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Trump Whines, Brags About Love for Him on Fox Friends
Narcissistic rabid weasel Trump went to his morning Daycare for Wingnut Imbeciles TV Show, Fox and Friends, to take zero accountability for the Jackson fiasco, and bragged about how in Montana: "they love me and I love them. Jon Tester, I think this is going to cause him a lot of problems in his state"...Predictably, talk of "our nation's heroes" by Adm. Jackson, and attacks on "false allegations" the press by Trump were coming out as Jackson withdrew from nomination for head of the 300,000+ employee VA. The brave service persons who came forward to report how Dr. Jackson had violated the letter and intent of pharmacy, personal integrity and command policies will not now be examined in confirmation hearings before the Senate.
Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/ronny-jackson-nomination-withdrawn.html- Add new comment
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American Cities Are Fighting Big Business Over Wireless...
By Eric Newcomer @ Bloomberg.com, April 25
“It’s often lost on the public just how badly they’re being screwed”
Pet peeve of mine since I figured out through my own troubles connecting wassup with this; glad to see the coverage
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Anything Can Be Rescinded (alt. title: When Can You Start a...
Book review by Isabel Hull @ London Review of Books, for April 2018 print issue (free online), of The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro , 608 pp, September 2017. Lede:
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‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something...
A conversation with VR pioneer Jaron Lanier on Silicon Valley’s politics, being quoted by Mark Zuckerberg, and what went wrong with the internet.
Interview by Noah Kulwin @ NYMag.com, April 17
[....] Lanier currently works at Microsoft Research as an interdisciplinary scientist. He is the author of the forthcoming book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. [....]
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Why Is a Liberal LGBT Activist One of Trump's Nominees?
By Michele Cottle @ TheAtlantic.com, April 24
As the culture war between gay rights and religious liberty rages, conservatives are livid that the president renominated Chai Feldblum at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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How do you capture a mass-killer suspect without firing a...
Analysis by Amanda Erickson @ WashingtonPost.com, April 24, with video & description of apprehension
[....] Such actions are part of a concerted effort by the Toronto Police Service to have its officers de-escalate dangerous situations rather than open fire. In the past, Toronto police had faced widespread criticism for their use of force. In one incident from 2013, an 18-year-old named Sammy Yatim was shot nine times and killed by officers responding a call claiming Yatim had a weapon.
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Sessions Won't Recuse from Cohen Investigation
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will consider stepping back from specific questions tied to the probe, according to a person familiar with the matter.
I wonder if this is actually auspicious for the investigation. For all his faults, Sessions seems less inclined to toady to Trump these days. Assuming he doesn't interfere with the investigation, Trump would have to remove both Sessions and Rosenstein (and Francisco?) to find someone who would close the Cohen case.
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Miss America 2005 marries same-sex partner in Alabama
@ Associated Press via NBC.com, April 20
When Deidre Downs was crowned Miss America in 2005, the idea of gay marriage seemed impossible. Last weekend, she married her girlfriend.
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On the Myth of A “Real” America
I won’t try to paraphrase this Lithub excellent essay by Rebecca Solnit.
This is just one example in the well-wriiten look at how things have changed on the empathy train:
...PBS News Hour featured a quiz by Charles Murray in March that asked “Do You Live in a Bubble?” The questions assumed that if you didn’t know people who drank cheap beer and drove pick-up trucks and worked in factories you lived in an elitist bubble. Among the questions: “Have you ever lived for at least a year in an American community with a population under 50,000 that is not part of a metropolitan area and is not where you went to college? Have you ever walked on a factory floor? Have you ever had a close friend who was an evangelical Christian?”
Read the article at https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-myth-of-real-america-just-wont-go-away/
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