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Garrison Keillor | We Will Survive This 
Donald Trump. (photo: Getty) 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "So. We have a vulgar, unstable yo-yo with a toxic ego and an attention-deficit problem in the White House, and now we can see that government by Twitter is like trying to steer a ship by firing a pistol at the waves - not really useful - but what does it all add up to? Not that much, if you ask me, which you didn't, but I'll say it anyway." 
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Trump Signs Russia Sanctions Bill Into Law, Amid Putin Retaliation 
Miles Parks, NPR News 
Parks writes: "After being approved by overwhelming majorities in Congress, President Trump begrudgingly signed into law new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday." 
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NAACP Issues First-Ever Travel Advisory for a State - and It's Missouri 
Ian Cummings, McClatchy DC 
Cummings writes: "NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state." 
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Trump Seeks to Sue Schools Over Affirmative Action Seen to Hurt Whites 
Melanie Eversley, USA Today 
Eversley writes: "The Trump administration is directing the Justice Department to explore whether it can sue institutions of higher education over affirmative action policies that the White House deems discriminatory against white applicants." 
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Trump Pushes to Limit Legal Immigration to High-Skilled Workers 'Who Speak English' 
Benjamin Siegel and Veronica Stracqualursi, ABC News 
Excerpt: "President Trump introduced new legislation today with Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., aimed at cutting legal immigration to the United States." 
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Justice for Lesvy: Indifference and Outrage in Response to Gender Violence in Mexico City 
Hart Eagleburger and Jack Rusk, NACLA News 
Excerpt: "Lesvy Berlin Rivera Osorio's death in Mexico City was ruled a suicide amidst judicial irregularities and impunity. Activists are mobilizing to denounce the death not only as murder, but also as feminicide." 
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30-Year EPA Veteran Writes Farewell Letter, Warns of Environmental Catastrophe Under Pruitt 
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility 
Excerpt: "A 30-year U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) senior official left federal service Tuesday convinced that her agency is being steered in a disastrously wrong direction, according to her farewell message posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). She is an eyewitness to the wreckage wreaked by Administrator Scott Pruitt and his cadre of political appointees." 
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