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John Oliver Torches the "Universally Hated" Republican Health Care Bill 
 
Taylor Link, Salon 
Link writes: "John Oliver joined the rest of America Sunday night when he trashed the GOP's new health care bill. Oliver dedicated the latest show of 'Last Week Tonight' to House Speaker Paul Ryan's amazingly unpopular American Health Care Act." 
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California to Join Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Latest Travel Ban 
Patrick McGreevy, The Los Angeles Times 
McGreevy writes: "California on Monday joined Washington and other states as a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's latest travel ban as an unconstitutional overreach, state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said." 
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Facebook Says Police Can't Use Its Data for 'Surveillance' 
Elizabeth Dwoskin, The Washington Post 
Dwoskin writes: "Facebook is cutting police departments off from a vast trove of data that has been increasingly used to monitor protesters and activists." 
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Trump's Season of Fear: Inside the Devastation Left by Immigration Raids 
Delphine Schrank, Guardian UK 
Schrank writes: "Among the expanded powers that Trump's executive orders and accompanying memos have given law enforcement since his inauguration, undocumented immigrants can be arrested and deported on mere suspicion of a broad array of offenses." 
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The Kids Are Right: There's Nothing Outrageous About Stamping Out Bigoted Speech 
Osita Nwanevu, Slate 
Nwanevu writes: "The argument that politically correct standards of etiquette or speech restrictions on campus are delirious, unprecedented absurdities that will set us on a slow, steady path toward the snuffing out of free society is unhinged." 
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Mass Protests Force Out South Korean Leader Amid Corruption Scandal 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "On Sunday, ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the Blue House presidential compound and returned to her private residence in southern Seoul two days after South Korea's Constitutional Court unanimously ruled to remove her from office over charges of graft and corruption." 
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Rate of Ocean Warming Quadrupled Since Late 20th Century, Study Reveals 
Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief 
Pidcock writes: "The buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases is warming the upper ocean four times faster than during the period 1960-1990, according to new research." 
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RSN: Even When Big Corporations Lose, Their CEOs Always Come Out Winners, 1 in 4 Americans Have PTSD-Like Symptoms From Financial Stress

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Robert Reich | Even When Big Corporations Lose, Their CEOs Always Come Out Winners 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page 
Reich writes: "Exxon Mobil chief executive Rex W. Tillerson is delivering bad news to shareholders: Profits were down 63 percent in the first quarter financial results, announced yesterday. But don't cry for Tillerson. He's scheduled to retire next March with a nest egg of $218 million in Exxon stock plus a pension plan worth $69.5 million." 
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No Criminal Charges for US Military's Bombing of Kunduz Hospital in Afghanistan 
Robert Burns, Associated Press 
Burns writes: "No criminal charges have been leveled against U.S. military personnel for mistakes that resulted in last's year's attack on the civilian hospital in Afghanistan operated by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders. The group has called the attack a war crime." 
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Elizabeth Warren Calls on Banks to Invest in Minority Neighborhoods, Businesses 
Isaac Park, The American Prospect 
Park writes: "Senator Elizabeth Warren recently warned that minority families and businesses continue to suffer disproportionately from the lingering effects of the Great Recession and called on the country's banks to step up to assist local communities." 
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1 in 4 Americans Have PTSD-Like Symptoms From Financial Stress 
Kate Ashford, Forbes 
Ashford writes: "If you've ever felt like financial stress was bringing you down, you might be interested in the findings of a new study. In an analysis of data from 2,011 survey respondents, researchers discovered that 23% of respondents were experiencing symptoms commonly associated with post-traumatic stress disorder related to their finances." 
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The Secret World of Government Requests for Facebook's User Data 
Nicole Lee, Engadget 
Lee writes: "In a biannual transparency report, Facebook has revealed that 60 percent of the data requests it gets from world governments includes a gag order. That means they include non-disclosure directives that prevent the company from telling the user about the request." 
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$5 Million Is Going to Koch-Backed Think Tanks in Arizona Universities. Professors Are Angry. 
Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress 
Quinlan writes: "Arizona lawmakers could provide the state's public universities with $32 million in additional funding this year - but some of that money will go to supporting conservative causes. A $5 million addition has been specifically earmarked for 'freedom schools' at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, according to the Arizona Republic." 
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Neil Young's New Album Was Inspired by the Wonder of Earth's Natural World 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "Neil Young has announced his new, full-length album EARTH. The 98-minute record, out June 17, features an unusual set of collaborators: live animals." 
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RSN: Is Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity?, Bill McKibben: Meet Me in New York, It's Time to Get Arrested, et al

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Bill McKibben: Meet Me in New York, It's Time to Get Arrested

Heather Smith, Grist
Smith writes: "It's not every day that Rolling Stone publishes a call for its readers to engage in a massive act of civil disobedience, but that's exactly what happened Wednesday."
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Hey, Liberals, Stop Taking Cases to the Supreme Court
Ian Millhiser, Slate Magazine
Millhiser writes: "The current Supreme Court is not, as it is often perceived, a cabal of four conservatives matched up against four liberals, with Kennedy holding the balance of power in between."
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Tom Engelhardt | Is Climate Change a Crime Against Humanity?
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "If you look back on America's apocalyptic fears of destruction during the first 14 years of this century, they largely involved three city-busting weapons that were fantasies of Washington's fertile imperial imagination."
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Supreme Court Halts Missouri Execution
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "The U.S. Supreme Court issued a new stay on Wednesday to halt the execution of a Missouri death-row inmate because his lawyers say he suffers from a rare health condition that could lead to undue suffering from a lethal injection."
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Over 100 Arrested Near McDonalds Headquarters in Protest Over Low Pay
Dominic Rushe, Guardian UK
Rushe reports: "McDonald's closed part of its corporate headquarters on Wednesday in response to a mass protest by workers and activists that campaigners say ended in more than 100 arrests."
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Facebook Can Now Spy on Your Surroundings Using Your Phone's Microphone
Selena Larson, ReadWrite
Larson reports: "Apparently Facebook believes that your friends and commenters are all people of goodwill who will conscientiously avoid revealing stuff you'd rather not know yet."
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Leaked Memo Reveals TTIP Would Export Fracked Gas Restriction-Free From US to EU
Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch
Hauter reports: "While it would lock in more business and better quarterly profits for Big Oil and Gas, it is hard to see how this serves the public interest."
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