Andy Borowitz | Trump Furious After Twitter's Bot Purge Leaves Him With Fourteen Followers

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25 April 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News I CAN'T SIT BY IDLY: I can't sit by idly, while your team produces daily journalistic excellence. Stay the course, keep on fighting and uncovering what's right and wrong! Just sent a small donation. / Dennis, RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Trump Furious After Twitter's Bot Purge Leaves Him With Fourteen Followers  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "Donald J. Trump was reportedly 'furious' on Wednesday morning after a purge of right-wing bots by Twitter left him with a total of fourteen remaining followers, aides have confirmed." READ MORE White House adviser Stephen Miller. (photo: Getty) White House Refuses Request for Stephen Miller to Testify Before House Oversight Committee on Immigration Grace Segers, CBS News Segers writes: "The White House will not allow senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the architect of the administration's latest immigration overhaul and Homeland Security reorganization, to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings requested last week that Miller appear before the committee on May 1 to discuss immigration." READ MORE Protesters demonstrate for clean water in Flint, Michigan. (photo: Dale G. Young/AP) Five Years After the Lead Crisis Began, Flint Residents Still Can't Trust Their Tap Water Yessenia Funes, Earther Funes writes: "Five years. That's how much time has passed since the City of Flint switched its water source, exposing nearly 100,000 people to lead-tainted water. That crisis continues today and has traumatized the city in a way that will take more than another five years to fix. The legacy will likely last for generations." READ MORE Child is vaccinated in Moscow, Russia. (photo: Artyom Geodakyatass/Getty) We're in the Middle of the Largest Measles Outbreak Since the Disease Was Virtually Eliminated Amanda Michelle Gomez, ThinkProgress Gomez writes: "The number of people who have been infected by the measles nationwide is the highest since the disease was virtually eliminated in the United States, a public health crisis linked to vaccine skepticism." READ MORE Incarcerated students. (photo: AP) Restoring Prisoners' Access to Education Reduces Recidivism James McWilliams, Pacific Standard McWilliams writes: "If the bill passes, 463,000 prisoners will become eligible for federal financial support toward earning a college degree, which experts argue could go a long way toward improving life after incarceration." READ MORE Two Saudi sisters, Maha Zayed al-Subaie, 28, left, and her sister, 25-year-old Wafa, fled abuse in Saudi Arabia and are requesting asylum in the Republic of Georgia. (photo: Sophinko Vasadze/CNN) Pull 'Inhuman' Women App, Saudi Sisters Tell Tech Giants Al Jazeera Excerpt: "Two runaway Saudi sisters have urged Apple and Google to pull an 'inhuman' app allowing men to monitor and control female relatives' travel as it helped trap girls in abusive families." READ MORE An orca surfaces off San Juan Island, Washington. (photo: Matthew Ryan Williams/The New York Times) A Pod of Orcas Is Starving to Death. A Tribe Has a Radical Plan to Feed Them Levi Pulkkinen, Guardian UK Excerpt: "'The bottom line is the Salish Sea and the whales and the tribes need more salmon,' said Julius, the elected leader of the 6,500-member tribe." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation