Friday, November 17, 2017

Garrison Keillor | A Trip to New York and a Dead iPhone




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Garrison Keillor | A Trip to New York and a Dead iPhone 
Garrison Keillor. (photo: Getty) 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "Life is precarious. So much depends on a small card with a grim picture of me on it. Lose it and I become flotsam, a fugitive, stateless, displaced. Sobering." 
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Al Franken Apologizes After Accusation He Kissed and Groped TV News Anchor 
Sabrina Siddiqui, Guardian UK 
Siddiqui writes: "Tweeden alleges that Franken, then a comedian and formerly of Saturday Night Live, forcibly kissed her while rehearsing for a skit and later groped her while she was asleep." 
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The Trump Administration Rejected 4,000 "Late" DACA Renewals. Some Were Sitting in Its Mailbox at the Deadline. 
Dara Lind, Vox 
Lind writes: "It's beginning to look like a lot of immigrants were initially denied one last renewal of their deportation protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program - even though they made good-faith efforts to file their paperwork." 
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Bezos Cashes In on Lobbying Washington With Amazon's $53 Billion Deal to Supply Pentagon 
Whitney Webb, MintPress News 
Webb writes: "As Amazon continues to entrench itself as the nation's commissary, huge government supply deals like the $53 billion Pentagon-Amazon procurement deal Congress is set to authorize leave little room for competitors and raise the specter of government-coddled monopoly." 
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In Major Threat to Free Speech, Texas Sheriff Is Looking to Arrest Driver With Anti-Trump Window Sticker 
Marwa Eltagouri and J. Freedom du Lac, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "A sheriff in Texas is looking for a truck bearing a profanity-laced anti-Trump sticker and said authorities are considering charging its owner with disorderly conduct - a threat that immediately raised alarm among free speech advocates." 
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US Sanctions Are Preventing Americans From Donating to Iran's Earthquake Victims 
Ted Regencia, Al Jazeera 
Regencia writes: "On the first day of his effort, Najafi received a message by Facebook informing him the funds 'will not be released,' until the social media site receives from him the required authorisation from the United States Department of Treasury." 
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#NoDAPL Activists Face Continued Tactics to 'Silence Future Protests' 
Climate Nexus 
Excerpt: "Dakota Access Pipeline owner Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) paid a private security firm to build a massive racketeering suit against green groups opposing the pipeline, three former employees confirmed to the Intercept this week." 
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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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