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Extra Extra: Trump Used Charity Money To Buy His Own Portrait Because No One Else Would Buy It

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Bannon holds rally for Republican candidates but none show up

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Trump’s former strategist touts his role in president’s success before crowd of 200 in upstate New York

As Donald Trump held midterm rallies this week in front of thousands, his one-time chief strategist Steve Bannon made his own, rather more low-key return to the campaign trail.

Bannon appeared in front of 200 people at a firehouse outside Buffalo, New York, ostensibly to campaign for Republicans based in the area. But in a visceral demonstration of just how far Bannon’s stock has fallen since leaving the White House 14 months ago, none of those Republicans running for office turned up.

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‘Erasure of an entire group’: intersex people fear Trump anti-trans memo

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Their lives would be at odds with the scientifically erroneous definitions of sex and gender that Trump is pursuing

It took decades for Anunnaki Ray Marquez to accept himself. Then, on 17 September 2018, the state of Colorado accepted him, too, issuing a new birth certificate that said he was “intersex”, meaning born with a mix of what are considered male and female sex characteristics.

It was a “huge, gigantic, momentous” event in the 50-year-old’s life: finally an official government document recognizing his existence. But the celebration was short-lived.

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Trump administration wants to remove ‘gender’ from UN human rights documents

Unlimited hatred of non-hetero people.

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Exclusive: US diplomats have pushed for rewriting of collective statements to remove language inclusive of transgender people

The US mission to the United Nations is seeking to eliminate the word “gender” from UN human rights documents, most often replacing it with “woman”, apparently as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to define transgender people out of existence.

At recent meetings of the UN’s Third Committee, which is concerned with “social, humanitarian and cultural” rights, US diplomats have been pushing for the rewriting of general assembly policy statements to remove what the administration argues is vague and politically correct language, reflecting what it sees as an ‘ideology’ of treating gender as an individual choice rather than an unchangeable biological fact.

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‘Dripping with poison of antisemitism’: the demonization of George Soros

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The billionaire was the first target in a series of mail bombs sent this week, an attack that comes as vilification of Soros has reached new heights

As investigators seek answers in the case of mail bombs sent to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others, there will be no shortage of evidence regarding the first target, the billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

The bomb maker’s motivations remain unknown. What is clear is that the attempted attack comes as the demonization of Soros in the US, previously limited to fringe groups on the far right, has reached new heights. More recently it has been taken up by the most senior Republican politicians in the country, up to and including the president.

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Donald Trump attacks media ‘hostility’ after attempted pipe bombings

disappointed that Washington Post and New York Times did not get bombs?

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US president says reporters have responsibility to set civil tone in speech after political opponents were targeted

Donald Trump has used a campaign speech to attack what he called media “hostility” after a wave of pipe bombs were sent to senior Democrats, prominent critics and the broadcaster CNN.

The US president, who had earlier said he condemned the attempted bombings and that a “major federal investigation” was under way, followed this with a plea for unity during a midterms campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday.

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‘Shameful’: German MEP condemns Tory’s Nazi remark

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MEP Syed Kamall’s comments insult memory of Social Democrats who fought Nazis, says socialist leader

The German leader of the socialist group in the European parliament has told of his personal anguish at a link made by the Conservative party’s most senior MEP between his party’s political philosophy and that of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Udo Bullmann accused Briton Syed Kamall of tarnishing the memory of Social Democrats who fought national socialism, often at the cost of their lives.

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The worst aspect of America’s bomb scares? Their air of inevitability | Jill Abramson

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President Trump’s reckless rhetoric towards opponents has helped stoke this hideously violent time in politics

This week, pipe bombs were sent to prominent Democrats including George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. CNN also received one in the mail. Sadly, none of this was really that shocking. The news had an air of inevitability, being the culmination of what has been a hideously violent time in our political culture. Poison is coursing through the US body politic. Violence permeates political dialogue and sometimes erupts at political events.

The shocking thing is that some of the violence has been endorsed by the president himself.

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As Ebola has shown, the global health system is as strong as its weakest link

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The west African Ebola outbreak started in a small village in Guinea. It shows the value of investing in grassroots healthcare

In the city of Beni, in the north-east corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an outbreak of Ebola is simmering. Fear of this lethal disease and all that goes with it – grief over lost loved ones, exhausted emergency response workers and ongoing insecurity – might once have felt distant, foreign, unknowable. But, tragically, these emotions are all too familiar.

Almost five years ago, a two-year-old boy from Meliandou – a tiny rural village in southern Guinea, bordering Liberia and Sierra Leone – fell sick with a strange illness. His symptoms were the stuff of nightmares: internal bleeding, black stools, vomiting and a high fever. Just two days later, he died.

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Trump’s words have consequences, and he can no longer deny it | Gary Younge

He will deny to last breath and his believers will deny too!

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After the targeting of politicians and the media in a pipe-bombing campaign, it’s clear where the president’s hostile rhetoric leads

Lizbeth Fierro, from Racine, Wisconsin, was 16 when Donald Trump was elected. “I thought he was a joke,” she told me. Then she noticed a change at school. “Once he was elected there were a lot more people who came out very bold and started saying mean comments about immigrants and Mexicans … I thought, ‘Wow, this is dumb, this is very dumb.’”

Then in July her father, Ricardo, the former head of the Latino chamber of commerce in town and a prominent activist, was detained at his home and is now threatened with deportation. Ricardo, who has been in the country for more than 20 years and has five children and two stepchildren, was one of the first of almost 40 undocumented migrants detained in Racine this summer. For the past few months, many in the Latino community have been keeping their heads down. They don’t go out, even to church, and when they do leave the house they get someone with documents to drive them.

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