For all those news stories that are not quite newsworthy, not quite notable but just mentionable.
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This was mentionable, Elle Reeve, a journalist for Vice News from a viral documentary on the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville, says white supremacists continue to recognize her in public and make themselves known in super creepy ways.
âI had been covering these guys for a while and so everywhere I went, they knew who I was,â Reeve says. âThere was no slipping into the crowd as anonymous reporter. And they knew who Iâve dated; they knew my boyfriendâs Jewish, so they would yell things about that to me.â
So creepy 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/vice-news-journalist-cant-escape-shadow-charlottesville-110903459.html
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Andrew Miller, aide to Roger Stone has been held in contempt of court by Mueller.
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We should just believe women. Itâs hard to come forward and have to relive abuse. Her son confirms existence of a video showing the assault. What more is needed?
Rep. Keith Ellison â deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a candidate for Minnesota attorney general â has denied allegations that he abused his ex-girlfriend, Karen Monahan. On Thursday, Monahan, 44, spoke on camera for the first time about an incident she said happened nearly two years ago.
Monahan said she has video of what happened but that itâs too traumatic for her, so she has chosen not to share it with anyone. CBS News has not seen the video.
Monahan said that in September of 2016, she and her then boyfriend, Ellison, got into a heated argument that scared her. She said it started when he came into a room where she was laying on a bed, listening to a podcast. He asked her to take out the trash and when he asked if she heard him, she shook her head.
âHe looked at me, goes âHey you fing hear me ⌠and then he looked at me, he goes 'Bitch, get the f out of my house,â and he started to try to drag me off the bed,â Monahan said. âThatâs when I put my camera on to video him.â
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I donât know what to say except, two things can be wrong at the same time.
The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. She became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement. Her boyfriend, the culinary television star Anthony Bourdain, eagerly joined the fight.
But in the months that followed her revelations about Mr. Weinstein last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy Bennett, a young actor and rock musician who said she had sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room years earlier, when he was only two months past his 17th birthday. She was 37. The age of consent in California is 18.
That claim and the subsequent arrangement for payments are laid out in documents between lawyers for Ms. Argento and Mr. Bennett, a former child actor who once played her son in a movie.
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The Wallstreet Journal responds to Bannon disinvitation to speak at The New Yorker Festival.
The New Yorker joins the growing list of news organizations that have reversed their decision to engage with conservatives after a public outcry. In April, the Atlantic magazine announced its decision to cut ties with Kevin Williamson, a conservative political commentator, after critics called attention to previous statements that likened abortion to a capital crime. The New York Times reversed its decision to hire Quinn Norton, a libertarian technology writer, as an op-ed columnist after her critics pointed out that Ms. Norton used slurs against gay people on Twitter and called attention to her friendship with a white supremacist.
The WSJ just called these people conservatives, normalizing these views for their readers.
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Europe and nationalism: A country-by-country guide
Across Europe, nationalist and far-right parties have made significant electoral gains.
Some have taken office, others have become the main opposition voice, and even those yet to gain a political foothold have forced centrist leaders to adapt.
In part, this can be seen as a backlash against the political establishment in the wake of the financial and migrant crises, but the wave of discontent also taps into long-standing fears about globalisation and a dilution of national identity.
Although the parties involved span a broad political spectrum, there are some common themes, such as hostility to immigration, anti-Islamic rhetoric and Euroscepticism.
So where does this leave Europeâs political landscape?
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Media Matters put together a super cut of Tucker Carlson and other know White Nationalists. 
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MOSCOW â Russian news reports say a member of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot has been hospitalized in grave condition for what could be a possible poisoning.
Ekho Moskvy radio and online news portal Meduza reported Wednesday that Pyotr Verzilov has been in emergency care since late Tuesday. They quoted a fellow Pussy Riot member, Veronika Nikulshina, as saying Verzilovâs symptoms included losing his eyesight and ability to speak.
Nikulshina said Verzilov was being treated in the toxicology unit of a Moscow hospital, indicating a suspected poisoning.
Verzilov, Nikulshina and two other activists served 15-day jail sentences for disrupting Julyâs World Cup final.
They ran onto the field wearing police uniforms, briefly interrupting the match between France and Croatia. Pussy Riot said they were protesting excessive police powers in Russia.
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WTF
Pharma chief defends 400% drug price rise as a âmoral requirementâ
Nostrum Laboratoriesâ Nirmal Mulye says he is right to charge as much as possible and slams FDANirmal Mulye: âThis is a capitalist economy and if you canât make money you canât stay in businessâ
David Crow in New York SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 220
A pharma executive has defended his decision to raise the price of an antibiotic mixture to more than $2,000 a bottle, arguing there was a âmoral requirement to sell the product at the highest priceâ.Last month, Nostrum Laboratories, a small Missouri-based drugmaker, more than quadrupled the price of a bottle of nitrofurantoin from $474.75 to $2,392, according to Elsevierâs Gold Standard drug database.
Nitrofurantoin is an antibiotic used to treat bladder infections that was first marketed in 1953, which appears on the World Health Organizationâs list of essential medicines.
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Yeah pharma companies are bullshit.
On a less related note, I really, really wish that people would actually read articles before getting worked up about headlines. We have this great aggregate that makes it so much easier to know what kind of source youâre following, and people just donât bother so much as skimming the piece itself.
I just had this argument with my roommate who is now blaring Green Day at me because an article with a clickbait headline said that someone he doesnât like in reality did something that wasnât terrible.
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Ok⌠so for me being a being a Kiwi, and our PM is at the UN right now, just have to post this. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=rVEV7MpQU_M
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An interesting and engaging interview! It was good to get to know your Prime Minister â and so refreshing to listen to a leader who combines strength with a personable good nature and is focused on unifying her country rather than dividing it. Iâm wishing that some day we can have such a leader here in the U.S. again. Welcome to Prime Minister Ardern and her family â hope she enjoys her stay here and is able to accomplish her goals during her time at the U.N.
To anyone else visiting this thread: highly recommended! 
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I like that Craig Newmark really supports journalists, and a free press.
Mr. Newmark is trying to stop the bleeding â although not here. He is among a gaggle of West Coast technology moguls who are riding to the rescue of the beleaguered East Coast media.
On Wednesday, New York Public Radio announced a $2.5 million gift from Mr. Newmark to expand its newsroom. That brings his total philanthropic efforts involving media in the last year to $50 million, much of it centered on New York.
A month earlier, Marc Benioff, another San Francisco tech mogul, bought Time magazine for $190 million. Mr. Benioff characterized his purchase as an investment. For Mr. Newmark, the situation is more political and more urgent.
âA trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy,â Mr. Newmark said. âLike we say in Jerseyâ â he hails from Morristown, N.J. â âyouâve got to put your money where your mouth is.â
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Breitbart wants to sue Sleeping Giants over a long standing twitter war.
âSleeping Giants is a highly-orchestrated, partisan campaign whose organizers have proven willing to use deception and harassment to achieve their goals,â the letter reads.
Anyone could literally say the same about Breitbart.
The letter claims that Sleeping Giants unfairly labeled Breitbart as anti-Semitic. Former Breitbart chief Steve Bannon has described the site as a âplatform for the alt-right.â
In a statement, Sleeping Giantsâ founder Matt Rivitz, a freelance copywriter, said the campaign was merely pointing out to advertisers that their ads were running on Breitbart.
âSleeping Giants lets advertisers know that their ads are appearing on a website that publishes articles with titles like, âThereâs No Hiring Bias Against Women in Tech, They Just Suck At Interviews,ââ Rivitz said. âBreitbart can say whatever they want, and thatâs what makes this country great, but it doesnât mean they need to get paid for it by an advertiser who didnât know their ads were on the site.â
Click tweet below to see Sleeping Giants whole Twitter campaign.
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When social security is used as a âpolitical football;â helpful to remember that it does not add to the deficit.
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This July Trump began pushing his agenda to keep deadly asbestos products pouring into our country. As a result, there has been a huge surge in asbestos imports. Right now itâs all coming from Brazil, but they have wisely banned the mining and use of asbestos (along with 60 other nations). As that ban takes hold, the slack will be taken up by Russia. What a coincidence that a Trump policy which harms the health of our citizens will, at the same time, benefit Russian oligarchs within Putinâs inner circle.
Asbestos imports to the U.S. soared by nearly 2,000 percent between July and August, according to federal import data analyzed by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and Environmental Working Group. . . .
Although the EPA has not yet made a decision about the safety of asbestos under the new [Toxic Substances Control Act], recent actions by the Trump administration lay the groundwork for the agency to find that asbestos is safe and should remain legal. . . .
Analysis of federal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that asbestos-triggered diseases kill an estimated 15,000 Americans a year. A recent study led by Jukka Takala, president of the International Commission on Occupational Health, found that the death toll from asbestos exposure may be much higher, at nearly 40,000 Americans a year and more than 255,000 a year worldwide. . . .
Earlier this year, [Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and Environmental Working Group] discovered that Russiaâs largest asbestos producer, with close ties to Vladimir Putin, is wrapping its products in packaging adorned with President Trumpâs image. The company posted on Facebook a photo of pallets of asbestos with this caption:
Donald is on our side! ⌠He supported the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who stated that his agency would no longer deal with negative effects potentially derived from products containing asbestos. Donald Trump supported a specialist and called asbestos â100% safe after application.â
. . . Brazil joined more than 60 other nations and banned asbestos. Brazilâs ban, which will be in full effect soon, leaves Russia, Kazakhstan and China as the worldâs dominant asbestos producers. With Brazil poised to no longer provide the vast majority of asbestos to the U.S., Russia and Kazakhstan could fill the void.
Below is an article from July that goes into more detail regarding the Putin connection.
âVladimir Putin and Russiaâs asbestos industry stand to prosper mightily as a result of the Trump Administrationâs failure to ban asbestos in the U.S.,â said EWG President Ken Cook. âHelping Putin and Russian oligarchs amass fortunes by selling a product that kills thousands each year should never be the role of a U.S. president or the EPA, but this is the Trump administration. Russiaâs interests are Trumpâs interests, and any clear-eyed American knows it.â
Further reading: This is my post from August which includes a New York Times article describing how Trump-appointed officials pushed the new policy through the EPA over the objections of the agencyâs in-house scientists and lawyers.
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