Salon.com: Donald Trump’s atrocious attorney general pick: Jeff Sessions will roll back voting rights and civil rights

November 18th, 2016 [Jeff Sessions] [Donald Trump’s atrocious attorney general pick: Jeff Sessions will roll back voting rights and civil rights] Simon Maloy Donald Trump asked black voters what the hell they had to lose. How about a notorious foe of civil rights as AG? [Trump] [Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner appear in Donald Trump’s first meeting with a foreign leader] Matthew Rozsa Trump's daughter — who's supposed to be running his blind trust — joined him in meeting with Japan PM Shinzo Abe [Donald Trump] [Emboldened by Donald Trump’s win, Republican lawmakers nationwide rush to pass repressive legislation] Sophia Tesfaye Bills criminalizing protests as "economic terrorism," banning headscarves, and abortions have cropped up nationwide [Germany Volkswagen] [VW cheats, workers pay: Volkswagen to cut 30,000 jobs after second emissions standards scandal] Matthew Rozsa After being caught cheating on emission standards for a second time, Volkswagen announced it will trim it workforce [FEATURE_PHOTO_Flynn] [Watch: Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor] Kevin Carlin Donald Trump offers the National Security Advisor position to Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. VIDEO [Christmas Poinsettias Ready For Sale] [Look Again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe] Salon Staff Fascinating world views from the launch of Soyuz MS-03 in Kazakhstan to the auction of a rare Dodo bird skeleton VIDEO [JPMorgan] [Buying influence in China: JP Morgan Chase agrees to pay $264 million to settle bribery probe] Matthew Rozsa The US Justice Department called Chase's shady scheme "bribery by any other name" and a threat to national security [Screen Shot 2016-11-18 at 2.32.05 PM] [Rep. Mark Sanford: Nikki Haley would make a good secretary of state because “having folks of different ethnic backgrounds matters”] Matthew Rozsa That said, "I don't think the cabinet needs to look like a Benetton commercial," the S. Carolina Republican added [Kanye West] [Twitter reacts: Kanye says he would have voted for Trump] Grace Guarnieri “I told you all I didn’t vote right? … But if I were to have voted, I would have voted for Trump.” The crowd booed. [Peter Thiel; Donald Trump] [Charles Harder, lawyer who helped Peter Thiel down Gawker: “A billionaire can target anyone”] Brendan Gauthier Harder said he'd "probably" represent Donald Trump's proposed libel suit against The Times "if I felt it had merit" [gaza standing rock video] [Palestinians support indigenous Dakota pipeline protests: “We stand with Standing Rock”] Ben Norton WATCH: Gazans express solidarity with the NoDAPL Native American-led resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline [American Flags] [On the road with our American selves, or how to feel like a jerk in Mombasa, Kenya] Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch The 2016 election barely mentioned the war in Afghanistan, but that doesn't mean we can ignore international issues [sexual_assault_protest] [Sexual assault and harassment in the United States are all too common, even before Donald Trump] Sarah Cook, The Conversation And it's taken people like Roger Ailes and Donald Trump for people to realize it [Milo Yiannopoulos] [New Google Chrome extension replaces the term “alt-right” with “rebranded white nationalism”] Matthew Rozsa Google Chrome's "Alt-Right Denormalizer" allows you to stick with the ugly truth of online hatemongers [Russia Putin] [Vladimir Putin successfully launches nuclear test missile that can reach America in 12 minutes] Matthew Rozsa The missile flew from Yasny Launch Base to the peninsula of Kamchatka, a distance spanning thousands of miles [Donald Trump Supporters] [White nationalist leader Richard Spencer: “We’re not going away” now that Donald Trump’s in office] Matthew Rozsa "This is just the beginning," the alt-right figurehead warned NPR's Kelly McEvers. "And I'm very excited" [Donald Trump] [Donald Trump is planning a pre-inauguration “victory tour”] Matthew Rozsa Trump's campaign said Thursday it's planning to visit "the states that we won and the swing states we flipped over" [Donald Trump Supporters] [Feeling validated by Donald Trump’s win, German hate groups team up with right-wing American hate groups] Kali Holloway, [Alternet] "The right-extremist scene is networking on a European level, and in some cases, with connections in the U.S." [Jeff Sessions, Kellyanne Conway] [Donald Trump taps Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general] Matthew Rozsa The Alabama GOPer — the first to endorse Trump's candidacy — is rewarded for his loyalty with lofty Cabinet post [David Petraeus] [Gen. David Petraeus is in the running for secretary of state. Shouldn’t Donald Trump want to lock him up?] Matthew Rozsa Petraeus pleaded guilty to mishandling classified info — a charge for which Trump said he'd jail Hillary Clinton follow salon Most Read - ["Sore winner" syndrome: Why are Donald Trump's supporters still so angry? Abraham Lincoln understood] - [An unreasonable amount of people are searching "Tiffany Trump" on Pornhub] - [Why does Donald Trump want to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, top secret clearance?] - [How Jared Kushner, like Donald Trump, used his rich, privileged upbringing to get to the White House] - [Donald Trump doesn't sleep, but instead watches "enormous amounts of television"] - [Donald Trump ditches press pool so he can tell people at a fancy steak house he'll lower their taxes] - [Dear white people: An open letter on race to Donald Trump's supporters] - [Secretary of which state? 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