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Monday, November 25
TRUMP GOT HIS WALL In the two years and 308 days that Donald Trump has been president, his administration has constructed far more effective barriers to immigration than concrete on the southern border. No new laws have actually been passed. This transformation has mostly come about through subtle administrative shifts. [HuffPost]
HONG KONG DEMOCRATS SCORE LANDSLIDE VICTORY Pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong romped to a landslide and symbolic majority in district council elections after residents turned out in record numbers on Sunday to vote following six months of anti-government protests in the embattled city. [Reuters]
GIULIANI WALKS BACK CLAIM OF 'INSURANCE' AGAINST TRUMP Rudy Giuliani tweeted that his crack that he has “insurance” if Trump throws him under the bus was “sarcastic,” and claimed it “relates to the files in my safe” on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. [HuffPost]
MULVANEY TRIED TO JUSTIFY UKRAINE AID DELAY: REPORT A trove of documents has revealed that White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and other members of Trump’s administration engaged in an extensive effort to justify his holdup of American military aid to Ukraine over the summer, The Washington Post reported. [HuffPost]
CHINA SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FLAGS MINORITIES FOR CAMPS A classified blueprint shows that Chinese detention camps, filled with the help of mass surveillance technology, are forced ideological and behavioral re-education centers run in secret. The Chinese government has a deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities even before they commit a crime. [AP]
COAL KNEW THE DANGERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE The coal industry knew the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions as early as 1966. “There is evidence that the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of fossil fuels,” wrote the president of a now-defunct coal mining research organization, in a published journal. [HuffPost] |
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NAVY SECRETARY OUSTED IN SEAL CLASH WITH TRUMP Defense Secretary Mark Esper demanded Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s resignation after Spencer sought to negotiate with the White House over the case of a Navy SEAL found guilty of committing war crimes in 2017. Trump intervened in the case after it became a cause for right-wing commentators. [HuffPost]
GRAHAM: WHITE HOUSE TOLD ME TO BLOCK ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was excoriated as “spineless” and “despicable” for blocking a Senate resolution to formally recognize the Armenian genocide, told Axios Sunday that he’d cast the vote at the behest of the White House. [HuffPost]
HIGH HONG KONG VOTER TURNOUT SEEN AS REFERENDUM ON PROTEST Vote counting continued in Hong Kong Monday after a massive turnout in district council elections seen as a barometer of public support for pro-democracy protests that have rocked the semi-autonomous Chinese territory for more than five months. [AP]
IRAN PROTEST VIDEOS SHOW CHAOS As Iran restores the internet after a weeklong government-imposed shutdown, new videos purport to show the demonstrations over gasoline prices rising and the security-force crackdown that followed. [AP]
KURDISH AMERICANS ARE FIGHTING TRUMP'S SYRIA POLICY In October, The White House announced a pullout of U.S. troops from northern Syria in anticipation of a long-planned military operation by Turkey. As Kurdish Americans knew, this meant imminent humanitarian disaster for Syrian Kurds. Just last year, their relatives had fled their homes in northern Syria ahead of Turkish artillery attacks. [HuffPost]
HOW TRUMP IS BEING USED TO ATTACK BORIS JOHNSON Earlier this month, Trump took the unprecedented step of saying that he would prefer Boris Johnson's Conservatives to win the U.K. election on Dec. 12. However, in Britain, an endorsement from the U.S. president is not always a good thing. Trump is very unpopular with large sections of the public -- and the politicians know it. [CNN] |
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