{"id":291711,"date":"2017-01-25T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-otherwords-january-25-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:06:02","slug":"in-otherwords-january-25-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-otherwords-january-25-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"In OtherWords: January 25, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

This side of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the headlines are coming quickly. We’ve seen cabinet nominee hearings, a flurry of controversial executive orders, and a record-setting Women’s March on Washington and beyond.<\/p>\n

There’s also that\u00a0mind-boggling debate over inaugural crowd sizes and “alternative facts” vs. the real ones. This week in OtherWords, I suggest that if Donald Trump can convince his supporters of a plain-as-day\u00a0lie about the size of his inaugural crowd, he can\u00a0lie about anything\u00a0\u2014 including things that could hurt his own voters.<\/p>\n

Also this week, former BlackRock director Morris Pearl explains how Trump’s billionaire cabinet nominees can use a special loophole to avoid paying any taxes on the assets they have to sell\u00a0to take office. Chuck Collins takes on the GOP Congress over cuts to the estate tax, a millionaire-only tax break of the kind Trump’s treasury nominee promised to avoid. And Khalil Bendib imagines the White House as “Trump, Inc.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, David Stookey looks at the Trump administration’s early actions on climate and decides it’s time for local communities to start protecting themselves. Jill Richardson shares some ideas for what you can do next if you went to the Women’s March. And Jim Hightower reports on a shadowy group trying to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

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Khalil Bendib \/ OtherWords.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  1. The Trouble with Trump\u2019s \u2018Alternative Facts\u2019<\/a> \/ Peter Certo
    \nIf Trump can sell a plain-as-day lie about his inauguration crowd, he can lie about anything \u2014 including things that hurt his own supporters.<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Trump\u2019s First Test on Taxes<\/a> \/ Chuck Collins
    \nTrump’s voters didn’t vote to make the richest richer, but the Republican Congress is about to.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Climate Change Is Now a Local Issue<\/a> \/ David W. Stookey
    \nThe cavalry isn\u2019t coming to stop global warming, so it\u2019s high time we start adapting our own communities and homes.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. A Special Loophole for Trump\u2019s Millionaire Cabinet<\/a> \/ Morris Pearl
    \nTrump’s millionaire cabinet nominees could avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars worth of stock.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. How to Keep Marching for Women, and Yourself<\/a> \/ Jill Richardson
    \nYou can fight for equality every day, in big ways and small.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Billionaires Are Tampering with Our Constitution<\/a> \/ Jim Hightower
    \nA corporate-backed lobbying group is pushing a slate of amendments to transfer power from people to big business.<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. In Trump We Trust<\/a> \/ Khalil Bendib<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The post In OtherWords: January 25, 2017<\/a> appeared first on OtherWords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    This piece was reprinted from Other Words<\/a> by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This side of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the headlines are coming quickly. We’ve seen cabinet nominee hearings, a flurry of controversial executive orders, and a record-setting Women’s March on Washington and beyond. There’s also that\u00a0mind-boggling debate over inaugural crowd sizes and “alternative facts” vs. the real ones. This week in OtherWords, I suggest that if Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"featured_media":291712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}