A Florida man is accused of groping a female passenger while on a flight Sunday from Houston to Albuquerque and later telling authorities that the president of the United States “says it’s OK to grab women by their private parts.”
Stiglitz: The American Economy is Rigged
The Moron Owes Elizabeth Warren $1 Million
Warren reveals DNA test shows she has Cherokee heritage:
My family (including Fox News-watchers) sat together and talked about what they think of @realDonaldTrump’s attacks on our heritage. And yes, a famous geneticist analyzed my DNA and concluded that it contains Native American ancestry. pic.twitter.com/r3SNzP22f8
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) October 15, 2018
The Left Wing’s Civil War (It’s Actually the Right Wing’s)
Trump (a.k.a. the moron): “You don’t hand matches to an arsonist and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob, and that’s what they’ve become. Democrats have become too extreme and too dangerous to govern. Republicans believe in the rule of law, not the rule of the mob.’
Here’s an excellent Twitter thread by David Neiwert about all of that screeching coming from the right wing about “civil war”.
Who Funded and Helped Organize the Teabaggers? Koch Brothers
Law Professors Oppose Kavanaugh Nomination to Supreme Court
‘Unfathomable’: More than 2,400 law professors sign letter opposing Kavanaugh’s confirmation
More than 2,400 law professors have signed on to a letter saying that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial restraint at a Senate hearing last week — behavior that would be disqualifying for any court nominee.
Bernie, on Kavanaugh
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
Alan Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways.
One of the many ways that ads get in front of your eyeballs on Facebook and Instagram is that the social networking giant lets an advertiser upload a list of phone numbers or email addresses it has on file; it will then put an ad in front of accounts associated with that contact information.
Selling Missiles Takes Priority in the U.S. Over Starving Children
The United States believes it’s more important to sell more weapons of war than to protect starving children and innocent civilians.
[Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo overruled concerns from most of the State Department specialists involved in the debate who were worried about the rising civilian death toll in Yemen. Those who objected included specialists in the region and in military affairs. He sided with his legislative affairs team after they argued that suspending support could undercut plans to sell more than 120,000 precision-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to a classified State Department memo and people familiar with the debate.
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