 29 September 18
FOCUS: Peter Maass and Akela Lacy | Here Are Five Questions the FBI Should Ask Mark Judge About Brett Kavanaugh
 Peter Maass and Akela Lacy, The Intercept Excerpt: "A lawyer for Mark Judge has said that Judge will talk with agents from the FBI, which is reopening a background check of Brett Kavanaugh - so the question of the moment is, what information can the FBI get out of him?" READ MORE |
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
FOCUS: Peter Maass and Akela Lacy | Here Are Five Questions the FBI Should Ask Mark Judge About Brett Kavanaugh
Friday, September 28, 2018
Naomi Klein: A Year After Hurricane Maria, There Is Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico's Disaster
 27 September 18
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Naomi Klein: A Year After Hurricane Maria, There Is Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico's Disaster
 Democracy Now! Excerpt: "I don't think we should be terribly surprised by the fact that Donald Trump is denying hard reality. He did this beginning on his very first day in office, denying the accounts of the size of the crowd, and he denies the reality of climate change, so he denies inconvenient facts both small and large. And now he is denying the reality that Hurricane Maria was the catalyst for thousands of people losing their lives." READ MORE  National Cathedral School's Hearst Hall. (photo: Wikimedia)
We Didn't Call It Rape: The Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge Allegations Are Upsettingly Familiar
Alexandra Lescaze, Slate Lescaze writes: "Sunday evening, the New Yorker published a second allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But it wasn't just the new allegation that caught my attention." READ MORE  Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell. (photo: AP)
Forgive Me if I Don't Trust the Woman Prosecutor Interviewing Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
Molly Osberg, Jezebel
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Mitchell is on leave from her current role as the county’s deputy attorney and chief of its Special Victims Division. Prior to that, she spent 12 years running the bureau responsible for prosecuting sex crimes, including child molestation and sexual assault. The FrontLine article, like many right-wing discussions of sexual violence, focuses on the innocence of young children in assault cases and clergy scandals: “False accusations are very rare,” said Mitchell. In her first major case, Mitchell sentenced the Reverend Paul LeBrun to 111 years in prison for molesting boys in the 1980s. This week, FrontLine wrote on its blog that false accusations do happen, in the context of #MeToo.
Since her career became the subject of national attention, two failures have been repeatedly mentioned: In 2003, Mitchell’s office was criticized after it declined to prosecute a man for abusing his quadriplegic wife. (The woman went on to write a harrowing memoir about her experience.) In 2011, Mitchell granted a plea deal of only six months to a Jehovah’s Witness who was found guilty of assaulting a teenaged boy. What’s been largely left out of this narrative are the wide-ranging institutional failures of Maricopa County when it has come to reporting, investigating, and prosecuting sexual assault, particularly when reported in Latinx and immigrant communities.
Osberg writes: "What's been largely left out of this narrative are the wide-ranging institutional failures of Maricopa County when it has come to reporting, investigating, and prosecuting sexual assault, particularly when reported in Latinx and immigrant communities." READ MORE  Immigrants applying for citizenship at a class in Los Angeles. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty)
US Immigrants Stop Using Public Benefits Over Fears of New Trump Rule
Amanda Holpuch, Guardian UK Holpuch writes: "US immigrants have begun to remove themselves from public housing waiting lists, childcare subsidy programs and the food stamp program - out of fears that a rule proposed on Saturday night could jeopardize their immigration status." READ MORE  Nearly two weeks after making landfall in North Carolina. (photo: Sean Rayford/Getty)
South Carolina Families Urged to Leave Homes After Industrial Toxins Spread From Florence Flooding
Kyla Mandel, ThinkProgress Mandel writes: "Four families in Cheraw, South Carolina have been told to leave their homes after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found toxic chemicals present that had spread due to Hurricane Florence." READ MORE  Retired General Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez during his last declaration at court in Guatemala City, September 26, 2018. (photo: EFE)
Guatemala Recognizes Mayan Ixil Genocide, but Absolves General
teleSUR Excerpt: "A court in Guatemala declared that the army committed crimes against humanity and genocide against the Indigenous Mayan Ixil people during the dictatorship of Efrain Rios Montt, but determined that the accused chief of military intelligence Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez was not able to give orders at that time." READ MORE  Community living near a power plant in China. (photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty)
China Said It Was Finished With These Coal Plants. Satellite Imagery Shows Otherwise.
Nathanael Johnson, Grist Johnson writes: "Newly released satellite photos appear to show continuing construction of coal plants that China said it was cancelling last year, according to CoalSwarm." READ MORE |
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Trump Is the Laughingstock of the World
27 September 18 AM
Trump Is the Laughingstock of the World
Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
Milbank writes: "'The world is laughing at us,' Donald Trump often said during the campaign. The claim was not obviously true then, but Trump has made it so. The world is now laughing at us - specifically, at our president."
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Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
Milbank writes: "'The world is laughing at us,' Donald Trump often said during the campaign. The claim was not obviously true then, but Trump has made it so. The world is now laughing at us - specifically, at our president."
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Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Getty)
Kavanaugh Denies Two Additional Accusations to Senate Judiciary Committee
Eli Watkins, CNN
Watkins writes: "Republican investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two new allegations against him, according to a transcript of a conference call released by the committee."
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Eli Watkins, CNN
Watkins writes: "Republican investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two new allegations against him, according to a transcript of a conference call released by the committee."
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Mark Judge in Bethany Beach, Del. His whereabouts had been unknown since he was named as a witness to Brett M. Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault on Christine Blasey Ford when they were teenagers. (photo: Gabriel Pogrund/The Washington Post)
Former Girlfriend of Mark Judge, Named in Numerous Kavanaugh Accusations, Ready to Talk to FBI
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "The onetime girlfriend of Mark Judge, who is alleged by Christine Blasey Ford to have been present while Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, has emerged as a pivotal if hidden figure in this whole affair - and now she's prepared to speak to the FBI and the Judiciary Committee about what she knows, according to a letter from her lawyer that I've obtained."
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Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "The onetime girlfriend of Mark Judge, who is alleged by Christine Blasey Ford to have been present while Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, has emerged as a pivotal if hidden figure in this whole affair - and now she's prepared to speak to the FBI and the Judiciary Committee about what she knows, according to a letter from her lawyer that I've obtained."
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A child holds a sign. (photo: iStock)
Minor Damage: The Criminal Injustice of Black Youth Tried As Adults
Michael Harriot, The Root
Harriot writes: "Forty-seven percent of the youth transferred from juvenile courts to adult courts are black, despite the fact that black children make up approximately 14 percent of the total youth population."
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Michael Harriot, The Root
Harriot writes: "Forty-seven percent of the youth transferred from juvenile courts to adult courts are black, despite the fact that black children make up approximately 14 percent of the total youth population."
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A crowd gathers at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh this past summer to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speak about health care issues. (photo: Jeff Swenson/The Washington Post)
Corporate Interests Prevent US from Insuring 30 Million, ex-UN Chief Says
Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
Stein writes: "The former chief of the United Nations is criticizing the United States for failing to provide health insurance to about 30 million citizens."
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Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
Stein writes: "The former chief of the United Nations is criticizing the United States for failing to provide health insurance to about 30 million citizens."
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The mangled wreckage of a car reportedly destroyed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition is seen near the eastern entrance of the Yemeni city of Hodeida. (photo: Getty)
Huge Spike in Yemen Violence as Civilian Deaths Rise by 164% in Four Months
Peter Beaumont, Guardian UK
Beaumont writes: "Civilian deaths in Yemen have surged dramatically since June after the Saudi-led coalition began an offensive to take the key port city of Hodeidah from Houthi rebels."
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Peter Beaumont, Guardian UK
Beaumont writes: "Civilian deaths in Yemen have surged dramatically since June after the Saudi-led coalition began an offensive to take the key port city of Hodeidah from Houthi rebels."
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Dewayne Johnson looks on after hearing the verdict in his case against Monsanto. A California jury ordered the company to pay m to the former school groundskeeper dying of cancer. (photo: Josh Edelson/AP)
The Man Who Beat Monsanto: 'They Have to Pay for Not Being Honest'
Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "Johnson, who goes by the name Lee, was the first person to take Monsanto to trial on allegations that the global seed and chemical company spent decades hiding the cancer risks of its herbicide."
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Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "Johnson, who goes by the name Lee, was the first person to take Monsanto to trial on allegations that the global seed and chemical company spent decades hiding the cancer risks of its herbicide."
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FOCUS: Michael Avenatti Client Julie Swetnick Becomes Third Kavanaugh Accuser
 26 September 18
FOCUS: Michael Avenatti Client Julie Swetnick Becomes Third Kavanaugh Accuser
 Joanna Walters, Guardian UK Excerpt: "She wrote: 'I witnessed efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be 'gang raped.'" READ MORE |
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
FOCUS: Emily Witt | The Boys' Club That Protects Brett Kavanaugh
 23 September 18
FOCUS: Emily Witt | The Boys' Club That Protects Brett Kavanaugh
 Emily Witt, The New Yorker Witt writes: "According to many graduates of Washington prep schools, the party culture described in yearbooks often created occasions for sexual harassment and assault. More than a thousand women who attended Holton-Arms, the girls’ school from which Ford graduated, have signed a letter that describes the alleged assault as 'all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves.'" READ MORE |
Friday, September 21, 2018
FOCUS: Frank Rich | A Moment of Truth for Brett Kavanaugh?
20 September 18
FOCUS: Frank Rich | A Moment of Truth for Brett Kavanaugh?
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "Ford's request is more than fair. She is saying you don't have to take only my word for it. She is saying let's bring in a dispassionate and highly professional law enforcement agency to investigate."
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Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "Ford's request is more than fair. She is saying you don't have to take only my word for it. She is saying let's bring in a dispassionate and highly professional law enforcement agency to investigate."
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