If the Deep State Didn't Exist Before, the President Has Brought It Into Being With His Attacks on Bruce Ohr





Reader Supported News
16 September 18
It's Live on the HomePage Now:
Reader Supported News


If the Deep State Didn't Exist Before, the President Has Brought It Into Being With His Attacks on Bruce Ohr 
Bruce Ohr, center, arrives for a closed hearing of the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees on Capitol Hill. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
Abigail Tracy, Vanity Fair
Tracy writes: "It's a cosmic irony of Trump's Washington that the same people Donald Trump has arbitrarily branded the 'Deep State'-Never Trumpers, so-called Obama holdovers, establishment Republicans, and those who disagree with Trump's agenda-have been forced underground, meeting clandestinely, communicating furtively."
READ MORE

Law enforcement officers near the scene where a woman's body was found north of Laredo, Tex. A Border Patrol agent was arrested on Saturday in connection with that killing and others. (photo: Danny Zaragoza/The Laredo Morning Times/AP)
Law enforcement officers near the scene where a woman's body was found north of Laredo, Tex. A Border Patrol agent was arrested on Saturday in connection with that killing and others. (photo: Danny Zaragoza/The Laredo Morning Times/AP)

'Serial Killer': US Border Patrol Agent Charged With Murder of Four Women
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Texas authorities charged a US border patrol supervisor with murder following what they described as the serial killing of four female sex workers and a possible attempt on the life of a fifth woman who escaped at a gas station and found help."
READ MORE

Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: REX/Shutterstock)
Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: REX/Shutterstock)

Republicans' Gross Responses to Assault Allegation Against Brett Kavanaugh
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress
Rupar writes: "On Friday, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer broke news in the New Yorker that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault.
READ MORE

Police officer. (photo: Luiz Felipe Castro/Getty Images/Flickr RF)
Police officer. (photo: Luiz Felipe Castro/Getty Images/Flickr RF)

Police Accidentally Tweet Screenshot Showing That They Monitor Anti-Racism and Anti-Police Brutality Groups
Michael Harriot, The Root
Harriot writes: "In their efforts to inform the public that they were doing everything possible to manage the spontaneous combustion of several homes, the Massachusetts State Police inadvertently let a few organizations fighting to end police brutality, racism and the reign of Donald Trump, know that they are being watched."
READ MORE

'To me, there's healing, and then there's justice,' says Becky Ianni, a mother of four who was sexually assaulted by a young parish priest, in her own home and for years, starting when she was 8. (photo: Michael Bonfigli/CS Monitor)
'To me, there's healing, and then there's justice,' says Becky Ianni, a mother of four who was sexually assaulted by a young parish priest, in her own home and for years, starting when she was 8. (photo: Michael Bonfigli/CS Monitor)

For Survivors of Priest Child Sex Abuse, What Would Real Justice Look Like?
Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor
Bruinius wrtest: "There are crimes for which justice can seem like a remote concept. There are crimes, like the sexual abuse of children, from which many turn away - using language like 'unspeakable,' 'unimaginable,' or even 'inhuman.' Even survivors create their mental shields from the crimes they endured."
READ MORE

Myanmar press freedom advocates and youth activists hold a demonstration demanding the freedom of two jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo in Yangon, Myanmar September 16, 2018. (photo: Ann Wang/Reuters)
Myanmar press freedom advocates and youth activists hold a demonstration demanding the freedom of two jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo in Yangon, Myanmar September 16, 2018. (photo: Ann Wang/Reuters)

Myanmar Youth, Journalists Demonstrate Against Jailing of Reuters Reporters
Shoon Naing and Simon Lewis, Reuters
Excerpt: "At least 100 Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists on Sunday, warning that the seven-year prison terms handed to the pair this month threaten the public's right to information."
READ MORE

In this June 23, 2014 file photo, the dried-up bed of an inactive coal ash pond is seen at Duke Energy's Sutton plant in Wilmington, N.C. Duke Energy says heavy rains from Florence have caused a slope to collapse at a coal ash landfill at a closed power station near the North Carolina coast. (photo: Mike Spencer/The Star-News/AP)
In this June 23, 2014 file photo, the dried-up bed of an inactive coal ash pond is seen at Duke Energy's Sutton plant in Wilmington, N.C. Duke Energy says heavy rains from Florence have caused a slope to collapse at a coal ash landfill at a closed power station near the North Carolina coast. (photo: Mike Spencer/The Star-News/AP)

Florence's Rains: Coal Ash Landfill Collapses in Carolinas
Michael Biesecker, Associated Press
Biesecker writes: "Heavy rains from Florence caused a slope to collapse at a coal ash landfill at a closed power station near the North Carolina coast, Duke Energy says."
READ MORE

Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter






Comments