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28 September 19
Andy Borowitz | Obama to Produce Netflix Series About Trump's Impeachment
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Former President Barack Obama has inked a ninety-million-dollar deal to produce a Netflix series about Donald J. Trump's impeachment, Netflix confirmed on Friday."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Former President Barack Obama has inked a ninety-million-dollar deal to produce a Netflix series about Donald J. Trump's impeachment, Netflix confirmed on Friday."
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky attends a luncheon during the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2019. (photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
The Ukraine Timeline Shows Trump Is Lying
William Saletan, Slate
Saletan writes: "Did President Donald Trump commit an impeachable offense by using his office to solicit Ukraine's help in the 2020 U.S. election? Republicans say the evidence is insufficient."
William Saletan, Slate
Saletan writes: "Did President Donald Trump commit an impeachable offense by using his office to solicit Ukraine's help in the 2020 U.S. election? Republicans say the evidence is insufficient."
EXCERPT:
2. The Pence cancellation. On May 11, Giuliani canceled a trip in which he had planned to lobby Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden and the Democrats. He announced on Fox News he was calling it off because he had discovered, to his dismay, that he would be “walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president, and in some cases, enemies of the United States.” What was Giuliani talking about? According to a Ukrainian journalist and a former U.S. ambassador, Giuliani canceled the trip because Zelensky had declined to meet with him to discuss the investigations Giuliani sought.
The whistleblower’s complaint reports what happened next: On May 14, Trump “instructed Vice President Pence to cancel his planned travel to Ukraine to attend President Zelenskyy’s inauguration.”
No connection has been proved, but the timing is suspicious: Zelensky stiffed Giuliani, Giulani alerted Trump, and Trump stiffed Zelensky. The whistleblower’s complaint adds evidence to this theory: It says that during this time frame, U.S. officials were told that Trump “did not want to meet with Mr. Zelenskyy until he saw how Zelenskyy ‘chose to act’ in office.” The complaint also indicates that Ukraine, based on messages it received from the administration, thought Trump’s coldness was connected to Giuliani’s pressure campaign. From late May to early July, says the whistleblower, “multiple U.S. officials told me that the Ukrainian leadership was led to believe that a meeting or phone call between the President and President Zelenskyy would depend on whether Zelenskyy showed willingness to ‘play ball’ on the issues that had been publicly aired by Mr. Lutsenko and Mr. Giuliani.”
Immigrant children in a detention center. (photo: Ross D. Franklin)
The Trump Administration Can't Detain Immigrant Children Indefinitely, a Federal Judge Has Ruled
Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed
Flores writes: "A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to detain undocumented immigrant children indefinitely, saying it violated the terms of a court settlement agreement."
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Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed
Flores writes: "A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to detain undocumented immigrant children indefinitely, saying it violated the terms of a court settlement agreement."
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Striking United Auto Workers union members. (photo: ABC News)
The GM Strike Is Heating Up
Chris Brooks, Jacobin
Brooks writes: "As the GM strike enters its second week, workers are upping the pressure on the company and its scabs - and the costs to GM are mounting."
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Chris Brooks, Jacobin
Brooks writes: "As the GM strike enters its second week, workers are upping the pressure on the company and its scabs - and the costs to GM are mounting."
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Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock)
Study Proves the FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False
Karl Bode, VICE
Bode writes: "A new study has found the FCC's primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false."
Karl Bode, VICE
Bode writes: "A new study has found the FCC's primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false."
EXCERPT:
For years, big ISPs and Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai have told anyone who’d listen that the FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed in 2015 and repealed last year in a flurry of controversy and alleged fraud, dramatically stifled broadband investment across the United States. Repeal the rules, Pai declared, and US broadband investment would explode.
“Under the heavy-handed regulations adopted by the prior Commission in 2015, network investment declined for two straight years, the first time that had happened outside of a recession in the broadband era,” Pai told Congress last year at an oversight hearing.
“We now have a regulatory framework in place that is encouraging the private sector to make the investments necessary to bring better, faster, and cheaper broadband to more Americans,” Pai proclaimed.
But a new study from George Washington University indicates that Pai’s claims were patently false. The study took a closer look at the earnings reports and SEC filings of 8,577 unique companies from Q1 2009 through Q3 2018 to conclude that the passage and repeal of the rules had no meaningful impact on broadband investment. Several hundred of these were telecom companies.
“The results of the paper are clear and should be both unsurprising and uncontroversial,” The researchers said. “The key finding is there were no impacts on telecommunication industry investment from the net neutrality policy changes. Neither the 2010 or 2015 US net neutrality rule changes had any causal impact on telecommunications investment.”
While the study is the biggest yet to do so, it’s not the first to reach this conclusion.
Last year a deep analysis of industry financial data from consumer group Free Press found some ISPs actually invested more heavily in their broadband networks while net neutrality rules were active. Journalists had similarly found no meaningful impact on network investment from net neutrality, something confirmed by the public statements of numerous ISP CEOs.
Human Rights Watch said the arrests were the most sweeping since December 2013, months after Sisi came to power in a military coup. (photo: AFP)
Over 2,000 Arrested in Egypt in Growing Protests Against Sisi, Trump's "Favorite Dictator"
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Demonstrations continued in Egypt Friday, with thousands taking to the streets to demand the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over accusations of corruption."
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Demonstrations continued in Egypt Friday, with thousands taking to the streets to demand the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over accusations of corruption."
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A broad array of species live in Palau's abundant protected waters, including this little goby camouflaged within the branches of a red coral. (photo: Enric Sala/National Geographic)
Many Marine Protected Areas Are Failing to Protect Ocean Plant and Animal Life
Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic
Gibbens writes: "Countries earn a lot of media buzz for announcing bold plans to section off thousands of square miles of ocean for protection. That's because scientists say these Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are effective tools to protect the marine plants and animals facing threats from ocean acidification, heatwaves, overfishing, and pollution."
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Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic
Gibbens writes: "Countries earn a lot of media buzz for announcing bold plans to section off thousands of square miles of ocean for protection. That's because scientists say these Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are effective tools to protect the marine plants and animals facing threats from ocean acidification, heatwaves, overfishing, and pollution."
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