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Right-Wing Fantasies About Gender Are Killing Trans People
https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-fantasies-about-gender-are-killing-trans-people/
Dean Spade, Truthout: The Trump administration's newly leaked plan to redefine
gender threatens to roll back decades of efforts by trans advocates and to
worsen trans poverty. If the Department of Health and Human Services proceeds
with its plan to establish a retrograde definition of gender as the one
assigned at birth, the change would obliterate years of activist victories
aimed at reducing harms historically suffered by trans people in health care,
education, employment and other key areas because of gender norm enforcement.
How Billionaires Bought Kavanaugh's Seat on the Supreme Court
https://truthout.org/articles/how-billionaires-bought-kavanaughs-seat-on-the-supreme-court/
Calvin F. Exoo, Truthout: In the 1970s, a group of US billionaires helped fund
a right-wing project to restore corporate power through capturing the legal
system. Their strategy included training conservative legal scholars and
building foundations and organizations tasked with pursuing law and policy in
favor of billionaires and corporations. The ascension of Brett Kavanaugh to the
Supreme Court represents a major victory for the revolution of the rich.
Don't Fall for the GOP's Cheap Tricks on Preexisting Health Conditions
https://truthout.org/articles/dont-fall-for-the-gops-cheap-tricks-on-preexisting-health-conditions/
Dean Baker, Truthout: The Republicans, who are famous for telling us that tax
cuts for the rich pay for themselves, are tossing us another one from their
cheap trick bag this election season: They tell us that they want to guarantee
that people with preexisting conditions can get health care. Yet they are doing
everything they can to make it so that people with serious health problems pay
more for their health insurance.
Nuclear Arms Race Feared as US Quits Key Treaty With Russia
https://truthout.org/video/nuclear-arms-race-feared-as-us-quits-key-treaty-with-russia/
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: Donald Trump has announced
plans to pull the United States out of a landmark nuclear arms pact with Russia
and instead build new nuclear weapons. Experts say the move could spark a new
arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty helped to eliminate
thousands of land-based missiles.
To Hell With Civility: Voters Have the Right to Yell at Mitch McConnell
https://truthout.org/articles/to-hell-with-civility-voters-have-the-right-to-yell-at-mitch-mcconnell/
Heather Digby Parton, Salon: No doubt it's unpleasant for pampered Republican
political leaders to be accosted in restaurants by their unruly constituents,
but maybe it will give them a little empathy for what it's like to be nonwhite
in Donald Trump's US these days. If nothing else, it would be nice if the
political media understood that the people who are creating this toxic
atmosphere in the first place are the last people to deserve our pity.
New Database Reveals Extent of Drug Makers' Patronage of Lawmakers
https://truthout.org/articles/new-database-reveals-extent-of-drug-makers-patronage-of-lawmakers/
Emmarie Huetteman and Sydney Lupkin, Kaiser Health News: In the past decade,
Congress has received $79 million from 68 pharma political action committees
run by employees of companies that make drugs. Drug makers' campaign
contributions have reached record-breaking levels in recent years as
skyrocketing drug prices have become a hot-button political issue.
Jair Bolsonaro Is a Looming Threat to Global Climate and the Amazon
https://truthout.org/articles/jair-bolsonaro-is-a-looming-threat-to-global-climate-and-the-amazon/
Jenny Gonzales, Mongabay: Jair Bolsonaro is poised to win the Brazilian
presidential runoff on October 28. Bolsonaro has pledged to open the Amazon to
economic exploitation, greatly expand energy production, abolish Brazil's
environmental ministry, relax environmental licensing and regulation, open
Indigenous reserves to mining and back out of the Paris climate accord.
Anniversary of Afghan Invasion Passes With Little Attention
https://truthout.org/articles/anniversary-of-afghan-invasion-passes-with-little-attention/
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: The 17th anniversary of the US invasion of
Afghanistan passed in the heated aftermath of the Kavanaugh hearings. There
were no memorials or ceremonies to mark the occasion, nor were there thoughts
from Congress or acknowledgement from the White House. While a majority of
Americans polled would support the withdrawal of all US forces in Afghanistan,
there appears to be no plan to end the war any time soon.
More College Students Expected to Vote in 2018 Midterms
https://truthout.org/articles/more-college-students-expected-to-vote-in-2018-midterms/
Staff, The Conversation: Nancy Thomas, director of the Institute for Democracy
& Higher Education at Tufts University's Tisch College of Civic Life, predicts
a higher voter turnout among the nation's 20 million college students than the
2014 midterms. Thomas calls this group a "formidable voting bloc" that was
jolted to attention by the 2016 election of Donald Trump, but warns that
personal and practical factors might impede the college vote.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
To Fight Moneyed Interests, Let's Use Ballot Initiatives to Write Our Own Laws
http://buzzflash.com/commentary/front-porch-politics-asking-voters-directly-what-matters-to-them
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
"I'll Walk in My Broken Shoes": Mom, Daughter Flee Chaos in Venezuela
https://www.apnews.com/43ef9f6848c14041aeb0876ec4a864d8
Read the Article at The Associated Press
Organizer for Black Senior Voters Pulled Off Georgia Bus Calls Out "Race Power
Dynamics"
https://splinternews.com/organizer-of-black-senior-voters-pulled-off-georgia-bus-1829898661
Read the Article at Splinter News
Broadband Industry Sues Vermont for Daring to Protect Consumers, Net Neutrality
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181019/07591340872/broadband-industry-sues-vermont-daring-to-protect-consumers-net-neutrality.shtml
Read the Article at Techdirt
To Defend Journalism, We Need to Defend the Truth and Not Just Journalists
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/22/18008542/trump-journalism-truth
Read the Article at Vox
Mueller Team Hunting Down Contact Between Trump Associates, WikiLeaks
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mueller-team-hunting-down-communication-trump-associates-wikileaks
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
The Midterms Have the Power to Usher in an Era of Climate Action
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/the-midterms-have-the-power-to-usher-in-an-era-of-climate-action/
Read the Article at Mother Jones
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