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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Thursday, September 13, 2018

Rebecca Gordon | Holding the Line on Torture: One Organization at a Time




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Rebecca Gordon | Holding the Line on Torture: One Organization at a Time 
A protest against torture in 2016. (photo: Justin Norman/cc/flickr)
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Gordon writes: "When we're smart, committed, and organized, the good guys can win."
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Robert Mueller. (photo: Brooks Craft LLC/Getty Images/Corbis)
Robert Mueller. (photo: Brooks Craft LLC/Getty Images/Corbis)

The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering
David Leonhardt, The New York Times
Leonhardt writes: "How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia."
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A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Mission, Texas. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Mission, Texas. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

Here's What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents and Sent to Chicago
Jodi S. Cohen, Melissa Sanchez and Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica
Excerpt: "Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration's zero-tolerance crackdown."
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Chilean troops fire on the La Moneda Palace, Santiago, on 11 September 1973 during the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. (photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Chilean troops fire on the La Moneda Palace, Santiago, on 11 September 1973 during the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. (photo: AFP/Getty Images)

I Thought Democracy in Chile Was Safe. Now I See America Falling Into the Same Trap
Ariel Dorfman, Guardian UK
Dorfman writes: "The rights we take for granted are fragile and revocable, and only the resistance of ordinary citizens will save them."
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Teachers strike in Tacoma, Washington. (photo: Lindsay Schnell/USA TODAY)
Teachers strike in Tacoma, Washington. (photo: Lindsay Schnell/USA TODAY)

Teachers Are Striking Again. In Tacoma, Washington, They're Prepared to Picket for Weeks.
Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY
Schnell writes: "Strikes have rocked the education world this year. Teachers want higher salaries. They're fed up with paying for school supplies out of their own pocket and working extra hours."
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Deforestation in Colombia. (photo: Mongabay)
Deforestation in Colombia. (photo: Mongabay)

Criminal Mafias Take Over Colombian Forests
Maria Fernanda Lizcano and Romina Castagnino, Mongabay
Excerpt: "There are various competing land uses of the Amazon rainforest. The region in southern Colombia that until less than two years ago was the stronghold of the FARC guerrilla group has become the shelter of a criminal structure that unites the dissidents of the now-defunct guerrilla group, criminal gangs and political and economic actors seeking to take over those lands."
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South Carolina governor Henry McMaster said the evacuation order for coastal counties was 'mandatory, not voluntary.' (photo: Randall Hill/Reuters)
South Carolina governor Henry McMaster said the evacuation order for coastal counties was 'mandatory, not voluntary.' (photo: Randall Hill/Reuters)

One Million Asked to Evacuate as Hurricane Florence Nears US Coast
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "More than one million people in the United States have been asked to evacuate ahead of what could potentially be one of the most catastrophic storms to hit the country's East Coast region in decades."
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