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20 August 19
Andy Borowitz | Unskilled Man Fears He Will Lose Job in Recession
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A man with no identifiable skills is deeply worried that a recession could cause him to lose his job, people close to the man have confirmed."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A man with no identifiable skills is deeply worried that a recession could cause him to lose his job, people close to the man have confirmed."
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Senator Elizabeth Warren. (photo: AP)
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Repeal 1994 Crime Bill, End Cash Bail
Ginger Gibson, Reuters
Gibson writes: "U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday proposed sweeping changes to federal and state criminal justice systems, including ending cash bail requirements and doing away with a crime bill that rival Joe Biden helped make law."
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Ginger Gibson, Reuters
Gibson writes: "U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday proposed sweeping changes to federal and state criminal justice systems, including ending cash bail requirements and doing away with a crime bill that rival Joe Biden helped make law."
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George Orwell. (photo: Mondadori/Getty Images)
Tom Engelhardt | 2084: Orwell Revisited in the Age of Trump
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "I, Winston Smith... I mean, Tom Engelhardt... have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one - and I suspect I've been living one all my life."
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "I, Winston Smith... I mean, Tom Engelhardt... have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one - and I suspect I've been living one all my life."
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White House operative Stephen Miller. (photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Stephen Miller's Anti-Immigrant Plan Deemed Too Racist to Be Legal
Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair
Lutz writes: "In his quest to manufacture creative ways to bully immigrants, White House adviser Stephen Miller apparently spent months pushing a plan that would allow states to ban undocumented children from public schools."
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Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair
Lutz writes: "In his quest to manufacture creative ways to bully immigrants, White House adviser Stephen Miller apparently spent months pushing a plan that would allow states to ban undocumented children from public schools."
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A demonstrator at the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for black suffrage. (photo: Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos)
The 1619 Project and the Far-Right Fear of History
Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post
Tharoor writes: "In the summer of 1619, two warships manned by English privateers raided a Portuguese vessel the pirates hoped was brimming with gold."
Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post
Tharoor writes: "In the summer of 1619, two warships manned by English privateers raided a Portuguese vessel the pirates hoped was brimming with gold."
EXCERPT:
“Coinciding with the Trump presidency and resurgent white nationalism, the 400th anniversary of slavery in what would become the United States has inspired renewed scrutiny of the curse of color caste on our collective consciousness,” wrote academic Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey in The Washington Post last month. “The widening wealth and health gaps between African Americans and whites, hyper-criminalization and mass incarceration of African Americans, the meaning and future of affirmative action, and efforts to save Confederate flags and memorials are but a few contentious issues that will trigger further conflict.”
Writing this love song to my people ended up being the most patriotic thing I have ever produced. Only if you don't consider black people fully American, as "We the People" who worked to make our founding ideals a reality, could you see it any other way. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Vice President Mike Pence. (photo: Getty Images)
The Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Fire Women Who Act Too 'Masculine'
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Thirty years ago, in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, the Supreme Court held that 'sex stereotyping' is forbidden by a federal law banning employment discrimination."
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Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Thirty years ago, in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, the Supreme Court held that 'sex stereotyping' is forbidden by a federal law banning employment discrimination."
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People walk on snow atop the Ok volcano crater on their way to a ceremony for the Okjökull glacier. (photo: Felipe Dana/AP)
Iceland Held a Funeral for Its First Glacier Lost to Climate Change and Left This Warning Sign
Jon Passantino, BuzzFeed
Passantino writes: "It was the first of what will likely be many farewells."
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Jon Passantino, BuzzFeed
Passantino writes: "It was the first of what will likely be many farewells."
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