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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Aug 18, 2018 View from the Left: Media shifts from 'But her emails' in '16 to 'But Pelosi' in '18 We are in the midst of watching the collective Washington media commit journalistic malpractice all over again this election cycle with Nancy Pelosi taking over Hillary Clinton's starring role as their lead obsession while they give the GOP a virtual pass. In 2016, Donald Trump broke nearly...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Now that net neutrality is settled, internet providers are asking for taxpayer money again Internet service providers have argued that net neutrality protections for consumers were like a communist pillow smothering the free market joy big telecoms wanted to bring to the world. They weren’t a utility, they argued, and being treated as such by the Obama-era FCC amounted to letting...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 CEO pay shot up in 2017, and no, they're not worth the $18.9 million CEO pay spiked to $18.9 million in 2017 if you include realized stock options, according to a new Economic Policy Institute report looking at average CEO pay for the 350 largest firms. That’s a 17.6 percent increase over 2016, and a 1,070 percent increase since 1978—a time period during which...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Fracking use of water has increased 770% over the last 5 years—and that's just the beginning A new study out of Duke University shows that fracking operations in the United States have boomed in their use of water over the past five years. The researchers found that between 2011 and 2016, the amount of water being used, per well, increased 770 percent. On top of that—during the same...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 It's no coincidence that ICE agents are ramping up cruelty as Trump prepares their medals On Wednesday afternoon, Joel Arrona was driving his wife Maria to a hospital in San Bernadino, CA for a scheduled Cesarean section. The two parents-to-be were nervous, but they were also out of gas, so Joel pulled over at convenience store to fuel up. As CBS Los Angeles reports, they were...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Aug 18, 2018 Alleged Russian Agent Marina Butina Moved to Virginia Jail, Unclear Why William G. Truesdale Adult Detention CenterMaria Butina, the Russian national accused of acting as a Kremlin agent in the United States, was abruptly moved from a jail in Washington to a lockup in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her lawyer.“I got a collect call from Maria from Alexandria...     Daily Beast        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Scouted: Reach Your Goals With Help From These Mindfulness Experts Wellness experts agree that achieving happiness and satisfaction comes when we identify our purpose in life and seek to fulfill it. What they often fail to mention is how hard it is to identify that purpose.Designed to help you recognize your goals and achieve them with science-backed know-how,...     Daily Beast        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Director Jon M. Chu Is Out to Change Hollywood: ‘Our Time Is Now’ Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastJon M. Chu knows there’s a lot riding on the success of Crazy Rich Asians. Though the 38-year-old filmmaker is himself a proven commodity, having helmed the box-office hits Step Up 2, Step Up 3D, GI Joe: Retaliation and Now You See Me 2, with the latter...     Daily Beast        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Bill Maher Slams Trump and Fox News for Their Racist Aretha Franklin Tributes HBO“Not such a good week for the president,” Bill Maher announced at the top of Friday night’s Real Time. “He lost his one black friend.”Yes, the comedian began the latest edition of his HBO program by addressing the soap opera that’s captivated the media’s attention: Omarosa’s...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Aug 18, 2018 ICE Detains Man Driving His Pregnant Wife to the Hospital A California man just wanted to stop for gas as he drove his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. Instead, Joel Arrona is now in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody, and a newborn baby is separated from his father. According to CBS2 News in Los Angeles, ICE officers approached...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Donald Trump Lashes Out at “Loudmouth” John Brennan President Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his widely condemned decision to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan, who served as CIA director under President Barack Obama. Brennan has been a vocal Trump critic, describing the president’s July press conference with...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Aug 17, 2018 HUD Complaint Says Facebook Discriminated Against Users With Advertising On Friday, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it had filed a housing discrimination complaint against Facebook for violating the Fair Housing Act with its advertising platform.  Attention was first brought to the potential harm of Facebook’s...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Aug 17, 2018 Trump Cancels Military Parade, Floats Buying 2/3rds of Fighter Jet Donald Trump, who skillfully avoided military service and once compared his own promiscuous sex life in the eighties with Vietnam, was forced to cancel his military parade after estimates of its cost ballooned from $12 million to $92 million. On Thursday, the Secretary of...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Aug 17, 2018 Enemy of What??? Permit me to enter my small voice to today’s national gathering of newspapers editorially reacting – en masse   – to Donald Trump’s rancorous charge that journalists are the “enemy of the people”. As one who has knocked some newspapers and broadcasters from time to...     Plunderbund        more   
• Aug 17, 2018 Fleeing From ECOT Radioactivity: Meet the GOP Fast and Furious Foursome Fast and furious. When people see that phrase, they often identify it with the name of a film released several years ago. But today, fast and furious also describes the behavior of Republican politicians as they flee as swiftly as they can from the spreading radioactive mushroom cloud generated...     Plunderbund        more   
• Aug 17, 2018 Ohio House Candidate’s Troubling Ties To Wes Goodman Jena Powell, a Republican candidate for Ohio House of Representatives District 80, has political and familial ties to an organization that may have enabled former Rep. Wes Goodman’s duplicitous lifestyle.  The Forge, a Dayton, Ohio based conservative leadership academy caters to 16-24 young...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Aug 18, 2018 Mueller Seeks Six-Month Sentence for Papadopoulos, Says He Lied and Hurt Russia Probe If it had not been for George Papadopoulos’ lies, federal authorities may have been able to detain a man they suspected was part of Russia’s efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, the special counsel said Friday night. In a court filing, special counsel Robert Mueller called for...     Slate        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Dwyane Wade Chastises Jimmy Butler for Commenting on Gabrielle Union’s Instagram and Using Caps On Thursday, actress Garbrielle Union posted an Instagram photo of herself in a swimsuit. At the time of writing, it has earned 1,017,781 likes. That’s a lot of engagement! The post has also elicited 26,454 comments, one of which may or may not have caused a massive rift in the NBA community....     Slate        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 ICE Officers Arrest Man Who Was Driving Pregnant Wife to Hospital for C-Section What should have been a day of joy ended up being filled with worry and uncertainty as a father has not been able to seen his newborn baby after immigration agents arrested him on the way to the hospital. Joel Arrona Lara, a 36-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was driving his wife,...     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Aug 17, 2018 The Other Mandela Is Going to Help End Scott Walker’s Governorship John Nichols Economic and social- and racial-justice activist Mandela Barnes was just nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. The post The Other Mandela Is Going to Help End Scott Walker’s Governorship appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Aug 17, 2018 The Next Generation of Southern Organizing Robin Happel By providing a playbook for young organizers, Southerners on New Ground encourages college students not simply to stay involved, but to see themselves as leaders in the fight for a more just South. The post The Next Generation of Southern Organizing appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Aug 17, 2018 Can Tahirah Amatul-Wadud Become the Next Progressive Woman to Unseat an Incumbent? Will Meyer The Muslim mother of seven is betting that she, too, can take down a high-ranking career politician, in Massachusetts’s First Congressional District. The post Can Tahirah Amatul-Wadud Become the Next Progressive Woman to Unseat an Incumbent? appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Aug 17, 2018 ‘An Eternal Night of Persecution and Death’: Activists Speak Out About Nicaragua’s Crackdown Maia Hibbett Despite mass killings and newly authoritarian laws, a diverse opposition says the movement to oust Ortega is far from over. The post ‘An Eternal Night of Persecution and Death’: Activists Speak Out About Nicaragua’s Crackdown appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Aug 18, 2018 Senators demand answers on reported lead poisoning at Army bases A handful of senators sent a letter to Army on Friday asking about reports of lead poisoning on U.S. military bases and urging officials to outline steps they are taking to protect any affected families and children....     The Hill        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Brennan: I didn’t mean that Trump committed treason Former CIA Director John Brennan said that he didn't mean President Trump had committed treason when he called Trump's press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin "nothing short of treason."Brennan clari...     The Hill        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Boogeywomen — GOP vilifies big-name female Dems Republicans have made attacks on high-profile Democratic women a key part of their strategy for holding onto congressional majorities.The GOP aims to cast rank-and-file Democrats as puppets of Minority Leader Nancy...     The Hill        more   
• Aug 18, 2018 Georgia state GOP lawmaker: If Trump said N-word, that’s ‘separate from how he is running the country’ Georgia Republican state Senator Michael Williams said Saturday that while he would disapprove of President Trump saying the N-word on a personal level, the president should not be "berated" if he said it before taking of...     The Hill        more   
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