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Donald Trump Jr. Says Democrats Are More Like Nazis Than Republicans Are
HP | Carla Herreria | 09/02/18

What he didn't mention was the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who support his father.

onald Trump Jr. said Thursday that the platform of the Democratic National Committee is "awfully similar" to the Nazi Party's.

Trump, President Donald Trump's eldest son and head of the Trump Organization, made the remark during an interview with One America News Network while attending a premiere for Dinesh D'Souza's film "Death of a Nation," which also attempts to frame similarities between Democrats and Germany's Nazi Party. ... Read more

Prominent Conservatives Attend Screening of New D'Souza Film | 08/02/18 | 6:04

Death of a Nation (trailer) | 2018 | 2:17

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
NYT | Nathaniel Rich | 08/01/18

The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. The Paris climate agreement -- the nonbinding, unenforceable and already unheeded treaty signed on Earth Day in 2016 -- hoped to restrict warming to two degrees. The odds of succeeding, according to a recent study based on current emissions trends, are one in 20. If by some miracle we are able to limit warming to two degrees, we will only have to negotiate the extinction of the world's tropical reefs, sea-level rise of several meters and the abandonment of the Persian Gulf. The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming "a prescription for long-term disaster." Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario. Three-degree warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the Arctic and the loss of most coastal cities. ... Read more

What Is QAnon: Explaining the Internet Conspiracy Theory That Showed Up at a Trump Rally
NYT | Justin Bank, Liam Stack and Daniel Victor | 08/01/18

Do you remember Pizzagate? It's a little like that: a web of baseless conspiracy theories. And its supporters were highly visible at an event for the president in Florida.

In one shot on Fox News, the president was partially obscured by a sign in the crowd reading "We Are Q." In another shot during the president's speech, a sign promoting the debunked Seth Rich conspiracy theory, with the hashtag #Qanon, came into focus in the center of the screen. Some attendees wore T-shirts with a blocky Q. Others held up signs with the letter.

They were all self-described "followers of Q," an anonymous person or group of people who claim to be privy to government secrets. That supposedly classified information has been revealed on the 4chan and 8chan message boards and spread around mainstream internet platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Q has attracted people -- the exact number is hard to know -- eager to consume his "bread crumbs," or new details in a sprawling web of conspiracy theories. ... Read more
WTF Is QAnon?! | TYT | 08/02/18 | 14:15

Meet The Trump Fans Of Q-Anon (HBO) | VICE | 08/02/18 | 4:13

Manafort trial Day 3: The bookkeeper speaks, a man-made waterfall and a Rick Gates guarantee
magazine | Darren Samuelsohn and Josh Gerstein | 08/02/18

Testifying on the third day of special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecution of the longtime GOP operative, who is facing bank- and tax-fraud charges, Heather Washkuhn of the Southern California-based accounting firm NKSFB said she handled Manafort's books from 2011 to 2018, earning about $100,000 a year.

During that period, she managed the accounts for more than a half dozen Manafort properties in Florida, New York and Virginia, tracking money as it moved around his different bank accounts, helping pay his bills and manage rental properties, and creating annual statements for Manafort's accountants to do his taxes.

... Under questioning from Mueller prosecutor Greg Andres, Washkuhn testified she was not aware of any holdings Manafort kept outside the U.S. She also acknowledged dealing frequently with Manafort's longtime associate Rick Gates, who cut a plea deal earlier this year and agreed to cooperate with the prosecution of Manafort and Mueller's broader Trump-Russia probe. ... Read more

The Midterm Elections Are in Serious Danger of Being Hacked, Thanks to Trump
MotherJones | AJ Vicens and Pema Levy | 10/18

Why has the White House and its GOP allies in Congress done so little to combat the threat?

On July 12, 2016, Matthew Emmons, an IT technician, was settling into a quiet workday when a colleague approached his cubicle in the Springfield strip-mall office of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Servers holding the personal information of more than 7.5 million voters had ground to a halt, and there was something he had to see.

Within minutes, a handful of techs had anxiously gathered around a monitor showing the registration database servers hitting total capacity. "We knew we were under attack," Emmons, now the IT director, recalls. "These are very powerful servers, and it had locked those things up." ... Read more