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10 January 20
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 'Just Mercy' and the Difference Between Black and White Legal Dramas
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "Movies about racial injustice can make us feel like we're being scolded more so than other kinds of legal dramas."
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "Movies about racial injustice can make us feel like we're being scolded more so than other kinds of legal dramas."
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (photo: Getty)
Pelosi Signals House Will Send Articles of Impeachment Against Trump to Senate as Soon as Next Week, Setting Up Historic Trial
John Wagner, Colby Itkowitz and Mike DeBonis, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that the House next week will consider a resolution to appoint impeachment managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting the stage for a historic trial of President Trump."
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John Wagner, Colby Itkowitz and Mike DeBonis, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that the House next week will consider a resolution to appoint impeachment managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate, setting the stage for a historic trial of President Trump."
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump Administration Plans to Ignore Iraqi Prime Minister's Demand to Withdraw US Troops
Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY
Shesgreen writes: "The Trump administration on Friday rebuffed demands from Iraq's prime minister to begin planning for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq."
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Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY
Shesgreen writes: "The Trump administration on Friday rebuffed demands from Iraq's prime minister to begin planning for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq."
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Voters at a polling place in Louisville, Kentucky, already requires voter ID, but the new policy would require a photo and an expiration date. (photo: John Sommers Li/Reuters)
Kentucky Republicans Push Restrictive Voting Law After Landmark Democratic Win
Sam Levine, Guardian UK
Levine writes: "Kentucky Republicans have proposed a restrictive new bureaucratic hurdle that will likely make it more difficult for minorities and students in the state to vote."
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Sam Levine, Guardian UK
Levine writes: "Kentucky Republicans have proposed a restrictive new bureaucratic hurdle that will likely make it more difficult for minorities and students in the state to vote."
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Cambridge Analytica. (photo: Getty)
"Democracy for Sale": Cambridge Analytica and Big Tech's History of Manipulating Elections
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "A longtime Facebook executive has admitted the company's platform helped Donald Trump win the 2016 election, and it may happen again this year."
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "A longtime Facebook executive has admitted the company's platform helped Donald Trump win the 2016 election, and it may happen again this year."
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Protesters hold posters during a climate change rally in Sydney, Jan. 10, 2020. (photo: Steven Saphore/Reuters)
Ella Torres, ABC News
Torres writes: "Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets in Sydney on Friday condemning their prime minister and his climate policies amid the bushfires ravaging the country."
Videos showed the crowd marching from the capital's Town Hall to Parliament House, where the office of Prime Minister Scott Morrison is located.
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"What do we want?" a person in the crowd could be heard shouting.
"Climate justice!" the protesters responded.
"Hey hey, ho ho ScoMo has got to go," others could be heard chanting.
The group that organized the protest, Uni Students for Climate Justice, said that more than 50,000 people marched in Sydney, according to a statement on Facebook.
Since the devastating bushfires began months ago, Morrison has faced criticism for his stance on climate policies, including his refusal to downsize the coal industry in the country, which is the largest exporter of coal and liquefied natural gas, according to The Associated Press.
Yellowstone National Park and its bison are under the stewardship of the public servants of the National Park Service. (photo: Sandy Sisti)
Jonathan B. Jarvis and Destry Jarvis, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Under this administration, nothing is sacred as we watch the nation's crown jewels being recut for the rings of robber barons."
After Zinke’s abrupt resignation, secretary David Bernhardt populated too much of the department’s political leadership with unconfirmed, anti-public land sycophants, and announced a reorganization to install his own lieutenants to oversee super regions, realigning NPS from seven regions to twelve in the name of greater efficiency.
Next came the proclamation that career staff in Washington would be sent to the field to be closer to the people they serve, but in reality, to be out of the way and no longer an impediment to his agenda.
Then came the decisions to leave the parks open to impacts during the unfortunate government shutdown, illegally misuse entrance fees, open park trails to e-bikes, suppress climate science, kill wolf pups and bear cubs in their dens to enhance “sport hunting”, privatize campgrounds, and issue muzzle memos to park managers. With a waiver of environmental laws, bulldozers are plowing ancient cacti in national parks along the southern border in order to build a wall. Senior career park managers are likely to be replaced with unqualified political hacks.
These are not random actions. This is a systematic dismantling of a beloved institution, like pulling blocks from a Jenga tower, until it collapses. You ask, why on earth would someone want to do that to the popular National Park Service, the subject of one of Ken Burns’ acclaimed documentaries and often called “America’s best idea”?
Because if you want to drill, mine and exploit the public estate for the benefit of the industry, the last thing you want is a popular and respected agency’s voice raising alarms on behalf of conservation and historic preservation.
Because if you want the public to ignore the science of climate change, the last thing you want are trusted park rangers speaking the truth to park visitors.
Because if you want to get the federal government small enough (in the words of Grover Norquist) to “drown it in a bathtub”, the last thing you want is a government agency with high popular appeal that needs to grow rather than shrink.
It is clear that this administration cannot be trusted with the keys to the vault of our most precious places that define us as a nation, such as Mount Rushmore or Yosemite national park.
When this nightmare ends, and we begin to rebuild, we suggest it is time for Congress to consider making the National Park Service an independent institution, more akin to the Smithsonian, and no longer subject to the vicissitudes of a hostile political agenda in a Department of the Interior dominated by extractive industries and anti-public land crusaders.
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