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08 July 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOLKS, WE CAN'T DO THIS WITHOUT FUNDING: It's that simple. No accounting trick, no “new way of thinking,” no “better approach” will solve the problem. Funding is funding, we have to have it. So far this month, we do not. In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Mehdi Hasan | Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It's With Her Own Party's Future  Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept Hasan writes: "It is time for liberals and leftists who lambast Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to admit to themselves that the hippie-punching Pelosi has become a Trump enabler too." READ MORE Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. (photo: ICE) FBI, ICE Find State Driver's License Photos Are a Gold Mine for Facial-Recognition Searches Drew Harwell, The Washington Post Harwell writes: "Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver's license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans' photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show." READ MORE Jeffrey Epstein alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, who has also been accused of helping recruit girls for his sex trafficking pyramid scheme. (photo: Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images) Jeffrey Epstein Could Finally Face Justice After Years of Allegedly Sex Trafficking Underaged Girls Zack Ford, ThinkProgress Ford writes: "Billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday and could finally face federal charges for years of allegedly recruiting underage girls in a sort of sex abuse pyramid scheme." READ MORE Sen. Chris Coons talks to media after a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP/Shutterstock) Senator Says Trump Is Using 'Cruelty to Children' as Immigration Tool Peter Wade, Rolling Stone Wade writes: "On Sunday, Senator Chris Coons was a guest on CBS News' Face the Nation. Host Margaret Brennan asked the senator to speak to the duration of time that families and children are being held at migrant detention centers at the U.S. border. Coons directly said the administration's strategy is purposely harsh." READ MORE Megan Rapinoe poses with the Golden Ball next to Rose Lavelle with the Bronze Ball after the U.S. won the Women's World Cup. (photo: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images) Megan Rapinoe Owned This World Cup. Rose Lavelle Will Own the Next Four Years. Eric Betts, Slate Betts writes: "Megan Rapinoe was standing over the ball, 12 yards out from the goal, in the second half of a scoreless Women's World Cup final against the Netherlands on Sunday." READ MORE Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of Greece's center-right New Democracy party, at a pre-election rally in Athens on Thursday. (photo: Andrew Testa/NYT) Greek Elections: Landslide Victory for Center-Right New Democracy Party Helena Smith, Guardian UK Smith writes: "Voters in Greece have given Kyriakos Mitsotakis' center-right New Democracy party a resounding mandate to form a new government after it won by a landslide over the incumbent leftwing Syriza party, which has been in power since 2015." READ MORE The Jamanxim River hems the eastern side of Jamanxim National Forest, one of the most threatened protected areas in Brazil. (photo: IBAMA/Wikimedia Commons) Land Thieves Ramp Up Deforestation in Brazil's Jamanxim National Forest Sue Branford and Thais Borges, Mongabay Excerpt: "Deforestation appears to be rising dramatically in Brazil, with satellite data showing the country's Amazonian region lost more forest in May than during any other month in the past decade." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

RSN: Hidden Problem of 'Ghost Gear': The Abandoned Fishing Nets Clogging Up Oceans, Trump's Populism Is Really Racism and Classism,

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John Kiriakou | Trump's Populism Is Really Racism and Classism 
 
John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News 
Kiriakou writes: "Trump's phony populism is really nothing but racism, classism, and what has become of the conservative movement in this country." 
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Clinton Had Right to Delete Personal Emails, Justice Department Affirms 
Eric Tucker, Associated Press 
Tucker writes: "Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the Justice Department told a federal court." 
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Joseph Stiglitz | It's a No-Brainer to Keep Rates on Hold 
Joseph Stiglitz, MarketWatch 
Stiglitz writes: "There is strong evidence that economies perform better with a tight labor market and, as the International Monetary Fund has shown, lower inequality (and the former typically leads to the latter). Of course, the financiers and corporate executives see things differently: Low wages mean high profits." 
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After Snowden, Filmmaker Laura Poitras Takes On Julian Assange 
James Vincent, The Verge 
Vincent writes: "The first series of shorts, made by Poitras herself, will look at the story of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, chronicling his publication of diplomatic cables and his time spent in political asylum in London's Ecuadorian embassy." 
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The Laws Targeting Campus Rape Culture 
Tyler Bishop, The Atlantic 
Bishop writes: "Between now and the time that college students pack up for Thanksgiving break, more sexual assaults will happen on campuses nationwide than during any other time of the year. The 'Red Zone,' as this period is commonly known, is a time when new students are adjusting to the novelty and freedom of college life-and are thus particularly vulnerable to sexual assault." 
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Greek Polls Point to Conservative Leader as Surprise Winner of National Elections 
Helena Smith, Guardian UK 
Smith writes: "Mustachioed, tall and in many ways resembling a Cretan warlord, Vangelis Meimarakis, the man never meant to be a leader, may emerge as the surprise winner of the Greek elections next week." 
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Hidden Problem of 'Ghost Gear': The Abandoned Fishing Nets Clogging Up Oceans 
Hannah Gould, Guardian UK 
Gould writes: "Exact numbers are unknown, but the National Marine Fisheries Service reported an average of 11 entangled large whales per year from 2000 to 2012 along the US west coast. Around the world, seals, turtles, birds and fish are also injured and killed in the same way." 
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RSN: Animas River Spill: EPA Knew Mine 'Blowout' Was Possible, Say Documents, Blase Bonpane at the Hiroshima 70th Anniversary Event,

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John Kiriakou | Obama Should Charge Clinton With Espionage 

John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News 
Kiriakou writes: "Hillary Clinton should be charged with espionage. Not really. And I don't think she will be. But if the Obama administration is going to be consistent in its treatment of those who leak classified information, Clinton ought to face charges under the Espionage Act." 
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Chris Borland: Scott Walker Opponent and the NFL's Worst Nightmare 
Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN 
Excerpt: "It's not just that Borland won't play football anymore. He's reluctant to even watch it, he now says, so disturbed is he by its inherent violence, the extreme measures that are required to stay on the field at the highest levels and the physical destruction he has witnessed to people he loves and admires." 
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Blase Bonpane | Blase Bonpane at the Hiroshima 70th Anniversary Event 
Blase Bonpane, Reader Supported News 
Bonpane writes: "Never has there been a greater danger of nuclear holocaust than today. The United States and Israel are certainly the most apt to use these biocidal weapons. There is not now nor has there ever been any value in what was called deterrence. There is only crisis." 
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Scott Walker on Meeting With Black Lives Matter: 'Who Knows Who That Is?' 
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "Fumbling through a question on whether he would be meet with representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement, Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker dismissed the possibility, saying, 'Who knows who that is?'" 
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Ohio Bill Would Ban Abortion if Down Syndrome Is Reason 
Tamar Lewin, The New York Times 
Lewin writes: "Opening a new front in the abortion wars, abortion opponents are pushing Ohio to make it illegal for a doctor to perform an abortion if a woman is terminating her pregnancy to avoid having a baby with Down syndrome." 
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Yanis Varoufakis Brands Alexis Tsipras the 'New De Gaulle' as Election Gets Ugly 
Helena Smith and Andrew Anthony, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Greece's pre-election campaign has turned ugly before it has even officially commenced, with senior figures - including the former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis - rounding on the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, for his governance of the crisis-plagued country." 
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Animas River Spill: EPA Knew Mine 'Blowout' Was Possible, Say Documents 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Internal documents released late on Friday show managers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were aware of the potential for a catastrophic 'blowout' at an abandoned mine that could release 'large volumes' of wastewater laced with toxic heavy metals." 
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RSN: Mistrial for White North Carolina Officer Who Killed Unarmed Black Man: Man's Family Vows to Fight On, In Victory for Corporations, Court Rejects Rule on Labeling Conflict Materials

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Andy Borowitz | Twenty Thousand Considered Disappointing Turnout for Racist Event in Alabama 

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "A rally featuring a racist speaker Friday night in Mobile attracted a crowd of just twenty thousand people, widely considered a disappointing turnout for a racist event in Alabama."
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Mistrial for White North Carolina Officer Who Killed Unarmed Black Man: Man's Family Vows to Fight On 
Christina Cooke, Guardian UK 
Cooke writes: "After the announcement, angry but peaceful protests took place outside the Charlotte courthouse. Protesters lay face-down in the road for a die-in." 
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FBI Opened File on George Carlin in Response to Jokes About Government 
Carly Sitrin, MuckRock 
Sitrin writes: "Carlin was a stand-up comedian whose set list included topics as diverse as language, religion, psychology, and politics. He is renowned for his 'Seven Dirty Words' routine, which played a vital role in the 1978 Supreme Court case FCC v Pacifica Foundation." 
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In Victory for Corporations, Court Rejects Rule on Labeling Conflict Materials 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "The mandatory disclosure policy became law as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. But this week a federal appeals court ruled the Securities and Exchange Commission cannot force companies to disclose whether minerals come from the Democratic Republic of Congo." 
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Judge Orders US to Release Detained Immigrant Children 'Without Delay' 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "US district judge Dolly Gee rejects federal request to reconsider earlier ruling, saying government arguments were 'repackaged and reheated.'" 
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Left-Wing of Greece's Syriza Splits Off to Form Popular Unity Party Ahead of Election 
Jon Henley and Ian Traynor, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "MPs angry at what they see as betrayal of anti-austerity principles announce decision in letter to parliament after Alexis Tsipras's resignation." 
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Arundhati Roy | A Note of Solidarity With Activists in Their Fight Against India's Mining Companies 
Arundhati Roy, India Resists 
Roy writes: "The Mining companies are getting restless. The MOUs that were signed handing over Adivasi land to them have not been actualized because of the resistance from local people." 
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