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William Boardman | The Trumpocalypse Is Near! Repent, and Repeal Obamacare! 
Vice President-elect Mike Pence, left, joins House Speaker Paul Ryan at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 4, 2017, following a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucus. Pence and Ryan promised repeal of President Obama's health care law now that the GOP is in charge of the White House and Congress. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) 
William Boardman, Reader Supported News 
Boardman writes: "Obamacare threatens to become a deadly serious tar baby for Republicans: the more they mess with it, the more it's going to entangle them in sticky wickets." 
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Jeff Sessions Wanted to 'Drop the Case' Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified 
Kenneth Lipp, The Daily Beast 
Lipp writes: "Trump's attorney-general pick allegedly signaled an assistant U.S. attorney working for him in the '80s not to prosecute two whites who murdered a black man in Alabama." 
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Meryl Streep Has Hit on Star-Struck Trump's Big Weakness 
Steve Rose, Guardian UK 
Rose writes: "Perhaps Meryl Streep has found the way to really get under Trump's skin." 
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A Dairy Queen Owner Unleashed a Racist Tirade Against a Customer. He No Longer Has a Business. 
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post 
Wootson Jr. writes: "The Dairy Queen owner shouting the n-word at Deianeira Ford told her he could say whatever he wanted at his fast-food restaurant - that any accusations and complaints she uttered would fall on deaf ears. Ford was vindicated two days later, when her Facebook post about the incident provoked outrage so strong that the Dairy Queen in Zion, Ill., didn't open for business." 
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Mass Incarceration: America's Durable Monstrosity 
Daniel Denvir, Jacobin 
Denvir writes: "New figures show that the US prison population has dropped. But mass incarceration remains firmly intact." 
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Pakistan Counts Transgender People in National Census for First Time 
Waqar Mustafa, Reuters 
Mustafa writes: "Pakistan will count transgender people in its national census for the first time when it surveys its population in March this year following a top court ruling on Monday." 
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US Plans to Save Polar Bears Are Toothless, Says Climate Scientist 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "The US Fish and Wildlife Service has released its plan for the recovery of threatened polar bears, acknowledging it will take no direct action to address the primary threat of greenhouse gases on the decline of sea ice habitat." 
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