tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73021018228788733212024-02-18T22:07:51.159-05:00Daylee News NuggetsFrom around the corner to around the world, foreign and domestic news items -- for the more thoughtful progressive!Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.comBlogger3986125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-59239016213114998492018-05-11T20:45:00.002-04:002018-05-11T20:45:46.287-04:00News Nuggets 1573<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daylee Picture: A Roseate Spoonbill in Florida. From Smithsonian Magazine.</td></tr>
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<br />Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-77877362219616044582018-05-11T09:27:00.001-04:002018-05-11T09:27:32.761-04:00TODAY'S BIG NUGGET: The REAL Trouble Trump Has Created for Himself<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/fbi-trump-cohen-comey-revenge-investigation-b510fca0-d023-4755-9169-5d336aeeef8a.html">The FBI's Revenge</a> (Mike Allen) from <i>Axios</i></span><br />
"Back in December, President Trump tweeted: "After years of Comey, with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History! But fear not, we will bring it back to greatness." The state of play: Now, the FBI is getting its revenge. All at once, Trump is being pounded by the bureau and its alumni, with a three-pronged threat. ..."Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-85149278291262968332018-05-11T09:24:00.002-04:002018-05-11T09:24:46.548-04:00Hungarian "Democracy": Americans Take Notice<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/andrew-sullivan-a-democracy-disappears.html">A Democracy Disappears</a> (Andrew Sullivan) from <i>New York Magazine</i></span><br />
"The difference, of course, is that Orbán is an experienced politician, and knows exactly what he’s doing. Trump is a fool, an incompetent, and incapable of forming any kind of strategy, or sticking to one. The forces arrayed against the populist right, moreover, are much stronger in the U.S. than in Hungary; our institutions more robust; our culture much more diverse. Our democracy is far, far older. And yet almost every single trend in Hungary is apparent here as well. "<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-14281971878288827142018-05-11T09:23:00.000-04:002018-05-11T09:23:10.892-04:00How to Deal with the Opioid Crisis: Look to France!<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/how-france-reduced-heroin-overdoses-by-79-in-four-years/558023/">How France Cut Heroin Overdoses by 79 Percent in 4 Years ... And the United States could, too</a> from the <i>Atlantic</i></span><br />
"In 1995, France made it so any doctor could prescribe buprenorphine without any special licensing or training. Buprenorphine, a first-line treatment for opioid addiction, is a medication that reduces cravings for opioids without becoming addictive itself. With the change in policy, the majority of buprenorphine prescribers in France became primary-care doctors, rather than addiction specialists or psychiatrists. Suddenly, about 10 times as many addicted patients began receiving medication-assisted treatment, and half the country’s heroin users were being treated. Within four years, overdose deaths had declined by 79 percent."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-62819885265400300882018-05-11T09:21:00.001-04:002018-05-11T09:21:47.146-04:00Simply Done Listening to Conservative Whining!<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/04/28/conservatives-will-never-get-the-respect-they-crave-they-dont-deserve-it/">Conservatives Will Never Get the Respect They Crave. They Don’t Deserve It.</a> from <i>Washington Monthly</i></span><br />
"...at a certain level, this tired conservative whine is correct: the people who lead and create culture don’t respect them. Artists, actors, inventors, comedians, entrepreneurs, academics, musicians, journalists and professionals across almost all creative industries have no patience for what passes for modern conservatism. And why should they?"<br />
<span style="color: blue;">Put an exclamation point after that last question!</span>Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-22929551913709829092018-05-11T09:18:00.002-04:002018-05-11T09:18:56.120-04:00The Fog Clears Over "the Swamp" If Just for a Moment<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mulvaney-i-prioritized-lobbyists-who-donated">Mulvaney: I Only Talked To Lobbyists Who Donated To My Congressional Campaign</a> from <i>Talking Points Memo</i></span><br />
"Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House’s Office of Budget and Management, told banking officials on Tuesday that while he was a congressman, he had a policy of only talking to lobbyists who donated to his campaign, the New York Times reported. “We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mulvaney said at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington, D.C., according to the New York Times. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”"<br />
<span style="color: blue;">What a moron!! This story has not been getting nearly enough attention. It speaks volumes about the character of Trump appointments. -- Nuggetsman</span><br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-1002266334223528162018-05-11T09:16:00.001-04:002018-05-11T09:16:12.020-04:00Trump's "Good Buddies"<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/ny-times-maggie-haberman-trump-has-been-afraid-of-roger-stone-for-years/">Trump Has Been Afraid of Roger Stone ‘For Years’</a> from <i>Mediaite</i></span><br />
"Haberman also quoted Stone in the story, who remarked on Trump’s treatment of Cohen: “Donald goes out of his way to treat him like garbage.”<br />
<span style="color: blue;">This news is more than a week old now. But it bears repeating. Wow! So Trump has been treating his Fixer-who-knows-where-all-the-bodies-are-buried guy like sh@t for decades! What a good idea! So this could end being SO COSMIC if Cohen flips -- and ultimately goes for maximum payback penetration of the Great Orange One! Ah, that we should all be so lucky to see this come to pass! -- Nuggetsman</span>Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-80793763935280233552018-05-11T09:12:00.001-04:002018-05-11T09:12:17.329-04:00Seeing Trumpian Times Clearly thru the Lens of Recent History<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/5/10/17147338/donald-trump-illiberal-undemocratic-elections-politics">American Democracy has Faced Worse Threats than Donald Trump</a> (Ezra Klein) from <i>Vox</i></span><br />
"The triumphant story we tell about American history can obscure both the extent of our progress and the fragility of our consensus. To see what we are, or what we may become, requires clarity about what we have been. And what we have been is violent, disordered, undemocratic, and illiberal on a scale far beyond anything the United States is undergoing today. You do not need to go back to the country’s early years — when new arrivals from Europe drove out the Native Americans, brought over millions of enslaved Africans, and wrote laws making women second-class citizens — to see it."Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-31866274137057735492018-05-11T09:10:00.000-04:002018-05-11T09:10:06.366-04:00Trump's Appeal to Evangelicals Explained<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/evangelical-professor-explains-troubled-nostalgia-racial-anxiety-behind-christians-support-trump/">An Evangelical Professor Explains the Troubled Nostalgia and Racial Anxiety Behind Christians’ support for Trump</a> from <i>Raw Story</i></span><br />
"In Fea’s analysis, three tropes—fear, nostalgia, and power—primarily account for Trump’s appeal to evangelicals. A sense of cultural disorientation tinged with racism plays into the long-standing conservative strategy—the appeal to fear, nurtured by Trump more effectively than any other candidate."<br />
<span style="color: blue;">This sounds spot on!</span>Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-91457209346432268442018-05-11T09:07:00.003-04:002018-05-11T09:07:45.272-04:00The Post-Trump Landscape Coming Into Viiew<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-where-the-end-begins/2018/04/30/ef6ea24a-4cb0-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?utm_term=.d75546bb7c34">Trump is where the end begins</a> (Richard Cohen) from the <i>Washington Post</i></span><br />
"More likely, America’s political immune system will kick in and install a more conventional government. But Trump — with his tweets, his vulgarity, his appeal to bigotry, his insults, his carefree ignorance and his ability to maintain himself as an addictive spectacle — has changed things forever. Trump is where the end begins. He will be gone, but Trumpism will remain."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-70660614830215717292018-05-11T09:06:00.001-04:002018-05-11T09:06:12.793-04:00Donald Trump's Double-A Team Takes the Field...<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/us/politics/trump-republican-party.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront">‘I Was Trump Before Trump Was Trump’</a> from the <i>New York Times</i></span><br />
"Republican candidates all over are parroting the president, spouting his catchphrases and donning his hats as they try to show loyalty."<br />
<span style="color: blue;">I am going out on a limb and say that this is a good thing. I don't believe the 2018 election cycle will be the time for third-rate Donald Trumps -- which is all these people are! -- Nuggetsman</span>Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-24625505710162197832018-05-11T09:03:00.001-04:002018-05-11T09:03:33.369-04:00Where America is Becoming Better...<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/reinventing-america/556856/">The Reinvention of America</a> (James Fallows) from the <i>Atlantic</i></span><br />
"America is becoming more like itself again. More Americans are trying to make it so, in more places, than most Americans are aware. Even as the country is becoming worse in obvious ways—angrier, more divided, less able to do the basic business of governing itself—it is becoming distinctly better on a range of other indicators that are harder to perceive. The pattern these efforts create also remains hidden. Americans don’t realize how fast the country is moving toward becoming a better version of itself. How can this be? Let me explain."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-75450047006540257512018-05-11T09:00:00.002-04:002018-05-11T09:00:36.904-04:00The Trump Presidency: An Exercise in Self-Immolation<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-is-no-one-who-can-save-trump-from-himself/2018/04/27/c7c579d4-4a45-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html?utm_term=.6ee9dc33fc40">There is No One Who Can Save Trump from Himself</a> (Joe Scarborough) from the <i>Washington Post</i></span><br />
"Given his recent history of self-defeating statements, the president is clearly not suffering through the early stages of dementia , but is afflicted instead by the political equivalent of self-harm syndrome. ... This is not about Trumpian political disruption. It is, instead, a study in self-immolation. And one of the many tragedies of Donald Trump’s life is that there is no one on this Earth who can save this tortured man from himself."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-43890902938702683472018-05-11T08:57:00.001-04:002018-05-11T08:57:22.897-04:00The Only Reality-Based Member of the Trump Administration: The First Lady<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-melania-trump-20180427-story.html">Melania, the steely, dead-eyed trouper</a> (Virginia Heffernan) from the <i>Los Angeles Times</i></span><br />
"Melania Trump has become a stand-in for the nation, which has also been humiliated, even threatened, by the president's recklessly asserted droit du seigneur. We as a country — an electoral-college majority of us — married ourselves to a brutal overlord, and we have also made our bed. Anyone who finds fault with Melania for taking it, and for serving as an exponent of the president's bigotry, has to do what she cannot as first lady. Stand up to him at the midterms, put on some sturdy shoes and break free."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-78946493464367629002018-05-11T08:53:00.003-04:002018-05-11T08:53:42.366-04:00African American History and Culture Nugget!<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-return-of-the-negro-motorist-green-book/">The Return of The Negro Motorist Green Book</a> from <i>Think Progress</i></span><br />
"Author Jan Miles has revived the Jim Crow-era travelers' guide for black Americans, with a 21st century twist. ... She doesn’t list what restaurants, gas stations, or motels are friendly to black travelers. Instead, her Green Book documents acts of cruelty by the police, instances of racial profiling by businesses, and everyday outrages by private citizens that increasingly draw anguished attention in all forms of media."Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-84058622184037561212018-04-14T20:27:00.002-04:002018-04-14T20:27:32.442-04:00News Nuggets 1572<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-89151829259004824022018-04-14T20:20:00.000-04:002018-04-14T20:29:46.958-04:00I Need Your Help...<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">My brother's brother-in-law, Darren, has been battling pancreatic cancer for several years. What is so is that the cancer has been under control for a while but that the only course going forward involves a treatment recommended at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, one that they have some confidence it will make a real difference --but it is a treatment NOT covered by his insurance. Without the treatment, his prognosis is bad. He needs $10,000 to cover the cost of the treatment. He is a great guy who has shown tremendous courage in the face of this thing. Here is the <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/darrenduchaineau-1161098">go-fund-me page</a>, and I request that you do what you can and to please help him out. Thanks!! Jared</span><br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-86108495178407128292018-04-14T20:12:00.001-04:002018-04-14T20:12:33.840-04:00TODAY's BIG NUGGET! Where the Cohen Raid Will Probably Lead<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-raid-on-michael-cohen-is-the-most-dangerous-day-of-donald-trumps-life?ref=home?ref=home">FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Is the Most Dangerous Day of Donald Trump’s Life</a> (Rick Wilson) from the <i>Daily Beast</i></span><br />
"Trump must know this may be one of the most dangerous moments in his entire life, not just his presidency. The likelihood is that Mueller and the FBI are now in possession of the Black Books of Trump, NDAs from enough of Trump’s various affairs that you can staff a 12-pole strip club with plenty of girls left for the Champagne rooms. It’s only speculation at this point, but it’s quite likely that Cohen was the keeper of many of Trump’s lending documents, contracts, business arrangements, and the Kryptonite of Trump’s fragile self-worth: the long-sought tax returns. It’s an open secret and has been for quite a while, but Trump isn’t worth $10 billion. As one of my hedge-fund friends (an actual billionaire) said of Trump in 2015, “He’s a clown living on credit.”"<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-86959369077510778622018-04-14T19:48:00.001-04:002018-04-14T19:48:14.532-04:00The Cohen Raid -- More of a Threat than Muller's Investigation<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/its-going-to-be-very-hard-for-trump-to-sabotage-both-the-cohen-investigation-and-the-mueller-probe.html">Prosecutors’ Withering Rebuttal of Cohen Shows How Hard It Will Be for Trump to Sabotage Their Investigation</a> from <i>Slate</i></span><br />
"That filing...makes a couple of things abundantly clear: The government has a compelling case for reviewing the material and Michael Cohen is in deep, deep trouble. ... “This whole thing is going to make it much harder for Trump to put everything that’s happening on Mueller and Rosenstein, at least for audiences who are listening and care about the facts,” Duke University School of Law professor and former lead Enron prosecutor Samuel W. Buell told Slate. “The network of federal law enforcement professionals with experience and reputations, in different respected offices, involved in these matters makes it much harder to come up with a plausible way to surgically stop this.”"<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-75243240972615398832018-04-14T19:45:00.006-04:002018-04-14T19:45:53.514-04:00The Bankruptcy of Right Wing Economics<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/opinion/unicorns-of-the-intellectual-right.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion">Unicorns of the Intellectual Right </a>(Paul Krugman) from the <i>New York Times</i></span><br />
"... while there are many conservative economists with appointments at top universities, publications in top journals, and so on, they have no influence on conservative policymaking. What the right wants are charlatans and cranks, in (conservative) Greg Mankiw’s famous phrase. If they use actual economists, they use them the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-46892351230020854072018-04-14T19:44:00.001-04:002018-04-14T19:44:06.563-04:00Trump's "Silent Circle of Assent"<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/james-comeys-memoir-trump-fixates-on-proving-lewd-dossier-allegations-false/2018/04/12/64493866-3ce2-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.115940b27b57">James Comey’s memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false</a> from the <i>Washington Post</i></span><br />
"Interacting with Trump, Comey writes, gave him “flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob. The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”"<br />
<span style="color: blue;">The details and suggestions here are really disturbing and often disgusting!</span>Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-14452299221708222018-04-14T19:35:00.001-04:002018-04-14T19:35:12.002-04:00Steele Dossier Case in Point!!<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/im-a-peeliever-and-you-should-be-too.html">I’m a Peeliever and You Should Be, Too</a> (Jonathan Chait) from <i>New York Magazine</i></span><br />
"I used to doubt that this episode really happened. I now believe it probably did. I am obviously far from certain, but since Steele’s dossier came out, an accumulation of evidence has tipped the balance from unlikely to likely. Let’s review what we’ve learned since the allegation first surfaced."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-49715257997386624322018-04-14T19:29:00.001-04:002018-04-14T19:29:42.448-04:00The GOP: Breaking Their Brand<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/12/the-gops-latest-gestures-toward-fiscal-responsibility-ring-hollow.html">After busting the deficit, the GOP's gestures toward fiscal responsibility ring hollow</a> (John Harwood) from <i>CNBC</i></span><br />
"Republicans keep supporting tax cuts even while failing to shrink spending. The result: since Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981, all three Republican presidents before Trump left office with higher federal deficits than they inherited. One Democratic president (Bill Clinton) departed with a budget surplus; the other (Barack Obama) saw the deficit decline by two-thirds as a share of the economy."<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-83394178288047481732018-04-14T19:27:00.001-04:002018-04-14T19:27:24.253-04:00Russia and the NRA -- A Closer Look<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/russian-campaign-to-infiltrate-nra-elect-trump-w518587">Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump</a> from <i>Rolling Stone Magazine</i></span><br />
""The idea of private gun ownership is anathema to Putin," he says. "So then the question is, 'Why?' " Why was a pro-gun campaign being hatched by a leader in Putin's own party? The answer, according to Hall, is that Putin was baiting a trap. "He's reaching out to attract the NRA, specifically, over to Russia.""<br />
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Nuggetsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14473618328268101329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302101822878873321.post-42998286163201304022018-04-14T19:25:00.000-04:002018-04-14T19:25:02.056-04:00A Russian Rundown for 2018's Midterms<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-russia-could-steal-the-midterms/">The Moscow Midterms: How Russia could steal our next election</a> from the <i>New York Times</i></span><br />
"Most of us can’t really picture what it would look like to tamper with an election, but security experts can. Even as you read this, voting systems, so dry and complicated and completely taken for granted, could well be in the midst of fending off attacks from foreign adversaries. Things could get bad — really bad. Bad like this ..."<br />
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