Mr. Trump has appeared to grow noticeably more comfortable in the role of president, according to advisers, and that comfort level has reinforced his confidence in his own instincts, including what he regards as facts. Mr. Trump often points to a key moment — his election in 2016, which defied the polls — as proof that agreed-upon data can be wrong. His long career in the New York real estate world convinced Mr. Trump that all people are prone to shading their views according to their own self-interest. Objectivity is not something he expects of people, and he long ago came to believe that “facts” are really arbitrary.
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Online health hoaxes: The place where bleach “cures” autism and vaccines spread epidemics | In English | EL PAÍS
There is a place where cancer can be cured in just 42 hours and where all the doctors in the world are conspiring to deceive the population. It is a place where you can “cure” autism with bleach, and where vaccines, far from preventing epidemics, actually spread them. This place is called social media, where a losing battle is being waged on a daily basis against dangerous health hoaxes and misinformation. In Spain, the internet is the second most important source of information on pseudotherapies, and two-thirds of citizens go online to read up on health issues.
[UPDATE] Second Proud Boy Arrested, McInnes Says More Will Turn Themselves In: Gothamist
Afterwards, Young bragged on Facebook about “bashing that terrorist breeder,” according to screenshots included in the Medium post. He also changed his Facebook bio to note that he was a “Fourth Degree Proud Boy,” apparently signaling that he had “leveled up by assaulting me, a small Muslim woman,” the alleged victim wrote.
Source: [UPDATE] Second Proud Boy Arrested, McInnes Says More Will Turn Themselves In: Gothamist
‘He’s my guy’: Donald Trump praises Gianforte for assault on Guardian reporter | US news | The Guardian – The audience applauded attacking journalist.
Guardian US editor, John Mulholland, said: “The president of the United States tonight applauded the assault on an American journalist who works for the Guardian. To celebrate an attack on a journalist who was simply doing his job is an attack on the first amendment by someone who has taken an oath to defend it. “In the aftermath of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, it runs the risk of inviting other assaults on journalists both here and across the world where they often face far greater threats. We hope decent people will denounce these comments and that the president will see fit to apologize for them.”
Tory rightwingers seek to embarrass May over high-powered rifles ban | Politics | The Guardian Right-wingnuts across the sea are nuts too!
ERG members aim to stymie .50-calibre weapons ban to show strength before vote on Brexit deal
Source: Tory rightwingers seek to embarrass May over high-powered rifles ban | Politics | The Guardian
John Kelly and John Bolton Have Shouting Match Over Immigration – The New York Times
Mr. Kelly, a retired Marine general and former commander of United States Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Central and South America, has made the case that American aid is vital to helping the region cope with its drug and economic problems, thus preventing an even larger flood of migration to the United States.
The Nooses of Adelanto – IMM Print
An unannounced visit to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center by federal inspectors has found nooses present in various cells, unfair segregation policies, and that those in detention have been receiving inadequate medical care. The nooses were braided bed sheets hanging from the vents, and were found in a large number of the detention centers’ cells. There has already been one suicide committed with the assistance of a bed sheet, and as the report from the federal inspectors noted, there has been at least seven suicide attempts between 2016 and 2017.
Thursday Open Thread | This Administration’s Disgusting Reaction to the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi | 3CHICSPOLITICO
Saudi born jouralist Jamal Khashoggi was torture and murdered by the Saudi Government. They couldn’t just murder the man with a gun, fast and quick. They had to be ‘imaginative’. …
GOP Senator Pushed VA to Use Unproven “Brainwave… — ProPublica
Sen. Dean Heller, a Nevada Republican, pushed doctors at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Reno to adopt an experimental mental health treatment marketed by a company with ties to his office. On a Friday night last December in his Reno office, Heller, a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, introduced VA officials to representatives from a health care startup called CereCare. The company markets an “off-label” method of treating addiction and post-traumatic stress, using electromagnetic brain stimulation.
Source: GOP Senator Pushed VA to Use Unproven “Brainwave… — ProPublica
Recordings reveal Khashoggi tortured then dismembered while still alive
“It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist’s last moments,” told the Middle East Eye. The source said Khashoggi was “dragged from the Consul General’s office at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and onto the table of his study next door. The screaming stopped when Khashoggi was injected with an as yet unknown substance. Head of forensic evidence in the Saudi general security department Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy began to cut Khashoggi’s body up on a table in the study while he was still alive. As he started to dismember the body, Tubaigy put on earphones and listened to music. He advised other members of the squad to do the same.”
Source: Recordings reveal Khashoggi tortured then dismembered while still alive
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