August 2019 – Page 8

Bond 25 Finally Has a Title

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We can stop calling it “Bond 25” now. The 25th entry in the James Bond franchise now has a title. On Tuesday, the official James Bond Twitter account announced that the new film is titled MORE

Paul Ryan, Already Tired of the Boring Heartland and Its Dumb Values

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Is Moving Back to the Beltway : …Answers the Siren Song of the Swamp [Paul] Ryan spokesman Kevin Seifert said Tuesday that Ryan and his family will be “temporarily” renting a house in Maryland and MORE

Wing Nut Watch: The attacks on Reps. Omar and Tlaib continue

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Qanta Ahmed, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, appeared on Laura Ingraham’s Fox ‘News’ show and escalated the recent attacks on “Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over their planned visit MORE

Three more NRA officials have reportedly stepped down

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BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO – 08/20/19 01:15 PM EDT Three more officials have reportedly stepped down from the National Rifle Association (NRA) amid a spending controversy that continues to roil the gun rights lobbying group. CNN reported Tuesday that country singer MORE

OPINION: The U.S. must take Greenland by force!

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In the Trump era, no moment of tranquility can be taken for granted. I went to the beach for what I thought would be a quiet August break. I returned to find President Trump plotting MORE

Man Utd condemn racist abuse aimed at Pogba

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Manchester United have “utterly condemned” the racist abuse aimed at Paul Pogba after the midfielder missed a penalty against Wolves, calling it “disgusting.” The midfielder stepped up ahead of Marcus Rashford, who was successful from MORE

U.S. Steel to layoff around 200 workers in Michigan

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Despite Trump’s claims that the US steel industry is “thriving” under his presidency, United States Steel Corp plans to layoff nearly 200 workers at their Great Lakes facility in Michigan. A company spokeswoman told Reuters, MORE

Four tons of marijuana seized in a shipment of jalapeños

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At the Otay Mesa cargo facility in San Diego, CA, authorities seized nearly four tons of marijuana in a shipment of jalapeño peppers. The marijuana was valued at approximately $2.3 million dollars. Otay Mesa Port MORE

Holy Hand Grenade only $60K+ – slightly used

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Prop Store, one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies has today announced it is to hold the UK’s largest annual live auction of film and TV memorabilia for the sixth consecutive year MORE

OPINION: The Longer Trump Stays in Office, the More Americans Oppose His Views

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One of the most enduring descriptions of presidential power comes from Teddy Roosevelt, whose description of the office as a “bully pulpit” reflected his conclusion that its true worth was not its constitutional powers, but the ability to speak with and persuade voters. MORE

Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib address Israel denying them entry

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CBS Minnesota: Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criticized Israel on Monday for denying them entry to the Jewish state and called on fellow members of Congress to visit while they cannot. Omar, MORE

Trump has a new excuse if he loses the Popular Vote again: Blame Google

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After draining his brain on Fox ‘News,” Trump retweeted debunked research Robert Epstein presented to the Senate last month. The Washington Post reports that Epstein’s research “suggested Google had given millions of votes to Trump’s MORE

The Politician

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A Beloved Baby Dugong Has Died After Ingesting Plastic

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Marium, an orphaned baby dugong who became a beloved conservation symbol after photographs of her nuzzling human caretakers went viral earlier this year, has died. MORE

Leonard Pitts Jr. on White People Visiting Southern Plantations

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In his latest article, Leonard Pitts Jr. discusses “white fragility;” a term coined by sociologist Robin DiAngelo to explain why white people sometimes find it hard to discuss race and how the subject tends to MORE

Iceland’s Okjokull glacier, dead at 700

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Mourners have gathered in Iceland to commemorate the loss of Okjokull, which has died at the age of about 700. The glacier was officially declared dead in 2014 when it was no longer thick enough MORE

UPDATE: Lawyer argues Anthem Assault Man was innocently acting under Trump’s command

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Lance Jasper, his lawyer, argues that Brockway was doing what he believed Trump wanted him to do. “His commander in chief is telling people that if they kneel, they should be fired, or if they burn a flag, they should be punished. MORE

Maddy Freking making her mark as only girl at Little League World Series

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Maddy Freking is the first girl to play in the Little League World Series since 2014, when Mo’ne Davis and Emma March both made it to Williamsport and Davis captivated the country with her pitching wizardry. MORE

Trump: “I hardly knew the nut job who was my Communications Director”

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While fears of a looming recessions grow more real each day and threats of White Supremacist violence keeps rising and no one seems to care, what does our fearless leader do? MORE

The Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum

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The Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum will be held August 19th and 20th (9am-6pm) in Sioux City, Iowa. MORE

Former NFL, Texas RB Cedric Benson Dies at 36 After Motorcycle Crash

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Former Texas star and NFL running back Cedric Benson died Saturday after being involved in a motorcycle crash in Austin, Texas. MORE

Officer in ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Chokehold Was ‘Untruthful,’ Judge Says

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When internal affairs investigators asked Officer Daniel Pantaleo in 2014 to define a chokehold, he described a scenario where “you use your forearm, grasped with the other hand, and you pull back with your forearm MORE

As mass shootings rise, experts say high-capacity magazines should be the focus

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It took a shooter all of 32 seconds to spray 41 rounds outside a popular bar in Dayton, Ohio, this month, an attack that killed nine people and injured 27. A lightning-fast response from nearby MORE

Ohio White Supremacist arrested for threats to Jewish Community Center

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James Reardon Jr. of Struthers, Ohio will be arraigned today in Struthers Municipal Court on charges of telephone communication harassment and aggravated menacing. Reardon, a self-proclaimed White Supremacist, attended the deadly Unite the Right rally MORE

Forget 8Chan; Here’s How Big Far Right Social Network Gab Has Gotten (Again)…

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Hours before a mass shooter killed 11 people inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, he posted an anti-Muslim rant to his account on Gab, a little-known social network that sold itself MORE