Anxious about its failure to establish cultural hegemony, the Erdogan government is going after internet stars. https://t.co/vIiQZkqkU6
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) July 25, 2019
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By Mike Lillis @ TheHill.com, July 23
House Democrats on Tuesday will launch an aggressive communications campaign to highlight Robert Mueller's sweeping investigation into Russian election interference just ahead of the former special counsel's appearance before Congress for a pair of hotly anticipated hearings.
The office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has crunched Mueller's 448-page report into a six-page document featuring the former FBI director's most damning findings, which will be distributed Tuesday to Democratic lawmakers to guide their outreach to voters as all eyes in Washington turn to Mueller's testimony.
Dubbed "Exposing the Truth," the six-page memo was coordinated between Pelosi's office and the two House committees where Mueller will appear on Wednesday [.....]
By Daniel Villareal @ lbgtqnation.com, July 21
Oliver Stone — the director best known for JFK, Natural Born Killers and the George W. Bush biopic W — recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said of Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law, “It seems like maybe that’s a sensible law.”
In an interview transcript released by the Kremlin on Friday, Stone and Putin had the following exchange: [....]
Unionized campaign organizers working for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential effort are battling with its management, arguing that the compensation and treatment they are receiving does not meet the standards Sanders espouses in his rhetoric, according to internal communications.
Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders for years has said should be the federal minimum
By Ruth Servin Smith @ Dailyprogress.com, July 18
[....] In 2013, UVa began a comprehensive research project that examined letters, documents and records of the early university. Eventually, researchers determined that an estimated 4,000 enslaved people lived and worked at the university from 1817 through 1865.
The slaves were not owned by the university itself, but were rented out from other plantations, or owned by professors. They lived in building basements and in shacks in the yards that are now university gardens. They ran student housing, cooked meals, tended pastures and laid bricks. They also were beaten, raped, force-marched and chained, according to a 2018 report.
Those activities, Murphy said, often left a trace. Even if she just has a person’s name, such as “Sam the Carpenter,” she can find that person’s owner and then look for the person and hope they make an appearance in letters, census records and, after Emancipation, Freedman’s Bureau and marriage and land records [....]