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- Zuckerberg Says Facebook Welcomes Regulation. The Question Is: How Much?
Sunday - 02/16/2020 - 07:13 PMFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it’s getting harder to spot and stop election meddling as the technology becomes more and more sophisticated, and he welcomed regulation….to a point.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - More Than 1,000 Former Justice Department Officials Urge Barr to Step Down
Sunday - 02/16/2020 - 12:26 PMMore than 1,100 former Justice Department officials signed a public letter Sunday that recommends Attorney General William P. Barr’s resignation from office after he intervened to reduce the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for President Donald Trump’s friend and former campaign associate, Roger Stone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukrainian President Asks Trump to “Please, Please Stop Saying That Ukraine Is a Corrupt Country”
Saturday - 02/15/2020 - 02:08 PMPresident Donald Trump famously had a request for the president of Ukraine when the two leaders spoke over the phone on July 25. That request to launch politicized investigations into Joe Biden and his son turned into a months-long congressional investigation, making Trump only the third president in history to be impeached.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Tiny Indigenous Village That Ground Canada To A Halt
Saturday - 02/15/2020 - 06:00 AMThis week, activists across Canada ground railways to a halt, barred provincial legislatures from meeting, and blockaded ports to demonstrate support for Indigenous land rights. At the center of the battle are three First Nations women from a remote village in British Columbia who were arrested on Monday to clear the way for a natural gas pipeline to be built on their people’s traditional territory.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Isn’t Waging a War on Poverty. He’s Waging a War on Poor People.
Friday - 02/14/2020 - 06:00 AMThis week, President Donald Trump released a $4.8 trillion budget proposal that would further decimate the already weakened social safety net. Trump’s plan would make steep cuts to food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance, and other welfare programs that millions of Americans rely on.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Unleashed: The Trump Presidency Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
Thursday - 02/13/2020 - 06:06 PMThrough the Trump Era, it’s been fashionable for some of his critics—especially on Twitter—to assail his actions as the coming of kleptocracy, autocracy, authoritarianism, and, yes, fascism to the United States.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump’s Tariffs Intensified a Farm Crisis. His Latest Plan Would Make It Even Worse.
Thursday - 02/13/2020 - 06:00 AMPresidential budgets, released annually, are aspirational documents—they display an administration’s intentions and goals, but are typically considered “dead on arrival” in Congress, which ultimately sends its own federal spending proposal to the White House.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “This Is a Total Desecration of Native Land”: Trump’s Border Wall Is Wreaking Havoc in Arizona
Wednesday - 02/12/2020 - 04:33 PMContractors hired by Customs and Border Patrol began blasting ground last week in areas of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the latest step in President Donald Trump’s $646 million plan to build a 30-foot wall along 63 miles of the Arizona-Mexico border.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Opponents Second-Guessed This All-Muslim Girls Basketball Team. Bad Move.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Major Labor Strikes Surged in 2019
Wednesday - 02/12/2020 - 12:56 AMLast May, for the second year in a row, thousands of North Carolina public school teachers marched to the state Capitol in red t-shirts to demand better funding for public schools and Medicaid.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Deepwater Horizon Environmental Disaster Was Even Worse than Previously Believed
Sunday - 02/16/2020 - 07:41 PMThis piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Report: Barr Protected Turkish Bank From Prosecution to Appease Erdogan
Saturday - 02/15/2020 - 05:02 PMPresident Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to claim he has a “legal right” to interfere in Justice Department cases, but insisted that he has “so far chosen not to.” Anyone following Trump’s social media presence knows that not to be the case.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Sunrise Movement Is Taking the Fight to Big Oil’s Home Turf
Saturday - 02/15/2020 - 06:00 AMThis piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Do You Make Music When The World Really Is Ending?
Friday - 02/14/2020 - 07:16 PMThe cover of The Slow Rush—the latest album from Tame Impala, Kevin Parker’s one-man-band from Perth, Australia—looks like the old red moon desert Windows desktop wallpaper invading an uninhabited house.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 4Chan Trolls Target Scandinavian Airlines With Racist Harassment Campaign
Thursday - 02/13/2020 - 05:15 PMMuch of the online harassment directed at a major European airline in recent days appears to have come from users of a controversial 4chan message board, according to a review by Mother Jones.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Security Researchers Find Flaws in Online Voting System Tested in Five States
Thursday - 02/13/2020 - 08:38 PMAn online voting technology that has been tested in five states can be hacked to alter, block, or expose voters’ ballots, according to research published Thursday by a trio of MIT researchers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - John Kelly Finally Speaks Out Against Trump
Thursday - 02/13/2020 - 08:55 AMIt took more than a year after his removal as the White House chief of staff, but John Kelly appears to have finally found the courage to speak out against Donald Trump.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This Is the Phase of the Campaign Elizabeth Warren Has Been Preparing For
Wednesday - 02/12/2020 - 06:00 AMElizabeth Warren’s campaign knew things weren’t looking good by mid-afternoon on Tuesday, several hours before the final ballots would be cast in New Hampshire. Campaign manager Roger Lau tempered expectations in a memo to supporters that looked ahead to Nevada and South Carolina—“two of the most diverse contests in the country”—and the Super Tuesday states, suggesting that Warren could still win the nomination with a slow, steady drip of support.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Joe Biden Had a Bad Night in New Hampshire. His Supporters There Hope Their State Doesn’t Matter.
Wednesday - 02/12/2020 - 12:10 AMIt’s never a good sign when you’re addressing your New Hampshire supporters on primary night from South Carolina. Yet this was the position Joe Biden found himself in on Tuesday evening as his campaign sought to downplay his dismal showing in the Granite State, where he was on pace to finish 5th with a little over 8 percent of the vote.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mystery Woman Targets Sanders Campaign in Suspected Sting Operation
Tuesday - 02/11/2020 - 05:51 PMSanders campaign operatives believe his campaign may have been the target of an attempted sting operation, after a woman recently attempted to bait local Sanders allies into discussing shady fundraising tactics in phone calls and one in-person interaction.
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- We Talked to the Man Behind That Nigerian Pete Buttigieg Fan Account. It’s Not Lis Smith.
Sunday - 02/16/2020 - 07:26 PM“It’s very stressful. It’s almost midnight here and I’ve just been dealing with controversies all day,” said a man claiming to behind the @easychinedu account, a pro-Pete Buttigieg account that went viral on Sunday morning after high-profile Twitter users like David Klion alleged that it was burner belonging to Lis Smith, Buttigieg’s spokesperson.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Tweets Another Lie About One of His Favorite Enemies
Saturday - 02/15/2020 - 11:26 AMBefore most of you were even awake, President Donald Trump tweeted another lie to his 72.5 million followers.
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His anger this morning was directed at the Justice Department for dropping its criminal investigation on Friday into former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. - Car ‘Splatometer’ Tests Reveal Huge Decline in the Number of Insects
Saturday - 02/15/2020 - 06:00 AMThis piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership.
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Two scientific studies of the number of insects splattered by cars have revealed a huge decline in abundance at European sites in two decades. - The Benefits of Being Joe Biden’s Brother
Friday - 02/14/2020 - 02:55 PMThis story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Want to Save the Planet? Easy! Just “Be More Like Donald”
Friday - 02/14/2020 - 09:32 AMPresident Trump is reading a book, and he would very much like you to know about it. It’s a book about himself, called Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero, self-published in 2016 by his former environmental consultant, Edward Russo.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- VA Secretary Looked for Dirt on a House Staffer Who Reported Sexual Assault, Complaint Says
Thursday - 02/13/2020 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Did William Barr Pick Pittsburgh to be Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine Conduit?
Thursday - 02/13/2020 - 06:01 AMThe top federal prosecutor in western Pennsylvania was thrust into the news on Monday when Attorney General William Barr confirmed to reporters that the Department of Justice had set up an “intake process in the field” to receive information related to Ukraine, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, that has been gathered by Rudy Giuliani.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s Biggest Vulnerability Is His Climate Change Denial
Wednesday - 02/12/2020 - 06:00 AMA little more than 10 years ago, Donald Trump and his children signed a letter that ran as a full-page ad in the New York Times. In it, they urged global leaders to reach an ambitious climate change deal at the annual United Nations conference.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Congratulates Barr After Intervention in Stone Sentencing
Wednesday - 02/12/2020 - 08:38 AMPresident Donald Trump praised Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday for intervening to reduce Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation, a move that came after Trump complained on Twitter that the initial recommendation, put forward by the Justice Department’s own career prosecutors, had been too severe against his longtime political adviser.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- We Asked Pete and Bernie Fans If They’ll Team Up to Beat Trump
Tuesday - 02/11/2020 - 07:01 PMFollowing former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s narrow win over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in last week’s Iowa Democratic caucuses, the two presidential candidates are duking it out in New Hampshire: Sanders slammed Buttigieg for accepting campaign contributions from billionaires, and Buttigieg said Sanders’ policies skew too far to the left.
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