Category: Domestic Affairs,

The potential for a conflict of interest between those of America and those of Donald Trump are unprecedented 

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President Donald Trump will be without precedent for a host of reasons: for his outspoken style and his lack of political experience, but also for the size and global span of his business interests – and the alarming potential they bring for conflicts of interest between those of America the country, and those of Donald Trump the entrepreneur.

The potential for a conflict of interest between those of America and those of Donald Trump are unprecedented | The Independent

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Trump denies any conflict of interest over business empire 

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Donald Trump defends his business interests as Democrats prepare to challenge the future president.

Billionaire US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is not obliged to cut ties to his business empire when he takes office on 20 January.

…[Trump] defended hiring Steve Bannon, the former CEO of radical conservative news site Breitbart, as his strategist.

“Breitbart is just a publication,” Mr Trump told the [New York Times.] “They cover stories like you cover stories.”

“If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn’t even think about hiring him”, the president-elect added.

He also argued that:

  • His son-in-law Jared Kushner – a real estate heir who has no experience of diplomacy – could help forge peace between Israel and Palestinians
  • The US should not be a “nation-builder” in the world
  • Republican leaders Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell “love” him again

And he accepted there was some “connectivity” between human activity and climate change.

Trump denies any conflict of interest over business empire – BBC News

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How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment

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After photographing families and other residents being led into “assembly centers” in the central and coastal cities of California and the county seats of Salinas, Stockton, Turlock, and San Bruno, photographer Dorothea Lange turned her camera to southern California, towards the first concentration camp to open for residents of Japanese descent.

How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment

 

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Mississippi residents unsure of controversial billboard’s intent – CNN.com

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A controversial billboard in Pearl, Mississippi, shows the famous “Two Minute Warning” picture with Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” What does it mean?

Mississippi residents unsure of controversial billboard’s intent – CNN.com

If you have to ask what this billboard means you will never understand it.

Melania Trump’s White House snub: Appalling or good parenting? 

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Melania and Barron Trump won’t move to Washington with Donald yet – is that unusual?

Melania Trump’s White House snub: Appalling or good parenting? – BBC News

Fuck the little scion’s comfort and education. If the Trumps aren’t paying for the millions and millions the extra security for this (non)move will cost, they shouldn’t be inflicting their princess-ass priorities on the country. They -and that most definitely includes Melania and the minor- gave up the right to be private citizens when they campaigned.

Police fire water cannon at Dakota pipeline protesters in freezing weather

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Police fire water cannon at Dakota pipeline protesters in freezing weather | Reuters

There need to be charges against the police.
Law enforcement is not only not keeping the peace, they are posing clear and present danger to thousands of the citizenry.
Hope the first nations successfully sue every law enforcement agency present at these atrocities into the ground.

Texas Lawmaker Wants To Force Teachers To Out LGBT Students To Parents 

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Sen. Konni Burton argues that “a parent has a right to full and total information [about] their child.”

…Because in Buron’s mind parents own their children.
…Because in Burton’s mind human beings can own other human beings?

Texas Lawmaker Wants To Force Teachers To Out LGBT Students To Parents | NewNowNext

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Don’t call Clinton a weak candidate: it took decades of scheming to beat her 

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And it took a shortsighted campaign of hatred on the left, an almost hysterical rage like nothing I have ever seen before about any public figure. Some uncritically picked up half-truths, outright fictions, and rightwing spin to feed their hate and rejected anything that diluted the purity and focus of that fury, including larger questions about the other candidate and the fate of the Earth. 

…A lot of people seemed to think the Sanders-Clinton primary ended the night Trump was elected. I saw that stuckness from climate activists, anti-racist journalists, civil-rights champions, and others who you might expect would have turned to face the clear and present danger of a Trump presidency. 

…It’s impossible to disconnect the seething, irrational emotionality from misogyny, and the misogyny continues. Since election night, I’ve been hearing too many men of the left go on and on about how Clinton was a weak candidate. I’ve wondered about that word weak, not only because it is so often associated with women, but because what they’re calling her weakness was their refusal to support her. It’s as if they’re saying, “They sent a pink lifeboat and we sent it back, because we wanted a blue lifeboat, and now we are very upset that people are drowning.”

Don’t call Clinton a weak candidate: it took decades of scheming to beat her | US news | The Guardian

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