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Republicans Will Let America Burn While Holding Out for Tax Cuts 
As Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan is in a better position to do something to rein in Trump than anyone in the country. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) 
Ed Burmila, Rolling Stone 
Burmila writes: "They care about the rule of law and the Constitution; they just don't care about them as much as they care about cutting taxes. Again." 
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Working Americans Need $15-an-Hour and a Union to Make It in This Economy 
Jason Kander, The Hill 
Kander writes: "This Labor Day, if working families across the country feel like they're under fire, it's because they are." 
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Republicans Think White Supremacists Are Less Dangerous Than the News Media 
Jason Le Miere, Newsweek 
Le Miere writes: "By an overwhelming margin, Republicans say the news media poses a greater threat to the United States than white supremacists. In a Fox News poll released Wednesday, 69 percent of Republicans said the news media is a bigger danger to society, compared with just 18 percent who responded that white supremacists are more of a problem." 
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Betsy DeVos Trolls America, Picks a Former For-Profit College Dean to Run an Anti-Fraud Squad 
Jordan Weissmann, Slate 
Weissmann writes: "This week, the Trump administration inched ever-so deeper into the realm of pitch-black comedy, when Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos selected a former for-profit college dean to head a squad that investigates fraud in higher education." 
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Bots Flood FCC Seeking Comment From Human Beings on Net Neutrality 
Tim Johnson, McClatchy DC 
Johnson writes: "The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday swam in a sea of nearly 22 million comments after a deadline passed for the public to offer opinions on an issue that could shape the internet for years to come." 
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Malala Yousafzai Criticizes Aung San Suu Kyi Over Violence on Myanmar's Rohingya 
James Doubek, NPR News 
Doubek writes: "Malala Yousafzai has joined other human rights activists and officials in publicly criticizing Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's effective leader, for the treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar." 
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Battle Begins to Restore Protections for Greater Yellowstone Grizzly Bears 
WildEarth Guardian, EcoWatch 
Excerpt: "Wednesday, WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, challenging the agency's flawed rule stripping grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Endangered Species Act protections. The service's premature removal of crucial federal safeguards undermines the recovery of the species as a whole, while subjecting grizzlies stepping outside the safety of our national parks to state-sanctioned trophy hunting." 
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