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Garrison Keillor | Old Man Spends Sunday Among Lutherans
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "Back when I did a radio show in Minnesota, I liked to make fun of Lutherans for their lumbering earnestness, their obsessive moderation, their dread of giving offense. I felt obliged to make fun of them because they were the heart of my audience, but now that I'm old and out of the way, I feel obliged to do penance."
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Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "Back when I did a radio show in Minnesota, I liked to make fun of Lutherans for their lumbering earnestness, their obsessive moderation, their dread of giving offense. I felt obliged to make fun of them because they were the heart of my audience, but now that I'm old and out of the way, I feel obliged to do penance."
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Maria Butina. (photo: Zuma Press)
The Maria Butina Case Was Never About the Sex Life of a Russian Spy
Vera Bergengruen, BuzzFeed
Bergengruen writes: "The breathless coverage of a sexual overture that wasn't missed the new details about her five-year effort to make inroads with prominent Republicans."
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Vera Bergengruen, BuzzFeed
Bergengruen writes: "The breathless coverage of a sexual overture that wasn't missed the new details about her five-year effort to make inroads with prominent Republicans."
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An immigrant family. (photo: Paul Sancya/AP)
Sessions Warns Judges Against 'Sympathy' for Immigrants
Sophie Weiner, Splinter News
Weiner writes: "In a speech given to 44 new judges in Virginia, Sessions explicitly called for the new recruits to fight back against immigration lawyers."
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Sophie Weiner, Splinter News
Weiner writes: "In a speech given to 44 new judges in Virginia, Sessions explicitly called for the new recruits to fight back against immigration lawyers."
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A rally for water rights. (photo: Rebecca Cook/Reuters)
Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids
Valerie Vande Panne, In These Times
Vande Panne writes: "As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services."
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Valerie Vande Panne, In These Times
Vande Panne writes: "As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services."
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Oregon House Rep. Mike Nearman. (photo: Daily Beast)
GOP Lawmaker Outed as a Leader of a White Supremacist Hate Group
Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
Israel writes: "An Oregon-based alt-weekly has exposed that state Rep. Mike Nearman (R) is the vice president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform - an SPLC-designated anti-immigrant hate group with ties to a prominent white-nationalist eugenics advocate."
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Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
Israel writes: "An Oregon-based alt-weekly has exposed that state Rep. Mike Nearman (R) is the vice president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform - an SPLC-designated anti-immigrant hate group with ties to a prominent white-nationalist eugenics advocate."
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A Russian-made Lada car passes by the Russian Embassy in Havana, December 12, 2017. (photo: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)
Russia the Main Suspect in US Diplomats' Illness in Cuba
Reuters
Excerpt: "Russia is the main suspect in U.S. agencies' investigation of mysterious illnesses in American personnel in Cuba and China, NBC News reported on Tuesday."
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Reuters
Excerpt: "Russia is the main suspect in U.S. agencies' investigation of mysterious illnesses in American personnel in Cuba and China, NBC News reported on Tuesday."
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John Mormando is trying to bring awareness to breast cancer he believes he contracted while working close to Ground Zero. (photo: Christopher Lane/Guardian UK)
September 11: Nearly 10,000 People Affected by 'Cesspool of Cancer'
Erin Durkin, Guardian UK
Durkin writes: "Tens of thousands of people who lived or worked in the neighborhood at the time found themselves breathing in air thick with toxic fumes and particles from the pulverized, burning skyscrapers. Many have since become sick, many have died and new cases are still occurring all the time that are linked back to the poisons that were in the air around the wreckage."
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Erin Durkin, Guardian UK
Durkin writes: "Tens of thousands of people who lived or worked in the neighborhood at the time found themselves breathing in air thick with toxic fumes and particles from the pulverized, burning skyscrapers. Many have since become sick, many have died and new cases are still occurring all the time that are linked back to the poisons that were in the air around the wreckage."
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