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Trump Advisor Compares Conservative Anti-Quarantine Protesters to Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956.Gene Herrick/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Egged on by well-funded political activists, Fox News, and President Donald Trump himself, protesters convened on state capitals in Michigan, Minnesota, and other states this week to demand an end to extreme…

Trump Says Virginia’s Democratic Governor “Should Be Under Siege”

Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A day that began with President Trump tweeting “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!,” “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!,” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA” ended with him saying outright in his daily coronavirus press briefing that Virginia’s Democratic governor “should be under siege.” Journalistic custom requires us to pretend…