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RSN: Norman Solomon | Why Joe Biden Was Afraid to Face California's Democratic Party





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RSN: Norman Solomon | Why Joe Biden Was Afraid to Face California's Democratic Party 
Joe Biden. (photo: Getty Images)
Norman Solomon, Reader Supported News
Solomon writes: "Joe Biden's glaring absence from the California Democratic Party convention has thrown a national spotlight on his eagerness to detour around the party's progressive base."
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Massive Protests Greet Trump on His Second Visit to the UK
D. Parvaz, ThinkProgress
Parvaz writes: "Hundreds of thousands of protesters descended on central London Tuesday, during President Donald Trump's second state visit to the United Kingdom."
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White House Orders Hope Hicks, Former Aide to Defy Subpoena
Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The White House on Tuesday again directed former employees not to cooperate with a congressional investigation, this time instructing former aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson to defy subpoenas and refuse to provide documents to the House Judiciary Committee."
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'It All Takes a Toll': Eric Garner's Family Suffers Indignities of Trial Process
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Laughland writes: "Five years on, after protests around the country and millions of dollars paid to the family, no one has been held liable for Garner's death."
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Texas Teacher Confused About Twitter Kept Trying to Report Immigrant Students to Trump
Rafi Schwartz, Splinter
Schwartz writes: "A Fort Worth, TX, teacher was put on administrative leave and could lose her job for sending a series of anti-immigrant tweets to President Donald Trump in what she mistakenly believed was a private conversation."
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Tiananmen, 30 Years Later
Dennis Kosuth, Jacobin
Kosuth writes: "30 years ago, the Chinese government began its massacre of hundreds of student and worker activists at Tiananmen Square. The government wants to erase this history from memory, because they fear students and workers again taking to China's streets."
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A coyote in a field. (photo: Karen Nichols/AP)
A coyote in a field. (photo: Karen Nichols/AP)

The Relentless Slaughter of Wolves Paved the Way for a Predator That Refuses to Die
Darryl Fears, The Washington Post
Fears writes: "As the Trump administration seeks to strip away legal protections for the last remaining wolves, state officials are contending with the consequences of a massacre carried out without regard to science."
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