Holy cow. Harry Dean Stanton, rest well and be remembered. Harry Dean Stanton, the veteran American actor who ballasted generations of independent and cult films, has died aged 91. Source: Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91 | Film | The Guardian
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Here’s a pocketful of links, stacked up for easy viewing. Black-clad anarchists storm rally, assault at least 5 people: BERKELEY, Calif. — Black-clad anarchists on Sunday stormed into what had been a largely peaceful protest here against hate and attacked at least five people, including the leader of a politically conservative group who canceled an event a day earlier in San Francisco amid fears of violence. – Tags: politics – https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/black-clad-anarchists-storm-rally-assault-at-least-5-people/2017/08/27/57149418-8b91-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html Trump to Fully Restore Military Surplus Transfers to Police: WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to reinstate in full a program that provides local police departments with military surplus…
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G+: 25 Hilarious Memes That Will Upgrade Your Caturday Useful: Also, this cat appears to be a member of #TheResistance – recovering from last night's news dump. 25 Hilarious Memes That Will Upgrade Your Caturday Cheezburger.com – Crafted from the finest Internets. Read at Google+
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Here’s a pocketful of links, stacked up for easy viewing. Flickr: Repository of Resistance Memes: A really useful collection of Resistance memes, many were used in a recent “tweetstorm Google doc created by Jhamel. – by Honey DemForce – Tags: politics, theresistance, trump – https://www.flickr.com/photos/151634815@N03/sets/72157685219931514 CaptainsLog2017 on Twitter – by Herr Trump in, CaptainsLog2017 ??, Scarlet Witch 2017 ? – Tags: trump – https://twitter.com/CaptainsLog2017/status/900220349593374720 CaptainsLog2017 on Twitter PHX pics: #PhoenixRally pics thread – by East Coast, Deb, Dani G, Vicki Ringer, Dracula’s Spatula, Eric DeBlackmere, Kenny J #Resist, Cynthia Pease, Mrir, C Barker Congdon, CaptainsLog2017 ??, Scarlet Witch 2017 ?…
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G+: Milky Way over Chilean Volcanoes Useful: Sometimes, you have to contemplate the infinite. APOD: 2017 August 21 – Milky Way over Chilean Volcanoes A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. Read at Google+
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Here’s a pocketful of links, stacked up for easy viewing. GOP senator unsure if Trump will be 2020 nominee: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told MSNBC that she was unsure whether President Donald Trump would be the party’s presidential nominee in 2020. – Tags: politics – http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/08/21/susan-collins-unsure-trump-2020-msnbc-sot-erin.cnn Jeh Johnson: Confederate Statues Are ‘Neo-Nazi Rallying Points’: Martha Raddatz filled in on ABC’s “This Week” charged with the arduous task of eliciting some semblance of logic from Jerry Falwell Junior’s rationalizing of Trump’s deplorable defense of White Nationalists, KKK members and Neo-Nazis. – by Leftofcenter – Tags: politics – http://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/jeh-johnson-confederate-statues-are-neo Angry Trump Grilled…
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Here’s a pocketful of links, stacked up for easy viewing. The most pernicious racism is the stuff we don’t even think about : ***Dave Does the Blog: Literally don’t think about, as in the stuff that passes below our consciousness, that we don’t detect, let alone ponder. The stuff where we don’t even think about it as racism because it’s just How Things Are in our minds, axiomatic assumptions about people based on their race. – by Dave Hill – Tags: Racism, Blogs – http://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2017/08/18/pernicious-racism-stuff-dont-even-think.html From airline cancellations to that ropey hotel, what to do about botched holidays: The Guardian…
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 Seventh in a series of editorials from the LA Times. READ. These are not normal times.The man in the White House is reckless and unmanageable, a danger to the Constitution, a threat to our democratic institutions. Source: Enough is Enough – Los Angeles Times
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Here’s a pocketful of links, stacked up for easy viewing. Steve Bannon vows to ‘go to war’ for Trump agenda after sacking: Donald Trump’s former chief strategist has vowed to go to war against the president’s opponents, after being fired from his job at the White House. Steve Bannon, who has returned as head of ultra-conservative website Breitbart News, said he would fight for the agenda that won Mr Trump the election. – by Anthony Zurcher – Tags: politics – http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40985180 Finland killings: Stabbings in Turku a ‘terror attack’: Police in Finland say they believe the killing of two people…
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Megachurch pastor resigns from Trump’s evangelical council: Most of President Trump’s evangelical advisers have stood by him this week following much criticism over his response to violent clashes in Charlottesville, even as several CEOs left business advisory councils. But one pastor quietly stepped away. – by Sarah Pulliam Bailey – Tags: politics – https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/18/megachurch-pastor-resigns-from-trumps-evangelical-council/ James Fields Jr.: A neo-Nazi’s violent, rage-fueled journey to Charlottesville: Late in his senior year of high school, James Fields Jr. was excitedly mapping his future, hoping to join the Army right after graduation. – by Abigail Hauslohner, Paul Duggan, Jack Gillum and Aaron C. Davis…