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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Sep 29, 2016 Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Another day of anti-Semitism and incompetence from Trump scampaign Morning Consult with the first post-debate poll and a 4 point swing to Hillary (3 point lead): Political analysts were quick to declare victory for Hillary Clinton after the Democratic nominee’s first debate with Donald Trump on Monday night, and a new Politico/Morning Consult poll shows...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 29, 2016 Open thread for night owls: 'From Dunderhead to Demogogue' In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reviews Volker Ullrich’s new book examining Adolf Hitler’s remarkable rise from “pathetic dunderhead” to infamous figure. The short, striking piece is worth reading in full. Mr. Ullrich, like other biographers, provides vivid insight into some...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 27, 2016 University of Vermont raises, then loses, then again raises a Black Lives Matter flag The week of Sept. 19 was a rough one. There was the release of video showing the murder of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa; the murder of Keith Scott in Charlotte, and the days of protests that followed; the indictment of a Tulsa police officer for manslaughter in Crutcher’s death; and the death...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 27, 2016 A 'how-to' guide for rape Rape culture is real. So real, in fact, anyone who wants to learn “how to rape” can. Not via a YouTube video, mind you, but via an online community, with real word practicum and field trips. The community are “pickup” artists. These men “pick up” women—meet them and attempt to...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Sep 28, 2016 What makes a place special to Donald Trump? When you think of your favorite places, the cities you’d love to visit again and again, what comes to mind? Do you have friends there? Family you see all too rarely? Maybe there’s a restaurant that serves of the best pizza you ever ate. A museum that has that painting. An energy you’ve...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Sep 29, 2016 If You're Determined to Vote for a Third Party, Here’s How to Minimize the Damage In 2000, Americans learned just how dramatically a third-party vote could swing an election, when Ralph Nader pulled thousands of Florida votes away from Al Gore, handing the narrow victory to George W. Bush. This year, polls suggest that history could repeat itself. Hillary Clinton and Donald...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Sep 29, 2016 Alabama's Chief Justice Still Opposes Same-Sex Marriages. Now He's Standing Trial. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore went to court Wednesday morning in Montgomery. But this time he was a defendant, charged with possible ethical violations for defying higher-court rulings with his anti-gay-marriage stance. In January 2015, after a district court judge ruled that same-sex...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Sep 28, 2016 Congress Overrides Obama's Veto of 9/11 Lawsuit Bill Update (9/28/2016): The House has voted to override Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, ensuring the bill will become law. This marks the first override of a presidential veto in Obama's presidency. The Senate voted 97-1 on Wednesday to override President Barack...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Sep 28, 2016 Put The Shovel Down And Quit Digging, Donald. I’ve spent the last few weeks watching this election in a post surgery percocet haze. I don’t recommend drug use mixing with politics but, it’s worked for me lately. Now that the treatment is behind me I’m appalled by everything. Close polls are disturbing though in...     Plunderbund        more   
• Sep 28, 2016 The Debate OK. It’s behind us. The historic first debate between Donald and Hillary, I mean. Considering the media hype, I hung on to the end hoping to see the Martians land. lnstead, it was Donald the Mud Wrestler being Donald the Mud Wrestler and Hillary the Calm Diplomat being Hillary the Calm...     Plunderbund        more   
• Sep 27, 2016 Electronic Classroom Boogaloo: The Sham That Keeps Shimmying The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, Ohio’s premier pig-in-a-poke “school choice” scandalpalooza, keeps on delivering the hits, with an audit revealing that the enterprise inflated attendance by 9,000 students, bilking the state out of $64 million it didn’t deserve. From...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Sep 29, 2016 From Nano to Nature Imagine your future self-driving car. You’ll get so much more work done with extra time in your commute, and without a driver, your commute will be safer. Or will it? During your first ride, you probably won’t be able to shake the fear that the software doesn’t know to avoid pedestrians or...     Slate        more   
• Sep 29, 2016 Gone and Forgotten Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week by signing up in the box below. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.)     Slate        more   
• Sep 28, 2016 What Is the Trump Foundation? Taxes play an important role in any presidential election. The candidates make tax proposals, reflecting their views on the proper role of government. Sometimes they hem and haw about releasing their personal tax returns. This presidential cycle has added a new wrinkle: the question of whether...     Slate        more   
• The American Prospect
• Sep 29, 2016 Trump Foundation Legal Problems Pile Up AP Photo/John Locher Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign rally, Wednesday, September 28, 2016, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Donald Trump has ditched any semblance of self-restraint with his renewed attacks on his Democratic rival as “Crooked...     The American Prospect        more   
• Sep 29, 2016 Progressive Politics After Bernie This article appears in the Fall 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.  Around the time that the Republicans came to Cleveland for their July national convention, a group of Bernie Sanders supporters on the city’s west side resolved to continue organizing. “When we...     The American Prospect        more   
• Sep 29, 2016 Obama’s Dangerous Drone Policy (Photo: Flickr/Debra Sweet) An anti-drone protest in Chicago in 2012 President Obama’s foreign-policy record has many strident critics, but all but the most partisan can agree that America’s image in the world has markedly improved since he took office in January 2009. One...     The American Prospect        more   
• Sep 29, 2016 The Reinventor AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File The late Israeli President Shimon Peres listens during a meeting at the president's residence in Jerusalem on October 28, 2013.  Shimon Peres had a superhumanly long career in politics. By the time he'd been in public life for 60 years or so, it...     The American Prospect        more   
• Sep 28, 2016 #NeverTrump Crowd Raises Big Money for Trump (Photo: AP/CQ Roll Call/Bill Clark) A #NeverTrump sticker was placed on the windshield of the car belonging to Representative Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican, in front of the Republican National Committee office in Washington, D.C., prior to a meeting between House Speaker Paul Ryan...     The American Prospect        more   
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