Matt Taibbi | Bernie Sanders Opens Up About New Democrats in Congress, Taking on Trumpism

10 November 18

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Matt Taibbi | Bernie Sanders Opens Up About New Democrats in Congress, Taking on Trumpism 

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Sanders was implicitly a major part of the 2018 narrative. He had campaigned hard for several candidates, notably Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum, and seemed deeply disappointed in Gillum's narrow loss (which appears on the verge of being relitigated)."
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A Honduran family stands next to the border fence after they turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

ALSO SEE: Migrant Caravan Begins Next Stage of Its Journey

ACLU Sues Trump Government Over Asylum Ban
teleSUR
Excerpt: "On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's new asylum ban which is targeting the Central American migrant caravan."
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Matthew Whitaker. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's Acting Attorney General Involved in Firm That Scammed Veterans Out of Life Savings
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK  

EXCERPT: 

Whitaker, a former US attorney in Iowa, was paid to work as an advisory board member for World Patent Marketing (WPM), a Florida-based company accused by the US government of tricking aspiring inventors out of millions of dollars. Earlier this year, it was ordered to pay authorities $26m.

Several veterans, two of them with disabilities, said they lost tens of thousands of dollars in the WPM scam, having been enticed into paying for patenting and licensing services by the impressive credentials of Whitaker and his fellow advisers.

Swaine writes: "Donald Trump's new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their life savings, according to court filings and interviews."
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Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building at the Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018. (photo: Win McNamee/Reuters)

Christine Blasey Ford Is Still Getting Death Threats, Lawyers Say
Sophie Weiner, Splinter News
Weiner writes: "One month after she testified in front of Congress about her sexual abuse allegations against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford's name has mostly disappeared from the headlines. But that doesn't mean life has returned to normal."
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People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard during the Las Vegas shooting. (photo: David Becker/Getty Images)

Man Who Survived Vegas Shooting Died in Thousand Oaks Massacre
CBS News 

EXCERPT: 

he mother of a 27-year-old man killed in the shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. late Thursday night said her son had survived the October mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Telemachus "Tel" Orfanos lost his life in the Borderline Bar and Grill, less than 10 minutes from his home.

Susan Schmidt-Orfanos, her voice and head shaking with grief and rage, said outside her family's home, "My son was in Las Vegas with one of his friends and he came home. He didn't come home last night. And I don't want prayers, I don't want thoughts, I want gun control and I hope to God nobody else sends me more prayers. I want gun control. No. More. Guns."

Excerpt: "The mother of a 27-year-old man killed in the shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. late Thursday night said her son had survived the October mass shooting in Las Vegas."
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Juan Emilio Cheyre was chief of the army between 2002 and 2006. (photo: Radio Universidad de Chile)

Chile's Caravan of Death: Ex-Army Chief Convicted for Pinochet-Era Crimes
BBC
Excerpt: "General Juan Emilio Cheyre was sentenced to three years and a day under house arrest."
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A narwhal. (photo: National Geographic)

Arctic Ship Traffic Threatens Narwhals and Other Extraordinary Animals
Donna Hauser, Harry Stern and Kristin Laidre, The Conversation
Excerpt: "Americans often associate fall with football and raking leaves, but in the Arctic this season is about ice. Every year, floating sea ice in the Arctic thins and melts in spring and summer, then thickens and expands in fall and winter."
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