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A blogger in DOGGED PURSUIT of Equality, Dignity, Fairness, Justice and Science (who lives with a Siberian Husky!)

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Trump praises Montana congressman for assaulting reporter: 'He's my guy’

"Never wrestle him," Trump said of Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault last year.

President Adolf Hitler — oops! I meant, President Donald Trump — praised a Republican Congress member for assaulting a reporter. At a Thursday rally, the president brought up Montana Republican Greg Gianforte's May 2017 assault of Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, for which the politician pled guilty.

“He’s a great guy. Tough cookie," the President said, as he concluded his description of the incident.

In response, the Guardian's U.S. editor released a statement saying that "we hope decent people will denounce these comments and that the President will see fit to apologize for them.”

This is the first time the president has directly endorsed an attack on a member of the media.

[scientificphilosopher]

Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[canisfamiliaris]

I read non-fiction like Samuel, but fiction like Tom.

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[canisfamiliaris]

American Healthcare

[historicaltimes]

When Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right - Sept 3, 1967

via reddit

[canisfamiliaris]

Sweden’s overthrow of British Colonialism! Hahahaha

[historicaltimes]

German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945

via reddit

[canisfamiliaris]

GERMAN Soldiers! So many did not know.

[liberalsarecool]

So much winning Trump better golf.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Think you're a U.S. citizen? Prove it!

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/think-youre-a-u-s-citizen.html

[azspot]

“We live in a new feudalism. We have been stripped of political power. Workers are trapped in menial jobs, forced into crippling debt and paid stagnant or declining wages. Chronic poverty and exploitative working conditions in many parts of the world, and increasingly in the United States, replicate the hell endured by industrial workers at the end of the 19th century. The complete capture of ruling institutions by corporations and their oligarchic elites, including the two dominant political parties, the courts and the press, means there is no mechanism left by which we can reform the system or protect ourselves from mounting abuse. We will revolt or become 21st-century serfs, forced to live in misery and brutally oppressed by militarized police and the most sophisticated security and surveillance system in human history while the ruling oligarchs continue to wallow in unimagined wealth and opulence.”

— Becoming Serfs

[mostlysignssomeportents]

After Nike hires Colin Kaepernick for ad campaign, conservative halfwits destroy own property to own the libs

Nike hired Kap for an ad campaign: a satisfying yet bathetic result of his de facto expulsion from professional football for protesting police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem. Conservatives are mad, obviously, and are expressing it by destroying the Nike-branded gear that they have already paid for.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/03/after-nike-hires-colin-kaepern.html

[nevver]

Tale of the Tape, Brian McFadden

[npr]

California Becomes First State To End Cash Bail After 40-Year Fight

"Today, California reforms its bail system so that rich and poor alike are treated fairly," Gov. Jerry Brown said. He first advocated for an overhaul in his 1979 State of the State Address.

[wilwheaton]

“Across the board, in their efforts to infiltrate American politics by way of the conservative movement and the GOP, Russian efforts were based on a simple insight: contemporary conservative politics is notoriously corrupt. It is no accident that President Trump now embodies the GOP and what now counts as conservatism. His corruption, his addiction to the grift, does embody it.”

— The Butina/CPAC/NRA Oil Deal Is True To Form

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[mediamattersforamerica]

Media portray these tales of perseverance as uplifting and inspirational. They’re actually horror stories.

These four examples all come from just the past five months, but there are countless additional articles and segments that share the same lessons about never giving up, going the extra mile, and taking care of others. The articles are framed to make you feel good, to illustrate the kindness of others, to show you that things can work out when tragedy hits, and yes, to “restore your faith in humanity.” These are excellent messages that we could probably all benefit from having in our lives, but there’s one thing that gets left out on an all-too-regular basis: the underlying causes.

[npr]

An audience gathers around the transparent 14-foot-long “culinary instrument” in a restaurant called Creator in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood.

Brioche buns are sliced, buttered and toasted by paddles moving like waves in the ocean. They land in specially designed, compostable hamburger boxes. The buns are topped with fresh produce, sourced from local farms, which is sliced on the spot. Cheese is shredded from blocks and added. The in-machine meat grinder has been calibrated to vertically align the meat with diner’s incisors. The 4.5-ounce beef patties are ground from brisket and cooked using the induction method, both sides at once, then slid into the boxes.

And the fumes from cooking? They are cleaned inside the machine.

The sleek hamburger-producing machine, featuring organic curves and copper detail, fits in perfectly with Creator’s airy 2,200 square-foot space, white walls and high ceiling. It attracted a waitlist this summer for its bi-weekly lunches, and will open full time in September. It fits with the city as well — the restaurant is just two miles away from where the Elon Musk-founded OpenAI lab recently tested a robot hand named Dactyl.

Creator’s parent company is a culinary robotics firm founded by 33-year-old Alex Vardakostas, who grew up in the burger business in Southern California. “I really got going on the griddle when I was like 14, 15,” says Vardakostas, whose family owns the two Orange County A’s Burgers locations.

Fad Or The Future? Robot-Made Burgers Wow The Crowds In San Francisco

Photos: Saroyan Humphrey

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