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• Bill Moyers: Renowned Psychiatrist Warns That Trump Is a Danger to Us All

  15-09-2017 23:25
  "We have a duty to warn if someone may be dangerous to others." There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, the work of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts to assess President Trump’s mental health. They had come together last March at a conference at Yale University to wrestle with two questions. One was on countless minds across the country: “What’s wrong with hi
  
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• The GOP Is Plowing Ahead with an Audacious Effort to Hijack the Vote and Rig Elections

  15-09-2017 23:00
  Click here for reuse options!From Trump’s “election integrity” commission to Mitch McConnell, the GOP targets the levers of power. The Republican Party’s efforts to disrupt voting and thwart representative government was on full display this past week, when despite ridicule in the press, the GOP's leading proponents of undermining voters and rigging elections were unbowed and forged ahead.First came Kris Kobach’s willfully incorrect—but headline-grab
  
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• 'Will the 9/11 Case Finally Go to Trial?': Andrew Cockburn on New Evidence Linking Saudis to Attacks

  15-09-2017 22:53
  Saudi Arabia is already trying to change the law so that they can’t be sued.As the nation marks the 16th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, questions still swirl about the role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks. The 9/11 attack was carried out by 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were from Saudi Arabia. Sixteen years after the attacks, 9/11 families and survivors are continuing their efforts to take Saudi Arabia to trial. Just this week, the New York Post reported new evidence presented in the c
  
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• Jared Kushner's Data Operation Increasingly Suspected of Aiding 2016 Russian Propaganda Attack

  15-09-2017 22:35
  Ultra-conservative billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer may have contributed to Kushner's scheme. The news regarding Russia’s use of social media platforms to push propaganda and inject false narratives in the U.S. conversation around the 2016 election is now a documented fact but it has been an open question as to how Russia’s so-called “troll farms” knew how to target their ad buys.According to a Friday report in Vanity Fair by Chris Smith, investi
  
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• Marijuana Is Getting So Mainstream That We Have a Former Republican Senator Lobbying for It

  15-09-2017 21:53
  The hardcore conservative and former Republican senator is going to be a paid pot lobbyist. Alphonse D'Amato, the former Republican U.S. senator from New York, will be a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. The marijuana law reform group, which has played a leading role in medical marijuana and legalization campaigns across the country, is starting a state affiliate in New York and has hired Amato as a "senior advisor."New York has not legal
  
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• Theresa May Tweaks Trump in Wake of London Tube Bombing

  15-09-2017 21:40
  “I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation.”After an improvised explosive device detonated inside a crowded London Tube train, President Donald Trump continued his hip-fire tactics and immediately assumed the attack was perpetrated by a “loser terrorist” who was “in the sights of Scotland Yard.” Trump then used the attack push for his travel ban on Muslim-majority countries in a series of tweet
  
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• WATCH: Driver Speeds Through St. Louis Anti-Police Brutality Protestors Minutes After Speaking With Cops

  15-09-2017 21:23
  The protest was for Anthony Lamar Smith, an African American man shot by former police officer Jason Stockley.In video uploaded to YouTube, a white man driving a large SUV plowed through a group of Black Lives Matter protestors only moments after talking to a police officer.The video, taken by guerilla filmmaker “Rebelutionary_Z” begins with a shot of a crowd in the street in Kirkwood, a suburb of St. Louis, on Thursday night, protesting over the trial of former St. Louis police offi
  
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• Ohio Police are Outrageously Charging Opioid Overdose Survivors With a Trumped-Up Misdemeanor

  15-09-2017 20:59
  The controversial new policy aims to curb the rising rates of overdoses in Miami County, Ohio. As Ohio communities seek relief from the opioid crisis, some are testing a controversial approach to address high rates of drug overdoses.Discouraged by overdose survivors who cycle in and out of emergency departments, officials in Miami County, Ohio—including its largest city of Troy—upped the ante in August when police began citing OD survivors with inducing panic. According to
  
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• If Trump Upsets the White Nationalists, Who Will He Have Left?

  15-09-2017 20:55
  In his weekly analysis of right-wing commentary, Jason Wilson casts his eye over Trump’s decision to deal with Democrats—and the predictable howls of outrage. Many people seem confused about the nature of the “deal” Donald Trump might be cutting with Democratic minority leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Trump himself appears to be one of them.At a dinner on Wednesday, Trump reportedly canvassed a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of undocumented &ldqu
  
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• Before Dems Get All Chummy with Trump, Let's Remember What a Disgusting President He Has Been So Far

  15-09-2017 20:32
  Trump's comments about the "bad dudes" of antifa, and his painful Tim Scott moment, remind us who he really is.Word on the street says that Donald Trump is feeling his oats. He believes he has put the ugliness of Charlottesville behind him and the flurry of positive reporting around his”deals” with the Democrats, along with the fact that the government seems to have done a decent job handling the hurricanes, has clearly given him a lift. For all his loathing for the media nothing thr
  
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• Jon Hamm Says Trump Tried to Intimidate Him at an 'SNL' Party

  15-09-2017 20:25
  The "Mad Men" star wasn't having any of it. Actor Jon Hamm said President Donald Trump tried to intimidate him at a “Saturday Night Live” party in November of 2015.According to the New York Times, Hamm — who played lothario ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series “Mad Men” — wasn’t having any of then-candidate Trump’s outsized attitude.“He was with Bill O’Reilly,” Hamm told the Times. “They’re both tall dud
  
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• Woman Fired for Having a Period at Work—Now the ACLU Is Taking on Her Case

  15-09-2017 19:26
  Click here for reuse options!The steps taken by "menstruation activists" should really not be as shocking as they are in 2017. This summer, the ACLU announced it is taking on the case of Alisha Coleman, a woman who was fired for bleeding onto her office chair while menstruating at work. The case effectively brings the ACLU into a broader movement known as “menstruation activism,” which includes a number of writers, lawyers, artists and speakers who are campaigning in many ways to cha
  
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• In the Field With Yazidi Fighters, Tales of Genocide at ISIS's Hands and More Conflict to Come

  15-09-2017 18:59
  Click here for reuse options!Yazidi fighters are joining the Iraqi-run PMF in droves, and see a new war on the horizon.SINJAR, IRAQ—On a Sunday afternoon in mid-August under the baking Iraqi sun, 980 Yazidi soldiers marched in formation at a military camp south of Sinjar mountain. Graduation music blared from loudspeakers as several dozen seated Yazidi elders applauded. After a month of training, the Yazidi soldiers were now official members of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobi
  
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• St. Louis Cop Who Gunned Down Unarmed Black Man After Vowing to Kill Him Found Not Guilty

  15-09-2017 18:50
  The city is preparing for mass protests.Police Officer Not Guilty in St. Louis Shooting DeathUpdate | A St. Louis judge on Friday ruled that police officer Jason Stockley was not guilty in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. "It is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the State has failed in its burden of proof and the Court finds that defendant is not guilty of both charges in this case,…
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• Moving in With Your Boyfriend Can Kill Your Sex Drive

  15-09-2017 18:26
  Women are twice as likely to lose interest in sex when they live with their partner.A relationship changes when a couple moves in together. Some changes are good (i.e., cooking dinner together) while some of them aren’t so great for one or the other partner (i.e., toilet seat up). Now, there’s a new factor to consider: A team of researchers at the University of Southampton in the U.K. suggests living together…
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• When Trump Predicted He'd End His Life a 'Howard Hughes-Like Recluse'

  15-09-2017 17:42
  An anecdote from 1992 offers a telling glimpse into the president's psyche. President Donald Trump came to the White House without friends and with a misunderstanding of his role — but those who know him best say he can fake his way through the job.The former real estate developer and reality TV star came to the presidency with few political allies and no friends at all, his biographer and longtime associates told Politico.“One of the loneliest people I’ve ever met,”
  
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• Has Trump Alienated a Key Segment of His Base?

  15-09-2017 17:17
  Pennsylvania voters say he's "going soft" on his border wall promise. Reports of a deal between Donald Trump and Democratic leaders to protect undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children have generated ripples of doubt among the president’s supporters, some of whom were alarmed by Trump’s statement on Thursday that “a wall will come later”.Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall along the US border with Mexico was a main selling point that led
  
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• 7 Good Things That Happen Every Time You Decide to Buy Local

  15-09-2017 16:50
  Click here for reuse options!Shopping local will help you live longer—and better. In times like these (Donald Trump, the climate crisis, environmental degradation, police brutality, etc.), it’s natural to feel a need to do something. But what? It’s easy to donate online to any one of hundreds of organizations. Heck, even making an Amazon purchase online or an in-store Whole Foods purchase is accompanied by an opportunity to donate to an organization that needs your spare change
  
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• French Workers Are Being Steamrolled by Macron, but They Could Learn a Thing or Two From India's Farmers

  15-09-2017 16:24
  Click here for reuse options!French workers are being asked to make "useless sacrifices," says Francois Hollande. Victories for ordinary people are rare and rarer still our times dominated as they are by Money and Strongmen. In France - where I write these lines - the President Emmanuel Macron has decided to whittle away the protections for the French working-class. These are hard-won gains, basic rights to enhance the lives of the French people against the pressures of work to make a living. Th
  
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• Robert Reich: Trump's Tax Plan Is a Cruel Farce

  15-09-2017 15:11
  It solves problems that don't exist, while doling out cuts to those who need them least. Have you noticed that there’s no Trump tax plan and no Republican tax plan? All they’ve come up with so far is a bunch of platitudes about how nice it would be to cut taxes, simplify the tax code, and spur economic growth. Who doesn’t support these nice goals?The reason there’s no tax plan is congressional Republicans are hopelessly divided on it.Right-wing Republicans (the &ldqu
  
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• Why Evangelicals Believe They're the Most Persecuted Group in America

  15-09-2017 13:05
  The answer is right there in the Bible. A recent Pew study found that white American Evangelical Christians think they experience more discrimination than Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Atheists or Jews.Really?!Christianity is the majority religion in the U.S. and many kinds of legally ensconced religious privilege are on the rise including the right to woo converts in public grade schools, speculate in real estate tax-free, repair religious facilities with public dollars, or opt out of civil right
  
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• Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints

  15-09-2017 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most of us have now and again seen and appreciated Japanese woodblock prints, especially those in the tradition of ukiyo-e, those "captivating images of seductive courtesans, exciting kabuki actors, and famous romantic vistas." Those words come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose essay on the art form describes how, "in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, woodblock prints depicting courtesans and actors were much sought after by tourists to Edo and came to be kno
  
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• Download Theft! A History of Music, a New Free Graphic Novel Exploring 2,000 Years of Musical Borrowing

  15-09-2017 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the team behind the 2006 fair use comic Bound by Law comes a new fair use comic, Theft! A History of Music. Created by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, two law school profs from Duke University, Theft! A History of Music is "a graphic novel laying out a 2000-year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap." The book's blurb adds:
  This comic lays out 2000 years of musical history. ... Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restric
  
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• Fast Forverts: Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement - TLV1 Radio

  15-09-2017 07:18
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  Fast Forverts: Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement
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  Dr. Brian Dolbert, an assistant professor of communication at California State University, San Marcos, discusses his book, “Media and Culture in the US Jewish ...and more »
  
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• GOP Strategist Delivers Savage Tweetstorm Against Trump Supporters

  15-09-2017 05:47
  Click here for reuse options!He deleted the one about drinking their tears.Republican strategist Rick Wilson is among President Trump's most intense critics.As right-wingers melted down over Trump's decision to work with Democrats to save DACA recipients from deportation, Wilson was thoroughly enjoying himself.In a barrage of tweets, Wilson mocked Trump fans for believing in a candidate who has a record of incessant lying. He also hammered them for rejecting achievable pragmatic policy in favor
  
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• Knezovich calls out media and "culture of violence" after Freeman shooting - KXLY Spokane

  15-09-2017 05:39
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  Knezovich calls out media and "culture of violence" after Freeman shooting
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  SPOKANE, Wash, - In a press conference on Thursday regarding the Freeman High School shooting, Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich spoke candidly about his thoughts on violence, particularly school shootings. “This is a situation that plays out in ...
  12 weeks after father dies, tragedy strikes Strahan family again in Freeman shootingThe Spokesman-Review
  One student dead, three in
  
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• Space X: How not to land a reusable rocket booster

  15-09-2017 00:01 via hotair.com
  Today Space X published a blooper reel summarizing the history of the company’s attempts to successfully land a reusable rocket engine. Essentially this is two minutes of one public and embarrassing (not to mention expensive) failure after another. Rockets crash. They explode. They fall over and then explode. Some drop out of the sky (and explode). But the company obviously has a sense of humor about this given that they chose a piece of music best known as the Monty Python theme (Sou
  
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