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In “Wet Kiss” for Wall Street, Congress Overturns Rules Allowing People to Sue Banks for Misconduct

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Democracy Now! [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw / https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow , https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow/videos ]

After nine months of struggling to deliver on their legislative priorities, Senate Republicans found unity Tuesday when they overturned a rule that makes it easier for Americans to sue banks and credit card companies. The rule was developed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and would have allowed people to file class action lawsuits that could have cost the banks billions of dollars. We get an update from Public Citizen’s Amanda Werner, who recently dressed as Rich Uncle Pennybags, with a top hat and monocle, and sat directly behind former Equifax CEO Richard Smith when he testified about a security breach that left sensitive personal information for 143 million Americans exposed to hackers.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/26/congress_sides_with_wall_street_to [with embedded video, and transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPdmmFSt20 [with comments]


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FCC Enables Faster Media Consolidation as Pro-Trump Sinclair Group Seizes Even More Local Stations

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Democracy Now!

A major decision by the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday eliminated a decades-old rule that ensures community residents can have a say in their local broadcast TV station. This comes as the FCC announced plans Wednesday to abolish long-standing media ownership rules. Opponents say these changes will accelerate media consolidation, allowing massive corporate media companies, such as the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group, to buy up and control even more local stations. We speak with Andy Kroll, senior reporter at Mother Jones magazine, whose story in their new issue is titled “Ready for Trump TV? Inside Sinclair Broadcasting’s Plot to Take Over Your Local News.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/26/fcc_eliminates_rules_preventing_media_consolidation [with embedded video, and transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3foNRkpyp4 [with comments]


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Undocumented Teen Wins Abortion Fight, But Thousands in Shelters Still Live Under Anti-Choice Policy

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Democracy Now!

An undocumented teenager at the center of a lawsuit with the Trump administration over her right to have an abortion has finally obtained the procedure she wanted. The 17-year-old is detained in a refugee resettlement shelter and had the abortion on Wednesday, after a U.S. appeals court ruled in her favor. The teen is referred to in court documents as Jane Doe. The Trump administration spent a month trying to stop her from accessing an abortion. We get an update from her lawyers: Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, and Susan Hays, legal director of Jane’s Due Process, a legal referral service for minors facing unintended pregnancy in Texas.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/26/undocumented_teen_wins_fight_to_get [with embedded video, and transcript]

Related:
Web Exclusive - Doctors Call for Release of Girl with Cerebral Palsy After Border Agents Remove Her from Hospital

October 31, 2017
The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding the immediate release of a 10-year-old girl who was removed from the children’s hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, and taken into custody by Border Patrol agents as she recovered from emergency surgery. The girl, Rosa Maria Hernandez, is undocumented and has cerebral palsy. She has been living in the United States since she was three months old, when her parents moved to the country in order to access better medical care for her. She was first detained last Tuesday, after an ambulance carrying her to the hospital was stopped at a checkpoint. Agents then waited outside her hospital room until she was discharged, and detained her. Video shows the agents escorting Hernandez into custody as she’s wheeled out of the hospital on a gurney. Her doctors are recommending she be released into the care of her family. We’re joined by Priscila Martinez, who is the Texas Immigration Coalition coordinator and among those calling for immigration authorities to release the girl back to her family.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/31/doctors_aclu_call_for_release_of [with embedded video, and transcript], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rz_tQgPZs [with comments]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jfP3JlaXY [with comments]


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Full Show - Hillary’s Birthday From Hell - 10/26/2017

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Ron Gibson [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYv-5LsUyc_P8KMo7YGPFPA / https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF , https://www.youtube.com/user/RonGibsonCF/videos ]

Full Broadcast 26Oct17 Real News with David Knight
GUESTS:
• Outlaw Morgan —
TOPICS:
• Hillary’s 70th is NOT a happy birthday. A Soros group has filed a complaint against her with the Fed Elections Commission and Trump’s DOJ has removed the gag order on the Uranium One whistleblower
• More lies emerge from Vegas shooting
• Sands of the hourglass may be running out on the PetroDollar

[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrzu-OH2VFg [with comments] [the edited official Alex Jones/Real News with David Knight upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SP8Y-yC1Ys (title adapted and text taken from; with comments)]


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WATCH: Speaker Ryan holds weekly news briefing

Streamed live on Oct 26, 2017 by PBS NewsHour [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour , https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos ]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan holds a weekly news briefing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtX8QJhbxE [comments disabled]


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WATCH: Rep. Pelosi holds weekly news briefing

Streamed live on Oct 26, 2017 by PBS NewsHour

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi holds a news briefing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi0BRI_rGVM [comments disabled]


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Full Show - JFK Assassination Documents To DROP Tonight - 10/26/2017

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]

Thursday, October 26th 2017[, with Anthony Cumia hosting the fourth hour]: Russia Script Flips - The DNC and Hillary find themselves on the receiving end of the Russia investigation, as new reports claim they funded the Trump dirty dossier, violated campaign finance law and may be guilty of at least 13 crimes. Meanwhile, the National Archives are set to release over 3,000 JFK files. On today's show, trends forecaster Gerald Celente joins us to break down the latest Clinton legal issues and more. We'll also review the progress on Trump's tax cuts and the Hollywood pedophile scandal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-xLFbCzqY [with comments] [also, a bit edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oq8u0r_v2s (additional text adapted from; with comments)] [a must-watch]


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Lucien Greaves: Satanic

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by TheThinkingAtheist [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeYP27qLtfUMY1b1Cyy3WdQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/TheThinkingAtheist , https://www.youtube.com/user/TheThinkingAtheist/videos ]

Lucien Greaves is co-founder of The Satanic Temple. In this short profile, Lucien speaks about TST, its role in the fight against religious privilege, and the merits of practicing a "secular religion."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbxxftLiKzY [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95666631 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117063870 and preceding and following] [a must-watch]


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WATCH: President Trump delivers speech on opioid crisis

Streamed live on Oct 26, 2017 by PBS NewsHour

President Donald Trump delivers a speech addressing the national opioid addiction crisis.

Remarks by First Lady Melania Trump on Combatting Drug Demand and the Opioid Crisis
East Room
October 26, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/26/remarks-first-lady-melania-trump-combatting-drug-demand-and-opioid [official transcript]

Remarks by President Trump on Combatting Drug Demand and the Opioid Crisis
East Room
October 26, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/26/remarks-president-trump-combatting-drug-demand-and-opioid-crisis [official transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmDr_Vquc6A [comments disabled] [official White House upload at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LWN_GKdWbc (with comments)]


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Full Show - Deep State Delays Release Of JFK Files - 10/26/2017

Published on Oct 27, 2017 by War Room [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsn7QZVdszxLlUs-GOG0Sg/videos ]

[originally aired October 26, 2017]

[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvW0-U0yA3Y [with comments] [also, a bit edited, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ9DSqAb7mo (with comments)]


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HuffPost Special Report: When White Hate Comes To Town

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by HuffPost [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfsrIV68Oegr5bJgAMLBDA / https://www.youtube.com/user/HuffingtonPost , https://www.youtube.com/user/HuffingtonPost/videos ]

HuffPost interviewed white nationalist leader Richard Spencer the night before his speech at the University of Florida, and it’s disturbing.

HuffPost Special Report: When White Hate Comes To Town

Richard Spencer says he supports the push for white identity but doesn’t want to be called a Nazi.

Colton Fears, left, Tyler Tenbrink and William Fears were arrested after Richard Spencer spoke at the University of Florida. One of the men is accused of firing a gun at a counter-protester.
Watch a disturbing HuffPost interview with white nationalist leader Richard Spencer the night before his speech at the University of Florida.
10/26/2017
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-spencer-interview-huffpost-university-of-florida_us_59ef9b1ee4b0b7e632658b44 [with non-YouTube version of this YouTube embedded, and comments]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFdIpkrjp-4 [with comments]


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DOJ lifts gag order on uranium one FBI informant, source tells Fox News

The Beat With Ari Melber
10/26/17

Trump “gives order” to DOJ, sparking concerns about the Justice Department’s “independence.” Is Trump breaching the wall” between Trump and DOJ Duration: 10:15

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/doj-lifts-gag-order-on-uranium-one-fbi-informant-source-tells-fox-news-1082397763646


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Trump campaign asked for stolen Clinton emails

The Beat With Ari Melber
10/26/17

Ari Melber’s special breakdown on Trump’s “sarcasm defense” and the “overlapping legal issues” facing the Trump team for secretly trying to coordinate with WikiLeaks at the height of the 2016 election Duration: 8:56

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/trump-campaign-asked-for-stolen-clinton-emails-1082395203832


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Trump’s Voter Fraud Panel under investigation

The Beat With Ari Melber
10/26/17

Trump's commission to investigate voter fraud, is now under investigation. Ari Melber on what “evidence” investigators could find. Duration: 1:25

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/trump-s-voter-fraud-panel-under-investigation-1082398275670


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Trump, the Russians & Fox News

All In with Chris Hayes
10/26/17

As the Mueller investigation could be closing in, the White House is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from Fox News. Duration: 10:18

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-the-russians-fox-news-1082443331943


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Cruz hopes JFK files will end "ludicrous" Trump claim

All In with Chris Hayes
10/26/17

Sen. Ted Cruz on whether final batch of JFK documents will vindicate his father, after a conspiracy theory pushed by Donald Trump. Duration: 2:39

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/cruz-hopes-jfk-files-will-end-ludicrous-trump-claim-1082443331942


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Ed Gillespie's alt right makeover

All In with Chris Hayes
10/26/17

The ultimate DC insider is running a campaign for Virginia governor that vilifies immigrants and champions Confederate monuments. Duration: 6:31

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ed-gillespie-s-alt-right-makeover-1082486339654


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Trump administration doing a bad job turning word into deed

The Rachel Maddow Show
10/26/17

Rachel Maddow points out an emerging pattern in the Donald Trump administration in which the declarations Trump makes are not supported by the work to get those thing done, most egregiously in the case of the Russia sanctions he signed into law but never bothered to implement. Duration: 21:59

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-administration-doing-a-bad-job-turning-word-into-deed-1082489923667


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Hype falls short in release of JFK assassination documents

The Rachel Maddow Show
10/26/17

Philip Shenon, author of a book on the JFK assassination, talks with Rachel Maddow about what went wrong with the promised release of National Archives documents, and whether the most sought-after secret documents will ever be released. Duration: 5:10

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hype-falls-short-in-release-of-jfk-assassination-documents-1082492483875


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Grassley staffer ran private investigation into Clinton e-mail

The Rachel Maddow Show
10/26/17

Rachel Maddow looks at the Trump Russia investigations seeking details into a Trump supporter's efforts to recruit hackers to find Hillary Clinton's e-mails, and reports that Barbara Ledeen, a staffer for Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, was engaged in a similar pursuit. Duration: 5:40

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/grassley-staffer-ran-private-investigation-into-clinton-e-mail-1082574403631 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvWQGwmMNxU [with comments]


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Refugee office pressing anti-abortion agenda on minors in custody

The Rachel Maddow Show
10/26/17

Brigitte Amiri, attorney for a girl who fought the Office of Refugee Resettlement to exercise her right to an abortion, and won, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the office under Scott Lloyd is actively trying to deprive vulnerable girls of their reproductive rights. Duration: 8:41

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/refugee-office-pressing-anti-abortion-agenda-on-minors-in-custody-1082502211687


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Lawrence on 'the knuckleheads running the show'

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
10/26/17

John Boehner says most Republicans are "throwing up" over the state of the party. Lawrence O'Donnell talks with Ron Klain, Daniel Dale & Peter Wehner, who says the Trump WH can't pass any legislation because the president doesn't know anything and doesn't care to. Duration: 11:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-on-the-knuckleheads-running-the-show-1082510915884 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrssvsFBFug [with comments]


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Lawrence: GOP abandons principles in favor of Trump's tax cuts

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
10/26/17

Lawrence O'Donnell explains why the Republicans who voted for the budget bill passed by the House voted against their own longstanding principles, and why that's not a surprise in the age of Donald Trump. Duration: 2:47

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-gop-abandons-principles-in-favor-of-trump-s-tax-cuts-1082523715553 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2an_XDx4jhc [with comments]


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Trump and what's changed in the war on drugs

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
10/26/17

Pres. Trump said we have never seen a drug epidemic like the current opioid crisis. Ekow Yankah, Professor at Cardozo School of Law, says we have – but when the drug epidemic was affecting mostly people of color, there was a very different national response. Duration: 4:21

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-and-what-s-changed-in-the-war-on-drugs-1082518083566


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Bannon is 'going for the kill' in war with GOP establishment

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
10/26/17

As Trump again claims the GOP is unified, Bannon is looking to make his mark in his growing war with the GOP establishment he sees as too independent from Trump. Our reporter panel reacts. Duration: 7:12

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/bannon-is-going-for-the-kill-in-war-with-gop-establishment-1082550851542 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQr7kqCsmM [with comments]


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After missed deadline Trump takes some action on Russia sanctions

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
10/26/17

The Trump White House has given Congress a list of possible Russia Sanctions after missing an October 1st deadline. Why the delay? We discuss with our experts. Duration: 7:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/after-missed-deadline-trump-takes-some-action-on-russia-sanctions-1082553411961 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6t8gz9JN8 [with comments]


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Trump allows National Archives to release some, not all JFK docs

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
10/26/17

The National Archives has released thousands of documents around the assassination of JFK, but how much will we learn and what hasn't been released? NBC's Julia Ainsley explains. Duration: 2:59

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-allows-national-archives-to-release-some-not-all-jfk-docs-1082551363561


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Quiet from Republicans after Corker & Flake rebuked Trump

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
10/26/17

Since strong rebukes to Pres. Trump from GOP Senators Jeff Flake & Bob Corker, no other Hill Republicans have spoken out. Indira Lakshmanan & Bill Kristol react. Duration: 6:28

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/quiet-from-republicans-after-corker-flake-rebuked-trump-1082559555978


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How Trump Is Mishandling the Opioid Crisis: The Daily Show

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]

Trevor weighs in on how President Trump's response to opioid abuse is a small, meaningless gesture in the public health crisis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRVrI2YjxkU [with comments]


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Verified Survivor - Kenya Barris: The Daily Show

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Donald Trump repeatedly takes to Twitter to courageously berate those who dare criticize him. Kenya Barris is a Verified Survivor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcgtmmzKBo [with comments]


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Verified Survivor - Seth Meyers: The Daily Show

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Donald Trump repeatedly takes to Twitter to courageously berate those who dare criticize him. Seth Meyers is a Verified Survivor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5yoqg2dgw [with comments]


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Verified Survivor - Debbie Wasserman Schultz: The Daily Show

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Donald Trump repeatedly takes to Twitter to courageously berate those who dare criticize him. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a Verified Survivor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1wv6XSpRLE [with comments]


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The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper - Americanist vs. Globalist: Going Toe-to-Toe with Richard Branson

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Comedy Central [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUsN5ZwHx2kILm84-jPDeXw / https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral , https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7nPL1U-R5r5XD8saDuOBVj1z69Y_4iK ]

Jordan grills elitist Richard Branson about his change of heart on climate change and his plans to take over space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGTAaHCqoME [with comments]


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Stephen's Interview Of Lou Dobb's Interview Of Trump

Published on Oct 27, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]

President Trump sits down with his most-commonly visited network: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

[originally aired October 26, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkt-8fEaWk [with comments]


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Trump Has Now Been Interviewed On Fox News 19 Times

Published on Oct 27, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Donald Trump has proven that there's one network he trusts to give him softball questions. Again and again and again and again and again and (continued until infinity).

[originally aired October 26, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGtNtCjnGNI [with comments]


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Harasser Of The Day: President George H.W. Bush

Published on Oct 27, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen copes with the latest American hero to become a recipient of sexual misconduct allegations. This time, it's former President George H.W. Bush.

[originally aired October 26, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOCP53038Q [with comments]


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Ivanka Trump Doesn't Understand Words

Published on Oct 27, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Donald Trump's daughter is among the most trusted members of his administration. And yet, she appears to have extreme difficulty finding the right... letter compounds? Alphabet parties? Oh, words!!

[originally aired October 26, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ndJqZ8Ags [with (approaching 7,000) comments]


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The President Zone - The President Show

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Comedy Central [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUsN5ZwHx2kILm84-jPDeXw / https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral , https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7nPL1U-R5o-p0I_6RGUR2MZus6O8cpX ]

The White House is full of Halloween spirit as the president wishes he was feared by his critics and the vice president discovers his inner Rod Serling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcnGexsEn1U [with comments]


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The Muellerman - The President Show

Published on Oct 27, 2017 by Comedy Central

The president and his staff's plans to attend an important party are upended when they encounter an ancient evil.

[originally aired October 26, 2017 (U.S. central time)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p63F_jmyFNk [with comments]


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Fox News Showers Trump with Praise, Obsesses Over Hillary: A Closer Look

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA / https://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth , https://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth/videos ]

Seth takes a closer look at the Trump administration's seemingly permanent state of scandal and why many on the right seem to want to live in an alternate reality where Trump isn't president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EhQoG0Epxg [with comments]


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"Day 280" Of The Donald Trump Zionist Regime

Published on Oct 26, 2017 by Bravo Alternative Media [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVV0_xnA_z-ALo6kZJz2WXA , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVV0_xnA_z-ALo6kZJz2WXA/videos ]

"Day 280" of the Donald Trump Zionist Regime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L807yk3bqBs [with comments]


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Caravan to Midnight Full interview Ep 825 – Baker & Hansberger

Published on Oct 27, 2017 by John B. Wells [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuHJMn2CfyxMPGPzFww_3bA / https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnBWellsCTM , https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnBWellsCTM/videos ]

Thursday October 26th, 2017
Full Caravan to Midnight long-form interview Episode 825 – Judith Vary Baker & Amapola Hansberger
https://caravantomidnight.com/Episode/EpisodesDetails?Id=10

Judith Vary Baker joins us again today with updates on the upcoming JFK conference as well as sharing never seen before information, then first time on Caravan we welcome Amapola Hansberger, born and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, she immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. She studied English and Secretarial Sciences at UC Chatsworth. She became a US Citizen in 1975 and in 1979 lost her country of birth to Communism. With her husband, James, she founded Legal Immigrants for America. The voice of the voiceless legal immigrant, in 2014. Visit her website here: https://www.golifa.com/

Former Host of Coast To Coast AM John B Wells is now in control on Caravan To Midnight & Ark Midnight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X7fGOPnHms [with comments]


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stashed October 26, 2017:

Trump Data Guru Tried to Team Up With Assange
Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange
The head of Cambridge Analytica said he asked the WikiLeaks founder for help finding Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-data-guru-i-tried-to-team-up-with-julian-assange

Assange Says WikiLeaks Rejected Request by Data Firm Tied to Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/julian-assange-wikileaks-trump.html

Julian Assange confirms Cambridge Analytica sought WikiLeaks' help
Report says Trump campaign’s data-mining contractor was trying to get hold of Hillary Clinton’s missing emails
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/26/julian-assange-confirms-cambridge-analytica-sought-wikileaks-help

Trump campaign: WikiLeaks posting hacked DNC emails was legal
Publication of messages didn't violate the law even if WikiLeaks stole them, Trump's lawyers say
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/25/trump-campaign-wikileaks-hacked-dnc-emails-244173

Trump-Linked Company Reached Out to WikiLeaks on Hacked Emails
Approach came from chief of data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica as Wikileaks was releasing emails related to Clinton
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wikileaks-assange-says-he-rejected-overture-from-trump-linked-group-1508961298

Wikileaks confirms Trump campaign reached out
The Beat With Ari Melber 10/25/17
A breakthrough in the Russia case as an explosive report from The Daily Beast reveals Trump's digital team asked Julian Assange to coordinate on releasing Clinton emails. Duration: 15:11
http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/wikileaks-confirms-trump-campaign-reached-out-1081582147587

Trump campaign analytics company contacted WikiLeaks about Clinton emails
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/25/politics/cambridge-analytica-julian-assange-wikileaks-clinton-emails/index.html

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+wikileaks

Border Agents Apprehend 10-Year-Old After Emergency Surgery
Enforcement officers first encountered the undocumented immigrant when she was on her way from one hospital to another.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/border-patrol-child_us_59f10df1e4b0af27f5896d4c

10-Year-Old Immigrant Detained After Agents Stop Her on Way to Surgery
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/girl-cerebral-palsy-detained-immigration.html

10-Year-Old Girl Is Detained By ICE Officers After Emergency Surgery
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/26/560149316/10-year-old-girl-is-detained-by-ice-officers-after-emergency-surgery

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d9SBYZMDfQ5gugMON6nnp2XjU2PGM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

We Are Witnesses
A portrait of crime and punishment in America today.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/we-are-witnesses-portrait-of-crime-and-punishment-in-america-today

Fox News Devoted Hours To Harvey Weinstein Scandal, But Minutes To Bill O’Reilly’s
“At this pace, Fox News would need 21 years to give O’Reilly the amount of coverage they gave Weinstein over 3 weeks.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-bill-o-reilly-harvey-weinstein_us_59f1a7ede4b0af27f589bb7f

This Is the Hand: A Response to Recent News
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/this-is-the-hand-a-response-to-recent-news

Nobody Really Likes Roy Moore — Not Even Alabama Republicans
From a church in Montgomery to the judge’s own gala event, Republicans have doubts about their own candidate.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moore-alabama-republicans_us_59e8ce2be4b061a7badae062

Congressman Pushing Conspiracy Theories Calls CNN ‘Fake News,’ Then Flees
The lawmaker blames an “Obama sympathizer” for white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A CNN interview with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) on Wednesday quickly flew off the rails, ending with the lawmaker and an aide accusing the network of “fake news” and running away.
Gosar suggested earlier this month that deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the summer could have been a false-flag operation carried out by the left. He told Vice that the person who started the rally was “from Occupy Wall Street that was an Obama sympathizer,” and said “wouldn’t it be interesting” to find out if billionaire George Soros was behind it.
On Wednesday, CNN reporter Randi Kaye tried to press Gosar on his conspiracy theory. After a brief back and forth, Gosar declared “You’re not real news, you’re fake news.” Then, he quickly took off down a staircase as an aide repeated: “fake news, fake news, fake news.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-gosar-fake-news-cnn_us_59f17ed6e4b07d838d3219d4

The Party of Lincoln Is Now the Party of Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/republicans-trump.html

First Read’s Morning Clips: How Trump Has Reshaped the GOP
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-s-morning-clips-how-trump-has-reshaped-gop-n814531

The Daily 202: The GOP civil war is bigger than Trump. A new study shows deep fissures on policy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/10/26/daily-202-the-gop-civil-war-is-bigger-than-trump-a-new-study-shows-deep-fissures-on-policy/59f0eb7230fb045cba000a43/
Pew study http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/24/political-typology-reveals-deep-fissures-on-the-right-and-left/

Trump’s Dubious $4,000 Claim
Would American households really see an average income increase of $4,000 a year if President Donald Trump succeeds in cutting the corporate income tax? Don’t count on it. This claim is dubious at best.
Consider this simple arithmetic:
There were 125,819,000 households in the U.S. last year, according to the Census Bureau. An average increase of $4,000 for each household would amount to a total income gain of more than $503 billion annually.
But the U.S. collected just $297 billion in corporate income taxes in fiscal year 2017, which ended Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Treasury.
So let’s say that Trump’s proposal to drop the top corporate rate to 20 percent (from the current 35 percent) reduces the corporate tax accordingly by $127 billion. How can that spur an income gain of $500 billion?
[...]
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/trumps-dubious-4000-claim/

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Trump Blames Russia for ‘Hurting’ U.S. Efforts on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/trump-blames-russia-hurting-u-s-efforts-north-korea-s-n814516

U.S. Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Kill 'Millions' and 'Risk an Unacceptable War'
http://www.newsweek.com/us-preemptive-strike-north-korea-would-kill-millions-and-risk-unacceptable-war-693466

The Madness Behind Trump’s ‘Madman’ Strategy
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/the-madness-behind-trumps-madman-strategy.html

Pentagon’s top general to address cyber-espionage, ballistic missile defense in South Korea
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/26/pentagons-top-general-to-address-cyber-espionage-ballistic-missile-defense-in-south-korea/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dSijxNKE2yNTSfM6F2SQMF10mZpjM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Judge rejects bid by 18 states to revive Obamacare subsidies
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-ruling/judge-rejects-bid-by-18-states-to-revive-obamacare-subsidies-idUSKBN1CU2ZZ

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dRySKr8DivJSxfMdAgwUYuP9HA7JM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

How Facebook, Google and Twitter 'embeds' helped Trump in 2016
A study reveals employees the companies placed in the Trump campaign played a surprisingly active role in shaping its message and targeting voters.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/facebook-google-twitter-trump-244191

What Fresh Online Ad Data Reveals About Facebook and Google Earnings
Recent numbers for third-quarter ad spending bode well for Facebook's earnings. For Google, they provide mixed signals.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14360473/1/takeaways-for-facebook-and-alphabet-s-earnings-from-the-latest-online-ad-data.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dH3tJAphd_0Ix5M9x8g0yK4XySq0M?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

AG Jeff Sessions forcing IRS to apologize as agency settles conservative groups’ suits over nonprofit status delays
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/irs-settles-tea-party-groups-suits-delayed-nonprofit-status-article-1.3590616

Trump DOJ settles lawsuits over Tea Party targeting by Obama IRS
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/26/trump-doj-settles-lawsuits-over-tea-party-targeting-by-obama-irs.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dOjo4ePA4WgCo-M1iUgZgighnl4GM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

If You Want to Fly to America, Get Ready to Be Interrogated
“Did you pack your own bag?” won’t be the only question as airlines are ordered by the Trump administration to expand passenger inquiries.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/if-you-want-to-fly-to-america-get-ready-to-be-interrogated

New US flight security measures take effect
New security measures affecting flights into the US are coming into effect, which US authorities say are aimed at reducing the threat of hidden explosives.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41759167

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dU1S2nomPvCDQ5MwIylu19ksVOLgM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Trump’s Critics Can Sense GOP Slipping Away From Them
It’s Trump’s triumph that has provoked harsh critiques from Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, John McCain, and George W. Bush.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/trump-republican-unity/544077/

A stern Senate speech won’t stop Trump. It didn’t stop McCarthy. - Flake
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/10/25/a-stern-senate-speech-wont-stop-trump-it-didnt-stop-mccarthy/

Republicans Really Don’t Think It’s Their Job To Keep Trump In Check
“That’s not my problem. I’ve got my own things I’m trying to concentrate on, OK?” - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-trump_us_59f0e4d7e4b0af27f58930c4

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dEZy1cDKFjkIYqMOWuEepGEO9AXxM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/26/trump-plans-to-declare-the-opioid-crisis-a-public-health-emergency/

Trump issues limited emergency declaration to combat the opioid epidemic
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-opioids-20171026-story.html

Trump Officially Declares Opioid Crisis An Emergency 2 Months After Saying He Would
The president’s declaration of a public health emergency falls short of previous indications that he’d declare a national emergency.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-opioid-emergency_us_59e52816e4b02a215b326f29

Billionaire Pharmaceutical Company Founder Charged In Opioid Bribery Case - Reuters
John Kapoor, 74, stepped down as chief executive of Insys Therapeutics in January.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/billionaire-pharmaceutical-company-founder-charged-in-opioid-bribery-case_us_59f21725e4b07fdc5fbccbcd
original https://www.reuters.com/article/us-insys-opioids/billionaire-insys-founder-charged-in-u-s-opioid-bribe-case-idUSKBN1CV2LT

Billionaire Founder Charged in Opioid Bribery Case
Billionaire accused of conspiring to pay bribes to doctors
Drugmaker’s founder joins former executives facing charges
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/insys-therapeutics-founder-charged-in-opioid-fraud-case

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dYDnllfotBN573MuvG3SZc1V77NsM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Twitter Bans Ads From RT as Election Fallout Grows
http://adage.com/article/digital/twitter-giving-rt-ad-money-election-battle-grows/311048/

Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/Announcement-RT-and-Sputnik-Advertising.html

Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, & Misinformation
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/Update-Russian-Interference-in-2016--Election-Bots-and-Misinformation.html

Twitter bans RT, Sputnik ads
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-bans-rt-sputnik-ads/

Social media gaints to send their representatives for the hearing on Russian involvement in 2016 elections
http://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/google-facebook-and-twitter-to-send-their-representatives-for-the-hearing-on-russian-involvement-in-2016-elections-4178767.html

Key Google Searches Only Showed Republican Candidate In Montana House Special Election
And the glitch wasn’t easy to fix, the Democrat’s campaign discovered.
WASHINGTON ? In the final days before Montana’s special House election earlier this year, the digital media vendor for Rob Quist, the Democratic candidate, noticed a crucial problem. The only candidate appearing on Google’s results page for common searches like “Montana special election candidates” was Greg Gianforte, the Republican.
A tech team hired by Daniel Beckman, the managing director of Quist’s digital vendor IB5k, alerted the campaign that it wasn’t an isolated glitch. It turned out that for almost the entire race, only Gianforte showed up in what Google calls its “Instant Answers” box.
“People looking to just find out who was running — and how else would they find out in this modern day and age ? couldn’t find our guy or the Libertarian [Mark Hicks],” Beckman told HuffPost. “That’s pretty upsetting.”
Gianforte (who gained national attention after body-slamming a reporter the day before the vote) went on to defeat Quist by about six percentage points, with Hicks finishing a distant third.
[...]
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-montana-special-election_us_59f1fdcae4b077d8dfc7ea04

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Donald Trump Throws U.S. Generals Under The Bus In Regard To Niger Attack
And that’s not presidential, experts say.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-generals-niger_us_59f19528e4b0438859154c04

Worried Trump Will Strike North Korea, Democrats Pitch Bill To Slow Him Down
They want to require congressional approval before Trump could call for a nuclear or conventional attack.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-trump-north-korea-bill_us_59f14ba7e4b07d838d320ed3

Does the Far Right Have a Place at Academic Conferences?
By Masha Gessen
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/does-the-far-right-have-a-place-at-academic-conferences

Why Roy Moore’s Law-School Professor Nicknamed Him Fruit Salad
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-roy-moores-law-school-professor-nicknamed-him-fruit-salad

Ted Cruz Hopes Release Of JFK Files Will End ‘Ludicrous’ Claim His Dad Was Involved
Donald Trump never apologized for promoting the conspiracy theory.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-jfk-files_us_59f20e61e4b07fdc5fbcaf6e

Government Watchdog Agrees To Investigate Trump Voter Fraud Commission - GAO
Trump’s panel is already facing a handful of lawsuits over its activities.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gao-trump-voter-fraud-commission_us_59f22065e4b03cd20b804176

'What Is Rich?’ Asks Congresswoman Worth $75 Million
“Is $1 million rich? Is $10 million rich? Is $1 billion rich?”
While trying to sell the GOP tax plan as a benefit for the middle class, Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) argued on Monday that it’s hard to tell whether millionaires are in the middle class or are considered “rich.”
Fox Business host Trish Regan pressed Black, who chairs the House Budget Committee, about whether the GOP tax plan would actually hurt wealthy taxpayers. She asked how “socking it to the rich” would help Republicans curry favor with the middle class.
“Well I don’t know that you would call that ‘socking it to the rich’ if there wasn’t a decrease in the marginal rate because there are some other things that will help those who are at the higher income level,” she said.
“I’m always careful about calling people rich because, what’s rich? Is $1 million rich? Is $10 million rich? Is $1 billion rich? So I want to be careful about that. But we really want to be sure that ... there are some pieces in there besides just the marginal rate, such as getting rid of the [alternative minimum tax]. There are some other pieces in there that do help those at upper income.”
To answer Black’s questions, yes, you are rich if you have $1 million, $10 million or $1 billion. A net worth of just $630,754 would put you among the wealthiest 20 percent of Americans, according to 2011 census data.
The line may be fuzzy around the $1 million mark for the congresswoman, who is running for governor of Tennessee, because she is worth far more than that.
Black’s net worth was more than $75 million in 2015, the latest year available on OpenSecrets.org. In 2011, The Atlantic ran a piece about Black called, “The Richest New Member of the House” and noted that much of her money came from “her interest in Aegis Sciences Corporation, a Nashville forensic chemical and drug-testing laboratory that her husband, David, founded in 1986.”
[...]
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/diane-black-rich_us_59f1f3b3e4b07fdc5fbc5a74

Could a Controversial Bill Sink Criminal-Justice Reform in Congress?
A debate over mens rea stalled the last push for reform. Now, a similar battle could be brewing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/will-congress-reform-criminal-intent/544014/

The Inequality Beneath the Sexual-Harassment Headlines
The problem is worse in low-profile, low-accountability, and low-wage industries.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/sexual-harassment-media-hollywood-entertainment/544068/

Witness To George H.W. Bush Groping Incident Says Actors Were Warned: ‘He Gets Pretty Handsy’
Theater staffers had allegedly complained the former president was “creepy.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-hw-bush-groping_us_59f20fc3e4b077d8dfc82c08

When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life
Some people who have to be responsible for their siblings or parents as children grow up to be compulsive caretakers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/when-kids-have-to-parent-their-siblings-it-affects-them-for-life/543975/

Top Democrat Rips Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Pick To Lead NASA
Jim Bridenstine doesn’t even believe in climate science, which “should disqualify him” for the job, says Sen. Patty Murray.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patty-murray-nasa-jim-bridenstine_us_59f14f48e4b0438859152c6e

Pitched as Calming Force, John Kelly Instead Mirrors Boss’s Priorities
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/trump-kelly.html

The Bone-Spur Bozo at the White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/opinion/white-house-trump-kelly-mccain.html

The Megyn Kelly Problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/opinion/megyn-kelly-problem.html

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=kelly+nyt&oq=kelly+nyt

The Menace of Trumpism
By Charles M. Blow
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/menace-trumpism-flake-republicans.html

When an Algorithm Helps Send You to Prison
In 2013, police officers in Wisconsin arrested a man driving a car that had been used in a recent shooting. The man, Eric Loomis, pleaded guilty to attempting to flee an officer, and no contest to operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent. Neither of his crimes mandates prison time.
At Mr. Loomis’s sentencing, the judge cited, among other factors, Mr. Loomis’s high risk of recidivism as predicted by a computer program called COMPAS, a risk assessment algorithm used by the state of Wisconsin. The judge denied probation and prescribed an 11-year sentence: six years in prison, plus five years of extended supervision.
No one knows exactly how COMPAS works; its manufacturer refuses to disclose the proprietary algorithm. We only know the final risk assessment score it spits out, which judges may consider at sentencing.
Mr. Loomis challenged the use of an algorithm as a violation of his due process rights to be sentenced individually, and without consideration of impermissible factors like gender. The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected his challenge. In June, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear his case, meaning a majority of justices effectively condoned the algorithm’s use. Their decision will have far-ranging effects.
Something about this story is fundamentally wrong: Why are we allowing a computer program, into which no one in the criminal justice system has any insight, to play a role in sending a man to prison?
At a sentencing, it is entirely a judge’s prerogative to prescribe a sentence within statutory guidelines. The obvious flaw with this system is bias. Judges might abuse this unchecked power to sentence based not only on relevant factors, such as the seriousness of a defendant’s offense, but also on those that are morally and constitutionally problematic — for example, gender and race.
This is precisely why states are abdicating the responsibility for sentencing to a computer. Use of a computerized risk assessment tool somewhere in the criminal justice process is widespread across the United States, and some states, such as Colorado, even require it. States trust that even if they cannot themselves unpack proprietary algorithms, computers will be less biased than even the most well-meaning humans.
But shifting the sentencing responsibility to a computer does not necessarily eliminate bias; it delegates and often compounds it.
Algorithms like COMPAS simply mimic the data with which we train them. COMPAS’s authors presumably fed historical recidivism data into their system. From that, the program ascertained what factors tend to make a defendant a higher risk. It then applied the patterns it gleaned to subsequent defendants, like Mr. Loomis, to spit out sentences that comport with existing trends.
But an algorithm that accurately reflects our world also necessarily reflects our biases. A ProPublica study found that COMPAS predicts black defendants will have higher risks of recidivism than they actually do, while white defendants are predicted to have lower rates than they actually do. (Northpointe Inc., the company that produces the algorithm, disputes this analysis.) The computer is worse than the human. It is not simply parroting back to us our own biases, it is exacerbating them.
Even if you think Mr. Loomis’s sentencing procedure arrived at the appropriate result, the potential that the process the state took to arrive there was biased — in ways neither judges nor defendants nor prosecutors know — should alarm anyone.
Machine learning algorithms often work on a feedback loop. If they are not constantly retrained, they “lean in” to the assumed correctness of their initial determinations, drifting away from both reality and fairness. As a former Silicon Valley software engineer, I saw this time and again: Google’s image classification algorithms mistakenly labeling black people as gorillas, or Microsoft’s Twitter bot immediately becoming a “racist jerk.”
Algorithms also lack the human ability to individualize. A computer cannot look a defendant in the eye, account for a troubled childhood or disability, and recommend a rehabilitative sentence. This is precisely the argument against mandatory minimum sentences — they rob judges of the discretion to deliver individualized justice — and it is equally cogent against machine sentencing.
For example, algorithms are often programmed to assume unidirectional causation: If A, then B. But is it truly that defendants with higher rates of recidivism warrant longer sentences or is it that defendants with longer sentences are kept out of their communities, unemployed and away from their families longer, naturally increasing their recidivism risk? A judge could investigate this nuance.
With transparency and accountability, algorithms in the criminal justice system do have potential for good. For example, New Jersey used a risk assessment program known as the Public Safety Assessment to reform its bail system this year, leading to a 16 percent decrease in its pre-trial jail population. The same algorithm helped Lucas County, Ohio double the number of pre-trial releases without bail, and cut pre-trial crime in half. But that program’s functioning was detailed in a published report, allowing those with subject-matter expertise to confirm that morally troubling (and constitutionally impermissible) variables — such as race, gender and variables that could proxy the two (for example, ZIP code) — were not being considered.
For now, the only people with visibility into COMPAS’s functioning are its programmers, who are in many ways less equipped than judges to deliver justice. Judges have legal training, are bound by ethical oaths, and must account for not only their decisions but also their reasoning in published opinions. Programmers lack each of these safeguards.
Computers may be intelligent, but they are not wise. Everything they know, we taught them, and we taught them our biases. They are not going to un-learn them without transparency and corrective action by humans.
Ellora Thadaney Israni (@elloraisrani) is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School and former software engineer at Facebook.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/algorithm-compas-sentencing-bias.html

Powerless Puerto Rico
EDITORIAL
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/power-puerto-rico-whitefish.html

Uranium One probe: Order to lift 'gag' on Russia informant came from Trump, source says
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/26/uranium-one-probe-order-to-lift-gag-on-russia-informant-came-from-trump-source-says.html

Breaching The 'Wall': Is The White House Encroaching On DOJ Independence?
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/560046507/breaching-the-wall-is-the-white-house-encroaching-on-doj-independence

Donald Trump Jr. Suggests The DOJ Is Vindictively Going After Hillary Clinton
https://lawnewz.com/opinion/donald-trump-jr-suggests-the-doj-is-vindictively-going-after-hillary-clinton/

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https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+doj
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+doj+clinton
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+uranium

Russian Twitter Bot Targeted Maxine Waters, A Prominent Trump Impeachment Backer
The infamous @TEN_GOP account went after the California Democrat well after the 2016 election had ended.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-twitter-bot-targeted-maxine-waters-a-prominent-trump-impeachment-backer

YouTube Trumpkin and Former Milo Intern Kills His Own Dad for Calling Him a Nazi
Lane Davis was a prolific poster on the Donald Trump subreddit, a former intern for Milo, and an editor for a prominent GamerGater’s conspiracy site. Then, one day, he snapped.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi

Jared Kushner Adds Charles Harder to Legal Team As West Wing Pressure Mounts
On Friday, Reince Priebus testified for hours with lawyers on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. While Priebus has been careful not to criticize the president openly, sources who have spoken to him say he’s not happy about the way he was treated by Trump—and his family. Is Kushner nervous? He has added Charles Harder to his legal team.
October 17, 2017
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/jared-kushner-adds-charles-harder-to-legal-team-as-west-wing-pressure-mounts

Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a ‘Public Health Emergency’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/trump-opioid-crisis.html

The opioid crisis isn’t limited to white Americans in rural pro-Trump counties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/26/the-opioid-crisis-isnt-limited-to-white-americans-in-rural-pro-trump-counties/

Advocates pan Trump effort on opioid crisis
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/357427-opioid-advocates-pan-trump-effort-on-crisis

No Urgency in Trump's Emergency
The president's emergency declaration is a tepid response to the opioid crisis.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/policy-dose/articles/2017-10-26/trumps-opioid-health-emergency-is-a-weak-response-to-a-serious-problem

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dejMxYJbC8nQvZMMDWBTZb3cktVRM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Trump Spending $1.75 Million on Presidential Furniture, Redecorations
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-spent-1-75-million-presidential-furniture-redecorations-n814551

Donald Trump Has Reportedly Spent $1.75 Million Redecorating the White House
http://people.com/home/donald-trump-has-reportedly-spent-1-75-million-redecorating-the-white-house/

George Bush Senior's second apology after sex assault claims
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41766987

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dyuhhuXsNfa-tcMjpFSKhDFjqtCVM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Trump’s proposal for a ‘solar’ border wall now appears dead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/26/trumps-proposal-for-a-solar-border-wall-now-appears-dead/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d9XUt0BNsrpll0MhsaMLk3rCUJOwM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

These baby foods and formulas tested positive for arsenic, lead and BPA in new study
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/10/25/these-baby-foods-and-formulas-tested-positive-arsenic-lead-and-bpa-new-study/794291001/

Infant Formula and Baby Food Project Summary
http://www.cleanlabelproject.org/product-ratings/infant-formula-baby-food/
http://www.cleanlabelproject.org/product_category/baby-food/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/ds6BjKlcaCESPVMW2lpuEOgiY34fM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

HuffPost Special Report: When White Hate Comes To Town
full HuffPo interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFdIpkrjp-4
Watch a disturbing HuffPost interview with white nationalist leader Richard Spencer the night before his speech at the University of Florida.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/richard-spencer-interview-huffpost-university-of-florida_us_59ef9b1ee4b0b7e632658b44

Ocean could rise more, and faster, than we thought
New science suggests the ocean could rise more — and faster — than we thought
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/26/new-science-suggests-the-ocean-could-rise-more-and-faster-than-we-thought/
studies:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa92b6
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7677/full/nature24458.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00966-x
IPCC 2013 https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WGIAR5_SPM_brochure_en.pdf

Sea levels to rise 1.3m unless coal power ends by 2050, report says
University of Melbourne paper combines latest understanding on Antarctica and current emissions projection scenarios
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/26/sea-levels-to-rise-13m-unless-coal-power-ends-by-2050-report-says

Are Antarctica's Ice Sheets Near a Climate Tipping Point?
Nearly all coal emissions need to stop by 2050 to avoid accelerating ice loss that could lead to 4 feet of sea level rise this century, scientists say.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26102017/antarctica-sea-level-rise-ice-sheet-tipping-point-climate-change-study

Coal use must 'pretty much' be gone by 2050 to curb sea-level rise, researchers say
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/coal-use-must-pretty-much-be-gone-by-2050-to-curb-sealevel-rise-researchers-say-20171024-gz7mu1.html

Unless coal is phased out by 2050, Antarctica’s melting ice sheet could drive a massive surge in sea level rise
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/coal-phase-out-ice-sheet-melt-0432432/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d-Yuvf5EP4Ksn0M_IZuarlEWA5zJM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Southern California Is Breaking Heat Records By Alarming Margins
At one coastal airport, the 1983 record was shattered by 15 degrees.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/southern-california-heat-records_us_59f0f2dce4b043885914e866

Yellowstone spawned twin super-eruptions that altered global climate
A new geological record of the Yellowstone supervolcano’s last catastrophic eruption is rewriting the story of what happened 630,000 years ago and how it affected Earth’s climate. This eruption formed the vast Yellowstone caldera observed today, the second largest on Earth.
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/10/yellowstone-spawned-twin-super-eruptions-altered-global-climate/117192

Yellowstone Volcano's Twin Super Eruptions: The Caldera That Altered Global Climate
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/10/26/yellowstone-volcano-eruptions-caldera-global-climate/

Not one, but two super eruptions formed the colossal Yellowstone caldera
https://newatlas.com/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-caldera/51931/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dk3n5Sn0lPr8pKMxsArFO9gLfwvyM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Scientists Spot First Alien Space Rock In Solar System
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/26/560278537/scientists-spot-first-alien-space-rock-in-our-solar-system

Visitor from Far, Far Away: Interstellar Object Spotted in Our Solar System
https://www.space.com/38580-interstellar-object-spotted-comet-asteroid-mystery.html
Whoa! Looks Like 2017 U1 is Not A Comet - Interstellar Asteroid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zDnIWuPbo

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dymXgbZZzfd_BJMFDDUMIn9v4v29M?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Dinosaur sported 'bandit mask'
A dinosaur from China sported a "bandit mask" pattern in the feathers on its face, scientists have said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41763478
study http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31197-1

Check out this feathered dinosaur with a raccoon-like bandit mask
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/10/26/check-out-this-feathered-dinosaur-with-a-raccoon-like-bandit-mask/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dQlQAmvZbE8Kn1Max0ol7UHfxqJFM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Nearby Neutron Star Collision Could Cause Calamity on Earth
From certain death to a scientific goldmine, here’s the spectrum of possibilities that we might expect from merging black holes, colliding neutron stars or detonating supernovae in our galactic neighborhood
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nearby-neutron-star-collision-could-cause-calamity-on-earth/

Physics still can't identify matter that makes up the majority of the universe
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-physics-majority-universe.html

Colliding neutron stars apply kiss of death to theories of gravity
Primary alternative to dark matter can't deal with gravitational waves' speed.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/colliding-neutron-stars-decapitate-zombie-theory-of-gravity/

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dg3IBz8BySZYL2MKFN-SUA5TDFakM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Riddle of matter remains unsolved: Proton and antiproton share fundamental properties
Magnetic forces in antiprotons now measured to nine significant digits / 350 times more precise than before
http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/3027_ENG_HTML.php
study https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/nature24048.html

Universe Should Not Actually Exist: Big Bang Produced Equal Amounts Of Matter And Antimatter
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/214821/20171025/universe-should-not-actually-exist-big-bang-produced-equal-amounts-of-matter-and-antimatter.htm

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dpwaA1kbe8gaTiM8jri2IoiONqimM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en

Saudi Arabia becomes first country granting citizenship to robot
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1183166/saudi-arabia
Robot Sophia gets Saudi citizenship
Arab News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrV2CVDXjo

A robot threw shade at Elon Musk so the billionaire hit back
CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin spoke to Sophia, a robot developed by Hanson Robotics, and expressed his worry that machines could turn against humans
Sophia said that Sorkin had been "reading too much Elon Musk"
Musk has warned on several occasions about the dangers of artificial intelligence
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/elon-musk-sophia-robot-ai.html

Saudi Arabia's first robot 'citizen' sparks Twitter war with Elon Musk
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/saudi-arabia-s-first-robot-citizen-sparks-twitter-war-with-elon-musk-1.3649715

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/djOGMlmhgl1z_yMADWDm5__BHcYpM?gl=US&ned=us&hl=en


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