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Donald Trump: Unearthed 1994 Interview on Family, Why Women Shouldn’t Work (Q&A) | Hollywood Reporter – the 70 year-old 11 year-old!

So why in 1992 did you tell a writer for New York magazine, Marie Brenner, that ‘You have to treat women like shit” – ultimately pouring a bottle of wine down her back?

“I didn’t say that. The woman’s a liar, extremely unattractive, lots of problems because of her looks.”

Source: Donald Trump: Unearthed 1994 Interview on Family, Why Women Shouldn’t Work (Q&A) | Hollywood Reporter

Powerful Evangelical Women Split From Male Church Leaders to Slam Trump – The Daily Beast

“I have heard from many, many evangelical women who are horrified by Christian leaders ignoring this as an issue,” Moore told me. He says these women leaders have “spent their entire life teaching girls to find their identity in Christ and not in an American culture that sexualizes and objectifies them”—and they are now disgusted that evangelical men are not standing up and speaking out. Nish Weiseth, popular Christian blogger and author said that when it comes to Christian men still supporting Trump, “Disappointed seems like too soft a word. It’s devastating.”

Source: Powerful Evangelical Women Split From Male Church Leaders to Slam Trump – The Daily Beast

Occupation denial is pushing me out of my Jewish community | +972 Magazine

In the wake of the release of the Movement for Black Lives platform, the opposition of many Jewish organizations — and the silence of progressive organizations, many of whom had profoundly shaped my vision of justice — was stinging. The fervent, public opposition to Black Lives Matter was particularly stark considering how few Jewish organizations have publicly condemned Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. What I found striking about reactions to the platform was what they demonstrated about the Jewish community’s support for the occupation. The Jewish community can no longer acknowledge the full depth of black oppression in this country, fearing that if they do they might reveal how black parents instructing their children to refrain from wearing hoodies around the police is eerily similar to a Palestinian parent instructing their child to wear a cross at a checkpoint.This past year we saw too many in the Jewish establishment continue to support the occupation, publicly reject the Movement for Black Lives, and remain silent in the face of Trump’s rise. This coming year we will witness the 50th year of occupation, a new president, and a emboldened ultra-nationalist community in the United States. I can no longer sit silently in the back of a synagogue or give money and time to progressive Jewish organizations while our community ignores injustice. There is no better time to take action.

Source: Occupation denial is pushing me out of my Jewish community | +972 Magazine

Buffett Calls Trump’s Bluff and Releases His Tax Data – The New York Times

Acknowledging for the first time that he had avoided paying federal income taxes for years by claiming nearly a billion dollars in losses in 1995, Mr. Trump then tried to shift attention to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, accusing some of her wealthy supporters of exploiting tax laws to their own advantage.“Many of her friends took bigger deductions,” Mr. Trump said. “Warren Buffett took a massive deduction.”Actually, he did not.“I have paid federal income tax every year since 1944,” Mr. Buffett wrote in a letter released Monday.“My 2015 return shows adjusted gross income of $11,563,931,” he revealed. “My deductions totaled $5,477,694.” About two-thirds of those represented charitable contributions, he said. Most of the rest were related to Mr. Buffett’s state income tax payments.

Mr. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest men in the world, went on to say: “My federal income tax for the year was $1,845,557. Returns for previous years are of a similar nature in respect to contributions, deductions and tax rates.”

Last year, Mr. Buffett paid about 16 percent of his reported income in federal income taxes.“I have copies of all 72 of my returns,” Mr. Buffett added, “and none uses a carry forward,” the provision that allows taxpayers like Mr. Trump to use losses from one year to avoid paying personal federal income taxes both on some previous tax returns and in future years.Mr. Trump had previously claimed, without producing any evidence, that Mr. Buffett declared $873 million in losses.

Source: Buffett Calls Trump’s Bluff and Releases His Tax Data – The New York Times

What could make Mike Pence finally leave the Trump campaign? | US news | The Guardian

Scenario: Trump and his son Eric are caught digging up Alexander Hamilton’s grave.

Would Pence quit? Pence would appear alongside Trump in a video explaining that the exhumation of one of America’s founding fathers was no more disgraceful than liberals’ attempts to claim the leaders of the American revolution were black and Hispanic via the medium of a Broadway show.

Scenario: Trump finally releases his tax information, revealing that in 2014 he donated $1m to Isis.

Would Pence quit? Pence would claim that the donation was taken out of context. When pushed to contextualize it, Pence would say Donald never made the donation in the first place, chuckling.

Scenario: While campaigning alongside Trump in Arizona, Pence notices that one of the candidate’s opening tunes is by Elton John.Would Pence quit? Pence would resign from the campaign immediately.

Source: What could make Mike Pence finally leave the Trump campaign? | US news | The Guardian

With ‘Tweet Me Your First Assaults,’ a Protest Movement Is Born – The New York Times

But to many victims of sexual assault, Mr. Trump’s words struck a particular nerve. It was not simply that he is the Republican presidential nominee, and that a hot microphone had captured him speaking unguardedly. It was his casual tone, the manner in which he and the television personality Billy Bush appeared to be speaking a common language, many women said, that gave Mr. Trump’s boasts a special resonance.What he said and how he said it seemed to say as much about the broader environment toward women — an environment that had kept many of these women silent for so long — as they did about the candidate. And Mr. Trump’s dismissal of his actions as “locker room talk” only underscored the point.“This is RAPE CULTURE — the cultural conditioning of men and boys to feel entitled to treat women as objects,” Jill Gallenstein, 40, a retail executive in Los Angeles, wrote on Facebook. “It’s women and girls questioning what they have done to provoke such behavior. It’s the dismissing of this behavior because ‘it’s the way it has always been.’ It’s justifying the behavior because other powerful men have done it too. ‘Locker room talk’ normalizes this behavior — what we say matters.”That locker room talk also seemed to create its own momentum online.“I’ve never really thought about these moments cumulatively before,” Julie Oppenheimer of Chicago wrote on Facebook, after listing a few episodes of her own, including being kissed on the mouth by the janitor at her synagogue when she was 13. “In part, because they seem so ‘small’ compared to what many have experienced — not worthy of consideration. That’s because all of us already live in Trump’s world, where these behaviors are commonplace.”Laura Sabransky was one of many women who added to Ms. Oppenheimer’s thread, writing that she had been given date-rape drugs three times between high school and college. “I call Trump a walking trigger alert,” she said in an interview. “He is triggering anxiety and PTSD-like reactions in women, me included.”

Source: With ‘Tweet Me Your First Assaults,’ a Protest Movement Is Born – The New York Times

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day | 3CHICSPOLITICO

 

Native American music is as vast and diverse as the people who create it, and each tribe has its own musical approach and style that has been passed down for centuries. Music is at the center of Native American culture, used in religious rituals, for healing, for accompanying work or games and for social gatherings of all kinds. For most Native Americans, music and song is not a human invention but something given to them by spirits to facilitate interaction between the heavens and Earth.Lyrics are filled with symbolism, and singers sometimes use made-up sounds to help create the stories and rhythmic poetry. Vocals and chanting are ubiquitous in traditional Native American music, and flutes and drums are the most common instruments found throughout the various tribes.

Source: Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day | 3CHICSPOLITICO