Free of ‘Shackles,’ Donald Trump Hits Back at Republicans: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. ‘Trump, unbound’
“Knowing it, he is now behaving like a lame-duck candidate, intent on settling scores, going after the Clintons with a vengeance and scorching vacillating establishment types who are (in Trump’s view) knifing him to save their own corrupt hides. His campaign is expected to bring Bill Clinton’s accusers onto the trail and sources close to the GOP nominee indicate that more sordid allegations about the Clintons’ personal lives may be only days away.”
It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
+1: How Julian Assange turned WikiLeaks into Donald Trump’s best friend.
2. Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s cautious — and surprisingly risky — campaign
“Clinton is, in other words, the anti-Trump. She is not a political novelty, nor is she especially entertaining as a media personality or in front of big groups. She and her campaign know this and have been smart about not pretending otherwise. Trump’s big shadow and outrage machine have even allowed her to become slightly and perhaps blissfully lost; to fade, if not into obscurity, at least into a background that cuts the glare of the scrutiny to which she has been so averse.”
+1: No Mr. Putin, I am not Sydney Blumenthal.
3. Kathleen Wynne: Ontario’s Cap-and-trade system will come next year
“Wynne admits Ontario led the way in fighting climate change by shutting down its coal-fired electrical generation stations, but said the province must do more even though it produces only fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.”
4. One of America’s biggest meat companies just invested in vegan burgers
“Tyson is one of the world’s largest food processors, producing everything from chicken and bacon to prepared foods like cooked pasta dishes and soup. It brought in more than $40 billion in sales during 2015’s fiscal year. The fact that the company deemed Beyond Meat—a Silicon Valley startup with backers including Bill Gates and the Humane Society of the United States—worthy of investment is a significant moment for the growing plant-based food market.”
5. When Facebook decides who’s a terrorist
“One July morning, a Kashmiri writer named Arif Ayaz Parrey was chatting with a friend on Facebook Messenger when suddenly the service logged him out. He tried to log back in, only to find his account had been disabled. Parrey wasn’t alone: Facebook had also blocked a Facebook group he runs, the Kashmiri Solidarity Network, along with the accounts of all of its other administrators.”
