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Garrison Keillor | News Bulletin: Offensive Joke Ahead 

Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "Friends of mine are concerned about the future of democracy in America and thank goodness for them, meanwhile I get a thrill out of sticking a fork into the toaster to retrieve the toasted bread, which I was warned against as a child."
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) walk out of the West Wing after a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (photo: Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press)

Nancy Pelosi Hands Donald Trump a Lesson in the Art of Politics
David Smith, Guardian UK
Smith writes: "He has come up with 'Crooked Hillary', 'Little Marco', 'Lyin' Ted', 'Crazy Bernie', 'Sloppy Steve' and 'Cryin' Chuck.' Donald Trump is the master of branding his opponents with crude names that somehow paint them into a corner. But so far one has eluded him: the woman he calls only 'Nancy.'"
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Rudy Giuliani. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Giuliani: 'So What' if Trump and Cohen Discussed Testimony
Associated Press
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani left open Sunday the possibility that Trump and former personal attorney Michael Cohen might have discussed Cohen's congressional testimony."
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A demonstrator holds a sign that reads 'Don't Wall Feds Out' during a protest against the government shutdown in Boston on Jan. 11. (photo: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg News)

IRS Workers Beckoned to Involuntary Servitude
Joe Davidson, The Washington Post
Davidson writes: "The telephone call was quick and to the point. Uncle Sam wants you back."
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'But I think the real reason the clip has spread is simpler: It's the kid's face. The face of self-satisfaction and certitude, of edginess expressed as cruelty.' (photo: YouTube)

The MAGA Teenager Who Harassed a Native American Veteran Is Still Unnamed, but We've Seen His Face Before
Ruth Graham, Slate
Graham writes: "A video clip of a white teenager harassing a Native American elder instantly became one of the most viscerally enraging images of an era that has offered no shortage of them."
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'The moment had been a lifetime in the making.' (photo: Justin Renteria/New Yorkers)

The Saudi Government's Global Campaign to Silence Its Critics
Sarah Aziza, The New Yorker
Aziza writes: "Inside, a short plea, written in English, read, 'i want to apply for asylum.' And then, in shaky German, 'mein Mann weiß nicht' - 'my husband doesn’t know.'"
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People queue to wash their hands with chlorine water to prevent Ebola contamination at a symbolic polling station on December 30, 2018, in Beni, Congo. (photo: Alexis Huguet/AFP/Getty Images)

The Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo Is Moving Toward a Major City. That's Not Good.
Julia Belluz, Vox
Belluz writes: "At least 680 people have been infected with the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, with 414 deaths so far, and the first Ebola outbreak in an active war zone, DRC's eastern North Kivu and Ituri provinces."
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