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• “Shut down ICE!”: Amnesty activists shout down Pelosi over DREAM deal with Trump

  18-09-2017 23:31
  
  As of mid-afternoon on Monday, it’s already a cinch you won’t watch anything more enjoyable online this week than this.
  Remember this post from Friday night? Words can’t capture how funny it’ll be if the open-borders left muscles Schumer and Pelosi into walking away from a DREAM deal with Trump standing by, ready and willing to sell out. Seeing Pelosi squirm face to face with the radical amnesty shills Democrats have created is but a simple pleasure. The deeper pleasure i
  
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• Rolling Stone magazine up for sale

  18-09-2017 23:01
  Jann Wenner and his son Gus, who currently runs Wenner media, announced Sunday they would be selling of Rolling Stone magazine. The NY Times story on the sale opened like this:From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song.
  But the headwinds buffe
  
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• Trendy socialist proposal gets a thumbs down from Joe Biden

  18-09-2017 22:31
  
  It’s the great, grand dream of the more hard core socialists in the Democratic Party and the liberal movement in general. Long seen as impossible, it’s getting a second wind among some of the Bernie and Elizabeth Warren supporters. We’re speaking, of course, of the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). It’s the idea that you should be free to work if you really want to, but if you can’t (or simply won’t) the government should provide you with some sort of b
  
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• Retiree on pension still has not made enough money, occupies Wall Street … sort of

  18-09-2017 22:01
  
  Remember when Barack Obama pushed for Wall Street reform by telling a Quincy, Illinois audience that “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money?” These days, the former president has picked up a little extra cash by giving more talks, only his audience has changed. Obama’s now delivering speeches to Wall Street, and pocketing his former annual salary for every appearance, Bloomberg reports, thankfully keeping his family from the precipice of poverty.
  While th
  
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• Jedediah Bila leaves “The View” — over Hillary interview?

  18-09-2017 21:31
  
  Watch the first clip below from Clinton’s appearance on the show last week. Bila asks two questions, both fair and both polite. Question one: Amid all the speculation about sexism and the Comey letter and Russia sinking her chances, isn’t it true that differences on the issues led some voters to prefer Trump? Question two: If she feels she didn’t get the respect she was due from Bernie Sanders and his supporters, couldn’t that be partly due to hard feelings over the leaks
  
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• Antifa and the normalization of left-wing violence

  18-09-2017 21:01
  Megan McArdle has written a piece for Bloomberg which highlights something that the media continues to gloss over. What we’re seeing on the left today, from Antifa and student protesters, is not normal but is being normalized.
  Last week the city of Berkeley allegedly spent $600,000 to prevent left-wing goons from making the city into a First Amendment-free-zone. That’s an outrageous sum just so that someone can safely speak at a college for two hours. McArdle argues we shouldn’
  
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• California chefs revolt against renewed foie gras ban

  18-09-2017 20:31
  
  Californians are crazy about banning things (particularly if they have anything to do with conservative values) but sometimes they get a bit carried away and it comes back to bite them. More than half a decade ago the Golden State fell victim to a marketing campaign from PETA and was convinced to pass a ban on foie gras because of the poor treatment of the birds involved. That was immediately challenged in court, re-filed, recycled and has been battled over back and forth since then. This month
  
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• Cell Culture Media, Sera, and Reagents Market: Analysis & Key Trends 2023 - Digital Journal

  18-09-2017 20:10 via digitaljournal.com
  Cell Culture Media, Sera, and Reagents Market: Analysis & Key Trends 2023
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  Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/18/2017 -- The Global Cell Culture Media, sera, and reagents market could testify the dominance of leading players such as EMD Millipore, BD Biosciences, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, according to a publication released by ...and more »
  
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• Conway: We’re getting close to 50 on ObamaCare repeal … again

  18-09-2017 20:01
  
  Third time’s the charm? Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends this morning that the third push for ObamaCare repeal looks like it may succeed in the Senate. “We’re getting close to 50 votes,” the White House counselor told the panel, but we’ve been close to 50 votes all along. The trick is actually getting to 50 votes, a trick that Mitch McConnell has yet to achieve despite having a majority in the upper chamber. Will Graham-Cassidy prove any different than t
  
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• David Lynch Gives Unconventional Advice to Graduates in an Unusual Commencement Address

  18-09-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as we wouldn't expect David Lynch to deliver a traditional movie, nor should we expect him to deliver a traditional commencement address. "I did an interview with the Des Moines Register and said that this would be a strange commencement speech," the creator of Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and (with Mark Frost) Twin Peaks tells the 2016 graduating class of the Maharishi University of Management by way of opening not a speech but an on-stage question-and-answer
  
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• Trump lawyer overheard talking about Russiagate at restaurant — by NYT reporter

  18-09-2017 19:31
  It wasn’t just one Trump lawyer, actually, it was two. And the restaurant is located … next door to the Times’s Washington bureau office.
  Dude:Here's a photo of Ty Cobb & John Dowd casually & loudly discussing details of Russia investigation at @BLTSteakDC while I sat at next table. pic.twitter.com/RfX9JLJ0Te
  — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 18, 2017What the hell was Cobb thinking?
  The debate in Mr. Trump’s West Wing has pitted Donald F. McGahn II,
  
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• Day 3 of rioting in St. Louis, 80 arrested

  18-09-2017 19:01
  Sunday in St. Louis was a repeat of the pattern we’ve seen over and over. A peaceful protest march that lasts through part of the day followed by a late-night turn to rioting and vandalism. You can hear the change in the tone being used by police over the span of about 2 1/2 hours last night:The demonstrators have returned back to police headquarters on Olive where they continue their peaceful demonstration. #STLVerdict
  — St. Louis, MO Police (@SLMPD) September 17, 2017
  Group near HQ
  
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• As predicted, the lawnmower kid is now a victim of Trump’s evil regime

  18-09-2017 18:31
  
  When John Sexton wrote about 11 year old Frank Giaccio getting to mow the White House lawn, he seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek tone when he wondered if anyone would invoke child labor laws to criticize the President. I mean, seriously now… who could be that insane?
  I half-expected Salon or maybe Slate to run this story under the headline, “Trump violates child labor laws at the White House.” So far it seems only a handful of nuts on Twitter are bringing up child labor la
  
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• Oh my: Prelim ratings for Emmys predict new record … low

  18-09-2017 18:01
  
  Hey, who’s up for several hours of celebrities droning on about politics and how their audiences are idiots for their electoral choices? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
  At least in terms of preliminary ratings reported by TV Line, the answer appears to be as unsurprising as last night’s political tone:
  CBS’ broadcast of the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards is looking at a new all-time low, at least in the preliminary ratings.
  Scoring an 8.2/14 in metered market ratin
  
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• St. Louis Cops Taunt Demonstrators with Chilling Chant After Clearing Streets

  18-09-2017 17:52
  Officers in riot gear were heard bellowing "whose streets, our streets." Police officers in riot gear gathered alongside a St Louis boulevard late on Sunday night, chanting “whose street, our street”, a common refrain used by those protesting the acquittal of a white former officer in the death of a black man, after successfully clearing the street of demonstrators and onlookers.Hundreds of officers had mobilized after another day of peaceful protests over the acquittal of Jason
  
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• The Mueller Probe Reportedly Has White House Staffers Freaked

  18-09-2017 17:49
  They're all lawyering up.White House staff are so worried about Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's possible collusion with Donald Trump's campaign that some in the West Wing are suspicious their colleagues are wearing a wire. In private, White House officials have said they are afraid their co-workers may be secretly recording their conversations to pass along to Mueller, the…
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• This David Letterman Quote About Trump Is Going Viral, and with Good Reason

  18-09-2017 17:44
  "This guy couldn't work at the Gap."Legendary talk show host veteran David Letterman made a point in July 2017 that continues to circulate social media. In essence, Letterman alludes we all know what the problem is—what (and where) are the solutions? Here is one of the more popular David Letterman memes including an excerpt from his original quote:“Here’s what I keep saying: We know there’s something wrong, but what I’m tired
  
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• Today’s media outrage: Spicey goes to Hollywood

  18-09-2017 17:21
  
  The question all of America is asking this morning: Do we really have to listen to Ben farking Rhodes lecture us about not lying to the public?Interesting choice by Emmys to let someone joke about demonstrably lying to the American people on behalf of the most powerful person inUS
  — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) September 18, 2017Political media is aghast that a man who lied knowingly for Trump as press secretary would not only be granted a walk-on at the Emmys (right as he’s launching a car
  
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• White Supremacist Punched Out After Allegedly Harassing Black Bus Passenger

  18-09-2017 16:58
  Antifa activists reportedly tracked him down to a Seattle street corner.A man who walked around Seattle wearing a Nazi armband got punched in the face after he allegedly harassed a black passenger on a bus.BuzzFeed reports that the unidentified Nazi was first spotted riding on a bus, where witnesses say he was harassing a black passenger. From there, anti-fascist activists used social media to track the man’s whereabouts, and he was eventually spotted on a street corner in t
  
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• So where did North Korea get that souped up rocket fuel?

  18-09-2017 16:41
  
  On Friday, North Korea launched yet another ICBM on a test run taking it over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean. This one traveled more than 2,300 miles, further than the distance to Guam had they wanted to strike it. There’s increasing consensus thatKim’s missiles could reach the continental United States if he chose to take the shot.
  Over the course of the debate as to what we should about this, a great deal of attention has been paid to a couple of things. One is the miniaturizatio
  
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• Feinstein: Some of my best friends are Catholic

  18-09-2017 16:01
  
  Old and busted crisis: Religious tests in Congress. New crisis hotness: Failing Catholic schools! Senator Dianne Feinstein defended herself against accusations of anti-Catholic bigotry on CNN’s State of the Union by noting that she went to Catholic schools as a youth. Feinstein also claimed she can’t be accused of Catholic animus because she eats dinner with bishops, or something:“I’m a product of Catholic education,” Feinstein said on CNN’s “State
  
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• Wassily Kandinsky Syncs His Abstract Art to Mussorgsky’s Music in a Historic Bauhaus Theatre Production (1928)

  18-09-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  European modernity may never had taken the direction it did without the significant influence of two Russian artists, Wassily Kandinsky and Modest Mussorgsky. Kandinsky may not have been the very first abstract painter, but in an important sense he deserves the title, given the impact that his series of early 20th century abstract paintings had on modern art as a whole. Inspired by Goethe’s Theory of Colors, he also published what might have been the first treatise specifically devoted to
  
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• Rhode Island TV station forced to run “pro-Trump programming”

  18-09-2017 15:21
  
  WJAR-TV is a local television station in Rhode Island which was purchased a few years ago by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Since that time, the parent company has been supplying standardized content for all of their nearly 200 American stations to run during daily news segments and that has some of the locals unhappy.
  Why? Because the news content in question is being labeled as “pro-Trump” by northeast media critics. And in a state that went for Hillary Clinton by a more than 15 point m
  
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• Robert Reich: A Handful of Ultra-Rich Families Are Bleeding the Country Dry

  18-09-2017 15:06
  Taxing dynastic wealth is an absolute necessity if we hope to restore our democracy. White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs, said recently that “only morons pay the estate tax.”I’m reminded of Donald Trump’s comment that he didn’t pay federal income taxes because he was “smart.” And billionaire Leona Helmsley’s "only the little people pay taxes.”What Cohn was getting at is how easy it is no
  
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• Paul Krugman: Calamity Awaits If Americans Don't Snap Out of It, and Fast

  18-09-2017 15:04
  We have two weeks to kill Trumpcare, again. Now is no time for complacency.While progressive activists and 2020 presidential hopefuls alike were salivating over Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill last week, a team of Republicans took the opportunity to craft a last-ditch effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Meet Graham-Cassidy, which its spinmasters, Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy and Dean Heller, want you to believe is a more moderate piece of health care legislation.Trumpcare 5.0 is anyt
  
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• Equifax execs skedaddle as Congress, FTC threaten action

  18-09-2017 14:41
  
  Also known as getting out while the getting’s good. Two top Equifax executives have retired, the company announced, after a massive data breach that impacted over 140 million Americans. The chief information officer and the top security executive have both left, but that may not be enough to forestall Congress or the Federal Trade Commission:Two top executives are out at Equifax after the massive data breach of personal information of 143 million people https://t.co/LpBzpfuUvv pic.twi
  
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• Sean Spicer's Emmys Cameo Was an Abomination

  18-09-2017 13:26
  The former White House press secretary joked about misleading the American public.Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer got the last laugh during Sunday night’s Emmy broadcast when he made a surprise appearance, but not everyone is enjoying the joke.Spicer appeared briefly during the monologue — to stunned faces in the audience — complete with a moving podium. “This will be the largest audience to witness and Emmys, period,” Spicer said. “Both in pers
  
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• Silicon Valley CEO Lobbed Racial Slurs and Assaulted Multiple Women Employees: Explosive Lawsuit

  18-09-2017 13:15
  Gurbaksh Chahal has separately been accused of misleading his investors. A new lawsuit alleges that Silicon Valley CEO Gurbaksh Chahal routinely used racial slurs when speaking to subordinates, physically attacked two women and fired a male employee who tried to prevent him from striking a third woman.The Daily Beast reported Sunday that Chahal is the subject of a lawsuit which alleges that he called workers his “n**gers” and took out his violent rages on employees. Two other pe
  
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• Tennessee University President Apologizes for Greeting Black Students with Cotton Stalks at Diversity Dinner

  18-09-2017 12:56
  Students also complained they were served stereotypically "black meals." The president of mostly white Lipscomb University in Tennessee has apologized to students for hosting a dinner for an all-African-American group of students at his home that featured table centerpieces made up of cotton stalks.According to the Tennessean, university President Randy Lowry invited African-American students to his home for dinner last week to chat about their experience at the university, only to have the
  
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• A Master List of 1,300 Free Courses From Top Universities: 45,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures

  18-09-2017 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Image by Carlos Delgado, via Wikimedia Commons
  For the past 11 years, we've been busy rummaging around the internet and adding courses to an ever-growing list of Free Online Courses, which now features 1,300 courses from top universities. Let's give you the quick overview: The list lets you download audio & video lectures from schools like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford and Harvard. Generally, the courses can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or university web sites, and you can listen
  
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• Watch Author Chuck Palahniuk Read Fight Club 4 Kids

  18-09-2017 09:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first rule of Horsing Around Club is: You do not talk about Horsing Around Club.  ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club for Kids
  Retooling a popular show, film, or comic to feature younger versions of the characters, their personalities and relationships virtually unchanged, can be a serious, if cynical source of income for the original creators.
  The Muppets, Archie, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond have all given birth to spin-off babies.
  So why not author Chuck Palahniuk?
  Perhaps because
  
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• Why 'South Park' Is Perfectly Armed to Fight the Alt-Right

  18-09-2017 02:33
  The satirical cartoon has a perfect chance to turn around and bite the trollish right-wing hand that feeds it.“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are harboring a dirty secret: Much of their audience, the 18- to 34-year-old demographic, overlaps with a certain young, male, white slice of President Donald Trump’s base. You know, the ones who troll liberals online and proudly rock MAGA hats in public.It is perhaps the reality of this ugly Venn diagram&n
  
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• ‘This Is Going to Be Earth-Shattering’: Trump Aide Michael Cohen to Testify Before Senate on Tuesday

  18-09-2017 01:36
  Cohen’s name came up repeatedly in emails between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, which an MSNBC panel agreed is “going to be earth-shattering.”“If you compare Donald Trump to a mafia don, this is his consigliere. This is the guy who knows all the secrets,” said terrorism expert Malcolm Nance.Cohen’s name c
  
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• ‘Incapable of Serving Safely as President’: More Mental Health Experts Question Trump’s Stability

  18-09-2017 01:32
  Is Trump mentally unfit to be president?There is a long-standing rule self-imposed rule among psychiatrists who are members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA): mental health of political figures they have not personally evaluated should not be declared publicly. Called the Goldwater Rule, it came into being after an incident that took place during the 1964 presidential election. Fact magazine published a…
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• How Climate Change Hurricanes Are Rapidly Accelerating the Militarization of America

  18-09-2017 01:23
  Despite their reluctance to speak publicly about the environment, top officials in the Pentagon are painfully aware of the problem at hand.Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hurriedly dispatched to Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to face Irma, the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. Florida Governor Rick Scott, who had sent members of the
  
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