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By: bob-nelson • 6 years ago • 14 comments

Some days, five seeds are too few. There more than five articles I'd like to share. If there's only one or two too many, I can put them aside for the next day... but if that goes on for a few days, the "On Hold" folder gets to be kinda thick.

So... I'm going to try sharing stuff a little differently.

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1 author Bob Nelson 6 years ago

From BuzzFeed :

A Judge Says The Trump Administration Must Reinstate DACA Because They Gave No "Rational" Reason For Ending It

A federal judge said on Friday that the Trump administration must reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in its entirety — because the Department of Homeland Security failed to "give a rational explanation for its decision" to end it. US District Judge John D. Bates — who has been hearing the challenge brought by the NAACP and others to the administration's decision to end DACA — put his decision on hold for 20 days "to permit the government to determine whether it intends to appeal the Court’s decision and, if so, to seek a stay pending appeal."

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2 author Bob Nelson 6 years ago

From slacktivist :

The MAGA Commission (part 1)

White evangelicals usually think of themselves as Great Commission Christians, or at least they used to do so. But in 2018, it seems, a defining characteristic of white evangelicalism is fearful contempt toward people in or from “Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth.”
Missionary zeal was a genuine defining characteristic of evangelical Christianity for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. It was an essential component of white evangelicals’ sense of purpose and identity. When I was a kid, you could go to any white evangelical church and start singing “Jeee-sus loves the little chillll-dren …” and everybody’d join in, All the children of the world! Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.
And they meant it. They felt it.

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3 author Bob Nelson 6 years ago

From Reuters :

North Korea has not stopped nuclear, missile program: confidential U.N. report

North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs in violation of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Friday.
The six-month report by independent experts monitoring the implementation of U.N. sanctions was submitted to the Security Council North Korea sanctions committee late on Friday.
“(North Korea) has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and continued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018,” the experts wrote in the 149-page report.

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4 author Bob Nelson 6 years ago

From ESPN :

President Trump bashes LeBron James over recent interview

President Donald Trump took a shot at Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James in a tweet Friday night.

James was interviewed by CNN's Don Lemon on Monday, after his LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron (Ohio) Public Schools launched a new elementary school for at-risk children in his hometown.

In the interview, James discussed the impact of sports and how it brings people together. He said he felt Trump was "using sports to kinda divide us."
"Sports has never been something that divides people," James told Lemon. "It's always been something that brings someone together."

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5 author Bob Nelson 6 years ago

From USA Today :

Donald Trump’s feud with Charles Koch widens as GOP chair joins fray

It’s official: With less than 100 days to go before the November midterms, the war within the Republican party just got a lot bigger.
The Republican National Committee is diving into President Donald Trump’s battle with Charles Koch, warning GOP donors to stay away from the conservative billionaire.

"Some groups who claim to support conservatives forgo their commitment when they decide their business interests are more important than those of the country or Party," RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel wrote in a Thursday afternoon email to contributors. “This is unacceptable."

The letter also made a point to underscore that the GOP is the president's party, in a potential warning shot to other conservatives who might be considering publicly distancing themselves from Trump during the midterms
The implied threat to GOP candidates – the RNC "is the only entity which can be trusted with the data" needed to win, Romney McDaniel wrote – follows a week-long exchange of critical comments between Trump and Koch officials.

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5.1 Kavika replied to Bob Nelson @5 6 years ago

Aren't the Koch brothers donating $80 million to down ballot republicans.

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5.1.1 author Bob Nelson replied to Kavika @5.1 6 years ago

According to the article

The Koch network has deep pockets and is poised to spend as much as $400 million on politics and policy in this two-year election cycle

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5.1.2 Kavika replied to Bob Nelson @5.1.1 6 years ago

That was really a question because I'd read somewhere else that it was $80 million. If it is really the $400 million it going to make their decisions dicey to say the least.

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5.1.3 Atheist יוחנן בן אברהם אבינו replied to Kavika @5.1.2 6 years ago

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6 author Bob Nelson 6 years ago

From The Guardian :

Officer who punched incapacitated suspect six times is dismissed

A police officer has been dismissed after punching a suspect six times in the head when he had already been incapacitated by a stun gun.
PC Daniel Reed was one of six officers from Durham police who went to the Dalesman pub in Darlington to arrest a 43-year-old man on suspicion of a public order offence and witness intimidation on 8 November 2016.
When the man did not cooperate, officers deployed pepper spray and then a stun gun. An independent panel determined that the man had been brought under control at that point but Reed, an acting sergeant at the time, nevertheless struck him six times before the suspect was placed in a police van.

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