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24 October 19
Michael Moore | Why Bernie? - Where I Answer Burning Questions on Age, Health, and Our Planet
Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
Moore writes: "Here's my speech endorsing Bernie - a fighter for you and I for over 50 years, never giving up, NEVER selling out, always standing up for those who work hard but can't afford to buy a politician."
Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
Moore writes: "Here's my speech endorsing Bernie - a fighter for you and I for over 50 years, never giving up, NEVER selling out, always standing up for those who work hard but can't afford to buy a politician."
Voters cast their ballots. (photo: unknown)
Senate GOP Continues to Block Election Security Bills
Jordain Carney, The Hill
Carney writes: "Senate Republicans blocked three election security bills on Wednesday, marking the second time in as many days they've stymied legislation."
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Jordain Carney, The Hill
Carney writes: "Senate Republicans blocked three election security bills on Wednesday, marking the second time in as many days they've stymied legislation."
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Protesters have signs around their necks signifying the amount of their debt. (photo: Reuters/Andrew Burton)
Trump Student Loan Official to Resign, Call for Cancellation of Billions in Debts
Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast
Ross writes: "One of the Trump administration's top education officials has announced his intention to quit, and endorsed the cancellation of $925 billion in existing students loans."
Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast
Ross writes: "One of the Trump administration's top education officials has announced his intention to quit, and endorsed the cancellation of $925 billion in existing students loans."
Students in 2017 fill their lunch trays at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Kingston, N.Y. (photo: Mary Esch/AP)
Free School Meals for Nearly a Million Poor Children Are in Jeopardy Under Proposed Trump Rule Change
Joe Davidson, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "'Inevitably, if this rule is implemented, many more low-income students who are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals will not receive the food assistance they desperately need. That is nothing short of a preventable tragedy.'"
Joe Davidson, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "'Inevitably, if this rule is implemented, many more low-income students who are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals will not receive the food assistance they desperately need. That is nothing short of a preventable tragedy.'"
EXCERPT:
About 13.4 million children were automatically certified for free school meals through SNAP in the 2016-2017 school year, according to the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), using USDA data. It is a nonprofit that works to eliminate poverty-related hunger.
Speaking of timing, the department’s Food and Nutrition Service allowed only until Nov. 1 for public comment on the analysis that could affect the health and nutrition of so many. Agencies can change the way programs operate through an administrative or regulatory process that does not require congressional approval.
“Shockingly, the department failed to disclose this analysis when it originally published its proposal despite being required to do so” in July, said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), chairwoman of the House Education and Labor civil rights and human services subcommittee. The two-week comment period, which began Friday, “is woefully insufficient in light of how many people will be affected by this rule.”
The administration wants to change options that allow states to offer SNAP benefits to an expanded group of low-income recipients.
“Children lose twice under the SNAP rules change,” FRAC experts Crystal FitzSimons and Ellen Vollinger said in an email to the Federal Insider. “They lose SNAP food benefits at home and lose free breakfasts and lunches at school.”
The new estimates are far greater than the 400,000 households that would lose food stamps and the 265,000 children who would lose free school meals under an earlier and similar, but not identical, proposal that Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio), chairwoman of the House Agriculture nutrition subcommittee, cited in June using Congressional Budget Office data.
“I take hunger very, very seriously,” she told Brandon Lipps, a USDA deputy undersecretary, at an Education and Labor subcommittee hearing last week. “I represent one of the poorest districts in the United States. Half of the children in the city of Cleveland are living in poverty, according to U.S. Census data. These kids often live in SNAP households and rely on the free nutritious meals provided by their local schools to succeed in their classrooms.”
Former Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. (photo: Mohammed Al-Shaikh/Getty)
The Washington Post's New Columnist Consults for Spyware Firm That Helps Saudi Arabia Surveil Journalists
Jason Koebler, VICE
Koebler writes: "Just over a year ago, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into a Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. He never walked out. He was murdered and dismembered; American intelligence agencies believe the Saudi royal family ordered the assassination. Monday, the Washington Post announced that it hired Juliette Kayyem, a columnist who is a senior advisor to NSO Group, a spyware company suspected of helping the Saudi government spy on Khashoggi."
Jason Koebler, VICE
Koebler writes: "Just over a year ago, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into a Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. He never walked out. He was murdered and dismembered; American intelligence agencies believe the Saudi royal family ordered the assassination. Monday, the Washington Post announced that it hired Juliette Kayyem, a columnist who is a senior advisor to NSO Group, a spyware company suspected of helping the Saudi government spy on Khashoggi."
EXCERPTS:
NSO Group is an Israeli spyware company that sells malware known as “Pegasus” that has been used to surveil journalists and human rights activists for authoritarian regimes around the world.
According to an email from The Washington Post, Kayyem recently helped NSO Group create its recently-released "Human Rights Policy," an attempt to launder its image as a company that helps authoritarian governments spy on civil rights leaders and journalists.
The Human Rights Policy she worked on was slammed in a letter to the company just four days ago by David Kaye, the United Nations Human Rights Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
“The Human Rights Policy raises many questions about how NSO Group plans to prevent or mitigate human rights abuses committed with the technology it makes available to governments worldwide,” Kaye wrote.
NSO Group’s spyware has been used by Saudi Arabia to surveil Saudi dissident and Khashoggi friend Omar Abdulaziz, according to a detailed study by Canada’s Citizen Lab, which has become the world’s most important NSO watchdog. Abdulaziz told the Committee to Protect Journalists that while he was being surveilled, he and Khashoggi had exchanged negative text messages about the Saudi government. In December, Abdulaziz sued NSO Group, alleging that it was illegally used to spy on him and Khashoggi.
NSO Group, for its part, has denied any involvement in surveilling Khashoggi, but time and time again, Citizen Lab, Amnesty International, Motherboard, and other groups have shown that NSO Group has been tied to authoritarian governments spying on journalists and activists.
Crow Reservation, Montana. (photo: iStock)
Crow Nation Is a Place Where One Could Vanish - and Many Have
Molly McCluskey, Al Jazeera
McCluskey writes: "CJ Stewart's cousin. BethYana Pease's friend. Mary Amyette's niece. Crow Nation is the sort of place where a person could vanish. And a place where many have."
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Molly McCluskey, Al Jazeera
McCluskey writes: "CJ Stewart's cousin. BethYana Pease's friend. Mary Amyette's niece. Crow Nation is the sort of place where a person could vanish. And a place where many have."
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The forecast suggests the rainforest will degrade into a drier savannah, releasing billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. (photo: Joao Laet/Getty)
Amazon Rainforest 'Close to Irreversible Tipping Point'
Dom Phillips, Guardian UK
Phillips writes: "Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible 'tipping point' within two years, a prominent economist has said."
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Dom Phillips, Guardian UK
Phillips writes: "Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible 'tipping point' within two years, a prominent economist has said."
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