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Doomstead Diner Daily August 8

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Trump attacks local leaders as he visits two cities grieving from mass shootings

www.washingtonpost.com - By Ashley Parker , Ashley Parker White House reporter Email Bio Follow Philip Rucker , Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Email Bio Follow Jenna Johnson and Jenna Johnson National political corre…

ICE agents raid Miss. work sites, arrest 680 people in largest single-state immigration enforcement action in U.S. history

www.washingtonpost.com - Elizabeth Iraheta, a Salvadoran immigrant who works at Koch Foods Inc., one of seven work sites in six cities across Mississippi that were swept through by immigration agents on Aug. 7, said she now …

Climate crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC

www.theguardian.com - The climate crisis is damaging the ability of the land to sustain humanity, with cascading risks becoming increasingly severe as global temperatures rise, according to a landmark UN report compiled b…

What a Protest in Hong Kong Looks Like When Pro-Democracy Marchers Lose Their Fear of the Police

theintercept.com - Three weeks later, when the police failed to intervene as suspected members of local triad gangs beat protesters, images of the attack spread on social networks and fed the outrage. As the protesters…

New rebel bid to halt no-deal Brexit amid fury at PM’s enforcer Dominic Cummings

www.theguardian.com - Rebel MPs are working on a plan to thwart Boris Johnson pursuing a no-deal Brexit on 31 October that involves forcing parliament to sit through the autumn recess, amid growing outrage about the power…

Exposed: State Department Official Posted in Nazi Charlotteville Chats

unicornriot.ninja - Washington, DC – Today, an investigation by reporter Michael Hayden for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s Hatewatch revealed that US State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert has been active…

A Gathering of Comrades | Current Affairs

www.currentaffairs.org - I do not travel well. I have a tendency to forget where I am going, or even that I am going somewhere. Crucial possessions are frequently left behind in faraway places. Once I sat at an airport gate,…

Putin's Undeclared War: Summer 2014 - Russian Artillery Strikes against Ukraine - bellingcat

www.bellingcat.com - Terms such as civil war or internal conflict are often used to describe the war in Eastern Ukraine. However, the available evidence no longer supports this view. During summer 2014, Ukrainian officia…

These 7 Prominent Conservatives Have Nothing in Common With White Supremacists, Nothing at All

theintercept.com - What proof is there that the Christchurch terrorist in New Zealand took inspiration from the U.S. president (aside from his description of Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity”), or that neo-…

Members of the Press, WTF Indeed!

crooked.com - What did Beto O’Rourke mean this week when he asked reporters covering the white terrorist massacre in El Paso, TX, “members of the press, what the ****?” With those seven words, or maybe just the la…

The El Paso And Dayton Shootings Show How Disinformation Spreads On Messaging Apps

www.buzzfeednews.com - Just after the El Paso shooting, a video of a young man in glasses driving and rapping to Kendrick Lamar began to spread on Telegram. It was posted by Gavin McInnes, the Proud Boys founder who has be…

The Domestic Terrorism Law the Justice Department Forgot

theintercept.com - Glendon Scott Crawford was a mechanic at General Electric in Schenectady, New York. A tall, slender, middle-aged man with rectangular eyeglasses, he was married with three children. By appearances, h…

From El Paso to the War on Terror, the Dangers of Historical Amnesia

theintercept.com - When Monica Muñoz Martínez thinks about El Paso, Texas, she also thinks about Ciudad Juárez. It’s the same process that happens when she thinks about Brownsville and Matamoros, or Eagle Pass and Pied…

Leslie Wexner Accuses Jeffrey Epstein of Misappropriating ‘Vast Sums of Money’

www.nytimes.com - For over 15 years, Jeffrey Epstein served as a close personal adviser to Leslie H. Wexner, the billionaire mogul behind Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works. Now, Mr. Wexner says Mr. Epstein “misa…

The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery

undark.org - Every week, dozens of metal flasks arrive at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, each one loaded with air from a distant corner of the world. Research chemist Ed Dlugokencky…

Erdoğan: Annexation of Crimea illegal

www.yenisafak.com - President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday that Turkey will not accept illegal annexation of Crimea. After meeting his Ukrainian counterpart in Ankara, Erdoğan told a joint press conference: “Cont…

Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists

theintercept.com - On a narrow street in Charlottesville, Virginia, James Alex Fields Jr. pressed the accelerator of his gray Dodge Challenger. Dozens of people were walking in front of him. They had come to protest Fi…

Opinion | Trump Has Dragged Us Into the Gutter

www.nytimes.com - We are used to navigating unwarranted hostility from neighbors, co-workers and schoolmates, but when the person targeting you has actual power over you, it makes your life hell, psychically as well a…

JPMorgan Chase has found software that writes better ads than humans can

qz.com - In another sign that the future of work is already here, JPMorgan Chase has signed a five-year deal with a software startup that uses artificial intelligence to write marketing copy, following a succ…

Trump's Environmental Legacy Will Take Time to Erase - Resilience

www.resilience.org - Time is the dearest resource we have in the fight to combat Earth’s warming. Whether there is time enough to avoid the harsh economic and environmental consequences waiting beyond the 1.5 degree Cels…

Balkan water reserves may soon run short | Climate News Network

climatenewsnetwork.net - South-east Europe faces problems in the next decade as Balkan water reserves are expected to falter, imperilling hydropower. TIRANA, Albania, 8 August, 2019 − The Balkans is one of the world’s most t…

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