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Matt Taibbi | Why Aren't We Talking More About Trump's Nihilism? 

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "The White House now says we might as well pollute because global catastrophe is inevitable."
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Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: REX/Shutterstock)

Kamala Harris Receives Anonymous Letter Accusing Kavanaugh of Rape
Jeff McDonald, The San Diego Union-Tribune
McDonald writes: "On the eve of last week's dramatic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, legislative staffers questioned him privately about an anonymous letter purportedly from an Oceanside woman saying Kavanaugh and a friend raped her."
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Christine Blasey Ford answers questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018. (photo: Melina Mara/Reuters)

Trump Mocks Christine Blasey Ford at Mississippi Rally as Supporters Cheer
Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK
McCarthy writes: "In a raucous campaign-style rally in Mississippi on Tuesday night, Donald Trump mocked Christine Blasey Ford, who in wrenching testimony at a hearing before the Senate judiciary committee last week said the supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager."
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White supremacists march through Charlottesville, Va., the night before the 'Unite the Right' rally in August 2017. Federal agents have arrested four men on riot charges connected to the rally. (photo: NurPhoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

4 California Men Charged With Rioting at Last Year's Rally in Charlottesville
Laurel Wamsley, NPR
Wamsley writes: "Four men connected to a white supremacist group based in California have been arrested and charged with rioting at last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va."
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Génesis Ayala Torresand her two-year-old daughter Evangeline in York, PA. (photo: Hai Lam Phan)

Homeless Puerto Ricans: FEMA Abandoned Us
Danielle McLean, ThinkProgress
McLean writes: "FEMA kicked more than 1,000 Puerto Ricans out of emergency shelter in hotels, while other families are still waiting for help."
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Ivan Marquez (L) and Oscar Montero (R), members of FARC, denounced the betrayal of the peace agreements. (photo: EFE)

FARC Leaders: Colombia's Peace Agreement Has Been 'Betrayed'
teleSUR
Excerpt: "FARC leaders Ivan Marquez and Oscar Montero denounced the Colombian Congress in an open letter saying the government has failed to fulfill the peace agreement."
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Ryan Zinke. (photo: Melina Mara/WP/Getty Images)

Trump Administration Abruptly Ends Key Law Enforcement Program to Protect Wildlife Refuges
Miranda Green, The Hill
Green writes: "The Trump administration is abruptly ending a decades-long program that trained national wildlife refuge managers with law enforcement capabilities to police often remote spots of public land."
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Banking Culture Breeds Dishonesty, Scientific Study Finds

Kate Kelland, Reuters
Kelland writes: "A banking culture that implicitly puts financial gain above all else fuels greed and dishonesty and makes bankers more likely to cheat, according to the findings of a scientific study."
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Bill Quigley | Warning to Ferguson Police: Protesters Win Millions for Police Misconduct
Bill Quigley, Common Dreams
Quigley writes: "Police officers should approach Ferguson protestors with caution and fully respect their constitutional rights. That is the clear message from recent court awards and settlements against police force abuses against demonstrators."
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Ted Cruz: Confused About Cicero
Jesse Weiner, The Atlantic
Weiner writes: "As a classics professor, I am on one level pleased to see the legacy of Greco-Roman antiquity alive and well, informing debate around our most pressing issues. The problem is that Cruz dangerously misused Cicero."
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Inside Hebron, Israel's Heart of Darkness
Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Tomasky writes: "Even Mississippi probably doesn’t have parks anymore named after Ku Klux Klan leaders. But here, a park dedicated to Kahane’s memory is the first thing you see, and this is just the beginning."
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UVA Suspends Fraternities Following Rolling Stone Campus Rape Investigation
Rolling Stone
Excerpt: "After 'A Rape on Campus' went viral, the school itself acknowledged the Rolling Stone article by promising to make changes to their student sexual misconduct policy. Now, the University is taking even more stern action."
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'If We Left, They Wouldn't Have Nobody'
StoryCorps, National Public Radio
Excerpt: "When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go."
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What It Takes to Exterminate the Grizzly
Doug Peacock, The Daily Beast
Peacock writes: "One cold October day in 1968, I climbed out of a warm creek on the Yellowstone Plateau and came face to face with a huge grizzly. I froze, not knowing what to do. Since I was naked, my options were limited."
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RSN: Exxon Mobil's Response to Climate Change Is Consummate Arrogance, Vietnam Is Sentencing Corrupt Bankers to Death by Firing Squad, Money Talks: The John Roberts Project, et al

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Jeffrey Toobin | Money Talks: The John Roberts Project
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: "If you think that the Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission was bad, just wait: worse may be on the way."
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Tom Engelhardt | The Bermuda Triangle of National Security
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "No, Virginia, Flight 370 was not commandeered by aliens and Vladimir Putin is not Joseph Stalin's younger brother."
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US Built "Cuban Twitter" to Stir Up Political Unrest
Sarah Gray, Salon
Gray reports: "For two years the U.S. Agency for International Development ran a "Cuban Twitter" social media network, whose intent was to propagate dissatisfaction with the the Cuban government."
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Vietnam Is Sentencing Corrupt Bankers to Death by Firing Squad
Patrick Winn, GlobalPost
Winn reports: "Amid a sweeping cleanup of its financial sector, Vietnam has sentenced three bankers to death in the past six months."
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Nearly 500,000 More Americans Speak Out Against Federal Plan to Strip Wolves of Protections
Defenders of Wildlife
Excerpt: "More than 460,000 Americans filed official comments calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to scrap its controversial proposal to remove federal protections from the gray wolf."
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Bill McKibben | Exxon Mobil's Response to Climate Change Is Consummate Arrogance
Bill McKibben, Guardian UK
McKibben writes: "If Exxon Mobil and its ilk keep their promise to dig up their reserves and burn them, then the planet will no longer function effectively."
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