Garrison Keillor | Life Is Good, Unless You Get on the Wrong Train
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "In response to the government shutdown, I have stayed in bed, gone without bathing, turned off the phone. I am going to continue until Walmart sends me six fresh walleye and a set of white sidewalls autographed by Barbara Walters. I know what is needed and I can hold out for years if I have to."
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Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "In response to the government shutdown, I have stayed in bed, gone without bathing, turned off the phone. I am going to continue until Walmart sends me six fresh walleye and a set of white sidewalls autographed by Barbara Walters. I know what is needed and I can hold out for years if I have to."
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Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)
If the Shutdown Lasts Two More Weeks, the Cost to the Economy Will Exceed Price of Trump's Wall
Yun Li, CNBC
Li writes: "If the government shutdown lasts another two weeks, the total cost to the U.S. economy would exceed the price of building the proposed border wall."
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Yun Li, CNBC
Li writes: "If the government shutdown lasts another two weeks, the total cost to the U.S. economy would exceed the price of building the proposed border wall."
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Alex Jones. (photo: AP)
The Families of Sandy Hook Victims Have Scored a Legal Victory Against Alex Jones and Infowars
Claudia Koerner, BuzzFeed
Claudia Koerner, BuzzFeed
EXCERPT:
lex Jones will have to turn over his tax returns, business plans, and marketing data in a lawsuit with families of Sandy Hook victims, who say he pushed conspiracy theories about the school shooting to get rich.
Koerner writes: "Alex Jones will have to turn over his tax returns, business plans, and marketing data in a lawsuit with families of Sandy Hook victims, who say he pushed conspiracy theories about the school shooting to get rich."
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A caravan of migrants moving north after crossing the border from Honduras into Guatemala. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
A New Migrant Caravan Is Forming in Central America, With Plans to Leave Next Week
Sarah Kinosian and Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Another migrant caravan is forming in Honduras, with plans to set out next week on a journey that will once again test the immigration policies of Mexico and the United States."
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Sarah Kinosian and Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Another migrant caravan is forming in Honduras, with plans to set out next week on a journey that will once again test the immigration policies of Mexico and the United States."
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Brian Kolfage. (photo: ABC)
Far-Right Grifter's Campaign to Crowdfund Donald Trump's Border Project Hits a Wall
Adam Peck, ThinkProgress
Peck writes: "At the end of last year, shortly before the holidays and as the federal government was careening towards a partial shutdown, one of Donald Trump's more enterprising supporters took it upon himself to fund the president's vanity project along the U.S. -Mexico border."
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Adam Peck, ThinkProgress
Peck writes: "At the end of last year, shortly before the holidays and as the federal government was careening towards a partial shutdown, one of Donald Trump's more enterprising supporters took it upon himself to fund the president's vanity project along the U.S. -Mexico border."
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French protesters clad in high-visibility yellow vests. (photo: AFP)
Yellow Vests Continue Protests Despite Government Threats
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Yellow Vests protesters congregated at different points in France, for the ninth Saturday of demonstrations, against the austerity policies of President Emmanuel Macron."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Yellow Vests protesters congregated at different points in France, for the ninth Saturday of demonstrations, against the austerity policies of President Emmanuel Macron."
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A corn farmer. (photo: Austin Public Library)
US Taxpayers on the Hook for Insuring Farmers Against Growing Climate Risks
Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News
Gustin writes: "Like every Midwestern farmer, Jerry Peckumn relies on a few things going right every season. Rain, but no deluge. Sunshine, but no heat wave. A timely cycling of the seasons."
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Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News
Gustin writes: "Like every Midwestern farmer, Jerry Peckumn relies on a few things going right every season. Rain, but no deluge. Sunshine, but no heat wave. A timely cycling of the seasons."
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