RSN: Marc Ash | Cable News Reports: Bernie Is Toast

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26 April 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News RSN WILL NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT READER SUPPORT: We can't do this without support from our readers. We have a broad vibrant community. Making our budget is certainly achievable. We need you to jump in here. Look at where the project started, look at where we are now. We can do this. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! RSN: Marc Ash | Cable News Reports: Bernie Is Toast  Marc Ash, Reader Supported News Ash writes: "The around-the-clock fusillade of criticism directed at Bernie Sanders on cable news has switched into overdrive, synchronized precisely (hint, no coincidence) with Joe Biden's announcement of his candidacy for President." READ MORE Joe Biden. (photo: Getty) Joe Biden to Attend Fundraiser Hosted by Anti-Net Neutrality Comcast Exec, Other Corporate Big-Wigs Clare Martin, Paste Magazine Martin writes: "While Biden had vowed not to fund his campaign with contributions from lobbyists like most other Democratic hopefuls, this fundraiser provides an oh-so-convenient loophole." READ MORE Stephen Miller. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty) Democrats Open Investigation Into Trump's Firing of Top DHS Officials Rashaan Ayesh, Axios Ayesh writes: "House Democrats are launching an investigation President Trump's 'unprecedented' decision to remove much of the top leadership at the Department of Homeland Security." READ MORE Woman heads into a polling station. (photo: AP) Judge Orders Michigan Voting Districts Redrawn for 2020 Due to Republican Gerrymandering Lauren Gibbons, MLive Gibbons writes: "Michigan's Congressional and legislative districts are unconstitutionally gerrymandered and need to be redrawn prior to the 2020 election, a federal three-judge panel ruled Thursday afternoon." READ MORE Twitter app on a smartphone. (photo: iStock) Twitter Says It Can't Ban White Supremacists Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler, Motherboard Excerpt: "A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians." READ MORE Smoke rises after an air raid during fighting between members of U.S.-backed forces and ISIL fighters in Raqqa in August 2017. (photo: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) US Strikes 'Killed 1,600 Civilians' in Syria's Raqqa in 2017 Al Jazeera Excerpt: "The US-backed assault to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from its Syrian capital Raqqa in 2017 killed more than 1,600 civilians, a figure 10 times what the coalition has acknowledged, according to a new report." READ MORE Penguins on Cuverville Island, Antarctica, designated as an important bird island. (photo: AFP) World's Second-Largest Emperor Penguin Colony Wiped Out After Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapsed Harry Cockburn, The Independent Cockburn writes: "The world's second largest emperor penguin colony is believed to have been effectively wiped out overnight, with thousands of chicks drowning after an ice shelf in Antarctica collapsed." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Charles Pierce | I'm Not Sure We're Ready for the Chaos That Will Follow the Midterms

16 October 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News NOW WOULD BE A GREAT TIME TO SAVE RSN - We’ve taken quite a beating on funding over  the past several months. Clearly it is taking  it’s toll. RSN is here and strong, but it is and  has always been dependent on a basic  operating budget. That’s fallen off sharply  in recent months. The situation is bad. /  Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Charles Pierce | I'm Not Sure We're Ready for the Chaos That Will Follow the Midterms  Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "Over the weekend, there were a couple of ominous, if overlooked, statements from Republican officials touching on the upcoming midterm elections." READ MORE Michael Cohen. (photo: Getty Images) Emily Jane Fox | "He Is Trying to Make It Right": As the Midterms Approach, Michael Cohen Is Doubling Down on His Civic Duty Emily Jane Fox, Vanity Fair Fox writes: "Despite having no formal cooperation agreement with the government, Cohen has willingly assisted and provided information critical to several ongoing investigations." READ MORE Voters at a polling precinct. (photo: Getty Images) Nate Silver | 2018 House Forecast Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight Excerpt: "How various breakdowns in the national popular vote correspond to the most likely distributions of House seats by party, according to our forecast." READ MORE Vietnam's government has scrapped plans to allow independent trade unions and unleashed its most severe clampdown on dissent in decades. (photo: WP) How Trump's Decision on TPP Has Set Back Democracy in Vietnam Simon Denyer and David Nakamura, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Vietnam had promised more workers' rights. Without the TPP, it has instead unleashed a crackdown." READ MORE Kamala Harris (D-CA), accompanied by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), questions Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, January 16, 2018, in Washington. (photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP) Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Lead Charge to Advance Anti-Lynching Law in Senate Clarissa Hamlin, News One Hamlin writes: "All three of the nation's Black senators won a victory Thursday in the ongoing battle to criminalize lynching-related offenses for the first time in American history." READ MORE 'The way the war is waged has systematically choked civilians by making less food available and affordable to millions of people.' (photo: Abdullkareem Alayashy) Civilians in Yemen Are Not Starving, They Are Being Starved Jan Egeland, Norwegian Refugee Council Egeland writes: "Let it be known that the worst famine on our watch is wholly manmade by Yemen's conflict parties and their international sponsors." READ MORE Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise in Charlotte Bay, Antarctic peninsula. (photo: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace) Javier Bardem | I've Seen the Antarctic's Untouched Beauty. There's Still Time to Protect It Javier Bardem, Guardian UK Bardem writes: "This area still remains one of the least-touched regions on the planet. Right now, we have an opportunity to protect it." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Juan Cole | Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court Orders Government to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically

15 October 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News YOU HAVE A RIGHT ... I would be pissed off, too, with regard to the lack of financial support being provided to your important RSN daily broadcasts. Your publication provides truth, which is neglected in the majority of media reporting and publications today. Namasté. / Joseph C, M.D., RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! Juan Cole | Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court Orders Government to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically  Juan Cole, Informed Comment Cole writes: "An appeals court in the Netherlands has upheld a 2015 lower court ruling in a class action case that the Dutch government needs to do more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. So far the Netherlands has only reduced 13% from 1990 levels." READ MORE Protests outside the White House. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) Trump Is Clamping Down on White House Protest. Be Very Afraid of What Comes Next Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer  Bunch writes: "People should be very afraid — not just of these proposed rules, but about why Team Trump wants this in the first place." READ MORE People hold signs during a protest at the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC over Khashoggi's disappearance. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Saudi Arabia to Hit Back in Case of Sanctions Over Jamal Khashoggi Patrick Wintour, Guardian UK Wintour writes: "Saudi Arabia has said it will retaliate against any sanctions imposed over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, as JP Morgan and Ford swelled the ranks of western companies pulling out of a high-profile conference in Riyadh next week." READ MORE Missouri Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. (photo: Jeff Roberson/AP) Missouri GOP Senate Nominee Misleads on His Pre-Existing Condition Hypocrisy Josh Israel, ThinkProgress Israel writes: "Josh Hawley, the Republican nominee against Missouri’s US senator Claire McCaskill (D), has made protecting people with pre-existing conditions a key part of his campaign platform — even as he undermines those protections as his state’s attorney general." READ MORE Democratic candidate for Georgia's Governor Stacy Abrams. (photo: John Bazemore/AP) ALSO SEE: Brian Kemp Has Put Democracy Itself on the Ballot in Georgia Stacey Abrams: GOP Opponent Creating 'Miasma of Fear' Over Voting in Georgia Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK McCarthy writes: "As a crisis of potential voter suppression in Georgia deepened, the Democratic candidate for governor accused her opponent of seeking to disenfranchise people of color and women by creating a 'miasma of fear' around voting." READ MORE Pigeons fly in front of a mural of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on a wall of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador on Oct. 3. Romero, who was killed in 1980 by a right wing will death squad during Mass, will be canonized in Rome by Pope Francis on Sunday. (photo: Slavador  In El Salvador, Slain Archbishop Oscar Romero Seen as Saint Long Ago Marcos Aleman, Associated Press Aleman writes: "On Sunday in the Vatican, Pope Francis will officially make Romero a saint nearly three decades after he was martyred by an assassin’s bullet to the heart. But for many Salvadoran Roman Catholic devotees who already know him as 'Saint Romero of the Americas' that will only formalize something they have long known in their hearts." READ MORE The iceberg that calved from Pine Island Glacier in September 2017, which was 4.5 times th Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Laura Geggel, Scientific American Geggel writes: "Scientists are concerned the glacier is spawning icebergs more frequently than it used to." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Bernie Sanders | Donald Trump and GOP Want to Cut Social Security. We Should Expand It Instead.

25 September 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News APPEAL FOR IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE ON CONTRIBUTIONS - While we have made some progress on the September funding drive in the past 48 hours we are still well short of our goal. If everyone pulls together we can finish efficiently. If you have not donated recently please throw something in the hat. In Peace an Solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bernie Sanders | Donald Trump and GOP Want to Cut Social Security. We Should Expand It Instead.  Bernie Sanders, USA TODAY Sanders writes: "For too long, Congress and the media have ignored the pressing concerns of seniors in our country. At a time when millions of elderly Americans are struggling economically, unable to pay for medicine, food and other basic necessities, a serious discussion about senior needs is long overdue." READ MORE Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images) ALSO SEE: White House Says It Is Open to Testimony From Second Kavanaugh Accuser Kavanaugh's College Roommate Releases Statement About New Accuser: 'I Believe Her' Sarah Nechamkin, The Cut Nechamkin writes: "On Sunday, Deborah Ramirez came forward in The New Yorker to become the second woman publicly accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault." READ MORE UN Headquarters. (photo: IBINEX News) ALSO SEE: Cue Fireworks as ‘Lord of Misrule’ Donald Trump Chairs UN Security Council UN General Assembly Laughs in Trump's Face When He Touts His Administration The Daily Beast Excerpt: "When President Trump on Tuesday declared before the United Nations General Assembly that his administration has accomplished more than 'almost any' other administration in U.S. history, the audience of dignitaries and world leaders broke out in audible laughter." READ MORE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (photo: Bryan Cox/Getty Images) Dozens of Families Separated After Recent Wisconsin ICE Raids Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress Entralgo writes: "Immigrant communities across 14 counties in Wisconsin were left reeling after roughly 34 undocumented individuals were swept up in what appeared to be seemingly random raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents." READ MORE Houses overlooking Alamo Square in San Francisco. (photo: Sven Haiges/Flickr) Segregation Is Back - and It's Profitable Meagan Day, Jacobin Day writes: "A new report from the Urban Displacement Project confirms what anyone who's lived here already knows: rising housing costs are resegregating the Bay Area." READ MORE Sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico in Nogales, Arizona. A new report documents instances showing the dangers such walls pose to humans and the environment. (photo: Adrees Latif/Reuters) Border Walls Are Life-Threatening and 'Waste of Tax Dollars,' Report Says Greta Moran, Grist Moran writes: "A few weeks after US Customs and Border Protection completed a border wall along Arizona's southern boundary in 2008, a monsoon arrived. Floodwaters rose to 7ft, nearby patrol roads eroded and debris clogged the wall's mesh fencing and grates, turning it into a temporary dam. The water poured over the wall into the port of entry near the Lukeville, Arizona, border, causing millions of dollars in damage." READ MORE Stressed Antarctic mosses turn from green to red as they produce compounds to protect themselves. (photo: University of Wollongong) Climate Change Kills Antarctica's Ancient Moss Beds Victoria Gill, BBC Gill writes: "That is according to a study of the small, ancient and hardy plants - carried out over more than a decade. This revealed that vegetation in East Antarctica is changing rapidly in response to a drying climate." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

"...a person who gives a damn.”....New York, Sept. 20/21

From Bill McKibben:



Dear Friends,

 

Earlier this spring the chaplain at Harvard joined students sitting-in outside the Harvard president’s office to demand climate action. He took the bullhorn for a minute, and thanked the organizers for “giving me the chance to be the person who I purport to be—a person who gives a damn.”

 

We’re all going to get that chance Sept. 20 and 21, when the biggest demonstration in the history of the climate movement takes place in New York City. We need you there, you and everyone you can think of to bring. Here’s the somewhat more formal invitation that I wrote out, for the current issue of Rolling Stone. Please share it—it’s the most important call we’ll send you this year.

And if you're ready to say you'll be there, RSVP on Facebook.

 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has summoned the world’s leaders to the city in late September to consult about climate change. Because we think those leaders have done a lousy job, and because we’re tired of fancy words and ready for real action, we’re going to go to New York too, in our thousands and tens of thousands.

 

Marching doesn’t solve anything by itself. But movements can shift political power—in fact, little else ever does.

 

We need to show just how big and unified our movement has grown, from the environmental justice advocates fighting fossil fuel pollution in our communities to the students demanding divestment on our campuses, from the scientists who have seen their warnings so far ignored to the clergy now showing real moral leadership.

 

If you’re wondering how to react to the devastating news that the Antarctic is melting out of control: New York. If you’re scared like I am by the pictures of the fire and drought across the West: New York. If you’re feeling like it’s time to change the trajectory of this planet: we’ll see you in New York.

Sept. 20/21. Tell everyone.

  
Bill McKibben

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PEW: Protecting the Ross Sea

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Remarks by Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator Bob Carr




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