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Cornel West: Anti-Fascists and Anarchists Saved Our Lives in Charlottesville 
Cornel West. (photo: VICE) 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "We would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists and the anti-fascists who approached." 
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Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey 
Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter that President Trump and a top political aide drafted in the days before Mr. Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, which explains the president's rationale for why he planned to dismiss the director." 
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If Trump Revokes DACA, It Will Create a Humanitarian Crisis 
Vivek Wadhwa, PBS News 
Wadhwa writes: "The ugliness we have seen in Charlottesville and Washington D.C. will pale in comparison to the images of students being handcuffed, forced into buses, and ejected into the dark." 
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Utah Nurse Arrested for Refusing an Officer's Illegal Request to Draw Blood From Unconscious Patient 
Derek Hawkins, The Washington Post 
Hawkins writes: "The detective didn't have a warrant, first off. And the patient wasn't conscious, so he couldn't give consent. Without that, the detective was barred from collecting blood samples - not just by hospital policy, but by basic constitutional law." 
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Trump Can't Repeal Obamacare, but He Has a New Plan to Sabotage It 
Addy Baird, ThinkProgress 
Baird writes: "The Trump administration is dramatically cutting funding dedicated to advertising and promoting enrollment in Obamacare. The cuts are further evidence that the Trump administration will undermine its least favorite health care law at all costs, despite having no legislation to replace it if it fails." 
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An Undocumented Journey Though Hurricane Harvey 
Lorena O'Neil, Esquire 
O'Neil writes: "The water seeped in under the door of Maria's mobile home in Houston Sunday night as she tapped out the numbers 9-1-1. No answer." 
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We Have a Moral Duty to Talk About Climate Change 
Mark Lynas, CNN 
Lynas writes: "It is not politically opportunistic to raise this issue now. Instead we have a moral duty not to accept the attempted conspiracy of silence imposed by powerful political and business interests opposed to any reduction in the use of fossil fuels." 
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