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Andy Borowitz | Trump Accepts Larry Flynt's Ten-Million-Dollar Offer for Information Leading to His Impeachment
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Just minutes after the publisher Larry Flynt offered ten million dollars in exchange for information leading to Donald Trump's impeachment, Trump contacted Flynt and said that he would gladly provide the information himself in exchange for the cash."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Just minutes after the publisher Larry Flynt offered ten million dollars in exchange for information leading to Donald Trump's impeachment, Trump contacted Flynt and said that he would gladly provide the information himself in exchange for the cash."
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Inside the 'Adult Day-Care Center': How Aides Try to Control and Coerce Trump
Ashley Parker and Greg Jaffe, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Some Trump aides spend a significant part of their time devising ways to rein in and control the impetuous president, angling to avoid outbursts that might work against him, according to interviews with 18 aides, confidants and outside advisers, most of whom insisted on anonymity to speak candidly."
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Ashley Parker and Greg Jaffe, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Some Trump aides spend a significant part of their time devising ways to rein in and control the impetuous president, angling to avoid outbursts that might work against him, according to interviews with 18 aides, confidants and outside advisers, most of whom insisted on anonymity to speak candidly."
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Cambridge Analytica, the Shady Data Firm That Might Be a Key Trump-Russia Link, Explained
Sean Illing, Vox
Illing writes: "House investigators think this company might have helped Russia spread fake news."
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Sean Illing, Vox
Illing writes: "House investigators think this company might have helped Russia spread fake news."
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Trump Health Officials Just Quietly Defined Life as 'Beginning at Conception'
Dr. Jen Gunter, The Cut
Dr. Gunter writes: "There were so many things to be angry about last week that it's understandable if you missed this one: The draft of the Department of Health and Human Services 2018-2022 strategic plan contains language that claims life begins at conception. As an ob-gyn, I'm alarmed. You should be, too."
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Dr. Jen Gunter, The Cut
Dr. Gunter writes: "There were so many things to be angry about last week that it's understandable if you missed this one: The draft of the Department of Health and Human Services 2018-2022 strategic plan contains language that claims life begins at conception. As an ob-gyn, I'm alarmed. You should be, too."
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COINTELPRO 2? FBI Targets "Black Identity Extremists" Despite Surge in White Supremacist Violence
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Goodman reports: "A leaked FBI counterterrorism memo claims that so-called black identity extremists pose a threat to law enforcement. The memo was dated August 3, 2017 - only days before the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis killed one anti-racist protester, Heather Heyer, and injured dozens more."
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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Goodman reports: "A leaked FBI counterterrorism memo claims that so-called black identity extremists pose a threat to law enforcement. The memo was dated August 3, 2017 - only days before the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis killed one anti-racist protester, Heather Heyer, and injured dozens more."
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Scores of Colombian Police Investigated for Tumaco Massacre
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombia's Office of the Inspector General, along with Prosecutor General's Office and the Office of the Ombudsman, have all announced an investigation into 36 policemen and 14 soldiers involved in the Oct. 5 massacre in the city of Tumaco, where at least seven campesinos were killed."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombia's Office of the Inspector General, along with Prosecutor General's Office and the Office of the Ombudsman, have all announced an investigation into 36 policemen and 14 soldiers involved in the Oct. 5 massacre in the city of Tumaco, where at least seven campesinos were killed."
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Trump Appointees Approve Two Major Pipelines to Transport Fracked Gas
Mark Hand, ThinkProgress
Hand writes: "President Donald Trump's two appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted late Friday to approve both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The lone Democrat on the commission, Cheryl LaFleur, issued a written dissent."
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Mark Hand, ThinkProgress
Hand writes: "President Donald Trump's two appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted late Friday to approve both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The lone Democrat on the commission, Cheryl LaFleur, issued a written dissent."
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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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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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