What's Left #34

What's Left
for the week of October 6-12, 2017

This week:

Good News: White House cybersecurity coordinator wants to end the use of SSNs as ID
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/03/white-house-cybersecurity-expert-wants-to-do-away-with-social-security-numbers/23231552/
http://www.ibtimes.com/white-house-official-former-nsa-hacker-social-security-numbers-are-useless-2597489

News to make you smile: Sen. Elizabeth Warren rips CEO of Wells Fargo
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/10/03/elizabeth-warren-tells-wells-fargos-ceo-you-should-be-fired/23231455/

News to make you smile: an organizer of the Nazi rally in Charlottesville indicted for felony perjury
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/4/1704065/-Charlottesville-march-organizer-charged-with-felony-perjury-for-lying-about-a-claim-of-assault?detail=emaildkre

Not Good News: DOJ claims job discrimination against transgenders is legal
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/05/sessions-reverses-policy-protecting-transgender-workers-from-discrimination/23233963/

Las Vegas and gun control
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/paddock-booked-rooms-overlooking-concerts-vegas-shooting-article-1.3542741
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/it-was-a-horror-show-mass-shooting-leaves-at-least-59-dead-527-wounded-on-las-vegas-strip/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/las-vegas-shooter-bump-stock-guns_us_59d43bb6e4b06226e3f47ab4
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/02/at-least-58-dead-more-than-500-injured-in-las-vegas-shooting/23229393/
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting
https://www.thoughtco.com/gun-death-stats-in-perspective-3303385
http://expressnewsline.com/2017/10/04/sen-chris-murphy-congress-must-get-off-its-ass-on-gun.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02/white-house-trump-las-vegas-gun-debate-243371
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/2/1703312/-Republican-Senators-who-voted-against-assault-weapons-ban-are-tweeting-their-thoughts-and-prayers?detail=emaildkre
https://splinternews.com/every-member-of-congress-who-took-money-from-the-nra-an-1819059582
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/3/1703840/-Republican-Senator-says-Las-Vegas-victims-needed-to-take-precautions-and-get-small?detail=emaildkre
http://www.newsweek.com/las-vegas-shooting-bill-oreilly-676176
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/05/nra-calls-for-more-regulation-on-bump-stocks-after-las-vegas-massacre/23234176/

Clown Award: Sen. Ron Johnson
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/02/pat-robertson-links-vegas-shooting-to-profound-disrespect-for-authority-including-trump/23230467/
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/03/rep-tim-Murphy-pro-life-sought-abortion-affair-shannon-edwards-susan-mosychuk-pennsylvania-chief-of-staff-congress-emails-texts/stories/201710030018
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/2/1703340/-WI-senator-tells-student-Health-care-food-clothing-shelter-are-privileges
https://www.facebook.com/wisn12/videos/10159493605030284/
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

Outrage of the Week: payments to "safety net" hospitals cut, Children's Health Insurance Program expired due to Congressional inaction
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-passes-bill-banning-abortion-after-20-week-mark/?linkId=43077654
https://www.livescience.com/54774-fetal-pain-anesthesia.html
https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/22/dsh-payments-safety-net-hospitals/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/30/1703037/-CHIP-Funding-Expired-Today-Insurance-For-Nine-Million-Children-Poof
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/27/16373494/chip-funding-reauthorization-congress
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/which-states-are-hit-hardest-by-failure-to-fund-childrens-health-program

Footnote: media adopts right-wing framing
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-passes-bill-banning-abortion-after-20-week-mark/?linkId=43077654

For the Record: UN opposes death penalty for consensual same-sex relationsp; US votes "No"
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/us_votes_against_un_resolution_condemning_death_penalty_for_blasphemy_adultery_and_same_sex_relations

For the Record: IRS gives Equifax no-bid contract to "verify taxpayer identity"
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/equifax-irs-fraud-protection-contract-243419

For the Record: Sen. Elizabeth Warren forces CEO of Equifax to admit company profits of data breaches
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-equifax-ceo_us_59d503ace4b06226e3f55c83?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

For the Record: number of accounts compromised in Yahoo's 2013 data breach now estimated at 3 billion
https://www.pcmag.com/news/356603/yahoo-did-we-say-1b-we-meant-3b-accounts-hit-by-breach

The meaning of the White House response to Puerto Rico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Maria#Puerto_Rico_2
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/03/trump-sparks-fury-on-twitter-with-hurricane-katrina-comments/23231540/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/05/white-house-criticizes-san-juan-mayor-carmen-yulin-cruz-for-trump-protest/23234391/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/trump-heads-for-puerto-rico-after-a-fumbling-response-to-storm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/26/1701669/-Cold-Comfort-Trump-s-refusal-to-send-hospital-ship-tips-his-plan-to-abandon-Puerto-Rico
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=102710
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/trump-heads-for-puerto-rico-after-a-fumbling-response-to-storm
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/09/30/puerto-rico-crisis-san-juan-mayor-pleads-for-federal-aid-trump-hits-back/23228203/