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19 September 19
Jimmy Carter: 'It Would Be a Disaster to Have Four More Years of Trump'
Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Suggs writes: "Former President Jimmy Carter took aim at President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, calling him 'a disaster.'"
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Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Suggs writes: "Former President Jimmy Carter took aim at President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, calling him 'a disaster.'"
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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing protesters march toward Emancipation Park during the 'Unite the Right' rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
White Supremacist Allegedly Threatened Black Charlottesville City Council Candidate Until He Dropped Out of Race
Molly Olmstead, Slate
Olmstead writes: "An alleged white supremacist has been charged with targeting a black Charlottesville, Virginia, activist running for city council with violent, racist threats, authorities said Wednesday."
Molly Olmstead, Slate
Olmstead writes: "An alleged white supremacist has been charged with targeting a black Charlottesville, Virginia, activist running for city council with violent, racist threats, authorities said Wednesday."
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“The alleged targeted and racially motivated actions by Daniel McMahon were an attempt to disrupt the American political process,” David W. Archey, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division, said in a statement Wednesday.
According to an analysis from the Network Contagion Research Institute, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect, Robert Bowers, interacted with McMahon more than any other user on Gab before the October 2018 shooting. In addition to racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic comments, McMahon encouraged violence against members of antifa and praised the neo-Nazi who killed protester Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally. McMahon also reportedly praised Bowers after the shooting.
McMahon has been charged with bias-motivated interference with a candidate for elective office, cyberstalking, and transmitting threats to injure in interstate commerce. Those last two charges carry up to five years in prison, according to the Justice Department.
People participate in a rally and march on July 16, 2018, organized by The Chicago Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, near the site where Harith Augustus was shot and killed by Chicago police. (photo: James Foster/Chicago Sun Times)
How Chicago Police Created a False Narrative After Officers Killed Harith Augustus
Jamie Kalven and Eyal Weizman, The Intercept
Excerpt: "Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old African-American barber, was shot to death by police patrolling 71st Street in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on July 14, 2018."
Jamie Kalven and Eyal Weizman, The Intercept
Excerpt: "Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old African-American barber, was shot to death by police patrolling 71st Street in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on July 14, 2018."
EXCERPT:
On the afternoon of July 14, 2018, Augustus left the barber shop where he worked and set off walking along a route he had traveled multiple times each day on 71st Street. Beneath his shirt, he wore a holstered gun. A group of five officers on foot patrol observed, as the initial CPD statement put it, “a male suspect exhibiting characteristics of an armed person.” It is not clear why they thought this alone was a sufficient reason for a stop in a state that permits concealed carry. In any case, Officer Quincy Jones, an older African American well-known in the neighborhood, called out to Augustus to stop. He did so, and they engaged in a calm, civil exchange.
Augustus took out his wallet to show Jones his Firearm Owners Identification card. He does not appear to have had a concealed-carry permit, but if he had, he would never have had an opportunity to show it, for three white officers — all of them rookies and presumably unfamiliar with the neighborhood they were policing — surrounded him. Without any verbal warning and without probable cause to initiate an arrest, Officer Megan Fleming grabbed his arm from behind. Startled, he sought to break free and took several stumbling steps into the street. While doing so, his hand appeared to touch his holstered gun. Halley shot him five times. Augustus fell to the street, holding in his hand not his gun, which remained holstered, but his FOID card. Moments later, an officer who arrived on the scene immediately after the shooting placed handcuffs on the motionless body of Harith Augustus.
A Honduran asylum seeker carries her son while they wait in line for water bottles in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sept. 12. (photo: Veronica Cardnas/Reuters)
US Immigration Officials Are Manipulating Illiterate Migrants. This Must Stop.
Emily Reed, The Washington Post
Reed writes: "Along with an unfamiliarity with our deliberately complex immigration system, the illiteracy of Central American migrants, especially women, facilitates the deportation of parents and separation of families."
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Emily Reed, The Washington Post
Reed writes: "Along with an unfamiliarity with our deliberately complex immigration system, the illiteracy of Central American migrants, especially women, facilitates the deportation of parents and separation of families."
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Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney and other advocates gathered for a candlelight vigil in Prospect Park to mourn the lives lost during recent mass shootings in Brownsville, Dayton, El Paso. (photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty)
This Report Tallied the Human and Economic Toll of Gun Violence in All 50 States. The Cost Is Staggering.
Dartunorro Clark, NBC News
Clark writes: "Gun violence hits America's youth and rural states the hardest and has reached the highest levels in decades, a report released Wednesday by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee has found."
Dartunorro Clark, NBC News
Clark writes: "Gun violence hits America's youth and rural states the hardest and has reached the highest levels in decades, a report released Wednesday by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee has found."
EXCERPTS:
U.S. teens and young adults, ages 15-24, are 50 times more likely to die by gun violence than they are in other economically advanced countries, according to the 50-state breakdown.
In 2017 — the year of a mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 and injured hundreds — nearly 40,000 people died from gun-related injuries, including 2,500 school children, the report said, noting that six in 10 gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides.
That year marked the first time firearms killed more people than motor vehicle accidents, the report said.
Rural states, meanwhile, have the highest rates of gun deaths and bear the largest costs as a share of their economies. Nationally, the cost of gun violence in the U.S. runs $229 billion a year, or 1.4 percent of the gross domestic product, the report said.
“The human cost is beyond our ability to comprehend, it is tragic, it is sickening, and it is a crisis,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the vice-chair of the committee, said in a news conference Wednesday. “The gun violence needs to stop and we need to make it happen.”
There is also a substantial economic cost, the report said, with directly measurable costs that include "lost income and spending, employer costs, police and criminal justice responses and health care treatment" and indirect costs that include "reduced quality of life due to pain and suffering."
"Gun homicides are also associated with fewer jobs, lost businesses and lower home values in local economies and communities across the nation," the report said.
There have been 301 mass shootings in America in 2019 so far, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun-related deaths and injuries based on official records.
The committee report found that Alaska, Montana, Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri have the highest rate of gun deaths, with an economic cost of roughly $17.5 billion. However, suicides make up the majority of firearm-related deaths, about 60 percent, the report said, and suicides by young Americans have trended upward over the last decade.
The report found that states with high rates of gun ownership — Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, West Virginia and Wyoming — have the highest rates of gun suicide. And for every 10 percent increase in household gun ownership, the youth suicide rate increases by more than 25 percent, it found.
People attend the funeral of victims of a U.S. drone strike in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on 19 September. (photo: Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA)
US Drone Strike Kills 30 Afghanistan Civilians, Wounds 40
Reuters
Excerpt: "Forty people were also injured in the attack on Wednesday night which struck farmers and labourers who had just finished their day's work at the mountainous Wazir Tangi in eastern Nangarhar province."
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Reuters
Excerpt: "Forty people were also injured in the attack on Wednesday night which struck farmers and labourers who had just finished their day's work at the mountainous Wazir Tangi in eastern Nangarhar province."
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Receipt from ATM. (photo: Grist)
I'm Broke. Is That a Good Thing for the Climate Crisis?
Eve Andrews, Grist
Excerpt: "Is living in poverty the only way to keep my carbon footprint low? I hate living like this!"
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Eve Andrews, Grist
Excerpt: "Is living in poverty the only way to keep my carbon footprint low? I hate living like this!"
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