Harvey Wasserman | The Empire Strikes Soon: TrumpExit's Great Leap

24 December 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News PROGRESSIVISM IS NOT DEAD, IT’S JUST BEGINNING - You find out who you are in times of adversity. Is Donald Trump strong enough to defeat the values we struggle for every day? If we stand together the answer is certainly no. Embrace this fight - stand with RSN. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Harvey Wasserman | The Empire Strikes Soon: TrumpExit's Great Leap  Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News Wasserman writes: "A grim 'Red Line' has been crossed. But not the one Donald wants." READ MORE Beto O'Rourke addresses activists at Tornillo. (photo: Edwin Delgado/Guardian UK) Carols at Tornillo: Protesters Sing for Children Held in Trump's Tent City Edwin Delgado, Guardian UK Delgado writes: "Singing and chanting as loud as they could, a few hundred feet from where thousands of children remain detained in a tent-like facility, activists and members of the public hoped their voices would find their way across fences and barbed wire. They wanted to let the children know people were thinking of them during this holiday season." READ MORE Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, spoke to the CEOs of six major banks about liquidity in an unusual move. The stock market reacted by dropping lower on Monday December 24, 2018. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Treasury Secretary Startles Wall Street With Unusual Pre-Christmas Calls to Top Bank CEOs Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin startled financial analysts, bankers and economists on Sunday by issuing an unusual statement declaring that the nation's six largest banks had ample credit to extend to American businesses and households." READ MORE Coca Cola santa. (photo: Jacobin) The Class Struggle in the North Pole Jacobin Excerpt: "What's behind Santa's bloody rise? Three leading elven labor activists offer a class analysis of the North Pole 'gift economy.'" READ MORE Huntsville, Texas. (photo: Getty Images) More Than Half of All American Executions Took Place in Texas Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress Millhiser writes: "The rest of the country doesn't much like state-sponsored killing." READ MORE Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo: EPA) Netanyahu Coalition Collapses, Early Elections Called in Israel teleSUR Excerpt: "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's much boasted-about coalition failed, and a new election has been called for April." READ MORE The US produces 25% more waste between Christmas and New Year, an estimated 1m tons each holiday week that includes 33m trees and 2.65bn Christmas cards. (photo: Will Whipple) Last Minute Gifts? All I Want for Christmas Is No Plastic, Please Jemima Kiss, Guardian UK Kiss writes: "The US produces 25% more waste between Christmas and New Year." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation