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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Op-Ed Columnist: Dollars, Cents and Republican Sadism

well said Republican attacks on the safety net are about inflicting pain, not saving money.

Time to Say It: Trump Is a Racist – The New York Times

Nick Kristof wrestling with the topic during the 2016 campaign: “Here we have a man who for more than four decades has been repeatedly associated with racial discrimination or bigoted comments about minorities,” he wrote. “While any one episode may be ambiguous, what emerges over more than four decades is a narrative arc, a consistent pattern — and I don’t see what else to call it but racism.”

Facebook Is Changing. What Does That Mean for Your News Feed?

Did they ask any one of its users? No. Do I want FB to decide who or what ends up on my feed? No. Do they actually care what you and I think? No. They are about advertising dollars and if that goes down, they will change their policies to pump up ad dollars. Why would anyone expect they to do anything different? Police fake and lying accounts – that they should have to do according to law and regulation! The social network has implemented major changes to the types of posts, videos and photos that appear in your News Feed. Here is what you should expect.

Abuse isn’t romantic. So why the panic that feminists are killing eros? | Jessica Valenti

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Catherine Deneuve and others have publicly worried that the campaign to end sexual harassment has gone too far but the truth is there is no war on romance

The backlash is here, and it’s very worried about your love life.

Iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve says the movement is puritanical and men should be able to “hit on women”. New York Times writer Daphne Merkin wants to know “whatever happened to flirting?” The Hollywood Reporter bemoans that could “kill sexy Hollywood movies” while Cathy Young at the Los Angeles Times believes it will end office romance. Ross Douthat is even worried that the push to end sexual harassment could stunt population growth.

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Trump refers to Haiti and African countries as “shithole” nations

This damn racist thug…..What will you and @GOP do about this racist bum in the Oval Office @SpeakerRyan? Your silence on this matter  will be considered condoning his hatred for black people. We are damn tired of the racist attacks on blacks and POC.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House, a Democratic aide briefed on the meeting told NBC News.

Trump’s comments were first reported by The Washington Post, which said the group of nations referred to also included El Salvador.

The comments came as senators huddled in the Oval Office with the president to discuss a path forward on an immigration deal. Trump questioned why the United States would want people from nations such as Haiti while he was being briefed on changes to the visa lottery system.

WATCH: @SenBlumenthal says Trump’s ‘shithole countries’ remark smacks of “the most odious and insidious racism masquerading poorly as immigration policy.”

“The President doesn’t speak for me as an American.” http://pic.twitter.com/uFQaohiNk4

— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) January 11, 2018

According to the aide, when the group came to discussing immigration from Africa, Trump asked why America would want immigrants from “all these shithole countries” and that the U.S. should have more people coming in from places like Norway. Thursday’s meeting came one day after Trump met with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg at the White House.

A source familiar with Thursday’s meeting told NBC News the president was particularly frustrated during discussions about the visa lottery system — a program Trump has railed against repeatedly in recent months. Another White House source explained the language Trump used as his way of trying to emphasize his support for a merit-based immigration system.

White House staffers predict President Trump’s “shithole countries” remark will resonate with his base, sources tell CNN’s Kaitlan Collins https://t.co/faSo4lEbyR https://t.co/YCpyvm0Uzm

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 11, 2018

The White House issued a statement that did not deny the remarks.

“Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told NBC Thursday, as part of a lengthy statement that did not directly dispute the language reportedly used in the meeting.

“He will always reject temporary, weak and dangerous stopgap measures that threaten the lives of hardworking Americans, and undercut immigrants who seek a better life in the United States through a legal pathway.”

It’s not the first time reports have surfaced of Trump speaking unfavorably about immigrants, and Haitians in particular. The New York Times reported in December that Trump said Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS,” during a summer 2017 meeting about immigration.

According to the Times, Trump also targeted Nigerian immigrants during that meeting, complaining that once they came the United States they would never “go back to their huts.” The White House vigorously denied the claims in the story at the time.