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‘It’s obscene’: GOP candidate seethes as Trump embraces Democratic senator – The Washington Post
President Trump is aggressively campaigning for Republican Senate candidates around the country and belittling their Democratic rivals, with one notable exception — Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. Trump’s affinity for Heitkamp, who got a shout-out and a handshake at a recent White House bill signing, has frustrated top Republicans who see winning her Democratic…
North Dakota lawmaker: Don’t repeal blue laws because wives need to make husbands breakfast in bed – Salon.com
A North Dakota state lawmaker has advice for any woman in his state seeking to go out with friends for some mimosas over Sunday brunch: You should be making your husband breakfast in bed instead. That’s not a joke. That’s what he actually said. “Spending time with your wife, your husband — making him breakfast, bringing it…
Trump Signs Executive Orders To Revive The Keystone & Dakota Access Pipelines: Gothamist
(Scott Heins / Gothamist) In a move that should surprise no one but outrage everyone (who isn’t getting rich off it), President Donald Trump signed executive orders revisiting both the Keystone XL Pipeline, which President Obama rejected in 2015, and the Dakota Access Pipeline, the construction of which the Army Corps of Engineers…
Running over protesters on roadways could soon be legal in North Dakota / Boing Boing
AD CODE UnrulyX tag END OF AD CODE Jetpack Open Graph Tags North Dakota Republican lawmakers introduced HB1203, a bill that would pave the way for drivers to negligently run over people blocking their way. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a driver of a motor vehicle who negligently causes injury or death to an…
Running over protesters on roadways could soon be legal in North Dakota – wptv.com
Protesters may want to think twice about blocking roads in North Dakota. Republican lawmakers in the state introduced a bill last week in the legislature that would not hold motorists liable for negligently running over someone obstructing a roadway. The bill was introduced in response to a year of protests over a proposed pipeline near…
Pipeline Dumps 176,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Into a North Dakota Creek Not Far From Standing Rock
Shailene Woodley, from third left, filmmaker Josh Fox, Susan Sarandon, second from right, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member Bobbi Jean Three Lakes, right, join a rally outside US District Court in Washington in August in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Photo via AP A North Dakota pipeline carrying crude oil dumped 176,000…
Dakota pipeline protesters say they were detained in dog kennels; 268 arrested in week of police crackdown – Salon.com
Tens of thousands of people have checked in on Facebook at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation over the past few days. They are expressing solidarity with the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, which have faced an increasingly brutal backlash from police. Native American activists on the ground recently told reporters they had…
Welcome to the pyramid at the end of the world | Fusion
In rural North Dakota, a small county and an insular religious sect are caught in a stand-off over a decaying piece of America’s atomic history. The long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think… Should you find yourself with time…
Dakota pipeline protesters set for ‘last stand’ on banks of Missouri river | US news | The Guardian
Native American protesters are preparing to take a “last stand” against the Dakota Access pipeline after police raided their camps and arrested hundreds, paving the way for construction of the final stretch of the controversial oil project. The Standing Rock protesters in North Dakota have been fighting the $3.8bn pipeline since April but were dealt…