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28 July 19
The Teacher. The Basketball Coach. The Dead Rat in the Mail.
Sarah Fuss Kessler, Medium
Kessler writes: "Over the years, Delgado had heard from an increasing number of students that administrators essentially ignored the sexual misconduct and bullying complaints they submitted against their peers. This weighed on her as she mulled the ramifications of filing her own report against a prominent staff member."
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Sarah Fuss Kessler, Medium
Kessler writes: "Over the years, Delgado had heard from an increasing number of students that administrators essentially ignored the sexual misconduct and bullying complaints they submitted against their peers. This weighed on her as she mulled the ramifications of filing her own report against a prominent staff member."
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President Barack Obama walks out to the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2015. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
We Are African Americans, We Are Patriots, and We Refuse to Sit Idly By
Clarence J. Fluker, C. Kinder, Jesse Moore and Khalilah M. Harris, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "We've heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, 'send her back.' Black and brown people in America don't hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we've felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid."
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Clarence J. Fluker, C. Kinder, Jesse Moore and Khalilah M. Harris, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "We've heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, 'send her back.' Black and brown people in America don't hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we've felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid."
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Angelo Carusone of Media Matters in a meeting at his office in Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2019. (photo: Gabriella Demczuk/Rolling Stone)
The 24/7 Fight Against Fox News
Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone
Hiatt writes: "If you believe former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters for America is the nation's 'most dangerous organization,' which would be quite a feat for a modestly funded nonprofit whose 80 employees spend a lot of their time quietly watching cable news at their desks."
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone
Hiatt writes: "If you believe former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters for America is the nation's 'most dangerous organization,' which would be quite a feat for a modestly funded nonprofit whose 80 employees spend a lot of their time quietly watching cable news at their desks."
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Customs and Border Protection official Brian Hastings speaks during a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on June 26. (photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Top CBP Officer Testifies He's Unsure if 3-Year-Old Is "a Criminal or a National Security Threat"
Jeremy Stahl, Slate
Stahl writes: "One of the country's top border officers cannot say whether a 3-year-old child might pose a 'criminal or national security threat.' This was one of a number of astonishing takeaways from Thursday's latest hearing into family separation."
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Jeremy Stahl, Slate
Stahl writes: "One of the country's top border officers cannot say whether a 3-year-old child might pose a 'criminal or national security threat.' This was one of a number of astonishing takeaways from Thursday's latest hearing into family separation."
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Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, sued the newspaper for $250 million in February (photo: YouTube)
Judge Dismisses Covington Catholic Student's Lawsuit Against Washington Post
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A federal judge has thrown out a Kentucky teen's lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of falsely labeling him a racist following an encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "A federal judge has thrown out a Kentucky teen's lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of falsely labeling him a racist following an encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial."
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Police officers in body armor detain protesters during Saturday's rally in Moscow. (photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
Russian Opposition Calls for More Protests After Mass Arrests
Shaun Walker, Guardian UK
Walker writes: "Russian opposition politicians have called on their supporters to keep up with street rallies, the day after the most forceful police response to protests in the country for years."
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Shaun Walker, Guardian UK
Walker writes: "Russian opposition politicians have called on their supporters to keep up with street rallies, the day after the most forceful police response to protests in the country for years."
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A manure and food waste-to-energy facility at Bar-Way Farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts. (photo: Vanguard Renewables
Could Renewable Natural Gas Be the Next Big Thing in Green Energy?
Jonathan Mingle, Yale Environment 360
Mingle writes: "In the next few weeks, construction crews will begin building an anaerobic digester on the Goodrich Family Farm in western Vermont that will transform cow manure and locally sourced food waste into renewable natural gas (RNG), to be sent via pipeline to nearby Middlebury College and other customers willing to pay a premium for low-carbon energy."
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Jonathan Mingle, Yale Environment 360
Mingle writes: "In the next few weeks, construction crews will begin building an anaerobic digester on the Goodrich Family Farm in western Vermont that will transform cow manure and locally sourced food waste into renewable natural gas (RNG), to be sent via pipeline to nearby Middlebury College and other customers willing to pay a premium for low-carbon energy."
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