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• Senate Approval of Mike Pompeo's Secretary of State Nomination Would Spell Disaster for Planet Earth April 24, 2018
  Making a Koch-supported climate denier the top U.S. diplomat is sheer lunacy. It is hard to think of a worse candidate than Mike Pompeo to lead the State Department. As leaders of national organizations working toward a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world, we are not trying to sound hyperbolic in asserting that Pompeo is […]
  Stephen Miles, Erich Pica, Independent Media Institute
• Country Singer Shania Twain Mocked Online After Trying To Take Back Trump Endorsement: 'You Don't Impress Us Much' April 23, 2018
  On Sunday night, Twain took to Twitter to take back her Trump endorsement and apologized to fans whom she may have offended. Singer Shania Twain over the weekend said that she likely would have backed Donald Trump's presidential campaign had she been eligible to vote in 2016 -- a statement that she quickly regretted after […]
  Brad Reed, Raw Story
• An Expert In Religious Imagery Argues That What We See On Film Has Deep Cognitive Impact -- Especially In Small Children April 23, 2018
  Seeing is not just believing. Seeing changes what we believe, about ourselves and about other people, including constructions of race. Images are not static. They grab our attention, incite desire, alter our relations to others, and tweak our beliefs, as they usher us into new worlds.When “Black Panther” was released, Baye McNeil, a former Brooklynite […]
  The Conversation
• Reporter Suri Crowe Told the Truth About Climate Change — so Right-Wing Sinclair Broadcasting Showed Her the Door April 23, 2018
  Climate change wasn’t the only reporting done by Crowe were she ruffled the feathers at Sinclair. Buzzfeed has the story of Suri Crowe, a Virginia reporter who dared to tell the truth about the human cause behind climate change. After her report aired, Crowe was criticized by management and ordered to “balance” her reporting.In one 2015 instance, […]
  Mark Sumner, Daily Kos
• Waffle House Shooter Travis Reinking Should Not Have Had the AR-15 He Used To Kill Four People April 23, 2018
  Travis Reinking’s guns were confiscated — but he had them, thanks to a loophole Travis Reinking, the 29-year-old man suspected of killing four people at a Waffle House in Nashville, apparently was able to access his firearms — even though they had been confiscated by authorities months earlier when he tried to breach a barrier near the […]
  Matthew Rozsa, Salon
• Shutdown of Texas Schools Investigation Shows Trump Administration Pullback on Civil Rights April 23, 2018
  The U.S. Department of Education was investigating why black students in Bryan, Texas, are almost four times as likely as white students to be suspended. Then Betsy DeVos took over. Beside a highway in Bryan, Texas, tucked between a motorcycle bar and the county jail, stands a low-slung, sprawling complex with tinted windows, sandstone walls […]
  Annie Waldman, ProPublica
• Ex-federal Prosecutor Explains Why Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Has Only One Reason To Protect the President April 23, 2018
  Former US Attorney Mimi Rocah said there's only one reason Cohen might risk a lengthy prison term to protect his longtime boss. A former federal prosecutor said it was too soon to tell whether Michael Cohen would turn against President Donald Trump in the ongoing probe of his campaign ties to Russia, but she explained […]
  Travis Gettys, Raw Story
• Trump’s Tweets ‘Created a Stir’ At Barbara Bush’s Funeral: Report April 23, 2018
  President Trump stepped in it. Again. During a Monday morning discussion, CNN hosts Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo noted that President Donald Trump's week will consist mostly of diplomatic guests and visits. But when it comes to Trump's presidency and Trump the president, the morning panel noted there is a big difference.The weekend was filled […]
  Sarah Burris, Raw Story
• 'The Evidence Suggests Trump Is a Traitor': Pulitzer-winning Reporter David Cay Johnston April 23, 2018
  An investigative reporter who has covered Trump for 30 years dares to imagine impeachment — and President Nancy Pelosi The saga of President Donald Trump consists of several parallel and intersecting stories.There is the structural dimension. Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton was not entirely unpredictable or shocking. America's crisis in civic literacy, political polarization, rampant […]
  Chauncey DeVega, Salon
• Watch An Entire New York Bar Chant At Ex-Breitbarter Milo Yiannopoulos Until He Leaves April 23, 2018
  'Nazi scum get out!' You can't tell from Twitter, but rightwing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is in New York today.He wanted to go out for a drink, and ended up picking the wrong bar—one where members of the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America had just finished a meeting."Nazi scum get out!" they […]
  Martin Cizmar, Raw Story