| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, October 3TRUMP MOCKS KAVANAUGH ACCUSER President Donald Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women, openly mocked Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony and the Me Too movement at his rally in Southaven, Mississippi. In an angry rant that’ll do little to help Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, Trump publicly doubted Blasey’s emotional testimony in which she recalled how Kavanaugh drunkenly held her down and tried to forcibly remove her clothes. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TRUMP: ‘A SCARY TIME FOR YOUNG MEN’ Earlier, Trump told reporters it’s “a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of.” Asked if he had “a message for young women,” Trump said: “women are doing great.” [HuffPost]CLASSMATES REVOKE ENDORSEMENT Two of Kavanaugh’s former law school classmates have withdrawn their support for the nominee because of “the nature” of his Senate testimony. “Under the current circumstances, we fear that partisanship has injected itself into Judge Kavanaugh’s candidacy,” Michael J. Proctor and Mark Osler say in a letter to the Judiciary Committee. “That, and the lack of judicial temperament displayed on September 27 hearing, cause us to withdraw our support.” [HuffPost]LAW PROFESSORS: KAVANAUGH DISQUALIFIED HIMSELF Kavanaugh’s classmates aren’t the only people bailing. More than 500 law professors from nearly 100 law schools have signed a letter saying the nominee’s volatile temperament during his puffing testimony disqualifies him from sitting on the highest court. [HuffPost]FBI REPORT WON’T BE MADE PUBLIC The fresh FBI’s background investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh will not be made public, according to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “We will get an FBI report soon. It will be made available to each senator and only senators will be allowed to look at it,” he said. Unless, of course, the report is immediately leaked to the press. [HuffPost]NYT: TRUMP COMMITTED TAX FRAUD A bombshell investigative report by the New York Times details how Trump engaged in tax fraud. Citing a “vast trove” of confidential tax return and financial records, the newspaper revealed that Trump helped his parents evade taxes, setting up a fake corporation with his siblings to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents. Trump has mythologized himself as the self-made man. In fact, he received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate business. [HuffPost] EVANGELICAL UNIVERSITY REINSTATES QUEER BAN The board of trustees at Azusa Pacific University, a prominent evangelical school in California, reinstated an outright ban on queer relationships after an administrative decision last month to lift a ban on romantic same-sex relationships. The board sent out a statement that reaffirmed its “biblical and orthodox ” view of marriage — seemingly preparing students for adulthood by pushing an unlettered worldview. [HuffPost]MATTIS TARGETED BY RICIN LETTER The Pentagon said it received mail suspected of containing the deadly poison ricin, including an envelope addressed to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. [Reuters]THANK BERNIE FOR AMAZON WAGE HIKE Amazon said it is raising the minimum wage for more than 350,000 of its workers, so that permanent and seasonal employees will make at least $15 an hour. What prompted the shift? Possibly Bernie Sanders’ “Stop BEZOS” bill, which had little chance of becoming law, but shined enough light on the company’s practices to shame it into a wage hike. [HuffPost]TRUMP BANS VISAS FOR PARTNERS OF GAY DIPLOMATS The State Department this week stopped giving visas to the same-sex partners of diplomats working at the United Nations. The White House argument is that same-sex couples must marry to remain in the country together. Only fair, right? No. As the administration knows, gay marriage is not an option in most countries. So chalk this up as another Trump attack on the LGBTQ community. [HuffPost]TOYS ‘R’ US RESURRECTION? Toys ‘R’ Us is coming back from the dead. Administrators have decided to cancel the bankruptcy auction of the retailer’s brand name and other intellectual property assets and instead plan to revive the Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us names. Why? No idea. People stopped shopping there years ago, hence the bankruptcy, and businesses do not run on nostalgia. [HuffPost]INDONESIAN DEATH TOLL CLIMBS The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 1,400, with survivors left struggling to understand the horror unleashed by nature. [AP]
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