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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.
Traveling While Muslim: The Case of the Exploding Chocolate
I got harassed at the airport by Customs and Border Patrol. Good thing I’m a lawyer—in the Trump era, others aren’t so lucky. After a week of exhausting travel in London, I wanted nothing more than to see my wife and children.
The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free College, and Universal Health Care
During the month of July, the marketing and communications group In Pursuit Of — launched by the Koch brothers in 2017– conducted a survey of Americans on a range of issues. The poll was later written up by RealClearPolitics, which spun the results as favorable to the Koch network.
Trump Moves to Open 1.6 Million Acres of California Public Lands to Fracking
The Trump administration took the first steps on Wednesday towards opening up 1.6 million acres of public land in California to fracking and oil drilling, The Sacramento Bee reported.
Granger Island Cabin
Park Entrance Address: Access is primarily by canoe or kayak. The renting season is Memorial Day Weekend through approximately November 1st Hours: Check-In 3 p.m. and Check-Out: 11 a.m.
DeVos rescinds 72 guidance documents outlining rights for disabled students
The Education Department responded Monday, saying the rollback will not affect what services special education students will receive. Read the Post’s updated story.
EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing
Fast Company recently reported on the potential comeback of one of the most infamous building materials of recent memory. Asbestos is now legally allowed back into U.S. manufacturing under a serious of loopholes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
How Trump Radicalized ICE
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy Settling into a sense of safety is hard when your life’s catalog of memories teaches you the opposite lesson.
Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell
Two weeks ago, somebody untied Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s $40 million yacht from its mooring. It got me thinking about another opulent display of wealth owned by DeVos: her 22,000-square-foot nautical-themed summer mansion, located in Holland, Michigan.
The ultimate new employee checklist for when you’re hiring
There’s a lot to consider when bringing a new hire into the fold of an organisation. If you don’t know where to start, this checklist can ensure you have your bases covered. Taking on a new employee is generally cause for celebration.
Health Care Lobbyists Secretly Secure Democrats’ Opposition to “Medicare for All,” Internal Documents Show
The 1st Congressional District of Hawaii is about as far from Washington, D.C.’s pitched political battles as you can get — not typically seen as a national bellwether.
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Body of Olivia Lone Bear Found in N. Dakota as Native Women Face Crisis of Murders, Disappearances
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Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals
Would you advise someone to flap towels in a burning house? To bring a flyswatter to a gunfight? Yet the counsel we hear on climate change could scarcely be more out of sync with the nature of the crisis.
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
The novella-length piece represents the kind of media commitment that the climate crisis has long deserved but almost never received.
Dan Rather: Trump’s Tweet About Lebron James “Is Racist”
The language used in the tweet is no doubt a dog whistle. Dan Rather says: “This is apparently what the President of the United States feels the need to share with the world at what should be long past his bedtime? It’s a disgrace. It’s racist.
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Trump stumps for Ron DeSantis in Florida — live updates
President Trump is in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday night to stump for GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis, who is running for governor. DeSantis has been a vocal advocate of Mr. Trump and his policies, as well as a vocal critic of the Justice Department and intelligence agencies. Florida's primary is Aug. 28.
Making Adult Friends Is Easier Than We Think, Harder Than It Should Be
Drake, walking curse to treasured American athletes, once decreed, “And we in the club screaming / no new friends / no new friends / no new friends.” Meanwhile this summer, needing all the friends, Taylor Swift led the internet to set itself aflame with thoughts of squads.
Science Explains Why the Silent Treatment Works (and Why It's Healthier for You, Too)
When dealing with jerks and trolls both online and off, you have a choice: you can engage and try to get them to see the error of their ways, or you can avoid them, ignore them, and move on with your life.
Study: This is how long it takes adults to make new friends
In a landmark study, a University of Kansas professor now believes he knows why making friends as an adult is just so difficult. Short answer? Time.
How to Make Friends, According to Science
“What are friends for?” This isn’t a rhetorical question. Friendship is one of life’s most important features, and one too often taken for granted.
The biggest lie we still teach in American history classes
One of my favorite writers, Gore Vidal, once described his country as the United States of Amnesia. “We learn nothing because we remember nothing,” he wrote. Vidal’s point is simple enough: America’s concept of itself is shaped by mythology, not by facts.
Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, has accumulated a fortune worth $150 billion. That is the biggest nominal amount in modern history, and extraordinary any way you slice it. Bezos is the world’s lone hectobillionaire.
Alex Jones’s Attorneys Argue That No Reasonable Person Would Believe What He Says
In April, the ever-ascending media empire that is Alex Jones’s Infowars was served with its most serious threat.
Facebook has uncovered a coordinated effort to influence politics ahead of the 2018 midterm elections
The news: In a blog post today, the social network revealed it has discovered a campaign to influence political discourse on the platform. The participants include the “Aztlan Warriors,” “Black Elevation,” “Mindful Being,” and “Resisters” pages.
Trump-Supporting Friend—This Really isn’t About Donald Trump
This isn’t about Donald Trump. It’s never been about him.
CRISPR creates new species with single giant chromosome
For at least the last 10 million years every yeast cell of the sort used to make beer or bread has had 16 chromosomes. But now—thanks to CRISPR technology and some DNA tinkerers in China—there are living yeast with just one.
Here's How America Uses Its Land
There are many statistical measures that show how productive the U.S. is. Its economy is the largest in the world and grew at a rate of 4.1 percent last quarter, its fastest pace since 2014. The unemployment rate is near the lowest mark in a half century.
What Is the 'Success Sequence' and Why Do So Many Conservatives Like It?
What to do when financial stability is beyond one’s grasp? Over the past decade, a coterie of pundits and think-tank scholars have arrived at a surefire answer, a simple one that comes with a snappy title and puts the onus on the individual: pursue the “success sequence.”
DARPA has an ambitious $1.5 billion plan to reinvent electronics
Last year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funds a range of blue-sky research efforts relevant to the US military, launched a $1.5 billion, five-year program known as the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) to support work on advances in chip technology.
Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance
Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15.
The Tattoo Industry Is Having Its Own Wrenching, Revelatory #MeToo Moment
Katie was 19 when she went to get her first tattoo, from an artist whose work she’d seen on other people’s bodies and admired. In her memory, nothing “super weird” happened that day, though she remembers the artist being flirtatious.
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The Working Person's Guide to the Industry That Might Kill Your Company
Just like $2.5 trillion worth of companies around the world, the company publishing the story you are now reading is owned by private equity firms. Most people have little idea what the private equity industry actually does. The truth is terrifying.
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election
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Lawmakers will look more closely at facial-recognition software after being mistaken for criminals
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) came up with a clever way to draw lawmakers’ attention to the limitations of facial-recognition technology: it used it to (falsely) identify more than 28 of them as criminals.
139 House Democrats Join GOP to Approve $717 Billion in Military Spending
With the help of 139 Democrats, the House of Representatives on Thursday easily rammed through the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which—if it passes the Senate—will hand President Donald Trump $717 billion in military spending.
Government set to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year, an 84 percent jump from last year
It was another crazy news week, so it's understandable if you missed a small but important announcement from the Treasury Department: The federal government is on track to borrow nearly $1 trillion this fiscal year — President Donald Trump's first full year in charge of the budget.
5 Helpful Tips for Your Camper Van Conversion, from a Vanlifer
If you harbor dreams of traveling and camping in a photoshoot-worthy camper van, you’re not alone. Lots of people are inspired by the beautiful camper van conversions they see on social media.
El Batey: The Rolling Stones’ Bar of Choice in San Juan
There’s no neon sign outside of El Batey. No neon signs inside either. The windows have bars, not glass. The floor is uneven and rank. The place is open late til 3:00 or 6:00 or whenever. The bartenders will play Iggy Pop on the sound system on request.
White House 'ends public summaries of foreign calls'
The Trump administration will no longer publish public summaries of President Donald Trump's phone calls with foreign leaders, US media report. Non-public readouts will still be distributed to agencies but press will reportedly be told only certain details of the calls.
The Pipeline
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Blockchain UX: Challenges, Principles and Heuristics
The blockchain technology won the interest of many individuals and corporations due to its technological capabilities and scalability for various use cases.
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STUDY: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All
Media outlets such as Fox News and MSNBC have a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge while NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative sources of news, according to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s newest PublicMind survey.
Fake, misleading social media posts exploding globally, Oxford study finds
Russia’s social media blitz to influence the 2016 U.S.
Our homes don’t need formal spaces
For a recent study, UCLA-affiliated researchers in fields ranging from anthropology to sociology used cameras to record in great detail how 32 dual-income families living in the Los Angeles area used their homes.
Tug-of-Love: Immigrant Mom Loses Effort to Regain Son Given to US Parents
In a controversial case that involved the rights of illegal immigrants and their young children, a Guatemalan mother lost her effort today to get back the five-year old son who was taken away from her after her arrest on immigration charges and put up for adoption in Missouri despite her objections.
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