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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Aug 21, 2019 California's Secretary of State on the rapidly changing role of cybersecurity for US elections California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been a champion for voting rights. He was elected in 2014, defeating his Republican opponent on the promise of getting more Californians registered and enfranchised into the Democratic process. Since that time, Padilla has worked to expand...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Oil lobbyist brags about criminalizing gas and oil pipeline protests in leaked audio recording Derrick Morgan, senior vice president for federal and regulatory affairs for oil lobby group American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFRM), bragged about how successful the industry has been in pushing anti-protest legislation, as heard in leaked audio obtained by The Intercept. What...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Trump severs ties with old friend and fellow alleged influence peddler Tom Barrack Donald Trump has severed ties with one of his oldest and closest friends, wealthy investor Tom Barrack, Politico reports. The friendship goes back decades, and the men were so close, reportedly, that "Barrack comforted Trump during the funeral of his father, Fred." The two were so close that...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Gay conservative group loses members following pathetic endorsement of Trump 2020 It’s unclear exactly how big the Log Cabin Republicans group is, but it’s now down by a couple following the resignation of two members over the gay conservative group’s pathetic endorsement of Trump 2020. “It saddens me greatly to say that today, I am ending my association with Log...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Notorious bully Chris Christie is trying to rebrand himself as a civility expert Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is apparently so starved for attention that he doesn’t care if it comes in the form of headlines like "Chris 'Sit Down and Shut Up' Christie Creates Think Tank Centered on Civility." Christie made his name, and his entire national reputation, as a bully:...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Aug 21, 2019 Trump Administration Launches Most Brazen Attack on Protections for Young Migrants Loren Elliott/AFP/GettyIn a stunning provocation, the Trump administration reportedly plans to announce on Wednesday that it will abrogate a decades-old legal agreement in order to indefinitely detain immigrant families in government custody.The planned termination of the original Flores...     Daily Beast        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 Decision Time for Pope After Cardinal George Pell Loses Sex Abuse Appeal Mark Dadswell/ReutersROME– On Monday, the shutters of Australian Cardinal George Pell’s lavish apartment in the shadow of St. Peter’s basilica were open and cleaners could be seen dusting the window sills. Pell had clearly hoped that he would be free to return to this upper-floor flat and...     Daily Beast        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 Florida Man Botched Castration on Victim He Met Through Dark Web Fetish Site: Authorities Highlands County Sheriff’s OfficeA Florida man was arrested Monday after allegedly botching a castration surgery on another man he met online through a fetish website, authorities said. Gary Van Ryswyk, 74, has been charged with second-degree felony of practicing medicine without a license...     Daily Beast        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 Trump Tells NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Universal Background Checks Are Off the Table: Report Alex Wong/GettyPresident Trump reportedly called embattled NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre on Tuesday to tell him universal background checks were off the table as a legislative response to the shootings in El Paso and Dayton.The call, reported by The Atlantic, is the latest, and most direct,...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Aug 21, 2019 ICE Accidentally Just Revealed How Much its New Contract With Peter Thiel’s Palantir Is Worth Immigrations and Customs Enforcement renewed its contract with the software company Palantir, according to new government documents made public on Monday, and it could be worth some $49 million over the next three years. But that number isn’t intentionally public. The...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 A Sweeping New Lawsuit Blasts ICE Over “Horrific, Inhumane” Conditions in Immigration Detention Jose Segovia Benitez has a tattoo of the Statue of Liberty on his chest. He served two tours oversees as a US Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he was honorably discharged in 2004 after being hit by an explosive device. When he went back home to Long Beach, California, he had a traumatic brain...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 Facebook’s Anti-Conservative Bias Report Does Not Identify Any Anti-Conservative Bias Facebook released initial findings on Tuesday from an audit it commissioned examing whether the social media giant is biased against conservatives. The report, conducted by a private law firm and issued under the name of former Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, comes amid substantial pressure and...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 Jill Biden Tells Voters to Settle for Her Husband Jill Biden has a message for voters reluctant to get behind her husband: settle or face another four years of hell. That’s essentially what the former second lady, in surprisingly blunt terms, told a group of teachers in New Hampshire on Monday, as she attempted to make the case for why Joe...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Aug 16, 2019 It’s About More Than Guns: Researching Caring Behavior Among Americans When I came across this handmade sign on display last year in a San Francisco apartment window, I thought that aside from scary reports about curious young children unknowingly poisoning themselves and teens ingesting laundry detergent on a dare, we weren’t there yet in pinning all things bad...     Plunderbund        more   
• Aug 5, 2019 Ohio Republican Candice Keller Is Having A Day Yesterday, Ohio Republican State Representative wondered on Facebook if mass shootings were the fault of transgendered Americans, open borders, parents who don't discipline their kids or legalized weed. The reaction was swift and brutal. Today was not a good day for Ohio's craziest State...     Plunderbund        more   
• Aug 2, 2019 Note to Ohio Republicans: There You Go Again At the end of the legislative session, as Ohio Republican stalwarts honored their marching orders from the party’s corporate friends and benefactors, there was one message from the spirit world they should have been familiar with – and heeded. There you go again. When the smoke – or was it...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Aug 21, 2019 Why the Bogus Study About Google Manipulating Votes Is a Powerful Weapon for the Right It makes the false claim about social media’s anti-conservative “bias” look almost respectable.     Slate        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 After 9/11, The CIA’s Brutal Tactics Worked. That Doesn’t Mean It Should Ever Use Them Again. The issue is a moral one.     Slate        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews Ever the narcissist, Trump couldn’t even leave it at the normal anti-Semitic trope.     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Aug 20, 2019 Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started John Nichols And it could give Democrats a fighting chance in farm country and small-town America. The post Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 Trump’s America Is Worse Than Orwell’s ‘1984’ Tom Engelhardt As global warming intensifies, our world is becoming bleaker than one of the darkest dystopias ever imagined. The post Trump’s America Is Worse Than Orwell’s ‘1984’ appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias Katrina vanden Heuvel And thankfully, bad press matters less and less. The post Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Aug 20, 2019 How to Solve a Suicide Tom Tomorrow Step one: I certainly didn’t do it. The post How to Solve a Suicide appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Aug 21, 2019 Sanders to Trump: 'I am a proud Jewish person' with 'no concerns about voting Democratic' Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who's running for the Democratic nomination for president, responded to President Trump's Tuesday remarks that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats are showing a "lack of knowledge or...     The Hill        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Romney: 'Putin and Kim Jong Un deserve a censure rather than flattery' Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Monday took an implicit shot at President Trump's approach to certain world leaders, arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "deserve a cen...     The Hill        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Federal health officials were ordered not to post about mental health after Trump linked it to shootings: report Communications employees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were warned not to post anything on social media regarding mental health or violence after two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Oh...     The Hill        more   
• Aug 21, 2019 Nevada county issuing emergency declaration in advance of 'Storm Area 51' event A rural Nevada county drafted an emergency declaration in advance of a planned "Storm Area 51" event that is expected to draw thousands of visitors.Lincoln County, home of U.S. Air Force base...     The Hill        more   
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