RSN: New Coal Plants 'Most Urgent' Threat to the Planet, Warns OECD Head, Sabotage in Your IRA The Most Outrageous Decision of this Supreme Court Term

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Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker | Sabotage in Your IRA 
 
Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, USA Today 
Excerpt: "Middle-class families face many challenges trying to save for a secure retirement, but high fees and hidden payments shouldn't be among them." 
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Greek Bailout Referendum Down to the Wire 
Al Jazeera America 
Excerpt: "Voting is under way in a crucial referendum that will decide whether or not Greeks choose to accept international creditors' proposals for more austerity in exchange for rescue loans needed to avoid default and a banking collapse." 
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Meet the Supporters Who Keep Donald Trump in Business 
Ben Jacobs, Guardian UK 
Jacobs writes: "Donald Trump is a loudmouth who has never spent a day in public office. And that is why his supporters want him to be president." 
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The Most Outrageous Decision of this Supreme Court Term 
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate 
Stern writes: "The justices' refusal to examine Jordan's case clears the way for his execution. It may be remembered as their most gallingly unjust decision this term." 
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Fannie, Freddie Chiefs Get Big Raises 
Amrita Jayakumar, The Washington Post 
Jayakumar writes: "The chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could collect up to $4 million a year in pay as a result of new government rules that ease restrictions on the leaders' compensation six years after the mortgage finance giants received massive bailouts to cover losses suffered during the housing bust." 
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Republicans: Same-Sex Marriage Decision 'Will Not Stand' 
Ben Jacobs, Guardian UK 
Jacob writes: "While supporters of marriage equality celebrate the supreme court's historic decision in Obergefell v Hodges, advocates for traditional marriage have redoubled their efforts to influence policymakers. But the fight takes place in an unfamiliar political landscape." 
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New Coal Plants 'Most Urgent' Threat to the Planet, Warns OECD Head 
Fiona Harvey, Guardian UK 
Harvey writes: "Governments must rethink plans for new coal-fired power plants around the world, as these are now the 'most urgent' threat to the future of the planet, the head of the OECD has warned." 
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RSN: The Supreme Court Will Allow Coal Plants to Emit Unlimited Mercury, Dalai Lama Endorses Pope Francis's Encyclical on Climate Change, John Oliver Slams CNN for Mistaking Pride Parade Flag for ISIS Flag

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Andy Borowitz | Supreme Court Forces GOP to Seek New Bogus Issues for 2016 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "With gay marriage and Obamacare effectively taken off the table, the Republicans now find themselves without a signature phony issue to disingenuously flog for the next sixteen months." 
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John Oliver Slams CNN for Mistaking Pride Parade Flag for ISIS Flag 
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast 
Stern writes: "One of the biggest foot-in-mouth moments came - of course - from CNN during its coverage of London's gay pride parade on Saturday. And the outrageous screw-up served as perfect comedy fodder for satirist John Oliver on his excellent HBO program Last Week Tonight." 
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Supreme Court Again Swings Left to OK Election Reform 
Maxwell Tani, Business Insider 
Tani writes: "The Supreme Court has upheld Arizona's biggest tool to fight partisan gerrymandering." 
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Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free 
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept 
Hussain writes: "The U.S. government had produced 'snippets of information from various sources, out of context, to weave together a narrative of terrorist ideation,' a Florida judge said Friday, ordering the release of Marcus Dwayne Robertson, an Orlando-based Islamic scholar who stood accused of supporting terrorism." 
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SCOTUS Rules That Lethal-Injection Drug Is Not Cruel and Unusual Punishment 
Jaime Fuller, New York Magazine 
Fuller writes: "The Supreme Court ruled today that Oklahoma's use of midazolam in its lethal-injection procedure does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision was 5-4, and Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion." 
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Dalai Lama Endorses Pope Francis's Encyclical on Climate Change 
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch 
Mellino writes: "The Buddhist leader spoke at a panel on climate change, praising the encyclical and saying it was the duty of everyone to 'say more. We have to make more of an effort, including demonstrations.'" 
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The Supreme Court Will Allow Coal Plants to Emit Unlimited Mercury 
Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress 
Atkin writes: "Power plants may continue to be able to emit unlimited mercury, arsenic, and other pollutants thanks to the Supreme Court, which on Monday took steps toward invalidating the first-ever U.S. regulations to limit toxic heavy metal pollution from coal and oil-fired plants." 
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RSN: One in Six of World's Species Faces Extinction Due to Climate Change, American Psychological Association Secretly Aided CIA Torture,

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Bernie Sanders | So-Called 'Free Trade' Policies Hurt US Workers Every Time We Pass Them

Bernie Sanders, Guardian UK
Sanders writes: "America's trade agreements benefit large multinational corporations and Wall Street, but are a disaster for working families. We must defeat the TPP."
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Baltimore Police Accused of Suspending Due Process
Oliver Laughland, Paul Lewis, Jon Swaine and Ben Jacobs, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Police detention of around 100 people without charge on governor's orders is described by public defender as showing 'no respect for due process.'"
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James Risen | American Psychological Association Secretly Aided CIA Torture
James Risen, The New York Times
Risen writes: "The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. Bush to bolster a legal and ethical justification for the torture of prisoners."
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UN Accused of Harboring Vendetta Against Whistleblowers
teleSUR
Excerpt: "A former U.N. official declared Thursday that the way the U.N. handled allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in the Central AfricaRepublic proved how the organization took down its own whistleblowers."
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Will the Supreme Court Look Behind the Curtain of Lethal Injection?
Liliana Segura, The Intercept
Segura writes: "By the time the blinds were raised at 6:23pm on April 29, 2014, to show Clayton Lockett strapped to the gurney and positioned to die, there was a lot that witnesses in Oklahoma's death house had not seen."
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Mexico's 'Modern Slavery' Stocks US Produce Aisles
Carola Sole, Agence France-Presse
Sole writes: "The farmworkers go at a furious pace, kicking up clouds of dust as they crouch down to grab several tomatoes at a time, put them in plastic buckets and hurry them over to be weighed."
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One in Six of World's Species Faces Extinction Due to Climate Change
Adam Vaughan, Guardian UK
Vaughan writes: "New analysis reveals likely impact of global warming on plants and animals if we fail to take action, and comes ahead of crunch climate talks in Paris."
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