THIS WEEK IN
TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “forward and backward”
edition
EPA head Scott
Pruitt replaces scientists on the EPA advisory board with oil and chemical lobbyists including one who says air quality in the U.S. is “too” clean
Wisconsin state
representative Scott Allen suggests women should not be allowed to have
abortions for the sake of the labor force
Trump attacks the presidential legacies of George Bush, Sr. and George Bush, Jr. upon learning they did not vote for him
Trump claims
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie lost because he didn’t embrace
Trump
Affordable Care
Act enrollment surges in first week
Andrea Jenkins
becomes the first out Trans woman of color to be elected to public office in
the United States
Vi Lyles becomes
the first African American woman elected mayor in Charlotte, N.C.
Ravi Bhalla
becomes the first Sikh mayor in New Jersey history
Virginian Danica
Roem becomes first transgender person elected in a U.S. Statehouse, beating the
incumbent who proudly touted himself as the state’s “chief homophobe”
Melvin Carter
becomes first African American mayor of St. Paul
Republican
Senate candidate Roy Moore is accused of multiple sexual encounters with teenage
girls, and proudly uses the accusation as a fundraising tool
The list of men
accused of using their positions of power to sexually harass or molest others in
the work place continues to grow at a dizzying pace
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