Garrison Keillor | The Graduation Speech I Didn't Get to Give

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07 June 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE ARE IN UNNECESSARY FINANCIAL TROUBLE: We are scratching and clawing to make our budget every month. Because we cannot get 1% of our subscribers to contribute to our fundraising appeals. Waiting until the situation is dire is abusive of the process. Well it’s dire now. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Garrison Keillor | The Graduation Speech I Didn't Get to Give  Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website t was graduation weekend at my daughter’s school and so I hung out with emotional dads for a couple of days and at the graduation dance I got a little teary-eyed myself. It was the Father-Daughter dance and we shimmied and shook to “I Saw Her Standing There” and then a slow waltz to “Wonderful World” and I sang the words to her, “I hear babies cry, I watch them grow; they’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know.” And I meant them. READ MORE Detention center. (photo: David Mcnew/Getty) DHS Watchdog Finds Spoiled Food, Nooses at Multiple Immigration Detention Centers Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress Entralgo writes: "The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report Thursday detailing the horrific conditions at immigration detention centers across the United States." READ MORE Lawmakers have yet to take concrete action against fake news and misinformation. (photo: Erik McGregor/Barcroft) Fake News: US Braced for New Wave of Misinformation in 2020 Election Sabrina Siddiqui, Guardian UK Siddiqui writes: "As the US gears up for its next general election, half of Americans view fake news as a bigger threat to the country than terrorism, illegal immigration, violent crime or racism, according to a new study." READ MORE The most expensive cleanup site is at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Washington. (photo: Manuel Valdes/AP) Nuclear Waste Will Be Classified as Safer Under a Controversial Trump Administration Change Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Vartabedian writes: "The federal Department of Energy is changing how it will dispose of nuclear weapons waste, reclassifying what was formerly considered high-level radioactive material to a lower standard, officials said in a formal notice Wednesday." READ MORE An iPhone user. (photo: Getty) Give Up Your Password or Go to Jail: Police Push Legal Boundaries to Get Into Cellphones Jon Schuppe, NBC News Schuppe writes: "As police now routinely seek access to people's cellphones, privacy advocates see a dangerous erosion of Americans' rights, with courts scrambling to keep up." READ MORE Children queue as they wait to receive free food which was prepared by residents and volunteers on a street in the low-income neighborhood of Caucaguita in Caracas, Venezuela. (photo: Henry Romero/Reuters) US Sanctions on Venezuela Illegal Under UN, OAS and US Law teleSUR Excerpt: "The application of unilateral economic sanctions is an explicit violation of international law protected under the United Nation's (U.N.) and Organization of American States's (OAS) charters, human rights stipulations, and even national United States (U.S.) law. Despite that truth, they have become U.S. President Donald Trump's favorite tool to assert his foreign policy goals around the world." READ MORE A pair of elk. (photo: Getty) Trump Administration Plans Major Expansion of Hunting, Fishing in Wildlife Refuges John Seewer, Associated Press Seewer writes: "The Trump administration on Wednesday announced what it called a major expansion of hunting and fishing in the nation's wildlife refuges." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

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Jesse Jackson | Give Diplomacy a Chance in Venezuela 

Jesse Jackson, CounterPunch
Jackson writes: "Nicolas Maduro is far from blameless, but no one nominated the United States to decide who should govern Venezuela. Fomenting regime change - by a soft coup, by economic sabotage, by fostering a military revolt - is likely to lead to more violence and more suffering."
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Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday. Multiple people are in custody after shootings at two mosques there. (photo: Mark Baker/AP) 

49 Dead in 'Terrorist Attack' at 2 Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand
Matthew S. Schwartz, Richard Gonzales and Barbara Campbell, NPR
Excerpt: "Forty-nine people are dead and at least 20 are seriously injured in what New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says 'can now only be described as a terrorist attack.'"
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Children play at a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. (photo: Getty)

In Major Rebuke to Trump, Senate Votes to Block Border Wall Emergency
Li Zhou, Vox
Zhou writes: "A staggering 12 Senate Republicans have officially voted to block President Donald Trump's declaration of national emergency, highlighting a marked split between GOP lawmakers and the White House on the president's attempt to obtain more funding for his border wall."
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A document with redactions released under the Freedom of Information Act. (photo: Eric Risberg/AP)

The US Government Has Never Been More Secretive Than It Is Under Donald Trump
Justin Rohrlich, Quartz
Rohrlich writes: "The Trump administration is the least transparent in American history, releasing censored files - or none at all - in response to 78% of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests last year, according to a data analysis by the Associated Press."
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Brothers, ages 4 and 3, from El Salvador at a Border Patrol station in Brownsville, Texas, in 2014. (photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

ICE Accused of Illegally Detaining Children as Young as 5 for More Than a Month: 'They Are Locked Up and Suffering Every Day'
Chantal Da Silva, Newsweek
Da Silva writes: "The embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was accused of illegally keeping children as young as 5 years old 'locked up and suffering' at a detention center in Karnes City, Texas, for more than a month."
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The North Korean embassy in Madrid. (photo: Uly Martin/El Pais)

CIA Implicated in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid
Miguel González and Patricia Ortega Dolz, El País
Excerpt: "According to Spanish investigators, two of the men who broke into the diplomatic headquarters have connections to the US intelligence service."
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Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. (photo: Alex Wong)

Ryan Zinke Did Big Coal's Bidding and Gave Away Public Lands, Insider Reveals
Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast
Michaelson writes: "A congressional hearing today revealed proof that Donald Trump's controversial 2017 decision to dramatically shrink two national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, was a gift to the energy and mining industries."
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Joe Biden Has a History of Racist Comments

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Joe Biden Has a History of Racist Comments 

Matt Viser, The Washington Post
Viser writes: "When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing, debating whether children should be sent to schools in different neighborhoods to promote racial diversity."
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Erik Prince: Blackwater Founder Admits Trump Tower Meeting With Donald Jr. in Disastrous Interview
Tom Embury-Dennis, The Independent
Embury-Dennis writes: "Donald Trump ally Erik Prince may have committed perjury, a congressman has said, after the former Navy Seal said for the first time he held a meeting with one of the US president's sons to discuss 'Iran policy.'"
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Immigrant children in a detention center. (photo: Ross D. Franklin)

ICE Is Detaining 50,000 People, an All-Time High
Spencer Ackerman, The Daily Beast
Ackerman writes: "For the first time in its history, the U.S. government is detaining more than 50,000 people it says are undocumented immigrants in jails and prisons around the country."
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A danger sign is seen on the front door of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, February 22, 2019. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Florida Spa Founder Offered Access to Trump and Family at Mar-a-Lago to Chinese Clients
Doug Stanglin and Christal Hayes, USA TODAY
Excerpt: "Cindy (Li) Yang, a Florida entrepreneur who founded a chain of spas and massages parlors that included the one where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was arrested recently for allegedly soliciting prostitution, also runs a consulting business that has offered to sell Chinese clients access to President Donald Trump."
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Ilhan Omar. (photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA)

Why False Accusations of Anti-Semitism Are So Harmful
Phyllis Bennis, YES! Magazine
Bennis writes: "People are right to be afraid of rising anti-Semitism in the United States. But too many of them are wrong about what it is and where it's coming from."
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A paramilitary group in Colombia. (photo: InSight Crime)

Colombia's War of Neoliberal Economics
Chelsey Dyer, NACLA
Dyer writes: "Colombia today has the highest number of recorded assassinations of human rights defenders in the world. In the first 15 days of January 2019 alone, nine social leaders were murdered."
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There are currently 128 military installations so contaminated with hazardous substances that the federal government has placed them on a 'National Priorities List' for cleanup. (photo: vgajic/Grist/Getty Images/Google Earth)

Veterans and Their Families Are Grappling With the Military's Toxic Legacy
Justine Calma, Grist
Calma writes: "Marine Corps Sergeant Peggy Price was six months pregnant when she arrived at Camp Lejeune in the 1980s with her husband, a fellow Marine. Serving as a cryptologic linguist, she never imagined the most immediate threats she would face would come from being stationed in Jacksonville, North Carolina."
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