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Labour's then-leader John Smith was trying to bring in controversial changes to switch to one-member-one vote for selecting parliamentary candidates, in the teeth of strong opposition from many trade unions who saw it as a dilution of their power.

It's the latest example of how the mainstream GOP has embraced a tactic that hateful trolls first developed online during the "Gamergate" fiasco of 2014 and has become a favorite tool of the far-right for recruitment and radicalization: selecting random, innocent people to dangle out to their audiences as the hate object of the day.

During a press event on Nov. 12, HBO chief Casey Bloys told reporters that Rowling was “very, very involved in the process selecting the writer and the director” for the upcoming series led by showrunner Francesca Gardiner and director Mark Mylod, both alums of “Succession,” furthering that her anti-trans reputation hasn't "affected the casting or hiring of writers or productions staff."

“By selecting Linda McMahon, Donald Trump is showing that he could not care less about our students’ futures.

After claiming a mandate from his first-ever popular vote win — about half of Hillary Clinton’s margin in 2016, when she lost — President-elect Donald Trump immediately went out and demonstrated his hubris, the 78-year-old Republican selecting people to lead the country’s most important institutions based largely on their personal loyalty and on-air presence.