The Other College Scam

Newsletter Top Stories The Other College Scam [Splinter]( March 13, 2019 [The Other College Scam]( [The college admissions scandal that rocked the country on Tuesday is one of the weirdest, most depraved pieces of news in quite some time, even accounting for the fact that the president of the United States is Donald Trump.]( [TRUMPLAND]( [Double Trouble]( [Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, was sentenced to 73 months in prison in a Washington, DC courtroom on Wednesday—his second multi-year sentence in just under a week.]( [STATE NEWS]( [Conservative Assholes Are Holding Idaho's Medicaid Expansion Hostage]( [More than even a potentially historic gubernatorial election, the push by Idaho voters to pass Medicaid expansion defined the 2018 midterms in the Gem State. So why the hell is the state legislature trying to do everything in its power to curb what its citizenry clearly wants?]( [WHITE HOUSE]( [A Fun Little Anecdote About the Dummies in the White House]( [As we get closer to the release date of journalist Vicki Ward’s new tell-all investigative book Kushner, Inc., more excerpts are being released publicly which paint the Trump White House as the sort of finely tuned, high-performance machine you’d expect from a dedicated cadre of extremely qualified professionals.]( [MEDIA]( [Two Sets of Teeth Argue About Robert MuellerÂ]( [Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, known for logging on too hard as the President Defender and being praised for doing so by Donald Trump himself, has once again bungled another TV appearance of his, this time with his Trump-first mental gymnastics.]( [SPONSORED]( [Get 20% Off Bombas: The Casual Sock Engineered For Comfort & Athletics]( [Bombas are made from breathable, fine-gauge cotton with a Y-stitch to naturally cup your heel. Their stay put grip tech doesn’t slip off and has the ideal amount of elasticity and tension, plus the contour seam eliminates the annoying bump that runs across your toes for all day comfort. Use...]( [HEALTHCARE]( [The Cruel Negligence of American Healthcare]( [Here is a story of how America murders its citizens through negligence, poverty, and racism. The Mississippi Clarion-Ledger reported yesterday on how a 23 year-old Mississippi woman, pregnant and mother to a toddler, died of an asthma attack in January near Houston, MS—where the local hospital has no emergency...]( [LABOR]( [Union Democracy Is Coming to Wash Away the Old]( [The post-2016 American experience has been one of a political pendulum swinging slowly, then rapidly, to the left. One of the beneficiaries of this has been organized labor; unions are experiencing a popular (if not numerical) resurgence. Like politics, the union world is going to need a very democratic shakeup...]( [YOU MAY ALSO LIKE]( [PALEOFUTURE]( [Music Writer From 1999 Predicts What Bands Will Still Be Around in 2019]( [What musicians that you enjoy today will still be around in 20 years? It’s tough to say. But the good people of 1999 tried to predict just that in an article that might raise a few eyebrows here in the year 2019.]( [THE ROOT]( [Remember That Time When Jared Kushner’s Dad Donated $2.5M to Harvard and Then His Son Got Into Harvard?]( [Turns out that wealthy people including actresses, actors and business folks have been involved in a scandal that includes all kinds of crazy allegations to get their children into prestigious institutions.]( [JEZEBEL]( [Lori Loughlin Is the Hallmark Channel's Best-Loved Actor, So What Happens Now?]( [On Tuesday, after it was reported that actor Lori Loughlin was indicted on federal mail fraud charges stemming from $500,000 worth of bribes she and husband Mossimo Giannulli paid to ensure their daughters’ admission to the University of Southern California, #AuntBecky trended on Twitter.]( [EARTHER]( [The Central U.S. Is About to Get Hit With a Bomb Cyclone]( [The country’s midsection is about to be hit by a rare, potentially record setting bomb cyclone that will bring everything from rain to snow to hurricane-force winds and could leave severe flooding in its wake from Texas to Minnesota. So if you live in that area, listen up!]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media 114 5th Avenue, Floor 2 New York, NY, 10011