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Andy Borowitz | DeVos Defends Trump: "Would a Moron Hire Me?" 
Betsy DeVos. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "'My intelligence can be very intimidating," DeVos said. 'And if Donald Trump was a moron, he would not want to be around people who are intelligenter than him.'"
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America's Gun Fantasy
Kurt Andersen, Slate
Andersen writes: "Very, very few of the guns in America are used for hunting. Americans who own guns today keep arsenals in a way people did not 40 years ago. It seems plain to me that that's because they - not all, but many - have given themselves over to fantasies."
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Corker Calls White House 'an Adult Day Care Center' in Response to Trump's Latest Twitter Tirade
Philip Rucker and Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Sen. Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, on Sunday called the White House 'an adult day care center' after President Trump attacked him in a morning Twitter tirade."
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White Supremacists Return to Charlottesville Chanting, 'Russia Is Our Friend'
Jackson Landers, The Daily Beast
Landers writes: "White supremacist Richard Spencer suddenly reappeared on Saturday night with torch-bearing supporters, two months after he organized an infamous hate march here."
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Facebook Looks to Partner With Right-Wing Outlet to Fact Check Stories
Addy Baird, Think Progress
Baird writes: "According to a new report from Quartz, Facebook plans to sign conservative magazine Weekly Standard as a fact checking partner. Several outlets currently work as fact checkers for the platform, though all the outlets Facebook has signed thus far have been approved by the Poynter Institute."
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Zapatista-Backed Indigenous Woman Registers to Run for Mexican Presidency
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Maria de Jesus 'Marichui' Patricio Martinez, the independent candidate for Mexican Indigenous communities in the 2018 presidential elections, has registered with the electoral authorities, despite numerous bureaucratic hurdles."
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75% of World's Honey Laced With Pesticides
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
Corbett writes: "Raising further concerns about the global food production system, a new study found that bees worldwide are being widely exposed to dangerous agricultural chemicals, with 75 percent of honey samples from six continents testing positive for pesticides known to harm pollinators."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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