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What 2 Deep-Dive Books on Kavanaugh Taught Me About Truth in the Trump Era
Politico | Lara Bazelon | 09/29/19

Last September, the country was torn apart by decades-old allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh as he headed into his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Now, the recent frenzy around the possible impeachment of Donald Trump and the whistleblower report that started it has prompted the same kinds of questions. Which stories and which storytellers should we believe in our hyper-partisan era?

Two recent books have taken us right back to where we were a year ago. The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, by New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, was published earlier this month to great anticipation. It promised to excavate what last year's allegations of Kavanaugh's sexual misconduct in high school and college--followed by a contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing--could not. Pogrebin and Kelly said their mission was to give context for who Justice Kavanaugh is "as a person," and dig into "the man who is portrayed in these starkly polarized ways."

Book 2... Justice on Trial, Hemingway's book, co-authored with attorney Carrie Severino, was published earlier this year. It, too, rakes over the September 2018 confirmation hearings that transfixed and splintered the country. It's a different kind of book: The authors are much closer to the world of conservative activism than a news outlet like the New York Times, and the authors make no secret of their right-of-center bona fides. Still, they spoke with more than 100 people, including President Donald Trump, several Supreme Court justices, numerous senators and high-level government officials, and family and close friends of Kavanaugh.

Both books purport to be deep dives into the murk, and promise new revelations and evidence-backed conclusions in the longstanding debate over whether Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford in high school and exposed himself to Deborah Ramirez in college. ... Read more

The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly

In September 2018, the F.B.I. was given only a week to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. But even as Kavanaugh was sworn in to his lifetime position, many questions remained unanswered, leaving millions of Americans unsettled.

During the Senate confirmation hearings that preceded the bureau's brief probe, New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly broke critical stories about Kavanaugh's past, including the "Renate Alumni" yearbook story. They were inundated with tips from former classmates, friends, and associates that couldn't be fully investigated before the confirmation process closed. Now, their book fills in the blanks and explores the essential question: Who is Brett Kavanaugh?

The Education of Brett Kavanaugh paints a picture of the prep-school and Ivy-League worlds that formed our newest Supreme Court Justice. By offering commentary from key players from his confirmation process who haven't yet spoken publicly and pursuing lines of inquiry that were left hanging, it will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand our political system and Kavanaugh's unexpectedly emblematic role in it.

Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court by Mollie Hemingway

The Trump presidency opened with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. But the following year, when Trump drew from the same list of candidates for his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the justice being replaced was the swing vote on abortion, and all hell broke loose.

The judicial confirmation process, on the point of breakdown for thirty years, now proved utterly dysfunctional. Unverified accusations of sexual assault became weapons in a ruthless campaign of personal destruction, culminating in the melodramatic hearings in which Kavanaugh's impassioned defense resuscitated a nomination that seemed beyond saving.

The Supreme Court has become the arbiter of our nation's most vexing and divisive disputes. With the stakes of each vacancy incalculably high, the incentive to destroy a nominee is nearly irresistible. The next time a nomination promises to change the balance of the Court, Hemingway and Severino warn, the confirmation fight will be even uglier than Kavanaugh's.

A good person might accept that nomination in the naïve belief that what happened to Kavanaugh won't happen to him because he is a good person. But it can happen, it does happen, and it just happened. The question is whether America will let it happen again.

To Impeach or Not to Impeach? Chris Hedges & John Bonifaz Debate What Congress Should Do Next | DN |10/01/19 | 25:56

Edward Snowden: Private Contractors Play Key Role in U.S. Intelligence's "Creeping Authoritarianism" | DN | 09/30/19 | 17:10

Snowden Reveals How He Secretly Exposed NSA Criminal Wrongdoing Without Getting Arrested | DN | 09/30/19 | 15:29

Edward Snowden on Trump, Obama & How He Ended Up in Russia to Avoid U.S. Extradition | DN | 09/30/19 | 13:28

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Tuesday, October 01 (FULL) | 59:02

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To Impeach or Not to Impeach? Chris Hedges & John Bonifaz Debate What Congress Should Do Next
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Seventeen Weeks: Protests And Chaos in Hong Kong | 1a.org | 10/01/19 | 1hr

It is the 17th week of anti-government protests in Hong Kong. It is also the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Republic of China. Over the weekend, police and protesters clashed.

NPR was on the ground, speaking to those who were out on the street.

One 26-year-old protester, who identified himself as Kevin to protect his identity, was part of a group quickly changing out of their black T-shirts to avoid being flagged by police. He said he joined the protest because "Beijing is restricting democracy and won't allow free elections."

Trump Fixation On Exonerating Russia Entangles William Barr, Pompeo | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 10/01/19 | 26:10

Pompeo's Lying Shows President Donald Trump WH's Bad Faith: Joe | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 10/01/19 | 13:08

AG Barr Does Trump's Bidding With CIA, FBI Inquiry | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 10/01/19 | 8:53

House Subpoenas Rudy Giuliani; Now What Happens? | Morning Joe | MSNBC | 10/01/19 | 10:39

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump Wants To Out The Whistleblower, Interrogate Rep. Adam Schiff | Stephen Colbert | 09/30/19 | 10:45

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Trump's Potential Impeachment Snowballs | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | 09/30/19 | 7:14

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Trump and GOP Melt Down Amid Ukraine Scandal, Impeachment | Seth Meyers | 09/30/19 | 15:06

Jimmy Kimmel

Team Trump Implodes as Scandals Multiply | Jimmy Kimmel | 09/30/19 | 14:35

Trump Lashes Out at Whistleblower | Jimmy Kimmel | 09/27/19 | 12:12

When It Ukraines It Pours | Jimmy Kimmel | 09/26/19 | 10:18

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Lindsey Graham Mashups

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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The term "climate change" is often used to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change (also known as global warming). Anthropogenic climate change is caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans. AI research has been defined as the field of study of intelligent agents, which refers to any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals.

The term "artificial intelligence" had previously been used to describe machines that mimic and display "human" cognitive skills that are associated with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem-solving". This definition has since been rejected by major AI researchers who now describe AI in terms of rationality and acting rationally, which does not limit how intelligence can be articulated.
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Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.
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Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives. Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis,.

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Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 Episodes

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

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Kuznick Interviews

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Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

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China Valley of Tunnels

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A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.

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The Vietnam War

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Trump's Mashups

Trump's Mashups

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.

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Trump's Sexcapades

Trump's Sexcapades.

Jessica Leeds (1980s)
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)
Lisa Boyne (1996)
Cathy Heller (1997)
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
Karena Virginia (1998)
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
Jennifer Murphy (2005)
Rachel Crooks (2005)
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
Jessica Drake (2006)
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
Cassandra Searles (2013)
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Victoria Hughes,
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Tasha Dixon (2001)
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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews

Trump's Speeches | Rallys

Donald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.

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