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Meanwhile in !America:

Walk or die: Algeria abandons more than 13,000 migrants in forced Sahara march - CBS News

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Toronto flooded by refugees from America is not a thing I ever expected to hear:

https://www.thestar.com/news/city_ha...ls-ottawa.html
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And there are going to be more.

You guys should build some kind of wall.
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I don't suppose you'd be open to reforming the British Empire and distributing some nuclear arms to the colonies, would you?
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Depends what you mean by "distributing".
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I did not see this coming.

Republican tax law hits churches - POLITICO
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It's a definite lol. But I expect the mega churches (and "churches") will have plenty of money and staff to handle the cost of compliance. (I'm sorry, I meant "to evade these taxes".) And the Trumplicans probably don't care about small, volunteer, actually charitable actually religious churches. And they definitely don't care about "hospitals, colleges, orchestras and other historically tax-exempt organizations".

I hold out a small hope for a humiliating reversal, though.

Also, it's Obama's fault.
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Why isn't there more talking about this? Memphis police arrest of Manuel Duran was retaliation for news coverage, lawyers say
Manuel Duran wins stay of deportation - still faces months more of detention during appeal
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Leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (popularly known as AMLO - i.e., his initials) elected president of Mexico by overwhelming margin.

Mexico election: López Obrador vows profound change after win - BBC News
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So ... do we like this? Good for Mexico? Good for Mexican democracy?
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Most of what I know about him, I know from John Oliver's segment from the week before the election.


And the answer to "what do we actually know about him?" is, strangely, "not much." López Obrador seems to have benevolent intentions and to genuinely want to clean up the country, but he has a massive task in front of him and I'm not sure even the Mexican Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be able to manage it in one six-year term. I think his election looks like the best outcome that could've occurred given whom he was running against. Right-wing commentators have already called him the Mexican Hugo Chávez, but right-wing commentators always compare leftists to Hugo Chávez, especially when they're Hispanic or Latino. The much closer comparison to me looks like Bernie Sanders, for better - earnest focus on cleaning up corruption - and for worse - thinness of policy details in candidate platform. (Of course, right-wing commentators compared Sanders to Chávez, too. Fuckem.)

Anyway, good overall, I think, but he's got impossible expectations upon him that no human could possibly fulfil. He probably won't actively make things worse, at least.
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Right-wing commentators have already called him the Mexican Hugo Chávez,
I've an off and on fun game of comparing the last thing Donald Trump said to Hugo Chavez, or any other random dictator from around the world. Saparmurat Niyazov is a favourite, what with his renaming months, a golden statue that rotated to face the sun at all times, and stashing money in Deutsche Bank.

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We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
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Sanctions Against Sudan Didn't Harm an Oppressive Government - They Helped It – Foreign Policy

tl;dr Sudan's economy has been removed from the global economy so long it's mutated and won't plug right back in. Also, foreign banks just ignore Sudan, gunshy over American capriciousness. Also, Iran.
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Lions eat 'rhino poachers' on South African game reserve - BBC News

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Usually when a lion has killed and eaten a human, the lion gets put down on the assumption that it's developed a taste for manflesh. :sadcheer: Maybe in this case they don't know which lions did the natural thing.

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Meanwhile elsewhere in Britain:

Drunk gulls found 'stinking of alcohol' - BBC News
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Reminds me of Seagull turns orange after falling into curry - BBC News

Curry and alcohol make a traditional combination in Britain.
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Or anywhere! :hungry: :drunk4:
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England fans celebrate win over Sweden by storming IKEA and climbing buses

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UN chief to meet Ethiopia's PM on Monday after peace breakthrough with Eritrea

They exchange embassies again.
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Married woman, her mechanic die during barter sex in her garage | NJ.com

Her husband found the bodies, it says.
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A running vehicle in a closed garage? Sounds like a suicide pact to me. Who doesn't know the danger of that?
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