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  Opinion

  An election is no solution when Trump, Russia and Republicans are determined to steal it

  USA TODAY - Jason Sattler

  Trump’s shakedown of Zelensky looks a lot like a payoff to Putin that’s also an invitation for help in 2020. The remedy is impeachment and removal. The impeachment inquiry has proved again that there's

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  Housing

  San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident

  Curbed - Adam Brinklow

  Oakland housing activists Moms 4 Housing, who made national news by taking over a vacant West Oakland house in November, frequently cite a statistic alleging that there are four empty homes in Oakland

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  “We’re all channeling the intent of the framers and that’s always a dangerous thing to do,” Turley warned.

  

  Politics

  Republicans abandon originalism at impeachment hearing

  Quartz - Ephrat Livni

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  Water

  Nestlé cannot claim bottled water is 'essential public service', court rules

  The Guardian - Tom Perkins in Detroit

  Michigan’s second-highest court has dealt a legal blow to Nestlé’s Ice Mountain water brand, ruling that the company’s commercial water-bottling operation is “not an essential public service” or a public

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  Donald Trump

  State Department Clamps Down on Internal Call Readouts for Officials in Wake of Trump Ukraine Impeachment Probe

  foreignpolicy.com - Robbie Gramer

  The U.S. State Department issued a directive to limit the number of officials who listen in on calls between senior department leaders and their …

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  Cookies

  Poilâne: The Pleasures of Paris’ Most Famous Bread Bakery

  The Daily Beast - Aleksandra Crapanzano

  Bread bakers spend a lot of time talking about the health of their so-called mother, the starter that is the base of every great sourdough loaf. And …

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  Opinion

  The Intelligence Committee’s report is a triumph

  The Washington Post - Jennifer Rubin

  President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection

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  Technology

  Ring reportedly outed camera owners to police with a heat map

  The Verge - Colin Lecher

  Amazon-owned home surveillance company Ring gave law enforcement a heat map that let police see all devices installed in an area, allowing them to view users down to the street level, according to a new

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  Lifestyle (UK)

  We're broke, not poor: how I became downwardly mobile

  The Guardian - Lynn Steger Strong

  According to a study, 50% of Americans born in the 1980s are set to end up worse off than their parents were A couple of months ago, I told a friend I’d not been to a doctor in five years. She was aghast,

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  Donald Trump

  Here Are The Latest Secret Memos From Mueller's Report

  buzzfeednews.com - Jason Leopold and Kate Nocera and Sarah Mimms and Anthony Cormier

  BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller’s team kept secret. We published the second installment of the …

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  Twitter

  David Duke and His Twitter Nazis Got Mad at Me. Twitter Took Their Side.

  The Intercept - Jon Schwarz

  My troubles began last March when I made a joke on Twitter about Fox News host Tucker Carlson. I have some advice for you: Do not ever do …

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  Opinion

  What swimming in my underwear taught me about Donald Trump and getting away with it

  USA TODAY - Michael J. Stern

  Impeachment is the atomic bomb of rebukes, a judgment that 'You are not fit to serve.' And it will distinguish Democrats from Republicans in history. Last month I swam laps at a public health club in underwear.

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  Donald Trump

  The Impeachment Case Against Trump Just Got a Hell of a Lot Stronger

  VICE - Cameron Joseph

  President Trump was briefed on the whistleblower complaint against him weeks before he decided to release military aid to Ukraine, the New York Times reported Tuesday, news that undercuts one of the Republicans'

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  Donald Trump

  NYT: Trump was briefed on whistleblower complaint prior to releasing Ukraine aid

  Axios - Zachary Basu

  In late August, White House lawyers briefed President Trump on the now-infamous whistleblower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine, the New York …

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  Politics

  U.S. starves 2020 census of funding, threatens undercount: NY lawsuit

  Reuters - By Jonathan Stempel

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new lawsuit in New York accuses the Trump administration of starving the U.S. Census Bureau of funding needed to avert an undercount of racial and ethnic minorities in the 2020 and

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  Politics

  Trump administration officially put hold on Ukraine aid same day as Trump call

  CNN - By Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Sara Murray, Rene Marsh

  (CNN) — The White House budget office's first official action to withhold $250 million in Pentagon aid to Ukraine came on the evening of July 25, the same day President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President

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  Liberal View

  ‘They’re in deep trouble’: Texas GOP’s secret 2020 strategy gets emailed to Democrats in a bizarre political blunder

  rawstory.com - Sky Palma

  Thanks to a blunder, the Texas Republican Party’s 2020 election strategy has ended up in the hands of Texas Democrats, according to the The Dallas …

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  Opinion

  Is Bolivia turning into a rightwing military dictatorship?

  The Guardian - Nick Estes

  Indian massacres have returned to Bolivia. There is a history — a blood feud, to be precise — behind this tragedy. The self-declared “presidency” of Jeanine Áñez has revived the old oligarchy’s race hatred

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  Facebook

  Senators Demand Answers After HuffPost Investigation Into Facebook Gun Scam

  HuffPost - Jesselyn Cook

  Facebook has made millions of dollars off a shady gun group that cons its customers — potentially into breaking the law. Seven U.S. senators are demanding to know why Facebook facilitated and profited

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  Politics

  'Rule of law is what sets us apart': Richard Spencer's scathing final letter as Navy secretary

  USA TODAY - William Cummings

  Richard Spencer did not go quietly after Defense Secretary Mark Esper asked for his resignation as secretary of the Navy over his handling of the case of SEAL Eddie Gallagher, whose demotion for taking

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  Climate Change

  Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong

  Forbes - Michael Shellenberger

  Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had koalas

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  Devin Nunes Spent $57,000 on Flights to Europe to Allegedly Investigate Bidens as Ethics Complaint Filed Over 'Abuse' of

  newsweek.com

  Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican member on the House Intelligence Committee, spent nearly $57,000 on a trip to Europe for him and his staff …

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  Opinion

  I’m A Physician, And I’ll Continue Eating Red Meat

  Forbes - Paul Hsieh

  Last month, a group of 14 health researchers led by epidemiologist Dr. Bradley Johnston of Dalhousie University sparked enormous controversy by publishing a series of articles challenging the conventional

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  Opinion

  What The Senate Will Do About Impeachment

  Forbes - Steve Denning

  “‘But he hasn't got anything on!’ the whole town cried out at last. The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, ‘This procession has got to go on.’ So he walked more proudly

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  Agreed. If the Dems don’t think the Senate will convict they should keep calling witnesses. The longer the public is hearing about it the worse it will get for Republicans. The quicker it’s over, t …

  

  U.S. Politics

  Democrats, don't hand impeachment to Mitch McConnell

  theweek.com - David Faris

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  Money

  Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished

  BBC News

  Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Jamie Bartlett

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  Management

  This Chrome Extension Lets You Scrape Web Data Without Code

  Entrepreneur - Entrepreneur Store

  Derive smarter insights from your web pages without having to hire outside help. Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase

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  Politics

  No one is protecting the 2020 election

  Quartz - Tim Fernholz

  “Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election,” Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council staffer, testified during impeachment

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  Donald Trump

  Senators briefed that CrowdStrike theory is Russian-backed disinformation campaign

  Axios - Fadel Allassan

  Intelligence officials recently briefed senators and their aides on Russian efforts to pin interference in the 2016 U.S. election on Ukraine, the New …

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  U.S. Politics

  New documents show contacts between Giuliani and Pompeo

  Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released documents show Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in contact with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the months before the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was recalled.