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At Bernie Sanders’ Big Climate Change Town Hall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steals the Show

Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bernie Sanders didn’t have to remind the hundreds of activists, young people, policy wonks, and thousands of viewers online watching his climate change town hall Monday night of “the great crisis facing our planet and facing our humanity.” That was one of the central…

Trump Tries to Throw Gasoline on France’s Fuel Riots

Nicolas LiponnNurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A series of violent protests that have rattled France in recent weeks have caught the eye of Donald Trump. Earlier today, @realdonaldtrump retweeted a post from Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, which attributed the “riots in…

The Stock Market Is Really Jittery Right Now

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday the stock market surged, supposedly on news that a trade deal with China was in the works. Today, the stock market has plummeted, supposedly on news that Trump lied about how likely a deal really is. If all this is actually true, it means…

Chart of the Day: Wisconsin Gerrymandering Was Awesome

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Check out the results of Wisconsin’s gorgeous, computer-generated Republican gerrymander: In other Wisconsin news today, the state posted the official 2018 Assembly election results. It’s a beautiful gerrymander. Dems got 190,000 more votes but Reps got 63/99 seats. Key is assuring many GOP districts get…

Republicans Finally Uncover Some Election Fraud

This is not North Carolina. It’s not even 2018. It’s a rally against election fraud in Brooklyn in 2017. But it was the best I could do.Sachelle Babbar/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a super-short North Carolina explainer: A Republican candidate for Congress hired a guy who then hired…