memeorandum: Pay To Prey: Weinstein's Contract Basically Allowed For Sexual Harassment

11:25 AM ET, October 13, 2017

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Paul Demko / Politico:

Trump will scrap critical Obamacare subsidies — President Donald Trump plans to cut off subsidy payments to insurers selling Obamacare coverage in his most aggressive move yet to undermine his predecessor's health care law. — The subsidies, which are worth an estimated $7 billion this year …

Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
Cutting off the cost-sharing payments.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NPR, NBC News and ThinkProgress

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Unveils Full-bore Obamacare Sabotage

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Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump takes a sledgehammer to the ACA

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Obamacare bombshell: Trump kills key payments to health insurers

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David Anderson / New York Times:
Trump's Obamacare Order Will Deepen Health Inequality

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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States

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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Trump will pull Obamacare subsidies in another attack on health law

Discussion: ABC News

Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter:

Oliver Stone on Harvey Weinstein: “It's Not Easy What He's Going Through” — The director addressed the international media at the Busan International Film Festival, where he is serving as chair of the event's competition jury. — Oliver Stone intitially declined to condemn Harvey Weinstein …

TMZ.com:

Harvey Weinstein's Contract Allowed for Sexual Harassment — Harvey Weinstein may have been fired illegally by The Weinstein Company, a company that wrote a contract that said Weinstein could get sued over and over for sexual harassment and as long as he shelled out money, that was good enough for the Company.

Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, IndieWire, RedState, Fox News Insider, PerezHilton, twitchy.com and IJR

Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:

Put Women in Charge — Most women I know — and probably most women you know — have stories about sexual harassment. Mine happened in college, with a professor who was older than my father and who made me think he was genuinely interested in my writing. One day in his office, he told me he wanted to “kiss and molest” me.

Discussion: Washington Post, Right Wing Watch, NewsBusters, BuzzFeed and Shakesville

Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
Harvey Weinstein: English actor says alleged sexual assault ruined film career

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Los Angeles Times:
The fallout: How the Harvey Weinstein scandal exposed sexual harassment as Hollywood's dirty secret

Discussion: National Review, Axios, AOL and PerezHilton

Hot Air:
Pay To Prey: Weinstein's Contract Basically Allowed For Sexual Harassment — So Long As He Paid The Company

Discussion: Power Line, WTVR-TV, TMZ.com and CNNMoney

Christopher Flavelle / Bloomberg:

How the Pentagon Spun Hurricane Maria — U.S. officials inadvertently included a Bloomberg reporter on an internal email list. Here's a glimpse into their bid to put relief efforts in a positive light. — Late last month, Pentagon communications officials inadvertently included Bloomberg …

Cristina Marcos / The Hill:

69 Republicans vote against aid for Puerto Rico, other disaster sites — Legislation to provide $36.5 billion in aid for communities affected by recent wildfires and hurricanes, including Puerto Rico, secured widespread support in the House on Thursday save for 69 Republicans.

Discussion: Politico, Wall Street Journal and The Daily Caller

Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Finding Water in Puerto Rico: An Endless Game of Cat and Mouse

Discussion: The Hill and Vox

New York Times:

Trump Won't Certify Iran Nuclear Deal, but He Also Won't Unravel It — WASHINGTON — President Trump will make good on Friday on a long-running threat to disavow the Iran nuclear deal that was negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama. But he will stop short, for now …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Defense One, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Lawfare

Mattthew Lee / Associated Press:
Trumps said to disparage but not bolt from Iranian nuke deal

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ABC News:
Officials: Trump will scorn but not bolt from Iran nuke deal

Discussion: Washington Post and Associated Press

Washington Examiner: Trump gets realist on Iran

Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:

Amazon TV Producer Goes Public With Harassment Claim Against Top Exec Roy Price (Exclusive) — “You will love my d**k,” Price allegedly said to Isa Hackett, a producer on ‘The Man in the High Castle,’ who details a July 2015 incident at Comic-Con in San Diego.

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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Amazon Suspends Entertainment Chief Roy Price (EXCLUSIVE)

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Kara Scannell / CNN:

Background check chief has ‘never seen’ mistakes and omissions at level of Jared Kushner forms — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)The head of a government bureau responsible for clearing background checks told lawmakers Wednesday he has “never seen that level of mistakes” when asked …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:

Senator Susan Collins Will Not Run for Governor of Maine — ROCKPORT, Me. — After several months of open deliberations about her future, Senator Susan Collins of Maine announced Friday that she would not run for governor and would remain in the Senate. — Ms. Collins, a Republican …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Refinery29 and LifeNews.com

Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Collins declines run for Maine governor

Discussion: Axios

Josh Meyer / Politico:

Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes — Twitter has deleted tweets and other user data of potentially irreplaceable value to investigators probing Russia's suspected manipulation of the social media platform during the 2016 election, according to current and former government cybersecurity officials.

Discussion: AOL and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »

Seth Stevenson / Slate:

The Massachusetts congressman is a white, centrist, Harvard-educated war hero who wants to remake the Democratic Party. Too bad no one wants that. — I'm squinting through the sun at the Polk County Steak Fry, trying to size up Seth Moulton. — It's a late September Saturday in Des Moines …

Sean Illing / Vox:

20 of America's top political scientists gathered to discuss our democracy. They're scared. — “If current trends continue for another 20 or 30 years, democracy will be toast.” — Is American democracy in decline? Should we be worried? — On October 6, some of America's top political …

Discussion: Raw Story

Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News:

Hillary Clinton in talks with Columbia University to take on professor role — Hillary Clinton is testing the waters on a return to academia. — The former U.S. Secretary of State and presidential nominee is in talks with Columbia University to take on a formal role at the Ivy League …

Discussion: Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon

Lisa Rein / Washington Post:

Where's Zinke? The interior secretary's special flag offers clues. — At the Interior Department's headquarters in downtown Washington, Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal government.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite

Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:

WHO BROKE CONGRESS? DENNIS HASTERT, FORMER SPEAKER, BREAKS TWO-YEAR SILENCE TO DENY ROLE IN GRIDLOCK — In 1978, E.J. Dionne Jr. was a young reporter covering New York state politics in Albany. That same year, a young historian from Georgia finally won a seat in the House of Representatives, after two failed attempts.

Discussion: twitchy.com

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend — We are beginning to understand that tech companies don't have our best interests at heart. Did they ever? — @noamcohen is the author of “The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball,” from which this essay is adapted.

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