Thursday, February 2, 2017

RSN: Reuters Orders Reporters to Cover Trump Like an Authoritarian Regime: Expect 'Physical Threats'




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Charles Pierce | Neil Gorsuch Is Reputed to Be to the Right of Antonin Scalia, Which Is Mind-Boggling
Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "It is a dark moment in your life when you realize that a Supreme Court nominee will be causing damage long after you're dead."
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Reuters Orders Reporters to Cover Trump Like an Authoritarian Regime: Expect 'Physical Threats'
Reuters
Excerpt: "The first 12 days of the Trump presidency (yes, that's all it's been!) have been memorable for all - and especially challenging for us in the news business."
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Trump Urges "Nuclear Option" to Seat Gorsuch
Richard Cowan, Reuters
Cowan writes: "President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Senate Republicans to 'go nuclear' and invoke a rule change to force a simple majority vote toward confirmation if Democrats block his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, as Democrats maneuvered for a tough fight."
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GOP Suspends Senate Rule, Muscles Trump Picks Through Panel
Richard Lardner and Alan Fram, Associated Press
Excerpt: "In the latest intensification of partisan hostilities, Republicans rammed President Donald Trump's picks to be Treasury and health secretaries through a Senate committee on Wednesday with no Democrats present after unilaterally suspending panel rules that would have otherwise prevented the vote."
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Texas Mayor Jess Herbst Comes Out as a Transgender Woman
Maya Oppenheim, The Independent
Oppenheim writes: "Jess Herbst, the Mayor of a town in Collin County called New Hope, is believed to be the state's first openly transgender official."
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The Zapatista Candidate
Rasec Niembro, Jacobin
Niembro writes: "By participating in Mexico's 2018 election, the EZLN can bring its indigenous anticapitalist platform into mainstream politics."
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Republicans Move to Sell Off 3.3 Million Acres of Public Land
Climate Nexus
Excerpt: "And a bill introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz last week proposes to sell 3.3 million acres of federal land in 10 different states, a move environmental advocates and sportsmen groups say would cut economic activity and block public access to larger parcels of federal land."
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