15 November 18
RSN: Mort Rosenblum | Bonfire of the Insanities
Mort Rosenblum, Reader Supported News
Rosenblum writes: "As Donald Trump skulked home on Armistice Day after letting the world know what he thinks of it, Tom Wolfe came to mind. Remember 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'? A Wall Street master of the universe gets lost in the Bronx and bumps hard against reality."
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Mort Rosenblum, Reader Supported News
Rosenblum writes: "As Donald Trump skulked home on Armistice Day after letting the world know what he thinks of it, Tom Wolfe came to mind. Remember 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'? A Wall Street master of the universe gets lost in the Bronx and bumps hard against reality."
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Trump supporters. (photo: AP)
Tom Engelhardt | The Donald and the Fake News Media, an Affair to Remember
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Face it: it's been an abusive time, to use a word he likes to wield. In his telling, of course, it's he or his people who are always the abused ones and they - the 'fake news media' - are the abusers. But let's be honest. You've been abused, too, and so have I."
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Face it: it's been an abusive time, to use a word he likes to wield. In his telling, of course, it's he or his people who are always the abused ones and they - the 'fake news media' - are the abusers. But let's be honest. You've been abused, too, and so have I."
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Mark Zuckerberg. (photo: Getty)
Facebook Drops Shady PR Firm It Used to Attempt to Discredit Critics
Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
Lee writes: "Facebook has cut ties with a conservative public relations group called Definers hours after a Wednesday New York Times story revealed that the group had circulated a document linking some of Facebook's left-wing critics to liberal billionaire George Soros."
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Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
Lee writes: "Facebook has cut ties with a conservative public relations group called Definers hours after a Wednesday New York Times story revealed that the group had circulated a document linking some of Facebook's left-wing critics to liberal billionaire George Soros."
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Demonstrators rally for justice for Jamal Khashoggi. (photo: Getty)
Saudi Crown Prince Shielded as Death Penalty Sought Over Khashoggi Murder
Martin Chulov, Guardian UK
Chulov writes: "Saudi Arabia says it will pursue the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of the Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, in the latest effort to distance the country's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, from the grisly murder."
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Martin Chulov, Guardian UK
Chulov writes: "Saudi Arabia says it will pursue the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of the Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, in the latest effort to distance the country's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, from the grisly murder."
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Rep. Maxine Waters, seated next to Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, at a hearing in July, is set to become chair of the House Financial Services Committee. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
'Auntie Maxine' Waters Gets Ready to Take On the Banks as House Panel Chair
Jim Zarroli, NPR
Zarroli writes: "Maxine Waters of California is known as a partisan firebrand who gives as good as she gets, especially where President Trump is concerned."
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Jim Zarroli, NPR
Zarroli writes: "Maxine Waters of California is known as a partisan firebrand who gives as good as she gets, especially where President Trump is concerned."
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Rohingya refugees. (photo: Dar Yasin/AP)
Bangladesh Scraps Rohingya Return, Says No One Wants to Go
Julhas Alam and Emily Schmall, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The head of Bangladesh's refugee commission said plans to begin the repatriation of 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar on Thursday were scrapped after officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return."
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Julhas Alam and Emily Schmall, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The head of Bangladesh's refugee commission said plans to begin the repatriation of 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar on Thursday were scrapped after officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return."
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A gray wolf is seen at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minnesota. (photo: National Park)
Gray Wolf Population Could Lose Federal Protection Under GOP Bill
Kellen Browning, McClatchy DC
Browning writes: "Republicans have only a few weeks left until they cede control of the House to Democrats, but the first big post-election GOP vote won't address taxes or border wall funding. It involves wolves."
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Kellen Browning, McClatchy DC
Browning writes: "Republicans have only a few weeks left until they cede control of the House to Democrats, but the first big post-election GOP vote won't address taxes or border wall funding. It involves wolves."
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