How Billionaires Bought Kavanaugh's Seat on the Supreme Court
Calvin F. Exoo | zcomm.org | 2018-10-28
Justice Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court is an important moment in the revolution of the rich…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-billionaires-bought-kavanaughs-seat-on-the-supreme-court/

The Rise of Shadow Parties
Shared by Anton Woronczuk | truthout.org | 2018-10-28
Since the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling ushered in a new era of big money in politics, congressional party finances have dramatically shifted. The parties now increasingly rely on loosely regulated shadow parties with close ties to congressional party leaders and comparatively less on official party committees. | And a new Brennan Center analysis shows that so far in the 2018 cycle, the trend is intensifying. | Here's why this matters: | Shadow parties use super PACs to raise unlimited contributions. In fact, their revenue comes overwhelmingly from massive contributions larger than the median Ameri…
truthout.org/articles/the-rise-of-shadow-parties/

KPFA Board Won't Call for Julian Assange's Freedom
Anonymous | indybay.org | 2018-10-28
On Saturday, October 20, the KPFA Local Station Board considered a resolution calling for the freedom of Wikileaks founder, journalist, and publisher Julian Assange. The board did not pass that resolution but it did pass one saying that it encouraged programming about Assange's case. This is the audio of that part of the board meeting.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/25/18818496.php

Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks' Service to Journalism
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Twelve years ago this month, WikiLeaks began publishing government secrets that the world public might otherwise never have known. What it has revealed about state duplicity, human rights abuses and corruption goes beyond anything published in the world's "mainstream" media. … | The post Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks' Service to Journalism appeared first on G…
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-should-be-thanked-not-smeared-for-wikileaks-service-to-journalism/5658208

NBC reveals it sat on discrediting info about Kavanaugh 'witness'
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-27
As the US Justice Department prepares to investigate media-hound attorney Michael Avenatti and Kavanaugh "victim" Julie Swetnick for making false accusations, NBC admitted they knew Swetnick's story was falling apart weeks ago. | …
rt.com/usa/442401-nbc-suppressed-swetnick-witness/

The glorious, notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a traveling exhibition
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-26
LOS ANGELES–In July of this year, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced that she intended to serve "at least five more years." By that time she would be 90, the same age that her senior colleague John Paul Stevens retired. The liberal Justice RBG, as she is familiarly known, is the object of what …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-glorious-notorious-ruth-bader-ginsburg-in-a-traveling-exhibition/

Accused Bomber Cesar Sayoc Was a Fervent Trump Supporter
Trevor Aaronson | theintercept.com | 2018-10-26
Cesar Sayoc was a broke and marginalized man until President Donald Trump gave him a purpose, court records and online archives suggest. | The FBI arrested Sayoc in Florida today and charged him with five counts for his alleged role in mailing pipe bombs to an array of Democratic Party politicians and Trump critics, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former Attorney General Eric Holder, among others. Pipe bombs addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were addressed to CNN's headquarters in New York. | The F…
theintercept.com/2018/10/26/cesar-sayoc-bomb-suspect-trump/

CIA director briefs Trump on Khashoggi torture tape
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-26
CIA Director Gina Haspel, dispatched to Turkey to investigate the murder of the Saudi journalist, has intimate familiarity with acts of torture and tapes recording them.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/26/gina-o26.html

My Boss Fired Me From My Funeral Home Job for Being Transgender
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-25
Aimee Stephens spent most of her life struggling with her gender identity. When she finally came out to her boss, she was fired. | I was in funeral services for nearly three decades before I was fired in 2013 for being transgender. In March, a federal appeals court agreed that it was wrong to fire me just because of who I am. Now, the Supreme Court will consider whether to review that court ruling. | While studying to be a pastor in college, I needed a job, and I found one in a funeral home. There are a lot of different ministries people can pursue, and I realized comforting people during one of the most vulnerab…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/my-boss-fired-me-my-funeral-home-job-being-transgender

Trump Blames Media for Inciting "Anger" After Bombs Sent to CNN & High-Profile Democrats
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-25
Federal authorities have launched an investigation after pipe bombs were sent to a number of prominent Democrats, all critics of President Trump. The targets identified include President Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Congressmember Maxine Waters and former CIA Director John Brennan. The packages listed Democratic Congressmember Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the return address. Police are also investigating a suspicious package sent to former Vice President Joe Biden and a suspicious package found today at actor Robert De Niro's restaurant in New York. On Wednesday, CNN w…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/25/trump_blames_media_for_inciting_anger

Aimee Stephens Was Fired Because She Is Transgender. That's Sex Discrimination
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-24
The ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to let stand a lower court ruling that Aimee's firing was unlawful. | Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump think federal law shouldn't protect transgender people. They think it should be legal to fire someone just because she's trans. Five federal appeals courts disagree. On Wednesday, the ACLU asked the Supreme Court to let stand one of those rulings, in the case of Aimee Stephens. | Aimee had worked at a funeral home in Detroit for nearly six years when she wrote a letter telling her boss and coworkers that she is transgender. Two weeks after she came out as a woman to her employe…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/aimee-stephens-was-fired-because-she-transgender-thats-sex

Unequal Justice: Why Trump Picked Kavanaugh
Bill Blum | progressive.org | 2018-10-23
The Trump Administration lauded Kavanaugh as a judge who "protects American businesses from illegal job-killing regulation."
progressive.org/dispatches/unequal-justice-why-trump-picked-kavanaugh-181023/

Bittersweet Justice in Guatemala
Jo-Marie Burt | progressive.org | 2018-10-16
A Guatemalan court found that the army committed genocide against the Maya Ixil, but at the same time acquitted the chief of military intelligence of wrongdoing.
progressive.org/dispatches/court-delivers-bittersweet-justice-in-guatemala-181016/