RSN: Jeb's Faith-Based Prisons Were More Like "Work Camps", Could Fracking Spark a Modern-Day Dust Bowl?, Baltimore Clergy: "State of Emergency Way Before Tonight" Due to Poverty, Disenfranchisement

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Matt Taibbi | Give 'Em Hell, Bernie

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "He is the rarest of Washington animals, a completely honest person."
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Clinton Links Police, Justice Reforms to Income Inequality
David McCabe, The Hill
McCabe writes: "Hillary Clinton on Wednesday argued that turmoil in Baltimore and other cities is symptomatic of larger issues plaguing the criminal justice system."
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Obama Doing Republicans Dirty Work for Them With TPP
Bill Press, The Hill
Press writes: "Opposition is led, in the Senate, by Democrats Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Harry Reid and Debbie Stabenow, as well as independent Sen. Bernie Sanders."
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Trevor Timm | CIA's Torture Experts Now Use Their Skills in Secret Drones Program
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "There are many similarities between CIA's use of drones and torture: Secrecy, lack of oversight and yes, even some of the people overseeing the programs."
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Baltimore Clergy: "State of Emergency Way Before Tonight" Due to Poverty, Disenfranchisement
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "Hundreds of Baltimore clergy linked arms and took to the streets in an effort to restore the peace."
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Jeb's Faith-Based Prisons Were More Like "Work Camps"
Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast
Woodruff writes: "Jeb Bush touts his record as a prison reformer because of the success of his faith-based prison program, but does that really make him a reformer?"
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Could Fracking Spark a Modern-Day Dust Bowl?
Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Radford writes: "Oil wells and natural gas may have made individual Americans rich, but they have impoverished the great plains of North America, according to new research."
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