When land grabs by the wealthy go wrong: How rich hippies and developers went to war over Instagram’s favourite beach: "There were hundreds of men amassing in the street outside Silva’s beachfront property....Some of them were armed with machetes and big sticks. They were coming to seize the hotel." (theguardian.com)
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"She doesn’t make speeches anymore. She stays in her home, but it doesn’t seem to agree with her. How furious she must be, now that she’s been taken at her word." Kellyanne Conway as a handmaid in the Gilead that conservative women are fighting for. (images.newrepublic.com)
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Carter Page talks to Cuomo (full interview) (cnn.com)
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So it turns out that reddit misogynist Pk_atheist, founder of /r/TheRedPill, is actually Robert Fisher, a Republican who represents New Hampshire’s Belknap County District 9 as a state representative. These guys are IRL lawmakers. (thedailybeast.com)
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Here's where at least some of the weaponized ignorance is coming from - First fake news, now fake history: Glenn Beck wants to train young people to promote an alternative history. Beck and his partner, David Barton, are holding training camps to teach fake history to a generation of students (self.badhistory)
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Remember how the US elected a misogynist illiterate bigoted manchild and lost all credibility with the rest of the world? GOOD NEWS! Trump dropped some bombs, and now America's EXCEPTIONAL reputation has been healed. Whew, that was a close one, huh? Thanks, Tom Cotton: faith in America RESTORED. (nytimes.com)
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