RSN: George Lakoff | The President Is the Nation: The Central Metaphor Trump Lives By

04 August 17 AM

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George Lakoff | The President Is the Nation: The Central Metaphor Trump Lives By 
 
George Lakoff, George Lakoff's Website 
Lakoff writes: "We need to reveal the existence of the metaphor." 
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Special Counsel Mueller Using Grand Jury in Federal Court in Washington as Part of Russia Investigation 
Carol D. Leonnig, Sari Horwitz and Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III began using a grand jury in federal court in Washington several weeks ago as part of his investigation of possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, according to two people familiar with the inquiry." 
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Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases After Videos Appear to Show Officers Planting Drugs 
Jacey Fortin, The New York Times 
Fortin writes: "Over a hundred criminal cases that would have relied on testimony from those three officers are now under review. As of Wednesday afternoon, 41 had been dropped or were set to be dropped." 
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California Bosses Have Been Calling ICE to Retaliate on Employees Asking for Back Pay 
Carla Javier, Splinter News 
Javier writes: "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has allegedly showed up twice to California workplaces intending to arrest undocumented workers who are trying to get their employers to pay them what they're owed." 
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DeVos Offers a Lifeline to For-Profit Law School That Hired Her Former Adviser 
Shahien Nasiripour, Bloomberg 
Nasiripour writes: "The feds had cut off federal student aid to Charlotte School of Law. Then it hired Betsy DeVos's confirmation 'sherpa.'" 
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Benjamin Netanyahu Suspected of Bribery, Fraud and Breach of Trust, Police Say 
Ben Kentish, The Independent 
Kentish writes: "Benjamin Netanyahu is suspected of having committed bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli police have confirmed." 
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Court Keeps Great Lakes Wolves on Endangered Species List 
John Flesher, Associated Press 
Flesher writes: "A federal appeals court Tuesday retained federal protection for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region, ruling that the government made crucial errors when it dropped them from the endangered species list five years ago." 
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RSN: Juan Cole | Top 6 Falsehoods Embraced by New WH Chief of Staff John Kelly

03 August 17 AM

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Juan Cole | Top 6 Falsehoods Embraced by New WH Chief of Staff John Kelly 

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "John Kelly will get a lot of good will from having fired the foul-mouthed Anthony Scaramucci. But should he?"
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Trump's DHS Ordered Agents to Block Congressmen During Travel Ban
Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast
Woodruff writes: "On the chaotic day the Trump administration's travel ban went into effect, high-level Homeland Security officials directed their staff at airports around the country to stiff-arm members of Congress and treat lawyers with deep suspicion."
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Court Ruling Could Help Keep Obamacare Subsidies
Amy Goldstein, The Washington Post
Goldstein writes: "A federal appeals court issued a ruling Tuesday that could help preserve a key subsidy that benefits health insurers and millions of Americans under the Affordable Care Act. The ruling could make it more difficult for the White House to carry out recent threats by President Trump to cut off the payments, giving legal standing to a new set of the payments' ­ defenders."
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David Sirota | Foxconn Deal Lets Company Ignore Wisconsin Environmental Protection Laws
David Sirota and Jay Cassano, International Business Times
Excerpt: "Apple supplier Foxconn has in recent years been accused of poisoning waterways near its facilities in China. Now Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is not only proposing to give the company a $3 billion taxpayer subsidy, his administration has also quietly slipped language into a bill that would exempt the Taiwanese conglomerate from state environmental protection laws."
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Baltimore Cops Caught on Camera Appearing to Plant Evidence for the Second Time in a Month
Rafi Schwartz, Splinter News
Schwartz writes: "For the second time in just under a month, Baltimore officials have released body camera footage appearing to show the city's police officers planting evidence."
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Rex Tillerson Threatens Regime Change in Venezuela
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Tillerson's comments come in the aftermath of unilateral sanctions imposed on Maduro on Monday."
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West Texas Board Approves Contentious Water Project to Feed Fracking Operations
David Hunn, The Houston Chronicle
Hunn writes: "A West Texas board unanimously approved a contentious new project to drill into a desert aquifer near Van Horn, build a 60-mile pipeline and ship 5.4 million gallons of water a day from the Apache Mountains to the heart of the nation's most prolific oil field, the Permian Basin, to feed thirsty hydraulic fracturing operations."
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RSN: Nicholas Kristof | If Americans Love Moms, Why Do We Let Them Die?

31 July 17 PM

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Nicholas Kristof | If Americans Love Moms, Why Do We Let Them Die? 
 
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times 
Kristof writes: "We love mothers, or at least we say we do, and we claim that motherhood is as American as apple pie. We're lying. In fact, we've structured health care so that motherhood is far more deadly in the United States than in other advanced countries." 
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Trump Screws The Mooch: Scaramucci Out as White House Communications Director 
Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng, The Daily Beast 
Excerpt: "After less than two weeks on the job, the president has decided that White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is out." 
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What Should the Democrats Do Now? Follow This Mustachioed Ironworker 
Ross Barkan, Guardian UK 
Barkan writes: "Democrats should be, without any lingering reservations, a party of the working class and poor. Congressional candidate Randy Bryce can show them the way." 
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Kris Kobach, the Man Who May Disenfranchise Millions 
Editorial Board, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Writing to a Trump transition official, Mr. Kobach said he was preparing an amendment to the National Voter Registration Act." 
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What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela's Constituent Assembly Vote 
Carla Gonzalez, teleSUR 
Gonzalez writes: "Venezuelans voted Sunday for representatives of the National Constituent Assembly, amid what the government has called a targeted media campaign to destabilize the country and destroy its sovereignty." 
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McCain's Brain Cancer Draws Renewed Attention to Possible Agent Orange Connection 
Charles Ornstein and Mike Hixenbaugh, ProPublica and The Houston Chronicle 
Excerpt: "For years, Vietnam vets and their widows have been pushing the VA to extend benefits to those exposed to the toxic herbicide and later stricken with glioblastoma. The VA has said no, but advocates hope the agency will now revisit the issue." 
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34 Criminal Cases Tossed After Body Cam Footage Shows Cop Planting Drugs 
David Kravets, Ars Technica 
Kravets writes: "Maryland prosecutors have tossed 34 criminal cases and are re-examining dozens more in the aftermath of recent revelations that a Baltimore police officer accidentally recorded himself planting drugs in a trash-strewn alley." 
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Despite Trump's Promises, the Keystone XL Fight Is Far From Finished 
Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress 
Geiling writes: "Recent developments suggest that the pipeline - which activists, indigenous communities, and Midwestern landowners have spent nearly a decade fighting - might not be built after all." 
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