Michael Moore | In Virginia, Centrism Gave Us a Hood and Some Shoe Polish

06 February 19 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Michael Moore | In Virginia, Centrism Gave Us a Hood and Some Shoe Polish  Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page Moore writes: "Virginia Democrats have learned what centerism [sic] and moderation got them. A hood and some shoe polish." READ MORE Democratic female members of Congress cheered after President Donald Trump said during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night that there were more women in Congress than ever before. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) ALSO SEE: Trump Uses Baseless Fear-Mongering in His State of the Union Speech to Push for a Border Wall State of the Union: Donald Trump Attacks Mueller and Democrats in Divisive Speech Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK Gambino writes: "Trump's State of the Union remarks were an apparent reference to the investigation, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, into Russian meddling in the US election, plus Democrats' promised oversight investigations into the president's conduct and personal finances." READ MORE Vermont senator Bernie Sanders addresses the crowd during the annual Martin Luther King Jr Day at the Dome event on January 21 in Columbia, SC. (photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images) Bernie Against the Billionaires Meagan Day, Jacobin Day writes: "Bernie Sanders is right to want to hike the estate tax - there's no reason for billionaires to exist, and there's definitely no reason to allow their failsons to inherit their fortunes." READ MORE Trump's inauguration. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) The Investigation Into Trump's Inauguration Money Looks Quite Serious Andrew Prokop, Vox Prokop writes: "The scope of documents requested in the subpoena and potential crimes investigators are probing are both remarkable - investigating everything from false statements to money laundering." READ MORE Jill Abramson's new book, Merchants of Truth, addresses the challenges of today's media landscape head on. (photo: Ali Smith/The Observer) Jill Abramson on Media Layoffs: 'The Villains Are Facebook and Google' Lucia Graves, Guardian UK Graves writes: "In January, as an already beleaguered news industry suffered the loss of an additional 1,000 jobs nationally, Facebook announced the opening of its strongest year ever. Overall newsroom employment is down nearly a quarter in less than 10 years." READ MORE The alarming number of disappeared people in Mexico makes one believe that the country is a clandestine grave in itself. (photo: Reuters) Mexico a 'Huge Clandestine Grave,' Says Government on Disappearances teleSUR Excerpt: "The undersecretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas of Mexico said Monday that Mexico in itself is a clandestine grave." READ MORE Last year, the U.S.'s carbon-dioxide emissions increased by an estimated 3.4 per cent, the second-largest gain in the past two decades. (photo: Fernando Moleres/Panos Pictures/Redux) Carolyn Kormann | The False Choice Between Economic Growth and Combatting Climate Change Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker Kormann writes: "As a small but growing coalition of congressional Democrats, led by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have outlined as part of their Green New Deal, transforming the energy sector-and, really, the entire economy." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Bernie Sanders Is Tired of Inside-the-Beltway Liberalism

21 September 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WAVING HANDS FOR DONATIONS - HELP: No movement at all at this point on donations. “Someone else,” is not the answer. We cannot serve a million readers a month with 250 donating. Not fair, not possible. What does it take? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bernie Sanders Is Tired of Inside-the-Beltway Liberalism  Helaine Olen, The Washington Post Olen writes: "When I sat down with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last week, he was a bit annoyed - admittedly not unusual. He was just back from a news conference where he and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) - among others - introduced the new Expand Social Security Caucus in Congress." READ MORE Robert Mueller. (photo: NBC) ALSO SEE: Trump Delays Release of Russia Probe Documents Mueller Investigating Russian Payments Made by Trump Tower Meeting Organizers John Bowden, The Hill Bowden writes: "Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating millions of dollars paid between two organizers of the Trump Tower meeting that involved Donald Trump Jr., top Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton." READ MORE President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington earlier this month. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP) Trump Questions Credibility of Kavanaugh Accuser, Lashes Out at Democrats John Wagner, Seung Min Kim and Sean Sullivan, The Washington Post Excerpt: "President Trump on Friday pointedly questioned the credibility of the woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers, contending that she or her parents would have reported the attack to law enforcement at the time if it were as bad as she has said." READ MORE Central American immigrants after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images) 'Our Lives Are in Danger': Mother With Autistic Son Faces US Deportation Francisco Navas, Guardian UK Navas writes: "Blanca waded across the Rio Grande in 2005 initially to escape poverty and after 2012 stayed away to avoid the growing violence in her native El Salvador, and settled successfully in the US." READ MORE McDonald's workers are joined by other activists as they march toward the company's headquarters to protest sexual harassment at the fast food chain's restaurants on Tuesday in Chicago. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) Women Workers Bring the #MeToo Movement to McDonald's Annelise Orleck, Jacobin Orleck writes: "Carrying signs that read 'McDonalds, Hands off My Buns,' [the women] joined a global #MeToo movement in protest against endemic sexual harassment in their workplaces." READ MORE A masked Mexican soldier. (photo: AFP) Mexico: Military and Police Accused of Extrajudicial Killings Reuters Excerpt: "Mexican troops and police committed two extrajudicial killings while confronting presumed fuel thieves in the central state of Puebla in May 2017, a Mexican human rights group said Wednesday." READ MORE Coal ash contains an array of components, including mercury, lead, arsenic and other toxic heavy metals. (photo: Chuck Burton/AP) Dam Breach at Duke Plant; Coal Ash Could Be Spilling Into Cape Fear River Michael Biesecker and Alan Suderman, Associated Press Excerpt: "Duke Energy said Friday that a dam containing a large lake at a Wilmington power plant has been breached by floodwaters from Florence." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Bob Woodward on the 'Best Obtainable Version of the Truth' About Trump

17 September 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News SLOW DOWN FOR A MOMENT AND HELP OUT - That's all it takes to sustain the only 100% Reader Supported News agency. That’s it. Without it, we’re cooked. Our sincere thanks. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bob Woodward on the 'Best Obtainable Version of the Truth' About Trump  Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine Nuzzi writes: "By the time I arrived at Bob Woodward's townhouse in Georgetown on Friday morning, his latest book, Fear, was already in its ninth printing, with more copies sold on just the first day of its release than there are people living in the city of Washington." READ MORE Brett Kavanaugh and Mike Pence. (photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) The Claim Against Kavanaugh Is Not a Suspicious 11th-Hour Bombshell. Because We're Not in the 11th Hour. Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post Sullivan writes: "There's time for more reporting. There's time to hear out Ford publicly, as Christine Blasey Ford now says she's willing to make happen. There's time for deliberate consideration and second thoughts." READ MORE Jason Van Dyke in court on Friday. The graphic video - released the day Van Dyke was charged - led to months of protests and political upheaval. (photo: Antonio Perez/AP) Laquan McDonald Death: Trial Begins of Chicago Police Officer Who Shot Black Teen 16 Times David Taylor, Guardian UK Taylor writes: "Jason Van Dyke faces two counts of first-degree murder over the death of McDonald, 17, in October 2014." READ MORE McAllen, Texas. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images) US Border Patrol Supervisor Confesses to Executing Four Women Danielle McLean, ThinkProgress McLean writes: "A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) supervisor was arrested Saturday after he confessed to driving four women to desolate highway areas in and around Laredo, Texas where he was stationed and executing them with a handgun, according to Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz." READ MORE 'Children, spouses and family have nothing to do with political rows,' Zomlot said. (photo: Reuters) US Expels Palestinian Ambassador, Freezes Family Bank Account teleSUR Excerpt: "The United States, in yet another attempt to force the hand of Palestinians, expelled the Palestinian Ambassador to the U.S. Husam Zomlot. The family's bank account has also been frozen. This came few days after the U.S. State Department ordered the closure of Palestine Liberation Organization's embassy in Washington." READ MORE The mother of missing college student Adan Abarajan de la Cruz sits at the foot of soldiers outside a military base during a protest by the families of 43 missing students over the army's alleged responsibility or lack of response to the students' disappearance in Iguala, Mexico, Dec. 18, 2014. (photo: AP) Chasing the Murderers of Ayotzinapa's 43 Christy Thornton, NACLA News Thornton writes: "Examining the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico four years ago can lead to only one conclusion: culpability lies with the Mexican state." READ MORE An ambulance outside of a hospital. (photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Hospitals Take Aim at 'the Greatest Health Threat of the 21st Century' Justine Calma, Grist Calma writes: "One of the larger themes at this week's massive Global Climate Action Summit taking place in San Francisco is the relationship between climate change and human health." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

RSN: Charles Pierce | If Michael Cohen Isn't Singing for the Feds Yet, He's a Fool

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RSN: Charles Pierce | If Michael Cohen Isn't Singing for the Feds Yet, He's a Fool

The report details how 40 million Americans live in poverty, and 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty. (photo: M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

UN Report: Trump Administration's Policies Designed to Worsen Poverty and Inequality
Philip Alston and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "A group of top Democrats are demanding the Trump administration present a plan to Congress to address growing poverty in the United States, following an excoriating report by the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston."
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RSN: Andy Borowitz | Kim Jong Un Offers to Host Peace Talks Between United States and Canada

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RSN: Andy Borowitz | Kim Jong Un Offers to Host Peace Talks Between United States and Canada

Donald Trump and Neil Gorsuch. (photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Neil Gorsuch Just Wrote an Opinion So Radical That Clarence Thomas Wouldn't Join It
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "For more than a quarter century, Justice Clarence Thomas served as the Supreme Court's daft old uncle."
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RSN: Reality Winner Has Been in Jail for a Year, Her Prosecution Is Unfair and Unprecedented

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RSN: Reality Winner Has Been in Jail for a Year, Her Prosecution Is Unfair and Unprecedented

Robert Reich | It Was a Trade War That Helped Cause the Great Depression

Robert Reich | It Was a Trade War That Helped Cause the Great Depression

A History of Sex and Abuse in the Trump Administration

A History of Sex and Abuse in the Trump Administration

The US Does a Terrible Job of Keeping Its Children Out of Poverty - Especially Compared to Other Industrialized Nations
Matt Bruenig, Jacobin
Bruenig writes: "According to the latest data, 20 percent of US children live in families with incomes below 50 percent of the national median income. Compare that to Nordic countries, where the same number ranges from 3.6 percent to 6.7 percent."
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