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Education provides people concrete opportunities to overcome real circumstances of poverty or oppression. Even after weeks of macho vulgarity, preening and unruly incompetence, this week the Trump administration still managed to send shock waves through the higher education and civil rights communities. The New York Times reported that the White House wants the U.S. Department of Justice to “redirect resources” of its civil rights division “toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” Subsequently, the DOJ announced that it was really just seeking “volunteers” interested in a lawsuit alleging discrimination against Asian-Americans....

The political map doesn't look very good for Democrats ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new analysis published by FiveThirtyEight. The analysis, written by Cook Political Report's David Wasserman, says that if Democrats were to win every single House and Senate race next year in places that Hillary Clinton won or that President Trump by less than 3 percentage points last November, they could still lose the House and lose five Senate seats.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) said Monday morning that she believes it is "possible to impeach" President Donald Trump by December, and even provided multiple examples of how she believes it can happen. Waters was a guest on NTK Network's "The Breakfast Club." Host DJ Envy asked Waters, "How far are we away from kicking Trump out of the White House?" Waters did not hesitate before jumping into a list of reasons why she believes impeachment is possible and will happen, stemming back to Trump's actions on the campaign trail. "For some of us, who saw this was a deplorable...

This week, famous millennial journaler Lena Dunham was strolling through an airport eavesdropping on a couple of flight attendants. There she was, just a right-thinking individual with fluency in approved language and a desire for a kind and compassionate society, when she heard a conversation that violated her sense of an ideal society. Then, as any individual principally interested in kindness and empathy would do, she reported the flight attendants’ conversation to their bosses at American Airlines. Then, filled once more with the compassion and humility that are her hallmarks, Dunham broadcast this conversation, and her reporting of it, to...

When Emily Maitlis of BBC Newsnight landed her first (and possibly as it transpired, her last) interview with the then-incoming Head of Communications for the White House, Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci, she could have had little idea beyond her briefing notes what to expect. What viewers actually saw and heard wasn’t just a bad omen of things to come, but an exercise in that peculiar blend of undisguised contempt and ferocious masculine-driven competition that has become a decisive marker of the violent underpinnings of Donald Trump and his administration. Women beware. Scaramucci rose to the occasion of having a well-trained...

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans there was a brief moment of shocked compassion before racial anxieties flooded the Internet. Victims of the disaster were quickly recast as looters, criminals, and layabouts. They were government “dependents” seeking even more entitlements now that they were bona fide survivors. Some of these hideous opinions drew on the physical “evidence” of the bad character of hurricane survivors: their size. The mostly black bodies crowding the Superdome, getting on rafts, and being carried away by helicopters, were too large for online critics. Obesity, while common in the US and over-represented in the South, was...

Trump – DON’T FORGET HOW YOU GOT ELECTED An article I read said that the republicans are opposing Trump. that they passed a veto proof sanction bill vs Russia, that they work for the people and not the president. They have ignored his tweets to stay in session, to lower the vote to 51 instead of 60 etc. The author said there was no moment in time when the split occurred and that the split occurred gradually. With this last statement, I totally disagree. Apparently, the author was no in class when the never Trumpers were making their presentation. Is...

The New York contingent of plotters gathered in the Times building so they could use the company’s considerable communications resources to monitor the coup. In Washington, the plotters were spread out – the State Department, the FBI headquarters (the new Director was under arrest and his Obama holdout deputies were overseeing the arrest of key Republicans, conservative Supreme Court justices, and other appointed officials). The Pentagon was paralyzed – the plotters had enlisted enough officers to prevent an effective counter response. And, of course, the NSA had ensured that all comms out of the besieged White House were down. Elsewhere,...

LITTLE ROCK, Judge Kristine Baker issued a preliminary injunction for Fred Hopkins, a local abortionist, permitting continued; Second trimester, (2/3 mature) extraction. Abortionist, ownership and disposal of harvested child-parts and related human liquids. “Cannula evacuation”. Ultrasound targeting (most in demand) baby parts for first pick, organs vacuum probe, extraction. Child termination factors including (baby part) sex considerations.

“We cannot tolerate this any longer,” said the former CIA Director at the head of the table. “We have to forcibly retake the government from Donald Trump. It is the only way save our democracy.” His audience nodded solemnly. The men and women gathered at that secret February meeting on the top floor of 241 West 41st Street, the New York Times building, were Democrat politicians, media figures, retired and active members of the federal security bureaucracy, and several Establishment Republicans, and they were at wit’s end. There simply was no other choice. Donald Trump must be replaced, and it...

There they go again. Hillary Clinton was a two-time loser. Weirdly, her people are still in charge of the Democratic Party. Clintonista militant moderates haven't learned a thing from Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump -- so they're trying to sell Democratic voters on more of the same. Remember what happened when Clinton ran on the whole never mind your crappy low wage job, vote for me because first woman president bit? Now we're supposed to get excited about center-right California Senator Kamala Harris because she ticks off two boxes on the identity politics hit parade. Remember the ugly optics when...

Scaramucci calls Priebus a ‘f–king paranoid schizophrenic’ in rant By Bob Fredericks July 27, 2017 | 5:43pm New White House Communications chief Anthony Scaramucci called Reince Priebus a “f–king paranoid schizophrenic” in a bizarre nighttime phone call to a reporter. “Reince is a f–king paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci ranted at Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker, the magazine reported Thursday. He also laced into White House adviser Steve Bannon. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c–k,” he said about Trump’s chief strategist.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — With the fate of thousands of active transgender troops now unknown, city leaders in Austin are extending an invitation to join the force at the Austin Police Department. “The city of Austin and its police force would benefit greatly for any members of the military that served with honor and distinction to join our force here in Austin,” said City Councilman Jimmy Flannigan, District 6. Mayor Stever Adler says their basis on how they choose someone for the job is their ability to be able to do the job. The Austin Police Department, Austin-Travis County EMS and...

Former first lady Michelle Obama was a breath of fresh air as usual while making a public appearance in Colorado since leaving the White House for a live armchair conversation with The Women’s Foundation of Colorado President Lauren Casteel. But even as poised and graceful as always, Obama touched on some tough topics, speaking out frankly about the hurt she felt from the racist attacks she received while in the White House. “The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut,” Obama said when Casteel asked her about the trials of being the first black...

The Miracle of Socialism!. In 2016, the average Venezuelan lost 19 pounds! Also in 2016, the socialists ran out of other people’s money … Chavez and NewCrony, controlled the courts, and started taking the property of an omnipotent oil company By the day he died, he was a billionaire but could take not one peso to hell with him; and a golden opportunity to do some real good, he lost forever. A cadres of community organizers filtered bits to the people of Venezuela, who were pretty happy about it However, the problem with socialism is, sooner or later, you run...

BELLEVUE, Neb. (WOWT) -- A local man was kicked out of a Bellevue Golden Corral because of the shirt on his back. Another customer reported him to the manager, claiming the shirt was too controversial for children to see. The situation has the man in-question considering his first amendment rights. “"I paid for the f***-ing food,” Riek Mock can be heard saying in the video. Mock told his son to start recording video on his phone Sunday when the restaurant’s manager asked him to leave. "He said a customer is complaining he don't like your T-shirt on," said Mock. "I...

It’s now been six dizzying and nauseating months since Donald Trump took the oath of office, and the brightest spot on the American political landscape is the grassroots resistance that has sprung up to counter his regime. No previous president ever faced so many protests so early in his term, and the millions who have taken to the streets since January can already take significant credit for stalling and frustrating key aspects of Trump’s agenda, from his Muslim ban to his bid to repeal the Affordable Care Act. There are numerous qualities that distinguish this organizing upsurge from past waves...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has given the answer to the mystery behind how Donald Trump became US President through GodÂ’s intervention, Obasanjo said Trump became US President so that America can be humbled. The former president who was said to have mocked the US election that took place in November 2016, made this known at an event held at the French Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa. It was gathered that he said Africa can take charge of its own future if it needs foreign direct investment. The two-time Nigerian Head of state, who said he was happy about the turnout...

PetroChina is unloading the first Chinese purchase of crude oil from US strategic petroleum reserves at a port in eastern China. Supertanker Cosrising Lake, is unloading the US oil at Qingdao port in Shandong province this week, The crude according to the US Department of Energy, is similar in quality to Middle East Oman crude. More Asian refiners are turning to the Americas for oil after OPEC cuts tightened heavy crude supplies and as governments respond to a call from United States President Donald Trump to buy US oil and gas. State-owned PetroChina is one of the key players moving...