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Edward Snowden: We Are Never Farther Than a Single Election Away From a Change in Government
Edward Snowden speaks at a Q&A in Amsterdam via a livestream connection from Russia on November 10, 2016. (photo: Sander Koning/AFP/Getty Images)
Brian Barrett, Wired
Barrett writes: "While we're still two months away from an actual Trump presidency, tech companies and civil liberties advocates are already grappling with the question of what his ascendency means for privacy and surveillance. Among those weighing in? NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
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Trump Names White Nationalist Figure 'Chief Strategist to the President'
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "Trump named Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, as 'chief strategist and senior counselor' to the president. Ben Shapiro, who worked alongside Bannon for four years as Breitbart's Editor-at-Large, wrote that Bannon 'openly embraced the white supremacist alt-right.'"
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Julian Assange Questioned by Prosecutors at Ecuador's Embassy in London
Peter Nicholls and Paul Sandle, Reuters
Excerpt: "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faced questioning on Monday by prosecutors at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been holed up for four years, over allegations he committed rape in 2010."
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Loan Forgiveness Was Meant to Help Me Get Out of Debt. It Did the Opposite
Andrea Moore, Guardian UK
Moore writes: "How did a program designed to help public servants confine me to what feels like indefinite servitude?"
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Trump's Top Domestic Policy Adviser: Being Gay Is a 'Lifestyle' That 'Can Be Changed'
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Just in case there was any doubt, Trump will be an anti-LGBT president."
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Paris Attacks One Year On: 'I Live With This Every Day'
Kyle G. Brown, Al Jazeera
Brown writes: "Gregory Reibenberg held his wife's hand until she drew her last breath, assuring her that he would look after their daughter, and himself. Surrounded by dead bodies and shattered tables that had been shot up or thrown aside by people running for their lives, he then closed Djamila Houd's eyes. After kissing her for a final time, the rest, he says, is a blur."
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A Giant Reservoir That Supplies a California County's Drinking Water Is Nearly Empty
Darryl Fears, The Washington Post
Fears writes: "Under a sky that hardly ever delivers rain, Lake Cachuma will only continue to fall, putting nearly a half-million county residents in an ugly situation. As early as January, the depth is expected to be too low to distribute water."
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