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👓 A startling number of women say they have been harassed while running | CNN
Mollie Tibbetts' case has raised safety questions for women runners who say men often view an athletic woman in shorts or jogging pants as an invitation for lewd or frightening behavior.
👓 How This Will End | The Atlantic
Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.
👓 Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It | ProPublica
It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals.
👓 Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair | CNN
A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.
👓 Use the_title() and the_title_attribute() Correctly | Pippins Plugins
WordPress provides a nice little function for displaying the title of the current post: the_title(). This function gets used all over the place: in the site header, at the top of single posts and pages, in the loop, in the footer, etc. It is probably one of the most commonly used functions by theme developers,…
👓 Analysis | By a 3-to-1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies | Washington Post
About as many supporters like his approach to the economy as his combativeness.
👓 Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from winning conviction on all counts | Fox News
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team was one holdout juror away from winning a conviction against Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
👓 Trump’s company approved $420,000 in payments to Cohen, relying on ‘sham’ invoices, prosecutors say | Washington Post
President Trump’s real estate company authorized paying $420,000 to lawyer Michael Cohen in his effort to silence women during the presidential campaign and then relied on “sham” invoices from Cohen that concealed the nature of the payments, according to legal filings released Tuesday. The payments began flowing in February 2017, soon after Trump took office, when Cohen approached Trump Organization executives seeking to be reimbursed for “election-related” expenses, prosecutors said.
👓 A Blended Family: Her Mother Was Neanderthal, Her Father Something Else Entirely | New York Times
Genetic analysis of bones discovered in a Siberian cave hints that the prehistoric world may have been filled with “hybrid” humans.
👓 Let’s all go back to Tumblr | Hacker News
There’s some interesting commentary on this post about social media in general.
👓 ‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’ | The Atlantic
How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders
The irony of reading this given the material I’ve been reading about materialism and minimalism lately. I think that just today I threw out about 50 pounds of old junk I didn’t need and have piles of old, well-used things that have gone past their useful lives to me.
People keep fettering while I’m always unfettering….
👓 What Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Means for Trump | The Atlantic
The president’s former fixer on Tuesday said he broke campaign laws at Trump’s behest, paying off two women who alleged extramarital affairs.
👓 Blind Confidence Couldn’t Save Paul Manafort | The Atlantic
President Trump's former campaign chairman was found guilty on eight counts of fraud and financial crimes. But it’s not too late for him to cut a deal.
I initially caught the news about this as an interruption while a soap opera was on after lunch. It reminded me of summers with my mom watching television and interruptions for news about the Reagan administration, Oliver North, and even Clarence Thomas hearings. Oh the nostalgia…
It’s incredibly rare that I’ve randomly got soaps on the television, and I had even contemplated the nostalgia before the news broke. It’s almost as if the universe were listening to my brain.
👓 What Happens to Students When Their Professors Are on Welfare | The Atlantic
The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they’re hired to instruct?
Universities are squeezing out as much as they can without students realizing the drop in quality and services they’re receiving.