DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY DIGEST: As Blasey Ford Alleges Kavanaugh Assaulted Her, Will Senate Repeat Mistakes Made with Anita Hill?, Facebook Censors a ThinkProgress Story on Kavanaugh After a Conservative Site Calls it “Fake News” & Will Kavanaugh Overturn Roe v. Wade? SCOTUS Nominee’s Confirmation Is About “Life and Death for Women” & More 17SEP18

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Monday, September 17, 2018 democracynow.org Stories As Blasey Ford Alleges Kavanaugh Assaulted Her, Will Senate Repeat Mistakes Made with Anita Hill? Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has come forward to accuse President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape, throwing his nomination ... Read More → Facebook Censors a ThinkProgress Story on Kavanaugh After a Conservative Site Calls it “Fake News” Last week, ThinkProgress published a report by Senior Fellow Ian Millhiser headlined “Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week and almost no one ... Read More → Will Kavanaugh Overturn Roe v. Wade? SCOTUS Nominee’s Confirmation Is About “Life and Death for Women” As news of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh breaks, his stance on Roe v. Wade is also under scrutiny. The New York Times ... Read More → A Debate on Geoengineering: Should We Deliberately “Hack” Planet Earth to Combat Climate Change? Protests continue in Dallas after the shooting and killing of a 26-year-old black man in his own apartment by a white Dallas police officer. Police officer Amber Guyger ... Read More → Headlines → California Professor Publicly Accuses Brett Kavanaugh of Attempting to Rape Her in High School Tropical Depression Florence Kills 17 & Smashes Rainfall Records in Carolinas Florence’s Torrential Rains Trigger Toxic Coal Ash Release in North Carolina Typhoon Mangkhut Reaches Mainland China; Death Toll in Philippines Could Exceed 100 FEMA Head Defends Trump’s Lies on Hurricane Maria’s Death Toll in Puerto Rico Hundreds Mourn 12-Year-Old Gazan Boy Killed at Nonviolent Protest at Border Fence Officials Say Palestinian Teenager Fatally Stabbed Israeli in Occupied West Bank Chile: Pope Expels Priest in Child Sex Abuse Scandal Blackwater Contractor Faces Retrial for Murder in Nisoor Square Massacre in Iraq Trump Threatens to Impose New Tariffs on China, Escalating Trade War Texas Border Agent Confesses to Murdering Four Women Guatemala’s Highest Court Orders Return of U.N.-Backed Anti-Corruption Probe Germany: Thousands Protest the Clearing of Hambach Forest for Coal Mine Expansion European Activists Protest Banks on 10-Year Anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ Collapse Forward this email → Donate today → Follow