Andy Borowitz | Ivanka Comes Out Against Busing: "I Have Never Taken a Bus in My Life - They're Gross"

02 July 19

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Andy Borowitz | Ivanka Comes Out Against Busing: "I Have Never Taken a Bus in My Life - They're Gross" 

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Ivanka Trump came out strongly against busing on Monday, telling reporters, 'I have never taken a bus in my life - they're gross.'"
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP)

House Democrats Sue Trump Administration Over President's Tax Returns
Jeff Stein and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "House Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court seeking access to President Trump's tax returns, accusing the Trump administration of an 'extraordinary attack' on Congress in preventing the disclosure of the president's personal financial records."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at a town hall in Jackson Heights, Queens. (photo: Dan Herrick)

Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes
A.C. Thompson, ProPublica
Thompson writes: "Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings."
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A fighter of Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government runs for cover during a battle with Islamic State fighters in Sirte, Libya, on Sunday. (photo: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

Tom Engelhardt | We're Not the Good Guys: Why Is American Aggression Missing in Action?
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Headlined 'U.S. Seeks Other Ways to Stop Iran Shy of War,' the article was tucked away on page A9 of a recent New York Times. Still, it caught my attention." 

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So here’s the strange thing, on a planet on which, in 2017, U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to 149 countries, or approximately 75% of all nations; on which the U.S. has perhaps 800 military garrisons outside its own territory; on which the U.S. Navy patrols most of its oceans and seas; on which U.S. unmanned aerial drones conduct assassination strikes across a surprising range of countries; and on which the U.S. has been fighting wars, as well as more minor conflicts, for years on end from Afghanistan to Libya, Syria to Yemen, Iraq to Niger in a century in which it chose to launch full-scale invasions of two countries (Afghanistan and Iraq), is it truly reasonable never to identify the U.S. as an “aggressor” anywhere?

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'Fight for ' protest. (photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

There's More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won't Cost Jobs
Sarah Jones, New York Magazine
Jones writes: "The idea that the federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 has now become so mainstream that most Democratic candidates for president have endorsed it. But as the movement gains steam, so does conservative resistance."
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Chief Executive Carrie Lam pledged to listen to different views as she addressed a ceremony to mark the handover. (photo: Jerome Favre/EPA/Shutterstock)

"Her Days Are Numbered": Calls Grow for Hong Kong Leader to Resign as Protesters Storm Legislature
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Riot police used tear gas to forcibly remove hundreds of protesters occupying a Legislature building early Tuesday morning."
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World's first floating nuclear power plant (NPP) Akademik Lomonosov is towed to the port of Murmansk, Russia. (photo: Pavel Lvov/Sputnik/AP)

Russia Is About to Tow Its "Floating Chernobyl" Through the Arctic Circle
Alex Lubben, VICE
Lubben writes: "Russia is deploying what critics call a 'floating Chernobyl' to fuel its ambitions in the Arctic."
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