Friday, October 14, 2016

RSN: Donald Trump Is Four Centuries Too Late, 6 Years After Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Thousands of People Are Still Sick




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Garrison Keillor | Donald Trump Is Four Centuries Too Late 
Garrison Keillor. (photo: Wisconsin Public Radio) 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "It's the scariest and hairiest election of this old man's life, and I pore over the polls and the electoral maps." 
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Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate 
David Remnick, The New Yorker 
Remnick writes: "The Times report [on Donald Trump] was the latest detail, the latest brushstroke, in the ever-darkening portrait of an American grotesque. Then came the news, early this morning, that Bob Dylan, one of the best among us, a glory of the country and of the language, had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ring them bells!" 
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Jessica Valenti | If Only Women Voted, Trump Would Lose. We Need Men on Our Side 
Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK 
Valenti writes: "If only men voted in the upcoming presidential election, Donald Trump - a man who brags about sexually assaulting women and deliberately walked in on naked teenage pageant contestants - would be our president. And here it was women who had to spend years convincing the country we weren't too stupid to vote!" 
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DoJ Review of San Francisco Police Finds 'Institutional Bias' Against Minorities 
Julia Carrie Wong, Guardian UK 
Wong writes: "The US Department of Justice is recommending that the San Francisco police department implement 272 reforms following a six-month investigation that found 'numerous indicators of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups.'" 
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Warren Demands Wells Fargo CEO 'Return Every Nickel' He Made From Scandal 
Jessie Hellmann, The Hill 
Hellmann writes: "Following news that John Stumpf would retire immediately, Warren demanded he face investigation for a scandal that involved the creation of fake accounts for unwitting customers." 
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US Enters Yemen War, Bombing Houthis Who Launched Missiles at Navy Ship 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "The United States has launched its first strike on Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen in retaliation for days of attacks on a navy warship, becoming an active combatant in a brutal war led by Washington's ally Saudi Arabia." 
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6 Years After Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Thousands of People Are Still Sick 
Linda Marsa, Newsweek 
Marsa writes: "Occupational health experts now believe it created a toxic mix that sickened thousands of locals - including some of the 47,000 people that worked in some capacity on BP's cleanup operation - crippling them with chemically induced illnesses that doctors are unable to treat." 
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