““Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.”

Deficits Do Matter: Debt Payments Will Consume Trillions of Dollars in Coming Years

U.S.-bound migrants enter Guatemala, others clash at border

Another 3000 strong caravan

Is Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE

Murder in Pittsburgh and the Targeting of Alternative Social Media

Voters in Oregon Have the Opportunity to Create 10 “Gun Sanctuary” Counties

New Hampshire Privacy Amendment on the Ballot

Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare

Mexico offers caravan migrants benefits to stay; thousands refuse

Virtue-signaling and derangement in the wake of a massacre

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Friday roundup

Friday - 19Oct2018 Filed in: Headlines&Politics&Free Markets&Ecology

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Robert Mueller ∙ investigate ∙ Trump campaign ∙ Russia ∙ Democrats ∙ Backpage ∙ lawyers ∙ Amazon ∙ minimum wage ∙ bonus ∙ climate change ∙ yard signs ∙ Ted Cruz ∙ bubble ∙ debt ∙ International borders ∙ no rights ∙ Mexico ∙ riot police ∙ caravan ∙ Brexit ∙ Germany ∙ Heidi Heitkamp ∙ sexual assault ∙ survivors ∙ doxing

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Bonus Sunday supersized roundup

Sunday - 18Mar2018 Filed in: Headlines&Law&Free Markets&Politics

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: mental illness ∙ diversity ∙ viewpoint ∙ debt ∙ Peter Strzok ∙ diversity training ∙ Cambridge Analytica ∙ Michael Flynn ∙ Rudolph Contreras ∙ FISA ∙ currency collapse ∙ qualified immunity ∙ mental health reform ∙ Wells Fargo ∙ scam ∙ Irish ∙ immigrants ∙ California ∙ Northstate ∙ Jefferson ∙ China ∙ walk out ∙ Women's March ∙ Obamacare ∙ healthcare ∙ aIr traffic control ∙ Russian hack ∙ Trump campaign ∙ Facebook ∙ vitamins ∙ false charges ∙ City That Ate A Country

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Supersized Monday roundup

Monday - 05Mar2018 Filed in: Headlines&Politics&Free Markets&Free Speech

China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe

Will China demand censorship across the globe? A free internet is humanity's last, best hope.

Schumer Will Vote ‘No’ On Judicial Nominee Because He Is White

“The nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump’s selections for the federal judiciary. Quattlebaum replaces not one, but two scuttled Obama nominees who were African American.”

Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say

There isn't a trend. See also School Shootings Have Declined Dramatically Since The 1990S. Does It Really Make Sense To Militarize Schools?

Google tried censoring 'gun' shopping searches. It backfired

Someone didn't think it through. Well, it was a bad decision anyway, but the unintended consequences…

The History of the 'Assault Weapon' Hoax. Part 1: The Crime that Started it All

“A 1989 shooting at a Cal. schoolyard began the national "assault weapon" issue. It was a consequence of law enforcement failure.”

SHOCKER: Companies Pulling NRA Support Totally Backfires

People are taking the NRA boycott seriously. Just not the way the virtue signalers hoped.

Obamacare: Will States do the Job that Congressional Republicans Have Failed to Do?

All sorts of implications here

Seven Feet Of Snow In Northern California Puts Screeching Halt To State’s Drought

You mean climate fixes itself?

Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?

This needs to be in the gun control (victim disarmament) discussion. Remember this The Parkland Teens Fighting For Gun Control Have The Backing Of These Huge Organizing Groups

High School Teacher Suspended For Pro-Gun Comments On Parkland Shooting

Thou shalt not dissent

How Lenders Are Turning Low-Level Courts Into Dickensian “Debt Collection Mills”

“Federal law outlawed debt prisons in 1833, but lenders, landlords and even gyms and other businesses have found a way to resurrect the Dickensian practice.”