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Why are these people the ones standing up for Reader Supported News? Can someone please explain that to me?
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Angela Watters, Reader Supported News
Watters writes: "I know, I know, the unrelenting, daily existential crisis that is living in Trump's America feels like it is enough on its own. But, I assure you, you can and should put yourself out there and run."
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Watters writes: "I know, I know, the unrelenting, daily existential crisis that is living in Trump's America feels like it is enough on its own. But, I assure you, you can and should put yourself out there and run."
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Julia Manchester, The Hill
Manchester writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign announced on Tuesday that it has reached 4 million individual donations."
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Julia Manchester, The Hill
Manchester writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign announced on Tuesday that it has reached 4 million individual donations."
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Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. John Barrasso, Senate Majority Whip John Thune and Sen. Joni Ernst participate in a news briefing on Sept. 10 at the U.S. Capitol. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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A heroin user prepares to shoot up on the street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city on October 7, 2017 in New York City. (photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaks at a campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential contender, earlier this month. (photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images
Islamophobic Trump Supporter Who Threatened to Kill Rep Ilhan Omar Pleads Guilty
Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaks at a campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential contender, earlier this month. (photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images)
Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaks at a campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential contender, earlier this month. (photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images)
man who threatened to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has pleaded guilty, according to authorities.
Patrick W. Carlineo Jr., 55, of Addison, N.Y., entered the guilty plea before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci for threatening to assault and murder the freshman congresswoman and for being a felon in possession of firearms, according to a statement released Monday by the Department of Justice.
The plea stems from a March call that Carlineo made to Omar’s Washington, D.C., office. “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood?” he said to a member of Omar’s staff in that call, according to a complaint filed earlier this year. “Why are you working for her, she’s a [expletive] terrorist. Somebody ought to put a bullet in her skull.” The staff member remembered Carlineo saying, “I’ll put a bullet in her [expletive] skull,” the complaint said.
Carlineo made the call, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York, because he hates the idea that people he perceives as radical Muslims are part of the U.S. government and because of his belief that Omar supports Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Carlineo also believed that Omar’s election to Congress was illegitimate, authorities said.
Although he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Omar wrote an open letter to Geraci requesting that he refrain from sentencing Carlineo to a long prison term and a large fine.
Carlineo needs compassion and restorative justice that will allow him to understand the consequences of his actions and to make amends, she wrote.
Sharing my full letter on the the sentencing of Patrick W. Carlineo, a man convicted of threatening my life.
We must apply a system of compassion to criminal justice.
Who are we as a nation if we respond to threats of political retribution with retribution ourselves?
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An investigation of Carlineo conducted by the U.S. Capitol Police’s Threat Assessment Section and the FBI prompted an interview with him at his home a week after his call to Omar’s office, according to the complaint.
Carlineo told an FBI special agent that “if our forefathers were still alive, they’d put a bullet in her head,” the complaint stated.
He told investigators that he was a President Trump-loving patriot who “hates radical Muslims” in the government, according to the document.
Carlineo told FBI agents that he had a shotgun and a .22 caliber firearm at his home that he claimed belonged to his girlfriend but later admitted to belonged to him, according to the complaint.
In April, authorities uncovered a more expansive array of Carlineo’s firearms that included three rifles, two shotguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at his home, according to the officials. Carlineo had a 1998 conviction for criminal mischief, which barred him from legally owning firearms.
Carlineo’s sentencing before Geraci is scheduled for Feb. 14, 2020.
Omar is one of the first Muslim women elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, and she has been the target of many Islamophobic comments since taking office. In September, Trump retweeted a post by a comedian that claimed Omar had been “partying” and “celebrating” the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The president commented that Omar was “the new face of the Democrat Party." Omar replied that Trump was spreading lies and she had been attending an event to celebrate black women in Congress.
The comedian, Terrence K. Williams, has since deleted the post.
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Colombian Government: 187 Ex-FARC Members Killed Since Signing of Peace Deal
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The FARC, now operating as a political party named Revolutionary Alternative Common Force has been denouncing the lack of security faced by its members. (photo: Reuters)
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The FARC, now operating as a political party named Revolutionary Alternative Common Force has been denouncing the lack of security faced by its members. (photo: Reuters)
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Smoke rises from the fires ravaging the Amazon basin in August. On Monday, Brazilian authorities released data revealing the highest rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in a decade - partly due to a recent surge in wildfires throughout the region. (photo: Joao Laet/AFP/Getty Images)
Amazon Rainforest Sees Biggest Spike in Deforestation in Over a Decade
Colin Dwyer, NPR
Dwyer writes: "Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, released data Monday revealing that 3,769 square miles of rainforest were lost to deforestation in a 12-month period ending in July."
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Colin Dwyer, NPR
Dwyer writes: "Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, released data Monday revealing that 3,769 square miles of rainforest were lost to deforestation in a 12-month period ending in July."
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