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“Even his most loyal supporters are seeing Trump for what he has always been,” Velshi said. “Just another rich guy in power now, protecting himself.”

Fascism at its finest.

Donald Trump has issued a directive to remove so-called “improper ideology” from all Smithsonian museums, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Executive director of the African American Policy Forum Kimberle Crenshaw worries that this is a part of the president’s attempt to whitewash and reframe American history. “The road to authoritarianism is paved with the creation of a mythic past,” says Crenshaw. “This isn’t about color blindness, this isn’t about anti-division,” instead it “makes it that much harder for people to understand the country we live in, the risk that we’re facing and what we all have to do to protect the democracy we spilt blood in order to secure.” 

“The Siren’s Call,” the new book by Chris Hayes, explores how the world’s biggest companies are buying and selling our attention, and in the process harming our ability to converse with each other and...

This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.