01 November 19
Charles Pierce | No, I Do Not 'Respect the Office of the Presidency'
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Of course a renegade president* should be heckled at a baseball game. It's the least we can do."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Of course a renegade president* should be heckled at a baseball game. It's the least we can do."
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Paula White, a spiritual adviser to the president, speaks at the National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House on May 4, 2017. (photo: Getty)
Paula White, Trump's Personal Pastor, Joins the White House
Jeremy W. Peters and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Paula White, a controversial figure even among evangelical Christians, will be overseeing a White House division that conducts outreach to key parts of the president's base."
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Jeremy W. Peters and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Paula White, a controversial figure even among evangelical Christians, will be overseeing a White House division that conducts outreach to key parts of the president's base."
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Former White House counsel Don McGahn. (photo: Jim Bourg/Reuters)
So Much for the Constitution: Trump's DOJ Argues Congress Can't Force Trump Advisers to Testify
Zoe Tillman, BuzzFeed
Tillman writes: "Current and former senior advisers to President Donald Trump are immune from being forced to testify in Congress, the Justice Department told a judge on Thursday - after arguing that the courts shouldn't be involved in this kind of fight between the White House and Congress in the first place."
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Zoe Tillman, BuzzFeed
Tillman writes: "Current and former senior advisers to President Donald Trump are immune from being forced to testify in Congress, the Justice Department told a judge on Thursday - after arguing that the courts shouldn't be involved in this kind of fight between the White House and Congress in the first place."
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The ACLU has filed a lawsuit to force the FBI to reveal information about its use of facial recognition surveillance. (photo: Getty)
ACLU Is Suing to Force the FBI to Reveal Information About Its Secret Facial Recognition Surveillance Program
Kade Crockford, ACLU
Crockford writes: "Many of us wear masks on Halloween for fun. But what about a world in which we have to wear a mask every single day to protect our privacy from the government's oppressive eye?"
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Kade Crockford, ACLU
Crockford writes: "Many of us wear masks on Halloween for fun. But what about a world in which we have to wear a mask every single day to protect our privacy from the government's oppressive eye?"
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Cristian Padilla Romero. (photo: Padilla Romero family)
ICE Is Deporting My Mother. She's Recovering From Stage 4 Cancer
Cristian Padilla Romero and Brendan O'Connor, VICE
Excerpt: "In the detention center the conditions are just horrible in general, but specifically for her."
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Cristian Padilla Romero and Brendan O'Connor, VICE
Excerpt: "In the detention center the conditions are just horrible in general, but specifically for her."
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro threatened the license of the country's largest network on Wednesday. (photo: Eraldo Peres/AP)
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro Linked to 2018 Murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco
Terrence McCoy, Marina Lopes and Teo Armus, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "For months, Brazil has wrestled with questions of who ordered the killing last year of Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco. The rising star who advocated for the city's Afro-Brazilians and poor was shot to death in her car."
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Terrence McCoy, Marina Lopes and Teo Armus, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "For months, Brazil has wrestled with questions of who ordered the killing last year of Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco. The rising star who advocated for the city's Afro-Brazilians and poor was shot to death in her car."
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This Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019 photo, provided by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, shows affected land from a Keystone oil pipeline leak near Edinburg, North Dakota. (photo: Taylor DeVries/North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality)
Keystone Pipeline Leaks 383,000 Gallons of Oil in Second Big Spill in Two Years
Lauren M. Johnson, CNN
Johnson writes: "Part of the Keystone 1 Pipeline in North Dakota was shut down after a leak of about 9,120 barrels of oil - 383,040 gallons - was discovered, TC Energy company said in a statement."
Lauren M. Johnson, CNN
Johnson writes: "Part of the Keystone 1 Pipeline in North Dakota was shut down after a leak of about 9,120 barrels of oil - 383,040 gallons - was discovered, TC Energy company said in a statement."
EXCERPT:
The Indigenous Environmental Network, an environmental justice nonprofit group, responded to the spill with concern.
"This is exactly the kind of spill we are worried about when it comes to Keystone XL being built. It has never been if a pipeline breaks but rather when," said Joye Braun, Indigenous Environmental Network frontline community organizer.
The organization criticized the company, saying that it hasn't done enough to secure the infrastructure of the pipeline.
Pipeline protests
The Keystone Pipeline system stretches more than 2,600 miles from Alberta, Canada, east into Manitoba and then south to Texas.
Keystone 1 refers to phase one of the Keystone Pipeline that starts in Alberta and runs through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma. Phase one started operating in 2011.
The controversial Keystone XL pipeline would begin in Alberta and extend south to Steele City, Nebraska. The company says it hopes to start construction in 2020.
The pipelines have sparked months-long protests. In 2017, a spill exposed 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota. As many as 10,000 people participated during the peak of the demonstrations.
Clashes with police at the protests turned violent at times, with one woman nearly losing her arm after an explosion in November 2016.
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