Garrison Keillor | A June Wedding in a Faraway Village

30 June 19

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The Cavalry Is Kind of Showing Up

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WE BADLY NEED A FEW HEROES - Really trying to keep the June fundraiser as close as possible. We could really use a boost from anyone who can help. Who can donate? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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Garrison Keillor | A June Wedding in a Faraway Village 

Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "We came to Portugal knowing only the words for apology (desculpe) and gratitude (obrigado) and were stunned by the beauty on every hand, the seaside city of Porto on the river Douro, the narrow twisty streets and red tile roofs over skinny passageways into stone-paved courtyards."
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Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)

Federal Judge Rules Against Border Wall Construction With Military Funds
Barbara Campbell and Bobby Allyn, NPR
Excerpt: "A federal judge in California has blocked President Trump from using $2.5 billion in military funding to build a southern border wall."
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Electoral Map Bias May Worsen as US Gerrymandering Battle Shifts to States
Joseph Ax and Andrew Chung, Reuters
Excerpt: "The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that federal judges have no power to police partisan gerrymandering - the practice of manipulating electoral district boundaries for political gain."
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ICE Arrested Activist Just Hours After He Recited a Poem Criticizing the Agency
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "A Bakersfield College student was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 36 hours after he recited a poem criticizing the agency at a public event, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Southern California."
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Jon Stewart helps Luis Alvarez, Detective (Ret.) and 9/11 Responder, New York Police Department, as they are sworn before testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on the need to reauthorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund on June 11, 2019, in Washington. (photo: Jack Gruber/USA TODAY)

NYPD Officer Luis Alvarez, 9/11 First Responder Who Testified Before Congress With Jon Stewart, Dies
David Ushery, NBC News
Ushery writes: "Luis Alvarez, the NYPD detective who used his final days to plead with Congress for more benefits for 9/11 first responders, has died, his family said Saturday."
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A photo handout showed five of the jets flying above the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar. (photo: FS)

US Deploys F-22 Stealth Fighters to Qatar Amid Iran Tensions
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "The United States has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran."
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EPA Air Quality Chief Resigns Over Ethics Investigation
Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Davidson writes: "So little time, so much damage done. That's the legacy left by Bill Wehrum who spent only one and a half years as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) top air quality official before announcing that he will step down this weekend under the cloud of a federal ethics investigation over possible conflicts of interest."
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FOCUS | Boy Plunder: The Many Crimes of Jared Kushner

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48 HOURS TO RAISE 7K - It seems insurmountable. But we have done it before and we need to do it now. 48 hours to accomplish the seemingly impossible. No problem. Who can get it started? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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FOCUS | Boy Plunder: The Many Crimes of Jared Kushner 

Greg Olear, Medium
Olear writes: "The son-in-law and top adviser to the president, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and would-be Middle East peacemaker, is no patriot. To the contrary, Kushner has shown nothing but contempt for the United States: violating its laws, lying to its law enforcement officials, and (possibly) selling its state policy for his own personal enrichment."
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Juan Cole | Did Tillerson Lose His Job Over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

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Juan Cole | Did Tillerson Lose His Job Over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar? 

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Emmons suggests that Tillerson lost his job over his intervention, given the sway evil genius Yousef al-Otaiba (UAE ambassador in Washington, DC) has over Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner."
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Protestors rally outside Connecticut court hearing on immigrant child separation. (photo: Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters)

Hundreds of Detained Fathers Hunger Strike After Being Separated From Their Families
Amanda Holpuch, Guardian UK
Holpuch writes: "More than 500 migrant fathers and sons detained in Texas after being separated from each other for weeks and months have launched a strike against unfair conditions."
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Amazon's Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots
Jacob Snow, ACLU
Snow writes: "Amazon's face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern."
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Participants in the 32nd annual Kingdom Day Parade in Los Angeles, January 16, 2017. (photo: Ronen Tivony/AP)

Four US Cities Sue Over Trump 'Sabotage' of Obamacare
Nate Raymond, Reuters
Raymond writes: "Four major U.S. cities filed a lawsuit on Thursday contending that President Donald Trump's administration is unconstitutionally seeking to undermine Obamacare by failing to faithfully execute the healthcare law."
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Pope Francis Changes Catholic Church Teaching to Say Death Penalty Is 'Inadmissible'
Chico Harlan, The Washington Post
Harlan writes: "Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church teaching to fully reject the death penalty, the Vatican announced Thursday, saying it would work to abolish capital punishment worldwide."
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo: Getty)

Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews
Haaretz
Excerpt: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked public uproar when on Tuesday he claimed that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of the extermination of European Jewry in Adolf Hitler's mind."
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Sarah-Jeanne Royer with some of the plastic she's studied. (photo: BBC)

Plastic Pollution: How One Woman Found a New Source of Warming Gases Hidden in Waste
Matt McGrath, BBC
McGrath writes: "In short it's the Sun. Solar radiation acts on the surface of plastic waste. As it breaks down, becomes cracked and pitted, these defects increase the surface area of plastic available to sunlight which accelerates gas production. Even in the dark, the gas continues to seep out."
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RSN: Juan Cole | Can Palestinians Be Killed? Can Israelis Kill Them? Or Do They Only "Die"?

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THIS IS A PROCESS YOU CAN KILL THROUGH INDIFFERENCE - Reader Supported News is at its core and must be sustained by the Readers, public funding. If you are going to truly serve the public interest then you must have public support. You like the dedication to your interest. But many of you want to skip the support. That can, ultimately will kill, this process. True power comes from the many, not from the few. In Peace and solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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RSN: Juan Cole | Can Palestinians Be Killed? Can Israelis Kill Them? Or Do They Only "Die"?

Ahmed Al-Rumaihi, a former Qatari diplomat, was photographed meeting with Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn in December 2016. (photo: Getty)

Michael Cohen's Meetings With Michael Flynn and a Qatari Diplomat Might Be the Key to Unlocking the Steele Dossier
Jeremy Stahl, Slate
Stahl writes: "The founder of a three-on-three basketball league who claims he was offered a bribe by a one-time Qatari diplomat to arrange access to Steve Bannon said on Monday that the former diplomat is the same person photographed with Michael Cohen at Trump Tower in December 2016."
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RSN: William Boardman | Saudis Try Hostage-Taking as Diplomacy

24 June 17 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News CRITICALLY SHORT OF DONATIONS FOR JUNE - We have no chance of finishing this fundraiser at this pace. The organization is doing quite well otherwise, but the donation pace - must - pick up. Fact: If 10% of the people who read this respond, the June fundraiser would be over today. Let's do this folks. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! William Boardman | Saudis Try Hostage-Taking as Diplomacy William Boardman, Reader Supported News Boardman writes: "The Persian Gulf nation of Qatar has been held in a weird kind of hostage situation since June 5. That's when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and a few other countries decided to try to isolate and manipulate Qatar by cutting diplomatic relations and imposing an embargo and something of a blockade." READ MORE Trump's Tape Blunder Risks Fresh Legal Jeopardy in Russia Probe Jennifer Jacobs, Justin Sink, and Margaret Talev, Bloomberg Excerpt: "President Donald Trump's admission that he never taped his conversations with ousted FBI Director James Comey risks exposing him to fresh legal jeopardy and weakens his credibility in the eyes of investigators probing ties between his associates and Russia." READ MORE Sanders to Headline 'Don't Take Our Health Care' Bus Tour John Bowden, The Hill Bowden writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will headline a MoveOn.org bus tour this weekend urging senators to oppose the Senate GOP healthcare plan, the progressive organization announced Thursday." READ MORE America's Long, Disturbing History of Black People Calling the Police and Ending Up Dead Muna Mire, Fusion Mire writes: "This past Sunday morning, Seattle police responded to a 911 call from 30-year-old Charleena Lyles reporting an attempted burglary at her home. Shortly after police entered her apartment, Lyles was dead - officers fatally shot her while three of her children were present." READ MORE Number of Refugees Admitted to US Drops by Nearly Half Under Trump Sabrina Siddiqui, Guardian UK Siddiqui writes: "The number of refugees admitted to the US has fallen by nearly half under Donald Trump when compared with the final months of Barack Obama's presidency, according to statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)." READ MORE Thousands of Haitian Workers Are on Strike Against Foreign-Owned Sweatshops Jeff Abbott, In These Times Abbott writes: "Thousands of textile workers in Haiti have stopped work in factories and taken to the streets to demand of improved working conditions in the country's maquiladora export industry." READ MORE Politician Working to Curb Pipeline Protestors Has Ties to Shadow Lobbyists Itai Vardi, DeSmogBlog Vardi writes: "A recent intensification in protests against Williams Partners' planned Atlantic Sunrise pipeline in Pennsylvania prompted a state senator to propose legislation aimed at limiting demonstrations." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

RSN: What Will Trump Do in Syria?

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WE HAVE A GREAT READERSHIP … AND A SERIOUS PROBLEM: I don’t think we have a great readership, I know for a fact that we do. They are prestigious, influential, creatively gifted and deeply concerned about the social and political landscape. We also have a - serious problem. Simply put, funding the organization is too difficult. Certainly far more difficult than it needs to be. We can do better, and now would be a damn good time. / Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News

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FOCUS: Steve Weissman | What Will Trump Do in Syria? 
 
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Weissman writes: "Will Trump break with the Saudis and Qataris, threatening billions of dollars in US arms sales and all the jobs they create? Or will he say goodbye to his deal with Putin? The world will be watching his every move." 
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RSN: American Power at the Crossroads, a Snapshot of a Multipolar World in Action

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WHY WOULD YOU COME TO "READER SUPPORTED NEWS" ... Why come to an organization called Reader Supported News? An organization that is 100% Reader-Supported and ignore rather urgent pleas for funding? Where does that mindset come from? It's not "Funded-by-Wealthy-Democrats-News," it's news funded by the people it serves. Or not funded when you don't feel like it? We will serve 30,000 readers today, we need 580 donations @ $30 to finish. Why would we not finish today? / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News

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FOCUS: Dilip Hiro | American Power at the Crossroads, a Snapshot of a Multipolar World in Action 
 
Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch 
Hiro writes: "In the strangest election year in recent American history - one in which the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson couldn't even conjure up the name of a foreign leader he 'admired' while Donald Trump remained intent on building his 'fat, beautiful wall' and 'taking' Iraq oil - the world may be out of focus for many Americans right now. So a little introduction to the planet we actually inhabit is in order." 
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RSN: US & Saudi Arabia War Crimes Keep Killing Yemenis

The US can't re-build crumbling roads and bridges, can't feed hungry children, can't house the homeless, yet this defines the Moral Bankruptcy of the US: 

Daily Kos

This says it all.

Thanks to The Middle Class is Drowning for the graphic.

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US Empire, Your Tax Dollars and Why WIkileaks was important...

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FOCUS: William Boardman | US & Saudi Arabia War Crimes Keep Killing Yemenis 
 
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Boardman writes: "If ANY presidential candidate has said anything substantive in opposition to the US participation in the war on Yemen, it's not easy to find. It's not easy to find a presidential candidate in opposition to America's 14 years of continuous war in the Middle East and Africa." 
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