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Charles Pierce | Our Rapidly Blossoming Authoritarian State Is Headed to Another Level 
Stephen Miller. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "I have a deeply embedded - and I think, perfectly understandable - distrust of the American 'intelligence community.' That being said, holy hell, this is something I don't like to hear."
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Senator Bernie Sanders arrives for a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, May 28, 2015. (photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)
Senator Bernie Sanders arrives for a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, May 28, 2015. (photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Sanders Calls for National Ban on Right to Work, Presses Candidates to Stand With Unions
NH Labor News
Excerpt: "U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders today called for a national ban on right-to-work laws, and for every candidate running in 2020 to explicitly stand with unions in their organizing drives across the country. He also demanded American Airlines back off its push to slash airline workers benefits as it pays its CEO more than $19 million a year."
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks to St. John's Episcopal Church, for morning services, across from the White House, in Washington D.C., March 24th 2019. (photo: Cliff Owen/AP/REX/Shutterstock)
Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks to St. John's Episcopal Church, for morning services, across from the White House, in Washington D.C., March 24th 2019. (photo: Cliff Owen/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

Everyone Is Asking for the Mueller Report, and You Can Too
Joshua Eaton, ThinkProgress
Eaton writes: "It's been two weeks since Attorney General William Barr told Congress that special counsel Robert Mueller had finished his investigation."
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Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan and Representative Mark Meadows. (photo: Tom Williams/AP)
Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan and Representative Mark Meadows. (photo: Tom Williams/AP)

Republicans Are Warning Drug Companies Not to Cooperate With a Congressional Investigation
Paul McLeod, BuzzFeed
McLeod writes: "In an unusual move, House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices."
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A woman experiencing the effects of tear gas. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A woman experiencing the effects of tear gas. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

St. Louis Police Request Permission to Use Mace, Tear Gas on Non-Violent Protesters
Jay Connor, The Root
Connor writes: "In September of 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri sued the city of St. Louis and its police force after officers responded to peaceful demonstrations with excessive force."
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An Israeli-Arab woman casts her ballot on April 9, 2019, in the village of Kafir Qasim. (photo: Amir Levy/Getty Images)
An Israeli-Arab woman casts her ballot on April 9, 2019, in the village of Kafir Qasim. (photo: Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel Election Scandal: Netanyahu's Party Hires 1,200 to Secretly Film Arabs Voting
Allan Smith, NBC News
Smith writes: "As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces what is likely to be a tough re-election fight Tuesday, his Likud party has confirmed reports that it hired and gave cameras to 1,200 polling station observers in what it said was an effort to expose voter fraud, The Jerusalem Post reported."
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The Navajo Generating Station near Page, Arizona, is scheduled to close. (photo: Getty Images)
The Navajo Generating Station near Page, Arizona, is scheduled to close. (photo: Getty Images)

Coal's Days in Navajo Country Are Numbered
Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American
Storrow writes: "Before the arrival of the U.S. Army in the mid-1800s, four mountains marked the boundary of the Navajo's ancestral homeland. Today, the tribe could draw a line around its reservation with coal."
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