Bookmarks on Februar 25th, 2017
- Donald Trump Rejects Intelligence Report on Travel Ban — WSJ — “An intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security contradicts the White House’s assertion that immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries pose a particular risk of being terrorists and should be blocked from entering the U.S.”<br>
- Law Enforcement Using Facebook and Apple to Data-Mine Accounts of Trump Protest Arrestees — “Law enforcement is compelling Apple and Facebook to hand over the personal information of users who were mass arrested at protests against the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., AlterNet has confirmed. The tech giants appear to be complying with the data-mining requests, amid mounting concerns over the heavy-handed crackdown against the more than 200 people detained on January 20, among them journalists, legal observers and medics.”<br>
- Helen Bailey and the lethal darkness behind this ‘middle-aged woman’ myth — “If anything makes “middle-aged women” vulnerable, it’s falling for all this ghastly negative reinforcement themselves.”<br>
- The truth about refugees in Sweden — The Washington Post — Carl Bildt: “Numerous studies have shown that the Bosnian refugees have integrated well in Swedish society. On average they do as well, or even marginally better, than those born in the country. And they are everywhere: in sports, culture, business and politics. They have given an added flavor to our country —(…) I believe they have made Sweden a better country.”<br>
- America’s Greatest Political Rhetoric Rewritten Using Paul Ryan’s Definition of Freedom —
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