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• The GOP Is Conducting Cyber Warfare Against Political Opponents

  19-02-2018 22:07
  Automated Twitter storms attacking Democrats. Tens of thousands of faked emails calling for deregulation. Made-up endorsements from pop-up news sites. As speculation builds over the extent of Russian meddling in 2018’s elections, the deceptive and influential tactics revealed in last week’s indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller—and newer ones—are already in use by U.S. politicos with pro-corporate, pro-GOP agendas.The examples run the gamut from the seemingly trite
  
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• Finding Meaning in Music: A Short Documentary on How a Young Tech Pioneer, Confronting His Mortality, Prepared for His Final Violin Performance

  19-02-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The doctor breaks the news. You have terminal cancer, and you might have only a few months to live. How would you spend those final days? That's a question that Eric Sun had to confront when doctors told him he had a glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in 2016. Only 32 years old, Sun had studied computer science and economics at Stanford, then went to work at Facebook in 2008. Everything was on track. Until it wasn't. Then big decisions had to be made.
  Last month, the New Yorker pu
  
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• Dems in Congress Demand Hearings for Trump's Sexual Harassment Accusers

  19-02-2018 18:42
  This Presidents' Day, let's fight for the survivors.
  Donald Trump was elected president despite his history of sexual harassment.  While in office, he's continue to hire men accused of the same, and continue to defend most of them, like former Staff Secretary Rob Porter, who was accused by multiple ex partners of domestic abuse. Trump claims that these men did not receive "due process." Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, an outspoken critic of the President, suggested earlier this month that if th
  
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• Baltimore Police Corruption Myths: Dirty Cops Don't Just Target Criminals

  19-02-2018 18:21
  Yes, robbery is still illegal, even when cops are pocketing the spoils. What the public gets wrong.Baltimore City Police officers of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) Evodio Hendrix, Maurice Ward, Daniel Hersl, Marcus Taylor, Wayne Jenkins, Thomas Allers, Jemell Rayam and Momodu Gondo are guilty of a plethora of crimes falling under their racketeering convictions, ranging from robbery and selling drugs to fraud. All eight men are currently awaiting sentencing.As I’ve been
  
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• Five Months After Maria, San Juan Mayor Decries 'Disaster Capitalism' & Privatization in Puerto Rico

  19-02-2018 18:09
  25% of the island is without power, and the Trump administration does nothing.As this week marks five months since Hurricane Maria battered the island of Puerto Rico, more than a quarter of the island remains without power, marking the longest blackout in U.S. history. While the official death toll is just 64, it is believed that more than 1,000 died since the storm struck the island on September 20. Puerto Rico’s governor has also announced plans to privatize the Puerto Rico Electric Powe
  
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• Trump's First Year in Office Was So Bad That Scholars Already Rank Him as the Worst President Ever

  19-02-2018 17:09
  He's also the most polarizing president in American history. President Donald Trump’s first year in office — which was marked by a nonstop stream of scandals, as well as record-low approval ratings — was so bad that a survey of scholars has already ranked Trump as the worst president ever.Writing in the New York Times, political scientists Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin S. Vaughn reveal that their most recent survey of scholars shows that Trump’s first year was seen
  
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• Trump's Fast-Food Engorged World Is Petty, Small, Miserable, Anxious and Angry

  19-02-2018 16:57
  Our president's only religion is self-worship.Many academic disciplines can be consulted to explain the on-going tragedy of the Trump administration. History can give us a sense of the precedents, the shameful nativist tradition in groups like the Know Nothings and the John Birch Society. One could use the language of sociology to explain how the white working and middle classes enthusiastically supported a candidate manifestly not in their interests. An economist could model how stagnant wages
  
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• The Brian Eno Discography: Stream 29 Hours of Recordings by the Master of Ambient Music

  19-02-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  45 years have passed since Brian Eno left Roxy Music to strike out on his own, launching a more or less unprecedented career spread across music popular and experimental as well as other forms of art entirely. It seems to have worked out for him: young stars like James Blake, Owen Pallett, and Seun Kuti continue to seek out the boundary-pushing creative oversight he previously brought as producer to acts like David Bowie and U2, and his own work as a "non-musician" (which began with him twisting
  
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• Charles Blow: The Russians Exploited America's Racist Past to Swing the Election for Trump

  19-02-2018 15:38
  They used legitimate grievances to force young black men and women to lay down their best weapon: the vote. The Russian government exploited America's shameful racist history in order to elect a virulently racist man as President. As Charles Blow writes in his Monday column, "the black vote was specifically under attack, from sources foreign and domestic. And this attack appeared to be particularly focused on young black activist-minded voters passionate about social justice: The 'Woke Vote'."""
  
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• Tim Minchin Presents “9 Rules to Live By” in a Funny and Wise Commencement Speech (2013)

  19-02-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tim Minchin isn’t much of a role model in the hair brushing department, but in every other way the prolific comedian/actor/writer/musician/director inspires.
  He’s unabashedly enthusiastic about science, a lifelong learner who’s a strong believer in the power of exercise, travel, and thank you notes….
  He uses his stardom and talent for penning controversial lyrics to raise awareness and money for such causes as the UK’s National Autistic Society and a local charity
  
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• Is Charles Bukowski a Self-Help Guru? Hear Five of His Brutally Honest, Yet Oddly Inspiring, Poems and Decide for Yourself

  19-02-2018 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don't know if he’s been replaced as a major influence on young, restless (and almost exclusively male) aspiring writers, but once upon a time—if you weren’t into the romantic wanderlust of Kerouac but still considered yourself a fringe character—it might be to the hard-boiled shit-talking of wise old man Charles Bukowski that you turned. Upon first learning this, and being a busy college student, I decided to take a crash course and checked out a documentary.
  I did not
  
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• Students Who Survived the Florida Shooting Are Stepping onto the National Stage to Demand Gun Control

  19-02-2018 00:15
  Five teenagers invite the nation to march with them to end mass shootings.Seventeen people were shot to death at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14. Their peers and family members want this mass shooting to be the last one, and in order to drive that aim home, they are organizing the March for Our Lives, set for March 24 in Washington D.C. On a crowded podium the day after the shooting, Stoneman Douglas 12th-grader Emma González spoke to a crowd
  
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