21 July 19
Garrison Keillor | The Pleasure of Running Into Stan on Sunday
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Blog
Keillor writes: "I stopped in a cafe on Sunday after church to get awakened from a feeling of blessedness and who should I run into but my Anoka High School gym teacher Stan Nelson, who is 99 years old and still talking and making sense."
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Rep. Ilhan Omar. (photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Blog
Keillor writes: "I stopped in a cafe on Sunday after church to get awakened from a feeling of blessedness and who should I run into but my Anoka High School gym teacher Stan Nelson, who is 99 years old and still talking and making sense."
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Rep. Ilhan Omar. (photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
Viet Thanh Nguyen | In Trump's Vision of a White America, Immigrants Should Be Grateful and Servile
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Washington Post
Nguyen writes: "Trump's comments last weekend, that four congresswomen should 'go back' to their ancestors' countries if they don't like this one, were also an argument that immigrants of color should simply be grateful to be here."
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Govenor Kay Ivey of Alabama. (photo: Brynn Anderson/AP)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Washington Post
Nguyen writes: "Trump's comments last weekend, that four congresswomen should 'go back' to their ancestors' countries if they don't like this one, were also an argument that immigrants of color should simply be grateful to be here."
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Govenor Kay Ivey of Alabama. (photo: Brynn Anderson/AP)
Alabama Governor Quietly Signs Law Allowing Mega-Church a Private Police Force
Elinor Aspegren, USA Today
Aspegren writes: "Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation allowing a mega-church to establish its own police force, despite threats of a legal challenge."
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Elinor Aspegren, USA Today
Aspegren writes: "Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation allowing a mega-church to establish its own police force, despite threats of a legal challenge."
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Steve Bannon. (image: Diana Ofosu/ThinkProgress)
Steve Bannon Tracked Iowan Catholics' Phones to Target Them With Pro-Trump Ads in Midterm Run-Up
Joshua Eaton, ThinkProgress
Eaton writes: "Steve Bannon and the conservative group CatholicVote used cell-phone location data for people who had been inside Roman Catholic churches in Dubuque, Iowa, in 2018 to target them with get-out-the-vote ads."
Joshua Eaton, ThinkProgress
Eaton writes: "Steve Bannon and the conservative group CatholicVote used cell-phone location data for people who had been inside Roman Catholic churches in Dubuque, Iowa, in 2018 to target them with get-out-the-vote ads."
A Palestinian farmer carries dates harvested in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip. The area has been repeatedly damaged by herbicide spraying, according to a report. (photo: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)
Israeli Spraying of Herbicide Near Gaza Harming Palestinian Crops
Miriam Berger, Guardian UK
Berger writes: "Israeli aircraft spraying herbicide beside the buffer zone along the Gaza strip is directly affecting the livelihoods of Palestinians in violation of international standards, a new report claims."
Miriam Berger, Guardian UK
Berger writes: "Israeli aircraft spraying herbicide beside the buffer zone along the Gaza strip is directly affecting the livelihoods of Palestinians in violation of international standards, a new report claims."
Srebrenica. (photo: Reuters)
Court: Dutch Troops Responsible for 10% of Srebrenica Massacre
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled Friday that Dutch troops was liable for 10 percent of the deaths in 1995 of 350 Muslim males who were expelled from a U.N. base and killed by Bosnian Serb forces at Srebrenica."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled Friday that Dutch troops was liable for 10 percent of the deaths in 1995 of 350 Muslim males who were expelled from a U.N. base and killed by Bosnian Serb forces at Srebrenica."
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Pipeline protests in North Dakota. (photo: AP)
North Dakota Wants the $38 Million It Wasted Policing the Pipeline Protests Back
Nick Martin, Splinter
Martin writes: "On Thursday, North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem sued the United States government for $38 million in funds to recoup the taxpayer money the state poured into policing Indigenous protesters over the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline. If only the state hadn't wasted its money giving the construction companies all that free protection."
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Nick Martin, Splinter
Martin writes: "On Thursday, North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem sued the United States government for $38 million in funds to recoup the taxpayer money the state poured into policing Indigenous protesters over the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline. If only the state hadn't wasted its money giving the construction companies all that free protection."
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