Trump's State-by-State Approval Ratings Should Scare the MAGA Out of Him

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Trump's State-by-State Approval Ratings Should Scare the MAGA Out of Him 

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Kilgore writes: "There has been a lot of discussion in political circles about Donald Trump's job-approval ratings, what they portend, and Trump's Electoral College strategy for 2020, which doesn't necessarily require a popular-vote plurality."
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At Farris Municipal Park in Morton, Mississippi, on Tuesday, workers protested layoffs that followed last week's ICE raids. (photo: Henry Grabar)

After ICE: How Mississippi Is Coping
Henry Grabar, Slate
Grabar writes: "Welcome to a city of babysitters, where the sudden disappearance of hundreds of working adults has pulled hundreds more into new and unfamiliar roles."
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Rifles for sale at a Virginia store. (photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images)

Trump Drops Support for Enhanced Background Checks Two Weeks After Mass Shootings
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress
Ford writes: "On Sunday, not long after he initially showed support for enhanced background checks, the president suddenly reversed course, suggesting any momentum for passing any meaningful legislation to curb gun violence may have already dissipated."
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A member of a white supremacists militia stands near a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

I Lost My Job for Keeping Charlottesville Police Accountable. I'd Do It Again
Molly Conger, Guardian UK
Conger writes: "I get so many death threats I can catalog them by the gunmaker mentioned. I babysit to make rent. But I write for and about a community I love and believe in and to which I feel accountable."
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The boots of a Texas Ranger. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Texas Police Won't Face Criminal Charges After Leading Black Man by a Rope
Caitlin Cruz, Splinter
Cruz writes: "The Texas Department of Public Safety said the Texas Rangers completed the investigation and submitted it to the Galveston County District Attorney's office."
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More than 60 people were killed and scores wounded in an explosion targeting a wedding in the Afghan capital, the deadliest attack in Kabul in recent months. (photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP)

Afghanistan Halts Independence Festivities After Wedding Massacre
Ali M. Latifi, Al Jazeera
Latifi writes: "An attack targeting a wedding in Kabul, where most guests were Shia Muslims, saw more than 60 people killed - including 14 members of a single family - and more than 180 others injured."
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Will Newark be the next Flint? (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

'The Next Flint,' and America's Problem With Lead in Its Water
Molly Enking, Grist
Enking writes: "Tell me if you've heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply."
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Elie Mystal | Robert Mueller Didn't Finish the Job, and We'll Never Know Why 

Elie Mystal, Above the Law
Mystal writes: "The Mueller report treats Trump and his family with kid gloves."
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A group of migrants in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where the United Constitutional Patriots, an armed rightwing militia, patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. (photo: Paul Ratje/Getty)

Videos Appear to Show Armed Militia Detaining Migrants at US-Mexico Border
Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "Armed rightwing militia members detained a large group of migrants at the US-Mexico border and coordinated with US border patrol agents to have them arrested, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, in a series of actions the civil liberties organization called a 'kidnapping' and a flagrant violation of the law."
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In 2015, the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a congregation of nuns, learned that an energy company planned to build a pipeline on their land. So they started a resistance movement. (photo: Dave Parry)

The Renegade Nuns Who Took On a Pipeline
Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker
Griswold writes: "The nuns see protecting the earth as part of their religious duty, which separates them from much historical Catholic teaching."
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Getty)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Donald Trump Should Be Investigated and Possibly Impeached for Obstruction
Lissandra Villa, BuzzFeed
Villa writes: "The congresswoman said she will be supporting an impeachment resolution that one of her colleagues introduced earlier this year."
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Police officers shove freelance photographer Andrew Kelly to the ground while he takes pictures of demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement. (photo: AP)

Report: US Declines Again in Press-Freedom Index, Falls to 'Problematic' Status
Paul Farhi, The Washington Post
Farhi writes: "For the third time in three years, the United States' standing in an annual index of press freedom declined, a result the report's authors attributed to President Trump's anti-press rhetoric and continuing threats to journalists."
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Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi. (photo: Wikimedia)

Ahed Tamimi | After My Imprisonment, My Little Brother Has Been Jailed in Israel. Who Will Speak Up for Palestinian Kids Like Us?
Ahed Tamimi, The Independent
Tamimi writes: "I was detained for clashing with Israeli forces in 2017, after my cousin was shot in the head. Almost a year since my release, my 15-year-old brother - like so many other children - has been taken away too."
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A polar bear was found wandering in the Russian village of Tilichiki on April 16, 700km from his home. (photo: Alina Ukolova)

'Exhausted' Polar Bear Found 700 Kilometers From Home in Russian Village
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Residents of a village in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula have been stunned by the sight of a polar bear prowling for food hundreds of miles from its usual habitat."
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