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Saudis awaiting approval of Jared deal

Saudis greenlight 'Trump Plaza' project while awaiting approval of massive media deal with Jared.

Rachel Maddow reports on an effort to purchase the massively popular and influential video game company, EA (Electronic Arts), by, among others, Saudi Arabia, and Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The deal will require approval from the Trump administration, and as it happens, a massive Trump real estate project in Saudi Arabia has just been approved.  

Source || MSNBC

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Mainstream media fails us again with their tepid failure to communicate the important points.

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Adam McKay on 'Coke vs. Pepsi' Politics, Plus Biden vs. Trump, Matt on Congressional Insider Trading from Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and

Listen to Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper episodes free, on demand. Acclaimed writer/director/producer Adam McKay joins the

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Academic Science Rethinks All-Too-White 'Dude Walls' Of Honor

A few years ago, TV celebrity Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University to hand out a prize that's given each year to a prominent female scientist. As Maddow entered the auditorium, someone overheard her say, "What is up with the dude wall?"

She was referring to a wall covered with portraits of scientists from the university who have won either a Nobel Prize or the Lasker Award, a major medical prize.

"One hundred percent of them are men. It's probably 30 headshots of 30 men. So it's imposing," says Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist with the university and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Vosshall says Maddow's remark, and the word "dude wall," crystallized something that had been bothering her for years. As she travels around the country to give lectures and attend conferences at scientific institutions, she constantly encounters lobbies, conference rooms, passageways, and lecture halls that are decorated with portraits of white men.

"It just sends the message, every day when you walk by it, that science consists of old white men," says Vosshall. "I think every institution needs to go out into the hallway and ask, 'What kind of message are we sending with these oil portraits and dusty old photographs?'"

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Lev Parnas untangles Dmytro Firtash role in Trump Ukraine scheme

Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, talks with Rachel Maddow in an exclusive interview about the offer being made by indicted Kremlin-connected oligarch Dmytro Firtash to help Donald Trump in exchange for DOJ help with his criminal case in the U.S.

One small portion of the two day interview with Lev Parnas.