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FOCUS: Anita Hill | #MeToo Could Have Started Decades Ago if Biden's Committee Had Done Its Job 

Anita Hill, The New York Times
Hill writes: "Last month, Joe Biden called me to talk about his conduct during Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991. There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether he has offered me the right words. Given the #MeToo movement and Mr. Biden's bid for the presidency, it's understandable why his role in the hearings is being debated anew."
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Matt Taibbi | Bernie Sanders Opens Up About New Democrats in Congress, Taking on Trumpism

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Matt Taibbi | Bernie Sanders Opens Up About New Democrats in Congress, Taking on Trumpism 

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Sanders was implicitly a major part of the 2018 narrative. He had campaigned hard for several candidates, notably Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum, and seemed deeply disappointed in Gillum's narrow loss (which appears on the verge of being relitigated)."
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A Honduran family stands next to the border fence after they turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

ALSO SEE: Migrant Caravan Begins Next Stage of Its Journey

ACLU Sues Trump Government Over Asylum Ban
teleSUR
Excerpt: "On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's new asylum ban which is targeting the Central American migrant caravan."
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Trump's Acting Attorney General Involved in Firm That Scammed Veterans Out of Life Savings
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK  

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Whitaker, a former US attorney in Iowa, was paid to work as an advisory board member for World Patent Marketing (WPM), a Florida-based company accused by the US government of tricking aspiring inventors out of millions of dollars. Earlier this year, it was ordered to pay authorities $26m.

Several veterans, two of them with disabilities, said they lost tens of thousands of dollars in the WPM scam, having been enticed into paying for patenting and licensing services by the impressive credentials of Whitaker and his fellow advisers.

Swaine writes: "Donald Trump's new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their life savings, according to court filings and interviews."
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Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building at the Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018. (photo: Win McNamee/Reuters)

Christine Blasey Ford Is Still Getting Death Threats, Lawyers Say
Sophie Weiner, Splinter News
Weiner writes: "One month after she testified in front of Congress about her sexual abuse allegations against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford's name has mostly disappeared from the headlines. But that doesn't mean life has returned to normal."
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People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard during the Las Vegas shooting. (photo: David Becker/Getty Images)

Man Who Survived Vegas Shooting Died in Thousand Oaks Massacre
CBS News 

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he mother of a 27-year-old man killed in the shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. late Thursday night said her son had survived the October mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Telemachus "Tel" Orfanos lost his life in the Borderline Bar and Grill, less than 10 minutes from his home.

Susan Schmidt-Orfanos, her voice and head shaking with grief and rage, said outside her family's home, "My son was in Las Vegas with one of his friends and he came home. He didn't come home last night. And I don't want prayers, I don't want thoughts, I want gun control and I hope to God nobody else sends me more prayers. I want gun control. No. More. Guns."

Excerpt: "The mother of a 27-year-old man killed in the shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. late Thursday night said her son had survived the October mass shooting in Las Vegas."
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Juan Emilio Cheyre was chief of the army between 2002 and 2006. (photo: Radio Universidad de Chile)

Chile's Caravan of Death: Ex-Army Chief Convicted for Pinochet-Era Crimes
BBC
Excerpt: "General Juan Emilio Cheyre was sentenced to three years and a day under house arrest."
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Arctic Ship Traffic Threatens Narwhals and Other Extraordinary Animals
Donna Hauser, Harry Stern and Kristin Laidre, The Conversation
Excerpt: "Americans often associate fall with football and raking leaves, but in the Arctic this season is about ice. Every year, floating sea ice in the Arctic thins and melts in spring and summer, then thickens and expands in fall and winter."
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Juan Cole | Fate of 190,000-Years-Old Human Race Depends on Massive Greening Effort Over Just 30 Years

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Juan Cole | Fate of 190,000-Years-Old Human Race Depends on Massive Greening Effort Over Just 30 Years 

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "It strikes me as darkly humorous that we, the most intelligent species ever to have evolved on earth, homo sapiens (evolved circa 190,000 years ago), were so clever that around 1750 we started burning so much wood, coal and later on oil and natural gas that we started changing our own climate so much that it may threaten our survival."
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Christine Blasey Ford Still Can't Go Home Due to 'Unending' Death Threats
Rafi Schwartz, Splinter News
Schwartz writes: "Two weeks after testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party in the early 1980s, a lawyer for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says she's still unable to return to her California home because of the sheer volume of death threats she's received since coming forward with her story."
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Convicting Laquan McDonald's Killer Isn't Enough
Nate Marshall, BuzzFeed
Marshall writes: "The guilty verdict passed on police officer Jason Van Dyke is necessary and so infuriatingly insufficient."
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'Mandatory Detentions' of Immigrants at Stake in Justice Kavanaugh's First Big Case
Scott Bixby, The Daily Beast
Bixby writes: "The ACLU calls the law a 'draconian response to an imaginary problem,' while Republicans argue the government needs 'broad power to detain.'"
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Some of the original 58 wooden crosses that were set up as part of a memorial after the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre on the Las Vegas Strip. (photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

A Year After the Las Vegas Shooting, Congress Still Hasn't Banned Bump Stocks
Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Here it is a year later, and bump stocks are still legal and available for sale in most of the country."
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ALSO SEE: How Brazil's Bolsonaro Used Trump Tactics

A Far-Right Authoritarian Is Edging Towards Power in Brazil
Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress
Barnes writes: "Jair Bolsonaro has praised Brazil's military dictatorship, which led the country up until 1985."
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A Final Call to Save the World From 'Climate Catastrophe'
Matt McGrath, BBC News
McGrath writes: "Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C."
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Charles Pierce | The Republicans' Big Hire for the Kavanaugh Hearing Is Fooling No One

26 September 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE ARE ANGRY TOO, DON'T ABANDON RSN - We are seeing the ruthless side of American politics rear its ugly head. Shocking and demoralizing to be sure. But in fairness certainly not surprising. Stick with Reader Supported News. We have a movement to build. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Charles Pierce | The Republicans' Big Hire for the Kavanaugh Hearing Is Fooling No One  Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "They don't want to see campaign ads featuring them badgering Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. That's it." READ MORE Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon. (photo: Getty Images) Dem Senator Jeff Merkley to Seek Injunction to Stop Kavanaugh Vote Elana Schor, Politico Schor writes: "Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Wednesday will announce that he's seeking an injunction in federal court designed to stop a final vote on Brett Kavanaugh, asserting an obstruction of his constitutional duty to advise and consent on nominees." READ MORE U.S. Army soldiers watch garbage burn in a burn-pit at Forward Operating Base Azzizulah in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. (photo: Reuters) RSN: Joseph Hickman | General Petraeus Flip-Flops on Burn Pits Joseph Hickman, Reader Supported News Hickman writes: "The Iraq Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is promoting a media campaign in support of a bill introduced to Congress on May 1, 2018, by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Congressman Brian Mast, H.R. 5671 - The Burn Pit Accountability Act. The face of the IAVA's media campaign is none other than General David Petraeus, retired, the former Commander of all military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2008 to 2010." READ MORE Stephen Miller. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters) David Glosser: "Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle" Democracy Now! Excerpt: "White House senior adviser Stephen Miller is the mastermind behind many of the Trump administration's widely condemned immigration policies, including family separation, the Muslim ban and slashing the number of refugees admitted to the United States." READ MORE Native languages were traditionally not written down but are now being hurriedly recorded and archived. (photo: The Alaska Native Heritage Center) Alaska Declares Emergency for Native American Languages Associated Press Excerpt: "Alaska has declared an emergency for Native American languages, aiming to promote and preserve all 20 recognized indigenous tongues in the state before they die out." READ MORE A demonstrator with the number 43 written on her face, symbolizing the 43 students who were kidnapped on September 26, 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero. (photo: Reuters) Ayotzinapa 43: Four Years After the Crime That Shocked Mexico teleSUR Excerpt: "Mexico marks Wednesday, Sept. 26, four years since the disappearance of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students, as relatives and friends continue searching for their loved ones with almost no help from Mexican authorities." READ MORE Local residents have been protesting Cuadrilla Resources' plans to drill for shale gas for several years. (photo: Mat Hope) UK Jails 'First Environmental Protestors Since 1932' Over Anti-Fracking Blockade  Sara Stefanini, Climate Home News Stefanini writes: "Two protesters, Simon Blevins, 26, and Richard Roberts, 36, were sentenced to 16 months in prison for causing a public nuisance. Richard Loizou, 31, was sentenced to 15 months, Lancashire radio station 2BR reported. A fourth protester, Julian Brock, 47, received an 18-month suspended sentence and ordered to 20 days of rehabilitation activity." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation