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We led some of America’s largest companies. Here’s why we are voting for Harris, not Trump

We led some of America’s largest companies. Here’s why we are voting for Harris, not Trump

The following former CEOs — Doug Parker (American Airlines), Ken Frazier (Merck), Anne Mulcahy (Xerox), Ursula Burns (Xerox), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jeff Bewkes (Time Warner), Bob Diamond (Barclays), Matt Levatich (Harley-Davidson), Tom Glocer (Thomson Reuters), Kay Koplovitz (USA Network), Robert Wolf (UBS Americas), Blake Irving (GO Daddy), Michael Lynton (Sony Pictures), Ken Chenault (American Express Co), Tony Coles (Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Yumanity Pharmaceuticals), Roger Altman (Evercore), Ellen Kullman (DuPont), John Pepper (Procter & Gamble), and Bill George (Medtronic) — write:…

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How America’s craven plutocrats busted the myth of the business hero

How America’s craven plutocrats busted the myth of the business hero

Ross Rosenfeld writes: Of the top 10 richest men in America, not one of them has publicly endorsed Kamala Harris or been willing to condemn Donald Trump. These supposed business heroes are mostly business cowards, the first to stoop to obey. Occasionally, we hear about the whispered condemnations that those in the billionaire class supposedly voice behind closed doors. Yet Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale professor who heads the Executive Leadership Institute, told Forbes, “They don’t antagonize Trump because … they…

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A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage

By Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana This story was originally published by ProPublica Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this pregnancy. The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should…

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Workers say they were tricked and threatened as part of Elon Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort

Workers say they were tricked and threatened as part of Elon Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort

Wired reports: “I was in shock and disbelief,” says a paid door knocker flown to Michigan to help turn out the vote for former president Donald Trump on behalf of Elon Musk’s America PAC. In Michigan, canvassers and paid door knockers for the former president, contracted by a firm associated with America PAC, have been subjected to poor working conditions: A number of them have been driven around in the back of a seatless U-Haul van, according to video obtained…

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Did Biden put his foot in his mouth yet again, or was it just an apostrophe?

Did Biden put his foot in his mouth yet again, or was it just an apostrophe?

CNN reports: President Joe Biden on Tuesday tried to clean up comments he made earlier that sparked immediate backlash from many who interpreted them as referring to supporters of former President Donald Trump as “garbage.” Speaking during a Voto Latino get out-the-vote call, Biden — in reaction to Trump’s offensive rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday — said, “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico ‘a floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me…

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Protesters angry over Kamala Harris’s support for Israel should not forget what they stand to lose

Protesters angry over Kamala Harris’s support for Israel should not forget what they stand to lose

Gal Beckerman writes: Trump has made it clear how he views dissent. He has mused about throwing protesters in jail. He wants to revive the 1792 Insurrection Act so he can sic the military on those who might object to his policies. His defense secretary Mike Esper said that Trump proposed shooting demonstrators in the legs during the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd. This avowed, even gleeful, willingness to violently suppress any dissent from what Trump calls the “enemy within” is the main…

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Black people recognize what is happening to Palestinians

Black people recognize what is happening to Palestinians

Vann R. Newkirk II writes: In April 1952, W. E. B. Du Bois stepped onto the stage of the ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat in Midtown Manhattan. His beard was grizzled and he was still working out how to lecture through new dentures. In a word, he was old. During his long life, he’d witnessed the dawn of Jim Crow and the glow of the first atom bombs; the slaughter of the Comanche and the rivalry between the Soviet Union…

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The doctor who saw children shot in the head in Gaza—and tried to tell the world

The doctor who saw children shot in the head in Gaza—and tried to tell the world

Sophie Hurwitz writes: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered as a trauma surgeon in Ukraine, Haiti, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. But when he went to Gaza in March and April of this year, it changed him. Sidhwa had never seen so much horror in his life. “There’s nothing like Gaza right now,” he said. “Almost 100 percent of Gaza’s population is homeless and displaced…does that sound like a place where people are going to survive?” With international journalists banned from Gaza…

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Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania

Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania

Politico reports: Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania. Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally. Some say their dismay is giving Kamala Harris a new opening to win over the state’s Latino voters, particularly nearly half a million Pennsylvanians of Puerto Rican descent. Evidence of the backlash was immediate on Monday: A nonpartisan Puerto Rican group drafted a letter urging its members to…

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Judge Michael Luttig: If Republicans are unwilling to put America before their party now, they never will

Judge Michael Luttig: If Republicans are unwilling to put America before their party now, they never will

J. Michael Luttig writes: We Americans live in faith with our Constitution and with the past generations of Americans who swore to protect it and fought to defend it. One week from today, we will decide whether Donald Trump is fit to be president of the United States again. He is not. When we entrusted our Constitution and our democracy with him before, he betrayed us. Campaigning for the presidency again, he now promises to exact vengeance against his fellow…

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How Elon Musk, an erstwhile ‘free speech absolutist,’ became Trump’s chief propagandist

How Elon Musk, an erstwhile ‘free speech absolutist,’ became Trump’s chief propagandist

The Washington Post reports: The top political accounts on X have seen their audiences crumble in the months before the election, a signal of the platform’s diminishing influence and usefulness to political discourse under billionaire owner Elon Musk, a Washington Post analysis found. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have struggled to win the attention they once enjoyed on the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to The Post’s review of months of data for the 100 top-tweeting congressional…

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‘Today we are all Puerto Ricans’

‘Today we are all Puerto Ricans’

  Rolling Stone reports: Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin did not hold back when discussing the racist jokes made during Donald Trump‘s rally in New York City on Sunday. During Monday’s episode of The View, the two Latina hosts slammed Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes as he opened for Trump with a horrid comedy set. During Sunday’s rally, Hinchcliffe made headlines for describing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” saying that Latinos “love making babies,” and joked that Black people…

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Trump is psychologically preparing Americans for an assault on the electoral system

Trump is psychologically preparing Americans for an assault on the electoral system

Anne Applebaum writes: In the final week of this election season, the Republican Party is running two different campaigns. One of them is an ugly and angry but conventional political enterprise. Donald Trump and other Republicans make speeches; party operatives seek to get out the vote; money is spent in swing states; television and radio advertisements proliferate. The people running that campaign are focused on winning the election. Last night, in New York City’s Madison Square Garden, we caught a…

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LGBTQ+ voters in these 4 states could swing the 2024 presidential election

LGBTQ+ voters in these 4 states could swing the 2024 presidential election

LGBTQ+ voters lean heavily Democratic, and they tend to turn out in high numbers. Dani VG via Getty Images By Dorian Rhea Debussy, The Ohio State University Victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election may come down to LGBTQ+ voters. Polling data shows that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running in a near-dead heat in four states – Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. And as a scholar of LGBTQ+ politics, I suspect that LGBTQ+ voters could play an…

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Over 200,000 subscribers flee Washington Post after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement

Over 200,000 subscribers flee Washington Post after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement

NPR reports: The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president. More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure…

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Israeli parliament votes to ban UNRWA from Israel within 90 days

Israeli parliament votes to ban UNRWA from Israel within 90 days

The Guardian reports: Israel’s parliament has voted to ban the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) from the country within 90 days, in defiance of US and other international pressure to maintain the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to the country’s Palestinian population. In a 92-10 vote late on Monday, the Knesset banned the agency, which operates in Israel according to a 1967 treaty, from conducting “any activity” or providing any service inside Israel, including the areas of annexed East…

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