Archive for October, 2019

Zeitgeist Spam: “He was undocumented. Now he’s exposing detention center abuse” (he’s also my son-in-law) (hat tip Dan Slive)


Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications

Source: Zeitgeist Spam: “He was undocumented. Now he’s exposing detention center abuse” (he’s also my son-in-law) (hat tip Dan Slive)

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Impeachment vote: The House of Representatives’ big vote, explained – Vox

 

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi leaves the floor after the close of a vote on a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry on October 31, 2019.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The chamber just voted to approve procedures related to the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

Source: Impeachment vote: The House of Representatives’ big vote, explained – Vox

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Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees – Issue 77: Underworlds – Nautilus

 

Source: Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees – Issue 77: Underworlds  – Nautilus

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Williamson focuses on reparations in first ad of presidential campaign | TheHill

 

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson on Wednesday released her first television ad of her campaign.The ad is titled “Reparations — An Idea Whose Time Has Come.”

Source: Williamson focuses on reparations in first ad of presidential campaign | TheHill

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The surprise voting bloc Bernie’s banking on to win the nomination – POLITICO

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Why Amy Klobuchar is moderate Democrats’ only hope

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Moderates should rally around the Minnesota senator before it’s too late

Source: Why Amy Klobuchar is moderate Democrats’ only hope

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The Milky Way Reflected in the World’s Largest Mirror

I love this photograph by Peruvian photographer Jheison Huerta. It’s a shot of the Milky Way above the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia. After it rains, the thin layer of water transforms the flat into the world’s l

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Elizabeth Warren’s Days Defending Big Corporations – The New York Times

Our colleague Stephanie Saul just published a big story about Elizabeth Warren’s legal work defending corporations in bankruptcy cases while she was a law professor.
Here’s the story behind the story, from Stephanie:
Like most reporters, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in courthouses, covering big criminal cases and multimillion-dollar civil disputes. Over the years, I’ve become familiar with the lingo lawyers and judges use, and I thought I had a fair understanding of how the legal system worked. In all my trips to courthouses, though, I had never drilled into the arcana of bankruptcy. Until this year.
Enter Elizabeth Warren, a onetime bankruptcy professor turned senator and presidential candidate. In May, Ms. Warren released a list of legal cases she had handled on the side while working as a professor. As part of our jobs as political reporters, we look deeply into the backgrounds of candidates. Many of these stories run under our series called “The Long Run.” The job of looking into Ms. Warren’s legal work fell to me, a nonlawyer.
The cases presented an apparent contradiction. Ms. Warren is a progressive who frequently criticizes the behavior of corporations, but had advised big companies like LTV Steel and Dow Chemical. She is a proponent of the Green New Deal, but had represented utilities that generated power using fossil fuels, and had gone to bat for a company that did not want to pay for cleaning up a Superfund site it left behind. Was Ms. Warren a hypocrite, as some of her opponents had suggested, or was something else in play?
My reporting for this story, which involved reading Ms. Warren’s cases and contacting other lawyers involved, revealed that the answer lay in Ms. Warren’s devotion to the bankruptcy system. Even as she fought on behalf of corporate clients, experts told me, she was also working to preserve the bankruptcy process itself.
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Root Out Corruption (Warren for President Campaign Ad) – YouTube

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