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General Motors Sides With Trump in Emissions Battle, Splitting the Industry – The New York Times – Screw General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and other auto giants – Go Ford and Honda!
General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and other auto giants said they were intervening on the side of the Trump administration on Monday in an escalating battle with California over fuel economy standards for automobiles.
Can We Afford Medicare For All?
Can We Afford Medicare For All?
— Read on lobotero.com/2019/10/28/can-we-afford-medicare-for-all/
Open Thread | Where Are The Teens Taken By ICE??😠😠
Open Thread | Where Are The Teens Taken By ICE??😠😠
— Read on 3chicspolitico.com/2019/10/28/open-thread-where-are-the-teens-taken-by-ice😠😠/
Syrian Kurds: ‘The world has closed its eyes on us’—“Trump Has No Honor”
Syrian Kurds: ‘The world has closed its eyes on us’—“Trump Has No Honor”
http://truthtroubles.com/2019/10/27/syrian-kurds-the-world-has-closed-its-eyes-on-us-trump-has-no-honor/
— Read on truthtroubles.com/2019/10/27/syrian-kurds-the-world-has-closed-its-eyes-on-us-trump-has-no-honor/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the action figure
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the action figure
— Read on repeatingislands.com/2019/10/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-action-figure/
Student in Peru makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language

Quechua is still spoken by 8 million people across the Andes, but Roxana Quispe Collantes hopes she can give it added value
A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person to write and defend a thesis in Quechua – the language of the Incas, which is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes.
Roxana Quispe Collantes received top marks from Lima’s San Marcos university, the oldest in the Americas, for her study on Peruvian and Latin American literature, which focused on poetry written in Quechua.
Nazi directives and accounts of Roma genocide go on display

Forgotten Victims exhibition in London documents fate of 500,000 Roma and Sinti
Marked “secret” and signed by Heinrich Himmler, the bureaucratic language of document 664-PS dated 10 March 1944 masks the genocidal reality of its real meaning.
It reads that as far as Jews and Gypsies are concerned, “the accomplished evacuation and isolation of these groups by the chief of the security police and the SD [SS intelligence]” had made previous prohibitions against them now meaningless.
Jonathan Glazer: ‘Nazism took hold like a fever. It’s happening again’

How do you follow up a masterpiece like Under the Skin? By giving BBC Two viewers five minutes of unexpected hell. The visionary director on how a Trump hunting trip inspired his mystery short
The Americas with Simon Reeve is an amiable travelogue in which a dishy documentarian gads about the US. This Sunday night he was in California, examining giant redwoods and Beyoncé’s mansion. At 10pm, the credits rolled and, abruptly, BBC Two plunged us into hell.
For five minutes before the start of Live at the Apollo, the channel screened a new short film in which a masked mob hang a man in a forest. He plunges for what feels an eternity (actually 86 seconds) down a well from the wooden gibbet, before the rope stops spooling and the man – miraculously alive – slowly starts to haul his way towards the light. It was broadcast without introduction or credits. There was no clue as to who was responsible.
John Conyers Jr., Longest-Serving African-American in Congressional History, Dies at 90
RIP One of the most liberal members of Congress, he resigned after two women accused him of making unwelcome sexual advances.
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