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Matt Taibbi | Forget 'Conventional Wisdom': There Are No More Moderates
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "This pattern repeats itself over and over. Democrats keep trying to run as non-specifically as possible, while from Bush to the Tea Party to Trump, the Republicans who fly their freak flag the highest win the day."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "This pattern repeats itself over and over. Democrats keep trying to run as non-specifically as possible, while from Bush to the Tea Party to Trump, the Republicans who fly their freak flag the highest win the day."
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Matthew Whitaker in August. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Trump Loyalist Matthew Whitaker Was Counseling the White House on Investigating Clinton
Murray Waas, Vox
Waas writes: "Matthew Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump named as his acting attorney general on Wednesday, privately provided advice to the president last year on how the White House might be able to pressure the Justice Department to investigate the president's political adversaries."
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Murray Waas, Vox
Waas writes: "Matthew Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump named as his acting attorney general on Wednesday, privately provided advice to the president last year on how the White House might be able to pressure the Justice Department to investigate the president's political adversaries."
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A demonstrator holds a poster picturing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a lightened candle during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul. (photo: Yasin Akgul/AFP)
'I'm Suffocating': Khashoggi's Last Words, Says Turkish Reporter
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "The head of investigations at the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper has told Al Jazeera that Jamal Khashoggi's last words were 'I'm suffocating ... Take this bag off my head, I'm claustrophobic', according to an audio recording from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul."
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Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "The head of investigations at the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper has told Al Jazeera that Jamal Khashoggi's last words were 'I'm suffocating ... Take this bag off my head, I'm claustrophobic', according to an audio recording from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul."
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Firefighters work a hotspot caused by the Woosley fire in Malibu, California, on Saturday. (photo: Mike Nelson/EPA)
'Only Bones and Fragments': California Wildfire Toll at 25 as Grim Searches Go On
Gabrielle Canon, Guardian UK
Canon writes: "In northern California, sheriff's investigators have begun the agonizing task of scouring the wreckage of the most destructive fire in state records, in search of remains of the dead. By Saturday, the death toll in and around the destroyed town of Paradise had reached 23, but it seemed likely to climb."
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Gabrielle Canon, Guardian UK
Canon writes: "In northern California, sheriff's investigators have begun the agonizing task of scouring the wreckage of the most destructive fire in state records, in search of remains of the dead. By Saturday, the death toll in and around the destroyed town of Paradise had reached 23, but it seemed likely to climb."
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Rick Scott. (photo: NY Post)
Republicans Are Already Constructing a Conspiracy in Florida
Jack Crosbie, Splinter News
Crosbie writes: "This afternoon, roughly 60 people outside the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office rallied and chanted 'Lock her up!' because they think the Democrats are trying to steal an election in Florida. The short story: There is no evidence for this."
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Jack Crosbie, Splinter News
Crosbie writes: "This afternoon, roughly 60 people outside the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office rallied and chanted 'Lock her up!' because they think the Democrats are trying to steal an election in Florida. The short story: There is no evidence for this."
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An inmate sits on a bed in a prison cell. (photo: Stephan Gladiau/Getty)
Neuroscientists Make a Case Against Solitary Confinement
Dana G. Smith, Scientific American
Smith writes: "There are an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. They are confined to windowless cells roughly the size of a king bed for 23 hours a day, with virtually no human contact except for brief interactions with prison guards."
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Dana G. Smith, Scientific American
Smith writes: "There are an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. They are confined to windowless cells roughly the size of a king bed for 23 hours a day, with virtually no human contact except for brief interactions with prison guards."
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Jair Bolsonaro. (photo: Evaristo SA/Getty Images)
Will the US Finance Industry Fund Bolsonaro's Destruction of the Amazon?
Natalie Sauer, Climate Home News
Sauer writes: "The world's largest asset managers could play a pivotal role in safeguarding the Amazon forest, a report published on Thursday shows, amid concerns Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro could strip the planet of its lungs."
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Natalie Sauer, Climate Home News
Sauer writes: "The world's largest asset managers could play a pivotal role in safeguarding the Amazon forest, a report published on Thursday shows, amid concerns Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro could strip the planet of its lungs."
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