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Andy Borowitz | Sympathetic Voters Hope to End Melania's Suffering in 2020
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "One day after Melania Trump pronounced herself 'the most bullied person in the world,' millions of American voters vowed to put an end to her suffering in 2020."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "One day after Melania Trump pronounced herself 'the most bullied person in the world,' millions of American voters vowed to put an end to her suffering in 2020."
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Protesters near the White House following the Women's March on Washington on 20 January. (photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty)
Trump Administration Plans Crackdown on Protests Outside White House
Luke O'Neil, Guardian UK
O'Neil writes: "Donald Trump has frequently and falsely crowed about the idea of so-called paid protesters, including most recently the sexual assault survivors who confronted senators in the lead-up to the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation. Now his administration may be trying to turn that concept on its head, by requiring citizens to pay to be able to protest, among other affronts to the first amendment."
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Luke O'Neil, Guardian UK
O'Neil writes: "Donald Trump has frequently and falsely crowed about the idea of so-called paid protesters, including most recently the sexual assault survivors who confronted senators in the lead-up to the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation. Now his administration may be trying to turn that concept on its head, by requiring citizens to pay to be able to protest, among other affronts to the first amendment."
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Immigrants stand in line for tickets at a bus station in McAllen, Texas. (photo: Eric Gay/AP)
The Government Is Using Racial Pseudoscience to Determine Immigrant Kids' Ages From Teeth
Libby Watson, Splinter News
Watson writes: "A troubling report yesterday documented the shaky method being used by the U.S. government to determine whether unaccompanied minors that arrive at the border are really children or whether they should be placed in immigration jails for adults. It's a horrifying new case study in how our government dehumanizes immigrants."
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Libby Watson, Splinter News
Watson writes: "A troubling report yesterday documented the shaky method being used by the U.S. government to determine whether unaccompanied minors that arrive at the border are really children or whether they should be placed in immigration jails for adults. It's a horrifying new case study in how our government dehumanizes immigrants."
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Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. (photo: Getty)
Report: Sheldon Adelson Spending Tens of Millions More to Help GOP in Midterms
Michael Burke, The Hill
Burke writes: "Casino magnate and Republican mega donor Sheldon Adelson is giving tens of millions of dollars more to the Republican Party in a last-minute effort to help preserve the GOP's majorities in the House and Senate."
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Michael Burke, The Hill
Burke writes: "Casino magnate and Republican mega donor Sheldon Adelson is giving tens of millions of dollars more to the Republican Party in a last-minute effort to help preserve the GOP's majorities in the House and Senate."
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From left, Eric Garner's stepfather, Benjamin Carr, mother Gwen Carr and his widow Esaw Garner attend an interfaith prayer service at Mount Sinai United Christian Church to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Eric Garner in New York on July 14, 2015. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)
My Son Eric Garner's Death Was My Political Awakening. Don't Wait for a Tragedy to Have Your Own.
Gwen Carr, NBC News
Carr writes: "We have to get out there - on the streets, in the voting booths, in our state capitals and in Washington - before some issue affects us."
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Gwen Carr, NBC News
Carr writes: "We have to get out there - on the streets, in the voting booths, in our state capitals and in Washington - before some issue affects us."
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Colombia's Indigenous organization under threat by paramilitary groups. (photo: teleSUR)
Colombia's Indigenous Organization Under Threat by Paramilitary
teleSUR
Excerpt: "A Colombian paramilitary group known as the 'Aguilas Negras' (Black Eagles) spread pamphlets in the northern Guajira department threatening human rights defenders and indigenous organizations working in the region."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "A Colombian paramilitary group known as the 'Aguilas Negras' (Black Eagles) spread pamphlets in the northern Guajira department threatening human rights defenders and indigenous organizations working in the region."
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A bee on a flower. (photo: Pexels)
EPA Considers 300,000-Acre Expansion for Bee-Toxic Pesticide
Center for Biological Diversity
Excerpt: "Although flupyradifurone is known to harm pollinators like bees and freshwater invertebrates like mussels, a pesticide maker is asking the EPA to approve its use across more than 300,000 acres in areas that are home to more than three dozen protected species."
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Center for Biological Diversity
Excerpt: "Although flupyradifurone is known to harm pollinators like bees and freshwater invertebrates like mussels, a pesticide maker is asking the EPA to approve its use across more than 300,000 acres in areas that are home to more than three dozen protected species."
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