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Andy Borowitz | Congress's Approval Rating No Longer Detectable by Current Technology

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Andy Borowitz | Congress's Approval Rating No Longer Detectable by Current Technology
Members of US Congress. (photo: Reuters)

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "After a challenging week for the legislative body, the approval rating of the United States Congress has shrunk to a point where it is no longer detectable by the technology currently available, a leading pollster said on Friday."
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Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans Pacific Partnership: "This Is a Big Deal"
Alexandros Orphanides, In These Times
Orphanides writes: "Trade agreements are about more than business - they're about who has final say in the way people around the world live, what they eat, how much they are paid, what medicines they can buy and whether they have jobs."
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Why Was an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Tracking a Black Lives Matter Protest?
Lee Fang, The Intercept
Fang writes: "Members of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force tracked the time and location of a Black Lives Matter protest last December at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, email obtained by The Intercept shows."
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NYPD Edited Wikipedia Entries on Eric Garner and Other Cases of Police Brutality
Kelly Weill, Capital New York
Weill writes: "Computers operating on the New York Police Department's computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed."
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Republicans Hankering for Ground War Against ISIS. What Could Go Wrong?
Paul Waldman, The American Prospect
Waldman writes: "A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 62 percent of Americans, including 72 percent of Republicans, favors the use of ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria."
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US-Backed Iraqi Security Forces Committing Same Atrocities as ISIS
James Gordon Meek, Brian Ross and Rym Momtaz, ABC News
Excerpt: "U.S.-trained and armed Iraqi military units, the key to the American strategy against ISIS, are under investigation for committing some of the same atrocities as the terror group, American and Iraqi officials told ABC News."
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ISIS Commits Cultural Destruction, Our Society Commits Environmental Destruction
George Monbiot, Guardian UK
Monbiot writes: "Militants' bulldozing of cultural treasures in northern Iraq has parallels in the destruction of natural wonders around the world, and both should be denounced."
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