puerto Rico Governor Says ‘People Spoke,’ Pushes for Statehood Warriors and Citizens by Jim Mattis, Kori Schake Trump sells Qatar $12 billion of U.S. weapons days after accusing it of funding terrorism Karen Handel, Jon Ossoff’s Opponent, Re-Affirms Her Extreme Anti-Gay Stance The remar...

Further Reading: Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris Accord Will Trump's Paris agreement exit spur job growth? Why Congress Relies on Lobbyists Instead of Thinking for Itself Senate Dems: Sessions’ testimony could be ‘construed as perjury’ Represent Us Hostile Town Hall For Congressman Who Helped Save GOP Health Care Bill Support Civil Politics by contributing to thei...

We were happy to be joined by Tom Peake from Voter Choice MA, which advocates Ranked Choice Voting . you can find out more about Voter Choice MA at  www.voterchoicema.org Support Civil Politics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/civilpoliticsradio

Further Reading: Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before He Came to White House Here’s What Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein Told Congress About Comey Payoffs From Putin to Trump? McCarthy Says No, He Was Just Kidding Israeli Intelligence Furious Over Trump’s Loose Lips FCC Officially Proposes to Eliminate Main Studio Rule for Radio/TV Local reporting is outsourced to India It's Off...

Further Reading: Fact Checking Donald Trump’s Interview With NBC’s Lester Holt I’m Sticking with My President by Rick Perlstein Did James Comey Misunderstand the Clinton Email Case? The Right Is Claiming All the Democrats Demanded Comey’s Firing. They Didn’t. Representative Tom MacArthur Town Hall Meeting Easthampton School Committee bans Confederate flag 'at this time' UMass student won't be allo...

Further Reading: The 'First 100 Days' Presidential Benchmark Goes Back To FDR And Napoleon Experts: Long road ahead for Trump offshore drilling order The North Dakota Crude Oil That's Worth Almost Nothing America's government can't be run like a business. That's a feature, not a bug. U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds Support Civil Politics by contributing to thei...

Further Reading: Theresa May used bogus arguments to justify election, says Tim Farron Spain won’t block Scottish EU membership Kansas Holds Special Election To Replace CIA Director Mike Pompeo The final tally is in: Cases in Annie Dookhan drug lab scandal set for dismissal, county by county NATIONAL COMMISSION ON FORENSIC SCIENCE Minority votes intentionally diluted by GOP-led Texas House redistr...

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170414/CivilPolitics_2017-04-14.mp3 Further Reading: Outrage heats up in China as people call for boycott of United Airlines United Airlines Debacle: 11 Things That Can Get You Kicked Off A US Plane Briarwood Presbyterian Church asks for its own police department China says North Korea tension has to be stopped from reaching 'irreversible' stage Bannon a...

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170407/CivilPolitics_2017-04-07.mp3 Further Reading: From the archives: What a sarin gas attack looks like The Grim Logic Behind Syria’s Chemical Weapons Attack Congressional Leaders Urge Trump Administration For Broader Syria Strategy Trump Confident U.S. Military Strike On Syria Wiped Out Russian Scandal Gallup Daily: Trump Job Approval  

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170331/CivilPolitics_2017-03-31.mp3 Further Reading: 2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports Russian billionaire willing to testify to Congress about relationship with former Trump aide The Republican Majority in Congress Is an Illusion Trump coal order won't prompt Indiana power plant restart Follow the money and the trail of 'dea...

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170324/CivilPolitics_2017-03-24.mp3 Stefan takes the board this week, and things don't get set on fire! Not much anyway!

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170317/CivilPolitics_2017-03-17.mp3 Further Reading: Trump tells Merkel: 'At least we have something in common' in nod to wiretap claim Is your TV watching you? Latest models raise concerns House Freedom Caucus Member Responds To White House Budget Proposal East Hartford Police ID Woman Who Died, Leaving Toddler Alone  

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170317/CivilPolitics_2017-03-10.mp3 Further References: Sessions asks 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys to resign In A Crucial Election Year, Worries Grow In Germany About Fake News Ben Carson compares slavery to immigration to America Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis A Current Glance at Women in the Law January 2017 Does The GOP Health Care Bill H...

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170303/CivilPolitics_2017-03-03.mp3 Flynn, Sessions, a Constitutional Convention and more!

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170224/CivilPolitics_2017-02-24.mp3 Further Reading: ‘Pro-Trump’ Russian Flags Confiscated at CPAC Is Donald Trump a conservative? We asked the CPAC faithful Bye-bye, blue dog “Democrats”: What the end of conservative Dems means for America Will anti-Trump backlash let Democrats win the Georgia special election to replace Tom Price? White evangelicals vo...

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https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170203/CivilPolitics_2017-02-03.mp3 Operator get me Bejing-jing-jing-jing Further Reading: Schwarzenegger to Trump: ‘Why Don’t We Switch Jobs?’ White House investigates leaks of Trump calls to Australia, Mexico Trump’s Granddaughter, 5, Sings in Chinese, and China Swoons Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military by Jim Mattis, Kori Schake US...

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170127/CivilPolitics_2017-01-27.mp3 Further Reading: Sean Spicer wrongly uses Pew study to bolster claim that non-citizens vote in large numbers Should the U.S. have kept Iraq's oil, as Donald Trump argues? Trump says he wants Supreme Court nominee ‘who’s going to get approved’ Why Trump’s ‘Big Border Tax’ Gets Taken Seriously: QuickTake Q&A On Bulls...

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170120b/CivilPolitics_2017-01-20b.mp3 Further Reading: Connecticut GOP Politician Arrested After Pinching Woman’s Genitals NAACP OUTRAGED BY RELEASE OF WOMAN WHO SHOT 15 YEAR-OLD TEEN Clip of the Inaugural Dozens Arrested in Anti-Trump Protests Around Inauguration A most dreadful inaugural address – Civil Politics Trusted News Sources

https://archive.org/download/CivilPolitics20170120a/CivilPolitics_2017-01-20a.mp3 Why do we do this show? What is to be gained? How does this contribute to our political discourse? In a special episode of Civil Politics, we present our thesis statement for the coming year and the upcoming presidency.