Sunday, May 1, 2016

RSN: What Is Bernie's Price for Playing Nice?, 98 Congressmen Ask Paul Ryan to Disband Panel Going After Planned Parenthood Over Debunked Video, Massive Victory for 7 Kids in Climate Change Lawsuit in Washington State




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Steve Weissman | What Is Bernie's Price for Playing Nice? 
Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Getty) 
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News 
Weissman writes: "Poor Hillary. She just doesn't get it. Neither do the Very Important People who back her. Call it arrogance, willful blindness, or rotten judgment, their collective failure to understand Bernie Sanders and those of us who support him could cost Clinton the presidency - not to Bernie, but to Donald Trump." 
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Today Is Our Day 
Jonah Walters, Jacobin 
Walters writes: "The first May Day was celebrated in 1886, with a general strike of three hundred thousand workers at thirteen thousand businesses across the United States. It was a tremendous show of force for the American labor movement, which was among the most militant in the world." 
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98 Congressmen Ask Paul Ryan to Disband Panel Going After Planned Parenthood Over Debunked Video 
Lindsay Gibbs, ThinkProgress 
Gibbs Writes: "On Thursday, 98 members of Congress wrote a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the Chairman of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TEN), asking that they disband the panel and end the investigation into Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue research." 
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Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94 
Daniel Lewis, The New York Times 
Lewis writes: "The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in prison, died on Saturday in New York City. He was 94." 
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TSA Whistleblower Reveals Supervisors Instructed Him to Profile Somali Imams 
Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof 
Gosztola writes: "An assistant federal security director for the Transporation Security Agency's Office of Security Operations in Minneapolis blew the whistle on a request from his supervisors to racially 'profile Somali imams and community members visiting' his office." 
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Sadr Followers Dig in Inside Baghdad's Green Zone, Political Crisis Deepens 
Stephen Kalin, Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters 
Excerpt: "Hundreds of supporters of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed parliament inside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday and camped out nearby after Sadr denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption." 
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Massive Victory for 7 Kids in Climate Change Lawsuit in Washington State 
Our Children's Trust 
Excerpt: "Today, in a surprise ruling from the bench in the critical climate case brought by youths against the State of Washington's Department of Ecology, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill ordered the Department of Ecology to promulgate an emissions reduction rule by the end of 2016 and make recommendations to the state legislature on science-based greenhouse gas reductions in the 2017 legislative session." 
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