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Trump gets heinously racist with African reporter

                                              

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Donald Trump asks "How is Ebola going?" during question about Congo War


Hariana Verás is the first African journalist given access to the Trump White House, and Trump responded to her questions the way that one might expect an ageing racist to respond to questions from a young Black woman. “She loves Africa, she always asks about Africa. She never talks about any other place,” started Trump before she was allowed to ask her question...one he did not like.

Trump loves to tout the "peace agreement" he "helped arrange" between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda last December, an agreement that Rwanda has systematically violated, displacing millions of people. Verás asked Trump about the agreement violations, to which he replied "So, well look, I just heard about it a little while ago, if there's a problem we'll stop it."

Intent on assuring him that there was, in fact, a problem, Verás recounted her own trip to the Congolese border and how she personally witnessed the evidence of killings and violence.

In response Trump asked, "how's Ebola going?"

This is infuriating not just because Trump is clearly just lashing out racistly in response to percieved criticism of one of his tremendous accomplishments but also because his administration cut all the funding for Ebola prevention and bears responsibility for enabling the spread of the disease, which has currently reached 8,000 new cases. Trump can't even hear the name "Africa" without his brain immediately going to "shithole." Because he's racist.


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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump caught in another scandal ahead of midterms

Brian Tyler Cohen breaks down the latest scandal surrounding Trump's use of taxpayer dollars to pay for pro-Trump political campaign ads on public television and all the legal implications surrounding it (hint: it's illegal!)


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Progressive champion Abdul El-Sayed hit with DISGUSTINGLY RACIST new attack ad

Abdul El-Sayed for Senate: A new poll out of Michigan shows Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed with a SEVEN point lead over his MAGA opponent, Mike Rogers. That's why MAGA Mike is so desperate, and that's why his corrupt crony PAC has been running a horrendously racist AI-generated attack ad against El-Sayed, baselessly accusing him of supporting terrorism just because he's a Muslim. Will you chip in to help Abdul El-Sayed fight back against these smears?




Prosecutor reopens probe into Cornell gang rape allegations after accuser files lawsuit

After sustained public outcry, a New York prosecutor has reopened the case of a 2024 alleged gang-rape by seven Cornell students who plied a woman with ketamine and alcohol and then took turn raping her. The perpetrators texted their frat bros to come join them for "free pussy," yet somehow the school failed to issue any punishments more severe than ordering the accused to write remorseful essays. The accuser, Jane Doe, is now suing the men, the Chi Phi fraternity, the university, an Ithaca bar and others, seeking undisclosed damages.



Anthropic "warns of existential AI risks to humanity" in IPO document

The AI giant claims that its work poses “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” because its AIs are showing “self-preserving behaviours”, including attempts to “resist shutdown”, to “conceal or manipulate information” and behaviour “resembling blackmail," but also that we should value this company at $2 trillion. They also admitted they have so far LOST $42 billion, but are looking to investors for another $500 billion to invest in data center infrastructure next year.

So, to recap, this technology could kill everybody and doesn't make any money...but we should keep throwing hundreds of billions of dollars into it because, why, exactly?



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Senate GOP to press Jack Smith on Trump Jan. 6 probe as DOJ targets investigators

The hearing's title, “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters," leaves little wonder as to what we're about to see in the Judiciary Committee today. It's going to be another wasted day of public money as Republicans pursue a baseless witch-hunt against Jack Smith for holding the terrorists of January 6th accountable, all to placate Donald Trump and the rabid MAGA extremists who are simply beside themselves at the sight of the law being enforced in a way that negatively affects Republicans.



Senate passes college sports bill that would rein in athlete payments and transfers

The introduction of "name, image, and likeness" deals in college sports was essentially their Citizens United moment, throwing the highly lucrative college sports industry into chaos as Super PACs for Football have now led to roster payrolls that are higher than $40 million a school. The Senate has attempted to rein in the flow of money and set some guardrails with a new bill, but, seeing as this bill was spearheaded by Ted Cruz, it doesn't actually do its job. “This is a bill that essentially ensconces a system of exploitation, and it doesn’t fix the broader problems,” said Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. Sounds about right for a Ted Cruz bill.


Ken Paxton defends one-day plea deal offered to child sex predator

Yeah. we're not sure "um actually, I gave the repeat child rapist TWO WHOLE MONTHS in jail" is really the argument you want to be making as a vulnerable Senate candidate.


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Poll shows voters on track to retain legal cannabis and 2024 gun law

                                             

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HEALEY POLL: Gov. Maura Healey is cruising in her reelection bid against Republican challenger Mike Minogue, according to a new CommonWealth Beacon/MassINC Polling Group survey that found President Donald Trump is top of mind for many voters. Chris Lisinski unpacks the results and the areas in which voters think Healey is a bit lackluster.

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FIRE STATION: In a visit to New Bedford, the governor touted state money she wants to deploy to keep open a 92-year-old fire station that had been slated to close amid a local budget crunch. Colin A. Young reports for State House News Service.

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Massachusetts voters look like they’ve largely made up their minds on two of the highest-profile questions on the November ballot. They seem on track to retain legalized recreational marijuana and a sweeping new gun law passed in 2024, according to a new poll.

In a MassINC Polling Group survey (Toplines | Crosstabs) for CommonWealth Beacon, attitudes toward the other seven ballot questions were more mixed, with percentages of likely voters saying they expect to vote yes hovering in the high 40s and low 50s.

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But the two final questions on the ballot are bucking that trend. Sixty-one percent of likely voters said they would vote no on Question 8, which if approved would end legal sales of recreational marijuana and create civil penalties for possessing more than a small amount of recreational cannabis. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said they would vote yes.

Question 9, a referendum on whether to keep the state's sweeping 2024 firearms law, looks set for a resounding affirmation of the law, with 70 percent of respondents saying they would vote to keep it and 18 percent saying they would repeal it.

These two are also the questions voters seem most sure about, with just 11 percent of voters undecided on each. That is the lowest undecided share of any of the nine questions on the ballot.

"People don't want to go backwards on these two things," said Steve Koczela, president of the MassINC Polling Group.

“They might not love the Legislature,” Koczela said of voters, pointing to their strong support two years ago for a ballot question to audit lawmakers. “But they approve of what the Legislature did on firearms, at least.”

The survey of 800 likely voters was conducted online September 14 through 22. It has a credibility interval of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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FIRING LINE: A legal challenge before the state’s highest court targets the “suitability” part of the state’s firearm licensing statue, which gun rights advocates say allows licensing officials to use an unconstitutional level of discretion in deciding who can carry a gun in public. Jennifer Smith digs in.

ON TRACK: A Green Line shutdown for upgrades that started over the weekend is “essential” to the success of the Type 10 cars that MBTA leadership says are on track to begin running in 2027. Ella Adams of the State House News Service has more.

OPINION: The gas tax breaks proposed by Gov. Maura Healey and Republican challenger Mike Minogue are ill-advised, writes James Aloisi, a former Massachusetts secretary of transportation. It is profoundly wrongheaded, he says, to reduce the revenue stream at a time when our transportation system is suffering from chronic and worsening traffic congestion, when the public transportation system is undergoing a massive and long-overdue rehabilitation of its system, and when federal dollars for projects across the board are being withheld or clawed back by the Trump administration.

OPINION: MIT researchers are pushing back on a CommonWealth Beacon op-ed that criticized their study cautioning against cutting solar credits. The net effect of utility-scale solar on the delivery system’s costs runs in the other direction from what the op-ed claims, write Fischer Espiritu Argosino, a research assistant at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), and Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of CEEPR.

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SAGAMORE: The Healey administration is accepting bids for the massive Sagamore Bridge replacement project, the winner of which will be required to strike a project labor agreement for unionized construction work. (State House News Service via WBUR)

LAWRENCE: Two Lawrence city councilors expect voters to pursue a recall election against Mayor Brian DePeña following his indictment on state charges that he secretly taped City Hall employees and federal fraud charges. (GBH News)

EDUCATION: The massive increase in state K-12 school aid has not translated into a widespread increase in standardized test scores, fueling questions about return on investment for the billions of dollars spent and what the next policy change should be. (The Boston Globe – paywall)

AI: The dean of Harvard College said forthcoming artificial intelligence guidelines at the school will likely be advisory rather than a mandate applying to every course, even while acknowledging Harvard needs to “move faster” to tackle the issue. (The Harvard Crimson)

MBTA: Former MBTA employee Jensen Vatel pleaded guilty to falsifying inspection records on the Red Line and collecting overtime pay for shifts he did not work. (MassLive – paywall)

 
 
 
 
 

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