I sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos. Then he stiffed me. - The Washington Post

I sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos. Then he stiffed me. - The Washington Post:

But when I requested payment, the Trump corporation hemmed and hawed. Its executives avoided my calls and crafted excuses. After a couple of months, I got a letter telling me that the casino was short on funds. They would pay 70 percent of what they owed me. There was no negotiating. I didn’t know what to do — I couldn’t afford to sue the Trump corporation, and I needed money to pay my piano suppliers. So I took the $70,000.

Losing $30,000 was a big hit to me and my family. The profit from Trump was meant to be a big part of my salary for the year. So I made much less. There was no money to help grow my business. I had fewer pianos in the showroom and a smaller advertising budget. Because of Trump, my store stagnated for a couple of years. It made me feel really bad, like I’d been taken advantage of. I was embarrassed.

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The Politics of ‘The Shallows’ - WSJ

The Politics of ‘The Shallows’ - WSJ:

The 24/7 news cycle and the million multiplying platforms with their escalating demands—for pictures, video, sound, the immediate hot take—exhaust politicians and staff, and media people too. Everyone is tired, and chronically tired people live, perilously, on the Edge of Stupid. More important, modern media realities make everything intellectually thinner, shallower. Everything moves fast; we talk not of the scandal of the day but the scandal of the hour, reducing a great event, a presidential campaign, into an endless river of gaffes.



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GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties - The Daily Beast

GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties - The Daily Beast:

Privately, Republican congressional staff told The Daily Beast that Trump and his aides’ connections to Russian officials and businesses interests haven’t gone unnoticed and are concerning. And GOP lawmakers have reviewed Democrats’ written requests to the FBI that it investigate Trump before they were made public.

But the lawmakers in both chambers have declined to sign on to them. Republicans have no appetite to launch inquiries into their party’s presidential nominee, and they continue to believe the FBI flubbed its investigation into Clinton and her aides, who should have been charged with mishandling government secrets, the staffers said.

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gauchnomics comments on Neo Mercantilist Evangelicalism: You Can (Not) Shill.

gauchnomics comments on Neo Mercantilist Evangelicalism: You Can (Not) Shill.:

Originally, I responded paragraph by paragraph to this article by Trump's non-economist economics team. However, I think it makes more sense to respond to a few thematic points instead. They are:

1. A litany of bad statistics, including the claim crime is going up.
2. Blaming political opponents for demographic trends.
3. Ignoring negative extrenalities for energy production.
4. Arguing that increasing infrastructure spending would lower economic growth.
5. Advocating for actual mercantilism in current century.
6. Engaging in magical thinking on tax cuts and ignoring the need for deficit neutral policy evaluations.

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president_of_burundi comments on I sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos. Then he stiffed me.

president_of_burundi comments on I sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos. Then he stiffed me.:

In 1982 IN THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY he sent tenants, many of whom were older to elderly, immediate eviction notices- out in one week or their stuff was getting thrown out into the street. These were tenants in good standing who hadn't broken their leases. One woman was charged that the building wasn't her primary residence so she was being tossed out even though the only other residence she had ever had had burned down years before. She refused to leave so her water and gas was shut off. He then filed fake non-payment charges against another, which were thrown out when they were able produce documentation of Trump's management company canceling his rent checks.

So after that failed he filled the halls with garbage that attracted rats and roaches, which he then refused to have exterminated and told tenants they and their guests had to use the trash elevators to get into the building, including patients in a dentists office. He told the super to make absolutely no repairs. By the end it got so bad that tenants were able to provide pictures to the court of mushrooms growing out of the carpet in hallways.

He then told the city and tenants that he was going to house de-institutionalized homeless in all the empty units in the building, which the city refused, on grounds of danger to tenants and his intention to tear the building down. He tried to do it anyway- in typical Trump fashion he said it was because he cared so much about the plight of the homeless.

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How Trump Used His Foundation to Dodge Taxes - The Atlantic

How Trump Used His Foundation to Dodge Taxes - The Atlantic: "For years, and most recently yesterday on the front page of the New York Times, the affairs of the Clinton Foundation, have been the subject of stories about “lingering questions,” “clouds of doubt,” “images of corruption.” Nothing that has even been alleged about Clinton Foundation finances comes close to what is now on the record about the Trump Foundation. This is not a rationalization of anything the Clintons have done wrong; but it underscores the difference in scale between the two operations.
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I Am Lucky to Have a Syrian Passport · Global Voices

I Am Lucky to Have a Syrian Passport · Global Voices: "If it weren’t for my Syrian passport I wouldn’t have noticed how we, the suspects, are led with extreme politeness to defend our innocence and to denounce terrorism; we, who have been more targeted by terrorism than any of those investigating us about it.



 The real terrorism flies to you in private jets, and into private airports, after killing us silently, and occupies the pages of your newspapers and gets your media to discuss the elegance of his wife—the “Desert Rose”."



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Donald Trump’s rise reflects American conservatism’s decay - The Washington Post

Donald Trump’s rise reflects American conservatism’s decay - The Washington Post: "The American project was to construct a constitutional regime whose institutional architecture would guarantee the limited government implied by the Founders’ philosophy: Government is instituted to “secure” (the Declaration of Independence) preexisting natural rights. Today, however, neither the executive nor legislative branches takes this seriously, the judiciary has forsworn enforcing it, and neither political party represents it because no substantial constituency supports it.

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Tom Nichols: Commander-in-chief Trump? It's a scary prospect - NY Daily News

Tom Nichols: Commander-in-chief Trump? It's a scary prospect - NY Daily News: "By the end of the debate, Trump had come unhinged, red-faced and spouting non sequiturs. That was after 90 minutes on a stage with a fellow American. Imagine him after days of an international crisis with our worst enemies. The danger is beyond calculation.

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In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue - The New York Times

In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue - The New York Times: "• Hitler had a dark, Darwinian view of the world. And he would not only become, in Mr. Ullrich’s words, “a mouthpiece of the cultural pessimism” growing in right-wing circles in the Weimar Republic, but also the avatar of what Thomas Mann identified as a turning away from reason and the fundamental principles of a civil society — namely, “liberty, equality, education, optimism and belief in progress.”

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Tom Nichols: Whitewashing working-class woes - NY Daily News

Tom Nichols: Whitewashing working-class woes - NY Daily News: "What happened? Simple. The new underclass is predominantly white. Which means it turns out those liberal accusations of racism had a grain of truth to them.

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Endorsement: Hillary Clinton is the only choice to move America ahead

Endorsement: Hillary Clinton is the only choice to move America ahead: "Clinton retains her composure under pressure. She’s tough. She doesn’t back down.

Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads.

That’s beneath our national dignity.

When the president of the United States speaks, the world expects substance. Not a blistering tweet."



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Senate Votes to Override Obama Veto on 9/11 Victims Bill - The New York Times

Senate Votes to Override Obama Veto on 9/11 Victims Bill - The New York Times:

Then earlier this month, Mr. Ryan, who had encountered families of the Sept. 11 victims at a fund-raiser on Long Island, reversed suddenly his usual position of bringing no major bill to the House floor that had not passed muster with the relevant committee, and put the bill on a fast track. The House voted hastily and overwhelmingly in favor, sending it to Mr. Obama’s desk.

This led to some of the bill’s co-sponsors to express fear that it would actually become law.

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Why Trump voters are not “complete idiots” – Medium

Why Trump voters are not “complete idiots” – Medium: "
This has failed most Americans, other than the elite, in two ways. It has failed to provide an economic boost (incomes are broadly flat), and it has forgotten that many people see value as being not just economic, but social. It has been a one-two punch that has completely left behind many people.
For many people value is about having meaning beyond money. It is about having institutions that work for you. Like Church. Family. Sports Leagues."



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Moving Company Will Help You Leave an Abusive Partner for Free - United State Inrormation Hub

Moving Company Will Help You Leave an Abusive Partner for Free - United State Inrormation Hub:

Central Coast–based Meathead Movers, a company founded in 1997 by student athletes, this week said it has partnered with domestic violence-prevention nonprofit Good Shepherd to help move people out of such situations.

"Meathead Movers will work directly with the nonprofit to identify the abusive situations and provide moving services at no cost," a spokeswoman says. "Not only do these services help the victims of domestic abuse but they directly impact Meathead employees — consisting of predominantly young men who believe that real men don’t hit women, real men help those in need."

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Russia Implicated in Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Over Ukraine - The New York Times

Russia Implicated in Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Over Ukraine - The New York Times:

UNITED NATIONS — A Dutch-led investigation has concluded that the powerful surface-to-air missile system that was used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine two years ago, killing all 298 on board, was trucked in from Russia at the request of Russian-backed separatists and returned to Russia the same night.

The report largely confirmed the already widely documented Russian government role not only in the deployment of the missile system, called a Buk, or SA-11, but the subsequent cover-up, which continues to this day.

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Scientists Invent a New, Lighter Steel That's as Strong as Titanium

Scientists Invent a New, Lighter Steel That's as Strong as Titanium: "Today a team of material scientists at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea announced what they're calling one of the biggest steel breakthroughs of the last few decades: an altogether new type of flexible, ultra-strong, lightweight steel. This new metal has a strength-to-weight ratio that matches even our best titanium alloys, but at one tenth the cost, and can be created on a small scale with machinery already used to make automotive-grade steel. The study appears in Nature.

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Michelle and George: The Embrace Seen Around the World - The New York Times

Michelle and George: The Embrace Seen Around the World - The New York Times:

“President Bush was very gracious to us during the transition, and he has been unfailingly gracious and respectful since,” said David Axelrod, a former adviser to Mr. Obama. He recalled the president telling him that the Bushes “had taught him lessons in how to be a former president.”

Mr. Bush has studiously avoided criticizing Mr. Obama or his policies. And Mr. Bush has lent his presence to occasions that meant a lot to the president, like the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, Ala., when Mr. Obama delivered what some believe was the finest speech of his presidency, on race relations in the United States. Mrs. Obama sat next to Mr. Bush on that day, too, frequently leaning over to talk or share a laugh with him.

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ServetusM comments on Saudi women file petition to end male guardianship system - BBC News

ServetusM comments on Saudi women file petition to end male guardianship system - BBC News: "But the issue is, of course, how easily the system can be exploited to make women miserable and the lack of liberty should be intolerable for any sentient life. No human being should live under tyranny of another. But we can't look at it as simple brain washing. We also have to acknowledge that the system itself is probably desirable to women who have not been abused by it, and that other factors in society force the system to be needed (IE many of these places are also hot beds for tribal conflicts, like very severe gang violence, not so much in SA but for sure in Afghanistan). That kind of thinking can be hard to break if there is also a lack of experience about how fulfilling civic, and personal freedom can be. (Or you could believe all those stories that constantly tell us humans, mostly, don't give a shit about freedom. Most people will trade freedom for security and comfort in a heart beat--thinking like that, understanding that? Sheds a lot of light on this. .)
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Inside the Gentrification of Grand Central Market - Los Angeles Magazine

Inside the Gentrification of Grand Central Market - Los Angeles Magazine: "Now when the chain-and-pulley doors are hoisted open, Grand Central offers a window into a different, unlikelier chapter of the city’s evolution: the downtown throngs richer, hipper, and hungrier for things locally sourced and sustainably farmed. The market is not a sterile facsimile; it has not been airbrushed like San Francisco’s Ferry Building or mallified like Boston’s Faneuil Hall. But its rediscovery speaks to the collision of commerce and community throughout central L.A.—cultural tug-of-wars that have jostled neighborhoods from Silver Lake to Highland Park to Boyle Heights—which is why Grand Central’s transformation continues to be both cheered and scrutinized, mimicked and lamented, and in a courthouse just blocks away, litigated.

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The internet as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud | Aeon Essays

The internet as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud | Aeon Essays: "Late in his life, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term ‘innocent fraud’. He used it to describe a lie or a half-truth that, because it suits the needs or views of those in power, is presented as fact. After much repetition, the fiction becomes common wisdom. ‘It is innocent because most who employ it are without conscious guilt,’ Galbraith wrote in 1999. ‘It is fraud because it is quietly in the service of special interest.’ The idea of the computer network as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud.

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Donald Trump’s Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths - POLITICO Magazine

Donald Trump’s Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths - POLITICO Magazine: "We subjected every statement made by both the Republican and Democratic candidates — in speeches, in interviews and on Twitter — to our magazine’s rigorous fact-checking process. The conclusion is inescapable: Trump’s mishandling of facts and propensity for exaggeration so greatly exceed Clinton’s as to make the comparison almost ludicrous.

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It’s beyond debate that Donald Trump is unfit to be president - The Washington Post

It’s beyond debate that Donald Trump is unfit to be president - The Washington Post: "In short, the challenge for Monday’s audience is to avoid the trap of thinking of this debate as yet another opportunity for “the real Trump” — or even a “new Trump” — to emerge, either stylistically or substantively. It’s way too late for that. The real Trump has been before the citizenry ever since he announced his candidacy in a rambling jeremiad that blamed Mexico for “sending” “rapists” to the United States as illegal immigrants. It has been said that the true test of an ordinary person’s character is how you behave when no one is watching. The corollary standard for a presidential candidate could be: how you behave repeatedly in public, before the one big night when everyone is watching. Even by that more forgiving standard, Mr. Trump has already flunked.

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Why Trump Is the Islamic State’s Dream Candidate | Foreign Policy

Why Trump Is the Islamic State’s Dream Candidate | Foreign Policy: "For all of his huffing and puffing, Trump has yet to offer any remotely workable solution to terrorism. What he offers is a lot of anti-Muslim animus that is guaranteed to backfire. It’s little wonder why the Islamic State is praying for a Trump victory. As noted by Matt Olsen, the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, in an article for Time that did not receive the attention it deserved: “In August, one ISIS spokesman wrote: ‘I ask Allah to deliver America to Trump.’ Another supporter declared: ‘The ‘facilitation’ of Trump’s arrival in the White House must be a priority for jihadists at any cost!!!’ ISIS is working to drum up support for the candidate it has called ‘the perfect enemy.’”

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These are the people who could win Donald Trump the election | New York Post

These are the people who could win Donald Trump the election | New York Post: "An Air Force veteran, however, he’s keenly aware of what’s at stake for America in today’s world and of his neighbors’ general leanings in the coming election. Whether Trump wins the White House or not, Householder is certain he’ll win this part of Ohio.



 “Why? Because people believe he is listening to them,” he said. “That’s a potent feeling for an area like this.”

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How to Cover a Charlatan Like Trump - The New York Times

How to Cover a Charlatan Like Trump - The New York Times: "Likewise, in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, it was not enough to quote from news conferences by each side. Great journalists like Claude Sitton and Karl Fleming took enormous risks to reveal the brutality of the Jim Crow South.



 Our job is not stenography, but truth-telling. As we move to the debates, let’s remember that to expose charlatans is not partisanship, but simply good journalism."



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The Bangladeshi Traffic Jam That Never Ends - The New York Times

The Bangladeshi Traffic Jam That Never Ends - The New York Times: "I WAS IN DHAKA, which is to say I was stuck in traffic. The proposition might more accurately be phrased the other way around: I was stuck in traffic, therefore I was in Dhaka. If you spend some time in Bangladesh’s capital, you begin to look anew at the word “traffic,” and to revise your definition. In other cities, there are vehicles and pedestrians on the roads; occasionally, the roads get clogged, and progress is impeded. The situation in Dhaka is different. Dhaka’s traffic is traffic in extremis, a state of chaos so pervasive and permanent that it has become the city’s organizing principle. It’s the weather of the city, a storm that never lets up.

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Postdoc rant (long) : Physics

Postdoc rant (long) : Physics: "The way grant review panels work is that they’re trying to judge a proposal basically on two things, impact on the field and likelihood of success. These two things are usually inversely proportional to each other. And so, grant awards end up going not to the people who have the most probability for scientific impact, but for people who give the reviewers what superficially looks like the best research. When writing a proposal, scientist are not usually aiming for the idea with the most impact, they are looking for the most “fundable” idea. With time, that becomes a skill. The ability to strike the right balance between relevance and likelihood of success. Science proposals are expected to have a detailed chronogram of how the research process will occur and all the papers that will come out. But everybody knows that's not how it works. You can't predict what problems your research will have and how you will overcome it, it's silly.
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Australia Is Drifting So Fast GPS Can't Keep Up

Australia Is Drifting So Fast GPS Can't Keep Up: "A significant correction must be made by the end of the year for navigation technology to keep working smoothly.
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How to hide it: inside the secret world of wealth managers | Brooke Harrington | Business | The Guardian

How to hide it: inside the secret world of wealth managers | Brooke Harrington | Business | The Guardian: "As world wealth has grown to record levels in recent years – to an estimated $241 trillion – inequality has also grown, with 0.7% of the global population owning 41% of the assets. Wealth managers are estimated to direct the flows of up to $21tn in private wealth, resulting in about $200bn in lost tax revenues globally each year. In effect, these professionals detach assets from the states that wish to tax and regulate them, creating a form of capital that is, like its owners, transnational and hypermobile. Doing so involves creating not just asset-holding and tax-avoidance structures but a new body of transnational institutions, which are expanding outside of any democratic process of checks and balances. In this way, the rise of the super-rich and the wealth management industry is creating an elite who are increasingly ungoverned and ungovernable.

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What’s lost when telephone calls disappear.

What’s lost when telephone calls disappear.: "The telephone’s rule was absolute until the mid-1980s, when the rising popularity of answering machines and caller ID began to undermine it. Baby boomers wielded these tools against their telephones like a lion tamer’s whip. If it was important, the caller could leave a message just as if they weren’t there, a deception their World War II generation parents could never countenance. The advent around the same time of call waiting similarly made human agency a deciding factor in whether you were available to talk. Sometime around 2010, my then-teenage daughter was trying to call a friend. Something’s wrong, she said. This phone has gone berserk. She handed it to me. I listened, then explained patiently what a busy signal was. She’d never heard one before.

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Women of the CIA: The Hidden History of American Spycraft

Women of the CIA: The Hidden History of American Spycraft: "“Sarah” knows about being one of the “onlys” at the CIA: She’s a single mother and a black woman working in a largely male-dominated field—she’s a weapons and space analyst, responsible for the technical side of what bad guys stash in their arsenals. In h er first year at the CIA, a colleague started “ranting and raving” about the futility of having a day off for Martin Luther King Day, arguing that “there are other holidays that are far more important,” she says. “I told him that his comment made me wonder whether he really wants me sitting next to him, because without the likes of Martin Luther King there would be no me sitting next to him. I would have remained a slave…. He was so quiet. He came back the next day and apologized.”"



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This Battered Woman Wants To Get Out Of Prison - BuzzFeed News

This Battered Woman Wants To Get Out Of Prison - BuzzFeed News:

In December 2006, Tondalo Hall’s boyfriend pled guilty to breaking the ribs and femur of their 3-month-old daughter. For his crime, Robert Braxton Jr. served two years in prison.

In court, prosecutors presented no evidence that Hall herself had harmed the child. But for failing to intervene against Braxton’s abuse, Hall was sentenced to 30 years behind bars.

Her tough sentence was meted out despite evidence that Braxton had also been violently abusing her. In statements to authorities in and out of court, and in a recent interview with BuzzFeed News, Hall described Braxton choking her, punching her, throwing things at her, and verbally assaulting her. Even the judge who sentenced her said that during her testimony, Hall seemed to fear her boyfriend.

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75 retired senior diplomats sign letter opposing Trump for president - The Washington Post

75 retired senior diplomats sign letter opposing Trump for president - The Washington Post:

Some said they signed for specific policy reasons. Edward Marks, the Ronald Reagan administration’s ambassador to Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, said, “I am very upset by the fact that Trump as a candidate has formally said he will use torture [and] . . . collective punishment as elements of U.S. policy. Those two pull him outside the normal U.S. political boundaries.”

Dan Kurtzer, former ambassador to Egypt and to Israel, said he objected to Republican support for a measure allowing U.S. citizens to sue foreign governments, which President Obama has said he would veto. He said he signed “not for the politics part, but literally for the protection that it [the measure] would strip away” from U.S. diplomats working overseas.”

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I’ve adopted two biracial kids. Hateful messages showed up on the sidewalk. - The Washington Post

I’ve adopted two biracial kids. Hateful messages showed up on the sidewalk. - The Washington Post: "I hope you will join me. Please pray for my children and wife. Please pray for Bethany College and for protection against those who would hurt us. Please pray that our wonderful town of Lindsborg doesn’t allow the hate of a handful of people to infect our community. Please pray for emotional and spiritual healing for this man and for anyone who has been corrupted by his hate.

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The unbearable stench of Trump’s B.S. - The Washington Post

The unbearable stench of Trump’s B.S. - The Washington Post: "We see the consequences. As the crazy talk continues, standard rules of fact, truth and reality have disappeared in this campaign. Donald Trump has piled such vast quantities of his trademark product into the political arena that the stench is now overwhelming and unbearable.

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What HILLARY will say in ORLANDO -- TRUMP gives Ukraine the ‘cold shoulder’ -- Megyn Kelly producing new HAMBY, CONROY show -- PLAYBOOK FOOD TRUCK this morning, COCKTAILS with John Lewis tonight - POLITICO

What HILLARY will say in ORLANDO -- TRUMP gives Ukraine the ‘cold shoulder’ -- Megyn Kelly producing new HAMBY, CONROY show -- PLAYBOOK FOOD TRUCK this morning, COCKTAILS with John Lewis tonight - POLITICO: "DAILY DONALD -- After the Washington Post ran a story with the headline “Donald Trump’s new paid maternity leave plan might exclude single mothers,” they appended an update: “Update: After this story published, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller told The Post that Trump’s paid maternity leave policy would extend to single mothers. However, he could not explain why a marriage requirement is cited on the campaign’s website and in Ivanka Trump’s Cosmopolitan interview. ‘We don’t have the exact legislation written down,’ he said.”"



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Video killed the radio star | Chicago Booth Review

Video killed the radio star | Chicago Booth Review: "How do we know technology is causing the decline in employment for these young men? As of now, I don’t know for sure. But there are suggestive signs in the data that these young, low-skilled men are making some choice to stay home. If we go to surveys that track subjective well-being—surveys that ask people to assess their overall level of happiness—lower-skilled young men in 2014 reported being much happier on average than did lower-skilled men in the early 2000s. This increase in happiness is despite their employment rate falling by 10 percentage points and the increased propensity to be living in their parents’ basement.

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Donald Trump Jr tweet: 'I'm a refugee' says Skittles photographer - BBC News

Donald Trump Jr tweet: 'I'm a refugee' says Skittles photographer - BBC News:

David Kittos, who does not follow Twitter, was alerted to the use of the image by friends.

A keen photographer, he told the BBC he originally took the picture in his home studio: "I was just experimenting with something called off-camera flash.

"This was six years ago when there were no Syrian refugees at the time and it was never done with the intention of spreading a political message.

"I have never put this image up for sale. This was not done with my permission, I don't support Trump's politics and I would never take his money to use it."

Mr Kittos' personal history means he is particularly dismayed by his image being used in a debate around accepting refugees.

"I am now a British citizen but I am Greek-Cypriot by birth and in 1974 I was a refugee because of the Turkish occupation.

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Donald Trump Jr tweet: 'I'm a refugee' says Skittles photographer - BBC News

Donald Trump Jr tweet: 'I'm a refugee' says Skittles photographer - BBC News:

David Kittos, who does not follow Twitter, was alerted to the use of the image by friends.

A keen photographer, he told the BBC he originally took the picture in his home studio: "I was just experimenting with something called off-camera flash.

"This was six years ago when there were no Syrian refugees at the time and it was never done with the intention of spreading a political message.

"I have never put this image up for sale. This was not done with my permission, I don't support Trump's politics and I would never take his money to use it."

Mr Kittos' personal history means he is particularly dismayed by his image being used in a debate around accepting refugees.

"I am now a British citizen but I am Greek-Cypriot by birth and in 1974 I was a refugee because of the Turkish occupation.

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Wells Fargo workers: I called the ethics line and was fired - Sep. 21, 2016

Wells Fargo workers: I called the ethics line and was fired - Sep. 21, 2016:

"Each team member, no matter where you are in the organization, is encouraged to raise their hands," Stumpf told lawmakers. He mentioned the anonymous ethics line, adding, "We want to hear from them."

But that's not the experience of some former Wells Fargo workers.

One former Wells Fargo human resources official even said the bank had a method in place to retaliate against tipsters. He said that Wells Fargo would find ways to fire employees "in retaliation for shining light" on sales issues. It could be as simple as monitoring the employee to find a fault, like showing up a few minutes late on several occasions.

"If this person was supposed to be at the branch at 8:30 a.m. and they showed up at 8:32 a.m, they would fire them," the former human resources official told CNNMoney, on the condition he remain anonymous out of fear for his career.

CNNMoney spoke to a total of four ex-Wells Fargo workers, including Bado, who believe they were fired because they tipped off the bank about unethical sales practices.

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kuh_leel comments on Graphic video: Tulsa Police footage from fatal shooting of unarmed Terence Crutcher

kuh_leel comments on Graphic video: Tulsa Police footage from fatal shooting of unarmed Terence Crutcher: "I'm 26, and I still don't drive. My friends like to tease me about it, and yeah, some of that is a natural hatred for the DMV. But I've also CHOSE to live in cities and work careers that allow me to not need to drive. I don't let myself admire the architecture of the beautiful houses in my neighborhood too long so nobody calls the cops on someone suspicious casing the place. I slow down or cross the street when I find myself walking behind someone. I make sure my hands are out of my pockets when around cops. I always make sure to wear my college alma mater sweatshirt when I travel. I'm constantly terrified of putting on weight - not just b/c I want to be healthy, but because the only thing the people find scarier than a black guy is a huge black guy. I always keep my hands clasped behind my back when in stores so the employees don't trail me quite as closely. I never ever, ever yell or lose my temper in public.
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"Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White--Separate and Unequal": Excerpts from the Kerner Report

"Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White--Separate and Unequal": Excerpts from the Kerner Report: ". . . Employed as a private guard, 55-year-old Julius L. Dorsey, a Negro, was standing in front of a market when accosted by two Negro men and a woman. They demanded he permit them to loot the market. He ignored their demands. They began to berate him. He asked a neighbor to call the police. As the argument grew more heated, Dorsey fired three shots from his pistol into the air.

The police radio reported: “Looters, they have rifles.” A patrol car driven by a police officer and carrying three National Guardsmen arrived. As the looters fled, the law enforcement personnel opened fire. When the firing ceased, one person lay dead.



 He was Julius L. Dorsey . . ."



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soku1 comments on Graphic video: Tulsa Police footage from fatal shooting of unarmed Terence Crutcher

soku1 comments on Graphic video: Tulsa Police footage from fatal shooting of unarmed Terence Crutcher:

Just like how people today think that MLK and The Civil Rights Movement were well-received in the 60s.

This one always gets me. People make it sound like black people just said one day, "Hey, you guys are being dicks right now, please stop. Thanks" And everybody else was like "Hey, yo, sorry brothers and sisters, we didn't realize that. Our bad. lol We'll fix that ASAP."

And then they compare that whitewashed version of the CRM with today's BLM movement and say "Obviously most civil rights protestors would be ashamed of BLM today! They never rioted or disrupted! Why don't you guys learn how to protest like your forefathers and foremothers?!"

...the CRM lasted over a decade and there were literally hundreds of riots during it's duration. You read that right:HUNDREDS. Hell, there were over 150 riots in just one summer. And that's not counting all the social disturbances they caused.

What they don't realize (or ignore) is that:

62% of white people in America said that black people were treated equally in 1963. In 1967 it was 75%.

Since 1962, it's held almost steady that 8 in 10 white Americans think that black children have equal chances for good education in their own communities.

In 1964 most white Americans believed that mass demonstrations for racial equality were actually hurtful to black Americans' cause.

In 1966 that number had risen to 85%.

http://www.crmvet.org/docs/60s_crm_public-opinion.pdf

http://media.gallup.com/GPTB/specialReports/sr010711.PDF

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How the GOP Spells Victory: S-U-R-R-E-N-D-E-R | The Resurgent

How the GOP Spells Victory: S-U-R-R-E-N-D-E-R | The Resurgent: "As China continues its technological advancements, the Republicans in Congress continue to fund the F-35 program as a one sides fits all version of a “comprehensive military health care” plan. The plane is the worst air fighter ever produced in the modern era, but enough parts are made in enough congressional districts that the GOP is hell bent on its funding.

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Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News

Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News:

Portuguese health workers refer to Greece as a cautionary tale. Wracked by a budgetary crisis and the austerity conditions of repeated bailouts, Greece experienced an explosion of HIV transmission rates after budget cuts left health programs drastically underfunded. According to EU figures, only Greece and Latvia experienced larger cuts than Portugal to its public health services between the period of 2005 to 2007 and 2009 to 2012.

And yet Portugal experienced no discernable rise in HIV transmission — the cushion effect in action.

"Usually the focus is on the decriminalization itself, but it worked because there were other services, and the coverage increased for needle replacement, detox, therapeutic communities, and employment options for people who use drugs," said Fuertes. "It was the combination of the law and these services that made it a success. It's very difficult to find people in Portugal who disagree with this model."

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Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News

Portugal’s Example: What Happened After It Decriminalized All Drugs, From Weed to Heroin | VICE News:

Portuguese health workers refer to Greece as a cautionary tale. Wracked by a budgetary crisis and the austerity conditions of repeated bailouts, Greece experienced an explosion of HIV transmission rates after budget cuts left health programs drastically underfunded. According to EU figures, only Greece and Latvia experienced larger cuts than Portugal to its public health services between the period of 2005 to 2007 and 2009 to 2012.

And yet Portugal experienced no discernable rise in HIV transmission — the cushion effect in action.

"Usually the focus is on the decriminalization itself, but it worked because there were other services, and the coverage increased for needle replacement, detox, therapeutic communities, and employment options for people who use drugs," said Fuertes. "It was the combination of the law and these services that made it a success. It's very difficult to find people in Portugal who disagree with this model."

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How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead - The New York Times

How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead - The New York Times: "Philadelphia — First you get your coat. I don’t care if you don’t remember where you left it, you find it. If there was a lot of blood you ask someone to go quickly to the basement to get you a new set of scrubs. You put on your coat and you go into the bathroom. You look in the mirror and you say it. You use the mother’s name and you use her child’s name. You may not adjust this part in any way.

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Generational Poverty: Trying to Solve Philly’s Most Enduring Problem | News | Philadelphia Magazine

Generational Poverty: Trying to Solve Philly’s Most Enduring Problem | News | Philadelphia Magazine:

The teachers who supported Otis Bullock Jr. stepped in and pointed out a completely different path he might take through life, educating him in both academics and how to get along in the world. And though his mother continued to struggle with drug addiction throughout his adolescence, she supported him when she was there. His father dealt drugs through the first 10 years of his life. But Otis Bullock Sr. went straight before his son entered that dangerous period of adolescence when the streets come calling for new workers.

“The first time I got a paycheck for an honest day’s work,” says Otis Sr., of a job he got unloading boxes at Toys ‘R’ Us, “that night was the best sleep I ever had. I thought, ‘I’m never going back.’ And I never did.”

Today, Otis Sr. is a church deacon and Denita Washington is 13 years sober, with an accelerated master’s degree in human services from Lincoln University and a steady job helping ex-offenders reenter society. “What Otis probably doesn’t know,” she says, “is that I told his grandmother, ‘Don’t you tell Otis anything that’s going on with me’ — because I did not want him to be distracted.”

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Audrey Hepburn and the Nazis: How wartime tyranny turned a Hollywood icon into a humanitarian - Mirror Online

Audrey Hepburn and the Nazis: How wartime tyranny turned a Hollywood icon into a humanitarian - Mirror Online:

Her mum sent her to ballet classes in their home town Arnhem and the pupils began giving ­secret dance shows to raise money for the resistance.

Performances were staged in ­houses behind closed curtains while Nazi patrols roamed outside. To avoid ­being discovered, ­audiences never clapped.

Later the movie icon, who enthralled millions, said: “The best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance.”

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The Last Last Summer | Online Only | n+1

The Last Last Summer | Online Only | n+1: "Every Trump account I was given in AC described a man so extraordinarily bad at business, or at being anything besides a business-celebrity, that he was forced to switch from building casinos to branding casinos with his name, that polysemous pentagrammaton he charged his partners to use and then sued them to remove once the decaying properties became a liability. In the 1980s and ’90s, the casinos with which Trump was associated comprised between a third and a quarter of AC’s gaming industry. The Playboy Hotel and Casino, which was founded in ’81, became the Atlantis in ’84, and went bankrupt in ’85, was acquired by Trump in ’89 and renamed The Trump Regency; he renamed it again as Trump’s World’s Fair in ’96, and it was closed in ’99 and demolished in 2000. Trump Castle, built in cooperation with Hilton in ’85, was rebranded as Trump Marina in ’97, sold at a loss to Landry’s Inc. in 2011, and is now operated by Landry’s as the Golden Nugget. Trump Plaza, built in cooperation with Harrah’s in ’84, went bankrupt and shuttered in 2014 and now just rots.
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Would You Hide a Jew From the Nazis? - The New York Times

Would You Hide a Jew From the Nazis? - The New York Times: "“Yes, there might have been Nazi spies, but a tiny minority,” he said, just as there might be spies among Syrian refugees today, but again a tiny minority. “Ninety-five percent or more of these people are decent, and they are fleeing from death. So let’s not forget them.”

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[Essay] | The Hamilton Cult, Robert Sullivan | Harper's Magazine - Part 6

[Essay] | The Hamilton Cult, Robert Sullivan | Harper's Magazine - Part 6: "The American Revolution, the armed military conflict with England, is long over. But in our contemporary environment of extreme economic inequality, the unsung Stamp Act protesters or Tea Party rowdies sound less singular, less distant; they are like actors, not in a play but in a pageant whose outcome was and is beyond their imagining, constantly rewriting itself. And yet their concerns are ours, down to the last indignant detail. “Is it equitable that 99, rather 999, should suffer for the Extravagance or Grandeur of one,” lamented a New York newspaper in 1765, “especially when it is considered that men frequently owe their Wealth to the impoverishment of their Neighbors?” Neither Hamilton nor Hamilton will answer that question to our satisfaction. If this current election tells us anything, it is that the Whiskey Rebellion never truly ended, and while the soundtrack is always changing, the curtain may never come down.

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Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are F | Vanity Fair

Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are F | Vanity Fair: "The botnet it could have created would have been huge. If the Chinese had breached other large Internet companies via the same payment-center route—and it seemed likely they had—the combined effect would have been the creation of by far the largest botnet ever seen, an Internet robot consisting of perhaps 200 million computers, all controlled by one small Chinese hacking team. Opsec had stumbled onto a very big thing. And its lack of use was the key. The only possible purpose, Opsec concluded, was that of a sleeper cell, lying in wait as a pre-positioned asset to be used as a last resort, like a nuclear weapon, in the event of an all-out cyber-war. The world certainly seems to be moving in that direction. Already cyber-attacks constitute an active component of nearly every conventional military battle. They are used by the U.S. in conjunction with the air and ground war against ISIS. Some say that a global cyber-war is already under way, because everyone is getting hacked. But many states—China, Russia, Germany, France, Pakistan, Israel, and the United States—are actively preparing for something much larger to come.

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ninemiletree comments on All of the world's physical currency, gold, silver, and bitcoin is worth $12.7 trillion. The size of the national debt is nearly $20 trillion.

ninemiletree comments on All of the world's physical currency, gold, silver, and bitcoin is worth $12.7 trillion. The size of the national debt is nearly $20 trillion.: "EDIT: Also, one thing to keep in mind - as a citizen of the US, YOU, as a taxpayer, are technically a shareholder in the value of our national assets. Yes, you pay taxes, and yes, our government is actually incredibly poor in returning assets to the people, but that stockpile of gold they mention? YOU own a share of that - we all do. A country is just the sum of its citizens... so out of roughly 200m taxpayers, you own 1/200,000,000 of that 130 trillion dollar wealth.
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Dilution of Doctrine - The New York Times

Dilution of Doctrine - The New York Times:

And how effectively can a church retain the lukewarm or uncertain if it keeps its most controversial teachings while constantly winking to say, “Don’t worry, we don’t actually believe all that?”

This instability makes it unlikely that Pope Francis will be remembered as a great conciliator or unifier. It’s more likely now that his legacy will be either famous or infamous.

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Dilution of Doctrine - The New York Times

Dilution of Doctrine - The New York Times:

And how effectively can a church retain the lukewarm or uncertain if it keeps its most controversial teachings while constantly winking to say, “Don’t worry, we don’t actually believe all that?”

This instability makes it unlikely that Pope Francis will be remembered as a great conciliator or unifier. It’s more likely now that his legacy will be either famous or infamous.

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Dilution of Doctrine - The New York Times

Dilution of Doctrine - The New York Times:

And how effectively can a church retain the lukewarm or uncertain if it keeps its most controversial teachings while constantly winking to say, “Don’t worry, we don’t actually believe all that?”

This instability makes it unlikely that Pope Francis will be remembered as a great conciliator or unifier. It’s more likely now that his legacy will be either famous or infamous.

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Lionel Shriver's full speech: 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' | Opinion | The Guardian

Lionel Shriver's full speech: 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' | Opinion | The Guardian: "My most recent novel The Mandibles was taken to task by one reviewer for addressing an America that is “straight and white”. It happens that this is a multigenerational family saga – about a white family. I wasn’t instinctively inclined to insert a transvestite or bisexual, with issues that might distract from my central subject matter of apocalyptic economics. Yet the implication of this criticism is that we novelists need to plug in representatives of a variety of groups in our cast of characters, as if filling out the entering class of freshmen at a university with strict diversity requirements.

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If You Build It . . . | City Journal

If You Build It . . . | City Journal:

The progressive romance with infrastructure spending is based on three beliefs. First is that it supercharges economic growth. As President Obama put it in his 2015 State of the Union address: “Twenty-first century businesses need twenty-first century infrastructure.” Further, by putting people to work building needed things, infrastructure spending is an ideal government tool for fighting unemployment during recessions. Infrastructure should also be a national responsibility, progressives believe, led by Washington and financed by federal tax revenues.

None of this is right. While infrastructure investment is often needed when cities or regions are already expanding, too often it goes to declining areas that don’t require it and winds up having little long-term economic benefit. 

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Albion’s Ashes | commentary

Albion’s Ashes | commentary: "Vance had the good sense to delay college and enlist in the Marine Corps instead. And the Marine Corps is one of the few remaining American institutions that delivers more or less exactly as advertised. Vance entered the boot camp pudgy, disorganized, immature, and lacking in confidence. He left it harder, wiser, and more capable. His account of his time in the Marines is in fact one of the most interesting sections of the book, and the one that points both to the promise and shortcomings of public-policy interventions to counter the dysfunction of the white underclass. As Vance puts it, the Marines take in new recruits under an assumption of maximum ignorance, i.e., that they do not know the basics of anything, from personal hygiene to keeping a schedule."



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The Dangerous Idiocy of Global Leadership - The American Interest

The Dangerous Idiocy of Global Leadership - The American Interest: "In the end—and this is perhaps the most powerful cause of popular resentment—global leaders oversee nobody but themselves because there is no global state, no global citizenry, no global nation. Their abstract constructs built around “global problems” and “global initiatives” sound noble until a more pressing security concern or threat to social order arises—and then they sound empty and arrogant.
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Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets | US news | The Guardian

Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets | US news | The Guardian: "The first part of the inside story of the Senate investigation into torture, the crisis with the CIA it spurred and the man whose life would never be the same
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Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets | US news | The Guardian

Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets | US news | The Guardian: "What they found, over a half a year’s work examining just two detainees’ interrogations from the first year of the torture program, shocked them. It was widely known by 2008 that Abu Zubaydah was tortured. But Jones and Starzak did not expect to see internal accounts detailing, by the minute, what the CIA did to him. They didn’t know, for instance, that interrogators had tortured him to the point that he would obey, like a dog, when they would snap their fingers, nor that they left a man suspected of knowing al-Qaida’s secrets alone for 47 days. The cables describe Abu Zubaydah as kept naked, filthy, stinking, shaking with fear, shoved inside a filth-riddled wooden box, defecating on himself. Agency personnel, in the official communications, get emotional and request transfers rather than continue torturing men they come to believe lack relevant information on terrorism. It immediately raised the question of what the CIA was really doing to dozens of other detainees at its black sites.

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Ellie Kemper: The First Time I Bombed on Late Night TV - The New York Times

Ellie Kemper: The First Time I Bombed on Late Night TV - The New York Times:

 received a flood of congratulatory emails after that awkward appearance. Family, friends and co-workers all maintained that I had been very cheerful. A college friend complimented my posture. This is how people who love you let you know that something has not gone well.

And yet, I now see this failure as a necessity. If I hadn’t had the opportunity to sink the S.S. Leno that night, I never would have realized the amount of work that should go into making an entertaining talk show segment. Next time, I vowed to be better prepared.

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‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood | Film | The Guardian

‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood | Film | The Guardian:

As the months went on, my mother went from furtively asking, “Are you sure?” to demanding to know why a change was being made.

“Why is she wearing a hair ribbon to bed?” “Well, you know,” he would say. “It’s cute.”

I could sense her disappointment. They were making Susan as cute as possible, and taking away her intelligence and complexity.

All through the last few months of Miracle and our publicity tour, my mother smiled whenever people told her I was cute, but I could sense she was forcing it: she didn’t care for cuteness, and her disapproval was contagious. After that, anytime someone said it, I would wince. Something about it made me feel smaller.

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For Muslims at the Pentagon, a Tough Election Year | Foreign Policy

For Muslims at the Pentagon, a Tough Election Year | Foreign Policy:

Those who did speak to Foreign Policy pointed to an irony: The public discourse in America surrounding Islam has never been more disparaging, but due to concerted efforts by the Defense Department to accommodate a diverse workforce, there’s never been a better time to be a Muslim at the Pentagon.

“I cannot think of a single time at the Pentagon when I felt anything but completely supported by my leadership and peers,” said Jasmine El-Gamal, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who advised Carter and three previous Obama administration secretaries of defense on Middle East policy.

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R.I.P. Political Journalism (1440-2016) - Shareblue

R.I.P. Political Journalism (1440-2016) - Shareblue:

A candidate who wallows in bigotry, who incites violence, who verbally abuses his critics, who is a self-avowed threat to the free press, who trashes U.S. generals while praising Vladimir Putin, who demeans Gold Star families, gets less negative coverage than his opponent, a lifelong public servant who is one of the most accomplished and admired women on the planet.

It is an unfathomable reality.

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yishan comments on ELI5: What does a CEO of a large company do in a "typical" week, and why is he (usually he) paid so much?

yishan comments on ELI5: What does a CEO of a large company do in a "typical" week, and why is he (usually he) paid so much?: "This leads to an acute supply-and-demand problem, i.e. the "I'm not getting paid enough to deal with this shit" issue, wherein plenty of otherwise talented executives who would be CEO candidates are happy to just stick with not taking that extra step - keep in mind that anyone with the combination of characteristics necessary to be a successful CEO has lots of options - so you end up with a highly illiquid market of candidates, and thus boards and compensation committees have to come up with really unique compensation packages to induce those people to take the job.
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Trump Time Capsule #103: 'Asking Questions' - The Atlantic

Trump Time Capsule #103: 'Asking Questions' - The Atlantic: "I note that with 53 days until the election, and with polls tightening, a nominee continues to defy a norm that his modern predecessors have all respected—and that his campaign has stepped away from his previous rationalized excuse and, out of nothing, invented a new alibi. And his party’s leaders say: That’s fine. People will look back on this time.

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Slowly but surely, Congress will join us in the 21st century | TechCrunch

Slowly but surely, Congress will join us in the 21st century | TechCrunch:

How about a question and answer site that lives through a season of hearings, maintained in the chair’s district by a public university or community college? Moreover, if the committees are falling behind on Capitol Hill, let’s move some of the hearings into the states so local experts and experienced constituents can weigh in. Thoughtful deliberation and learning can happen anywhere, after all.

Across the globe, governance is in crisis. The reputation of democracy is at stake. Not just Americans, but the world needs our democratic institutions to do more than survive the present chaos — we need them to thrive. How the United States moves forward to scale inclusion in the coming years counts more than usual.

If we can meet these changes inside of Congress with a helpful, ready corps of citizens, we have a chance to build a system based on 21st-century power, where reputation, location, information integrity and ethical conduct are stronger than angry voices and endless money.

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Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance - Vox

Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance - Vox: "The third part of this is entering a culture that can be forgiving about mistakes. If we expect perfection from our politicians — if we expect them to take no chances, no risks, and make incredibly complex things happen in the world — we can always find where things go wrong. And the real measure is if things are getting better.

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Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance - Vox

Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance - Vox: "They point out that there are two key reasons people fail at whatever it is they set out to do. One reason is because of ignorance. We just don’t know all the laws that apply to the physical universe, and we don’t have a complete staid description of the universe that those laws apply to, and therefore we have research and discovery.



 The second reason we fail is what they called ineptitude. Meaning, the knowledge exists but an individual or group of individuals fails to apply that knowledge correctly. What’s really interesting to me about living in our time and in our generation is that that is a remarkable change of living now: that ineptitude is as much or a bigger force in our lives than ignorance."



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Sizing Up the Next Commander-in-Chief - WSJ

Sizing Up the Next Commander-in-Chief - WSJ: "At least on national security, I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform. He is unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief.

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If you leave your kids alone, it’s not predatory strangers who are a risk | Toronto Star

If you leave your kids alone, it’s not predatory strangers who are a risk | Toronto Star:

Only in the past decade or so has “no child left alone” become the social and legal norm in the U.S.

A doctoral student in cognitive science at the University of California at Irvine, Thomas is the lead author of a recently published study designed to understand what’s going on.

After all, under most circumstances, the objective risk to children left by themselves is extremely low.

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