Acerbic Politics: Headlines with links

Monday, July 23, 2018

Headlines with links

Ohio Congressman Intends to Run for President

States Aggressively Move to Purge Voter Rolls

Half of New York Daily News staff laid off in Tronc’s ongoing effort to destroy all local news

BREAKING: Judge Delays Manafort Trial Until July 31

Disgraced charter school exec pleads guilty to criminal money laundering, resigns from LA school board

Accidentally-released documents show Interior agency prioritized industry over public lands

Documents released by the Department of the Interior — and then retracted a day later — reveal that agency officials dismissed evidence that public lands provide numerous benefits in favor of prioritizing fossil fuel interests, along with ranching and logging.

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https://thinkprogress.org/interior-zinke-public-lands-oil-drilling-d8a4cc51c5d2/

Trump Releases Enemies List, Threatens To Yank Their Security Clearances

Dick Bove: Trump poised to take control of the Federal Reserve

President Trump sharply criticized the Federal Reserve this week, saying interest rate increases are hurting the economy.

Trump will have the opportunity to fashion the central bank in the image he would like as he has four vacancies to fill on the board of governors.

The result could be a more politicized Fed.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/trump-poised-to-take-control-of-the-federal-reserve.html

Epistocracy: a political theorist’s case for letting only the informed vote

According to Brennan, we’d be better off if we replaced democracy with a form of government known as “epistocracy.” Epistocracy is a system in which the votes of people who can prove their political knowledge count more than the votes of people who can’t. In other words, it’s a system that privileges the most politically informed citizens.

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https://www.vox.com/2018/7/23/17581394/against-democracy-book-epistocracy-jason-brennan

The NRA's Strange Silence On Their Collusion With Russia

Carter Page FISA Documents Released

“The Trump administration disclosed on Saturday a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center of highly contentious accusations by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that the F.B.I. had abused its surveillance powers,” the New York Times reports.

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/22/carter-page-fisa-documents-released/

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