Andy Borowitz | Trump Gives Wife Beater Praise He Usually Reserves for Child Molesters and Nazis
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Andy Borowitz | Trump Gives Wife Beater Praise He Usually Reserves for Child Molesters and Nazis
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In comments to reporters at the White House on Friday, Donald J. Trump stirred controversy by lavishing an alleged wife beater with praise that he historically has reserved for child molesters and Nazis."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In comments to reporters at the White House on Friday, Donald J. Trump stirred controversy by lavishing an alleged wife beater with praise that he historically has reserved for child molesters and Nazis."
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Donald Trump. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Trump's Long History of Employing - and Defending - Men Accused of Hurting Women
Anna North, Vox
North writes: "When two women told the FBI that White House staff secretary Rob Porter had abused them, Porter joined a line of Trumpworld men accused of choking, grabbing, threatening, hitting, or otherwise abusing women."
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Anna North, Vox
North writes: "When two women told the FBI that White House staff secretary Rob Porter had abused them, Porter joined a line of Trumpworld men accused of choking, grabbing, threatening, hitting, or otherwise abusing women."
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Porter is one in a string of Trump campaign and administration staffers to be accused of abuse or violence:
- Steve Bannon, CEO of Trump’s presidential campaign and White House chief strategist until August 2017, was charged in 1996 with domestic violence, battery, and dissuading a witness. According to a 1996 police report quoted in Politico, Bannon’s then-wife said he grabbed her neck, then threw the phone across the room when she tried to call 911. The charges were eventually dismissed when Bannon’s wife was “unable to be located,” according to court records — she filed for divorce a few months later.
- Corey Lewandowski, then Trump’s campaign manager, was charged with battery in March 2016 after a Breitbart reporter, Michelle Fields, reported that he had forcibly grabbed her. The incident was captured on video, but a prosecutor declined to proceed with the case.
- Andrew Puzder, Trump’s initial nominee for Secretary of Labor, was accused of assault and battery by his ex-wife, Lisa Fierstein. In documents that were part of their 1988 divorce proceedings, Fierstein said that Puzder had struck her “violently about the face, chest, back, shoulders, and neck, without provocation or cause.” And in 1990, Fierstein spoke of her experience on The Oprah Winfrey Show, saying Puzder had told her, “I will see you in the gutter. This will never be over. You will pay for this.” Fierstein retracted the abuse claims in a letter to Puzder after his nomination for labor secretary; he ultimately withdrew from consideration.
- President Trump, meanwhile, has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 17 women. One of them is his ex-wife, Ivana, who reportedly stated in a 1990 divorce deposition that Trump had pulled out a fistful of her hair and raped her. In 2015, after Trump announced his candidacy for president, she issued a statement saying that a Daily Beast story about the alleged rape was “without merit.”
Want to Stop America's Slide Toward Authoritarianism? Give All Immigrants the Right to Vote
Noah Berlatsky, NBC News
Berlatsky writes: "Since the rise of Donald Trump, many pundits have argued that immigration undermines American democracy and American unity. In a recent controversial column at the New York Times, for example, Ross Douthat suggested that restricting immigration is reasonable given the fact that 'increased diversity and the distrust it sows have clearly put stresses on our politics.'"
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Noah Berlatsky, NBC News
Berlatsky writes: "Since the rise of Donald Trump, many pundits have argued that immigration undermines American democracy and American unity. In a recent controversial column at the New York Times, for example, Ross Douthat suggested that restricting immigration is reasonable given the fact that 'increased diversity and the distrust it sows have clearly put stresses on our politics.'"
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Justine Calma, Grist
Excerpt: "In an effort to avert another government shutdown, Senate leaders on Wednesday hashed out a budget agreement that includes $90 billion in disaster relief to help communities affected by last year's unprecedented hurricanes and wildfires."
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Justine Calma, Grist
Excerpt: "In an effort to avert another government shutdown, Senate leaders on Wednesday hashed out a budget agreement that includes $90 billion in disaster relief to help communities affected by last year's unprecedented hurricanes and wildfires."
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At Olympics Opening Ceremony, Pence Refuses to Stand for Any Country Except the US
Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress
Kroh writes: "Athletes from North Korea and South Korea marching under the same flag in the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games was a significant symbolic moment for many. Vice President Mike Pence, in Pyeongchang to lead the U.S. delegation, was not impressed, however."
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Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress
Kroh writes: "Athletes from North Korea and South Korea marching under the same flag in the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games was a significant symbolic moment for many. Vice President Mike Pence, in Pyeongchang to lead the U.S. delegation, was not impressed, however."
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Panama: Social Groups Condemn 'Silent Invasion' by US Troops
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The arrival of 415 members of the U.S. Air Force in Panama has been described by social organizations and media outlets as a 'silent invasion.'"
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "The arrival of 415 members of the U.S. Air Force in Panama has been described by social organizations and media outlets as a 'silent invasion.'"
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There's Growing Evidence That Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals
Katie Valentine, Earther
Valentine writes: "Climate change is inducing some logically straightforward adaptations in plants and animals. As Earth's temperature warms, species used to cooler climates make moves to escape the newfound warmth: Some bird species are shifting their ranges northward; some fish are moving towards the poles; and some plants are slowly moving upslope."
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Katie Valentine, Earther
Valentine writes: "Climate change is inducing some logically straightforward adaptations in plants and animals. As Earth's temperature warms, species used to cooler climates make moves to escape the newfound warmth: Some bird species are shifting their ranges northward; some fish are moving towards the poles; and some plants are slowly moving upslope."
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