Garrison Keillor | A Fine Day on Which I Did Nothing at All

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Garrison Keillor | A Fine Day on Which I Did Nothing at All 

Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "I didn't care to go to Vietnam; I preferred to forget about loyalty, reverence, bravery, obedience and the rest of the Boy Scout Law and devote myself to dreaminess and books and long conversations with interesting women. So shoot me."
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (photo: Getty)

North Korea Executes Envoy in a Purge After Failed US Summit
Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee, Reuters
Excerpt: "North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday."
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U.S. Border Patrol agents detain undocumented immigrants after they crossed the border from Mexico into the United States on August 7, 2015, in McAllen, Texas. (photo: John Moore/Getty)

DHS Watchdog Finds 900 People at Border Facility With Maximum Capacity of 125
Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
Alvarez writes: "The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has found 'dangerous overcrowding' and unsanitary conditions at an El Paso, Texas, Border Patrol processing facility following an unannounced inspection."
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Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards holds his hand to his heart with his wife, Donna Edwards, and their daughter Sarah Ellen Edwards, right, during the pledge of allegiance at the opening of the annual state legislative session in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)

Louisiana's Democratic Governor Just Defied His Party and Signed an Abortion Ban Into Law
Jacqueline Kantor and Reis Thebault, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Louisiana's Democratic governor signed one of the country's strictest abortion bans Thursday a day after the state legislature passed the measure, joining a coterie of conservative state executives who have endorsed stringent measures this year."
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Joe Biden. (photo: Scott Eisen/Getty)

Greenpeace Gives Joe Biden a D- on Climate Change Report Card
Ari Natter, Bloomberg
Natter writes: "Joe Biden got a D-minus on a climate change report card ranking Democratic presidential candidates released Thursday by the liberal environmental group Greenpeace."
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Honduran police using repression tactics on protesters defending the education and health sectors from privatization. (photo: EFE)

Honduran Police Repress Protesters Amid National Teacher, Doctor Strike
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Honduran doctors, teachers, and students Thursday demanded the repeal of two executive orders issued by President Juan Orlando Fernandez (JOH) and were repressed by state police forces in cities and towns around the country."
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The Yukon River is seen in Alaska. (photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems
Tim Lydon, Hakai Magazine
Lydon writes: "Alaska in March is supposed to be cold. Along the north and west coasts, the ocean should be frozen farther than the eye can see."
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Robert Reich | Congress Should be Ready to Arrest Barr if He Defies Subpoena

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Robert Reich | Congress Should be Ready to Arrest Barr if He Defies Subpoena 

Robert Reich, Newsweek
Reich writes: "If Congress cannot question the people who are making policy, or obtain critical documents, Congress cannot function as a coequal branch of government."
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Special Council and former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III. (photo: AP)

In Letter Mueller Confronted Barr on Characterizations of Russia Report
Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump 'did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance' of Mueller's work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post."
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Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. (photo: Michael Probst)

Trump Sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to Block Release of Financial Records
Jim Zarroli, NPR
Zarroli writes: "President Trump has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to keep two banks from responding to congressional subpoenas, setting up a legal showdown with Democrats eager to investigate his finances."
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The CDF said poverty stacks the odds against children for life. (photo: Annie Otzen/Getty Images)

About 13 Million US Children Are Living Below the Poverty Line, Rights Group Reveals
Chris McGreal, Guardian UK
McGreal writes: "A leading children's rights group has called for a doubling of the federal minimum wage and wider access to housing subsidies to end the 'moral travesty' of millions of children living in poverty while the wealthiest Americans get tax cuts."
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Ilhan Omar. (photo: Photo by Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons)

Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby: We Stand With Rep Ilhan Omar, a Courageous, Bold Black Woman
Democracy Now! 

Excerpt: "I think it's extremely important to demonstrate that there are many people, especially black women, but people in general, who support Ilhan Omar, who has become the target of the vitriol of the current president."
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Government military police officers confront pro-Guaidó demonstrators at Altamira Square on Tuesday in Caracas, Venezuela. (photo: Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images)

Venezuela: Maduro Claims Victory Over Coup Attempt, While Opposition Urges New Protests
Peter Weber, The Week
Weber writes: "After a confusing 24 hours of dueling protests and rival claims of military backing, Venezuela ended up Wednesday morning roughly where it started the day Tuesday: Deeply divided, with President Nicolás Maduro in charge."
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The front of the Ross Ice Shelf floats in the Ross Sea, as seen from the cockpit of an LC130 aircraft flown by the New York Air National Guard. (photo: Matt Siegfried/Flikr)

Key Part of World's Largest Ice Shelf Melting 10 Times Faster Than Average
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "Parts of the world's largest ice shelf are melting 10 times faster than the shelf's average rate, and this could have worrying implications for sea level rise."
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Andy Borowitz | Ann Coulter Demands to Deliver State of the Union Address

22 January 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News PLEASE HELP ENSURE THAT RSN WILL BE AROUND - Reader Supported News: For the 99%. Most of us know that the mainstream media, primarily owned by the right, rigidly controls information and the message. It’s become increasingly difficult to get the truth, backed by scientific thinking, logic and common sense. Reader Supported News provides reliable, factual information and informed opinion – and offers a forum to intelligently discuss the major issues that affect our lives. Please help ensure that RSN will be around for a long, long time to do its job for us. Please consistently support RSN to the best of your ability, at whatever level you can afford. / Carol, RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Ann Coulter Demands to Deliver State of the Union Address  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "In blistering remarks aimed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ann Coulter demanded on Tuesday that she be allowed to deliver the 2019 State of the Union address." READ MORE The U.S. Supreme Court on a snowy day. (photo: Al Drago/Getty) Trump's Transgender Military Service Ban Just Got a Big Win From the Supreme Court German Lopez, Vox Lopez writes: "The Supreme Court on Tuesday took a dramatic step toward reviving President Donald Trump's ban on transgender troops." READ MORE Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and personal lawyer to Donald Trump. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty) Trump's Lawyer Accidentally Admitted There Are Tapes of Trump and Cohen Talking Danielle McLean, ThinkProgress McLean writes: "President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani accidentally told a reporter there are 'tapes' that prove the president did not tell Michael Cohen to lie under oath about the Trump Tower deal in Moscow." READ MORE Martin Luther King III. (photo: Getty) MLK's Son Criticizes Pence for Using Father's Memory to Push for Border Wall Erin Durkin, Guardian UK Durkin writes: "At a packed Harlem church this afternoon congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat down with the award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates at an event marking Martin Luther King's legacy." READ MORE Border wall. (photo: Getty) Trump Voters Now Blame Him for the Government Shutdown Matt Viser, The Washington Post Viser writes: "Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn't mind sending a message to the establishment - and, frankly, he liked the idea of a disruptive president." READ MORE Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, addresses the Woman's March in Manhattan, January 19, 2019. (photo: Ira L. Black/Getty) The Super Rich at Davos Are Scared of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Proposal to Hike Taxes on the Wealthy Hugh Son and Brian Schwartz, CNBC Excerpt: "The elite financiers attending the World Economic Forum are worried about the 70 percent tax rate on earnings above $10 million proposed by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y." READ MORE Greenland is covered with a vast amount of ice - but for how long? (photo: Michael Medford/National Geographic) Greenland's Ice Is Melting Four Times Faster Than Thought - What It Means Stephen Leahy, National Geographic Leahy writes: "A new study warns that Greenland's ice is melting faster than scientists previously thought. But perhaps the biggest surprise is that most of this ice loss is from the land-fast ice sheet itself, not Greenland's glaciers." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Paul Krugman | Donald Trump and His Team of Morons

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Paul Krugman | Donald Trump and His Team of Morons 

Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "There have been many policy disasters over the course of U.S. history. It's hard, however, to think of a calamity as gratuitous, an error as unforced, as the current federal shutdown."
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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. (photo: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg)

Judge Blocks White House Plan to Ask Citizenship Question on Census
Associated Press
Excerpt: "The Trump administration cannot put a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census, a federal judge in New York has ruled, in a boost to proponents of counting immigrants, regardless of legal status, among the US population."
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House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes. (photo: Getty Images)

Mueller Probes an Event With Nunes, Flynn, and Foreign Officials at Trump's DC Hotel
Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng, Betsy Woodruff and Spencer Ackerman, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "The Special Counsel's Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations."
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Automated processes from the IRS are harming citizens and businesses during the shutdown. (photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty)

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From the Empty, Shutdown IRS, Automated Processes Are Sending Out Property Seizure Notices, and No Human Can Stop Them
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Doctorow writes: "The IRS is shut down, along with much of the rest of the federal government, but unattended servers running on autopilot are sensing that no progress has been made on taxpayers' attempts to clarify disputed and overdue bills, and so they are initiating asset seizure proceedings."
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A prisoner at a maximum security prison in Alabama. (photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images)

This Isn't Rehabilitation': Alabama Inmates Speak Out Against State's Soaring Prison Homicide Rate
Ella Fassler, ThinkProgress
Fassler writes: "On November 19, 2018, James Lewis Kennedy was fatally stabbed at Elmore Correctional Facility in Alabama."
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Bolsonaro Acts; Brazil's Socio-Environmental Groups Resist
Sue Branford and Thais Borges, Mongabay
Excerpt: "'We are prepared, we won't back down or give up the rights we have conquered, much less hand over our territory so that Bolsonaro and his coroneis [old land elite] can carry out the plan they've hatched,' declared the Articulation of the Indigenous People of Brazil (APIB), one of the country's leading indigenous organizations, in a public statement on 3 January."
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Northern fur seal rookery on the island of St. Paul in the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska. (photo: Dahr Jamail)

Dahr Jamail | A Planet in Crisis: The Heat's on Us
Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch
Jamail writes: "I'm standing atop Rush Hill on Alaska's remote St. Paul Island. While only 665 feet high, it provides a 360-degree view of this tundra-covered, 13-mile-long, seven-mile-wide part of the Pribilof Islands."
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Cornel West | Why Did CNN Fire a Pro-Palestinian Commentator?

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Cornel West | Why Did CNN Fire a Pro-Palestinian Commentator? 

Cornel West, Guardian UK
West writes: "Why is it so difficult, if not impossible, to have a candid debate about the grim Israeli-Palestinian catastrophe that prevails in our midst?"
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. (photo: Getty)

Saudi-Funded Lobbyist Paid for 500 Rooms at Trump's Hotel in Late 2016
David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel within a month of Trump's election in 2016 - paying for an estimated 500 nights at the luxury hotel in just three months, according to organizers of the trips and documents obtained by The Washington Post."
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland on Feb. 23, 2017. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Wisconsin Republicans Vote to Weaken Incoming Democratic Governor, Attorney General
Associated Press
Excerpt: "The Wisconsin Senate voted just before sunrise Wednesday following an all-night session to pass a sweeping bill in a lame-duck session designed to empower the GOP-controlled Legislature and weaken the Democrat replacing Republican Gov. Scott Walker."
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Republican Mark Harris' campaign is accused of committing fraud. (photo: Getty)

Over a Thousand Absentee Ballots Possibly Destroyed in Controversial North Carolina House Race: Report
Tal Axelrod, The Hill
Axelrod writes: "Over a thousand absentee ballots from likely Democratic voters may have been destroyed in the race for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District last month as allegations of fraud on behalf of the Republican candidate mount."
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Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Getty)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Pay Her Interns 'at Least' $15 an Hour
Marie Solis, Vice
Solis writes: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is changing business as usual on Capitol Hill."
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An undocumented woman wears a bandana she used to cover her nose and mouth to avoid inhaling smoke while working in the fields during the Hill Fire. (photo: Philip Cheung/Getty)

For Undocumented Migrants, Wildfires Bring Additional Worries
Jurriaan van Eerten, Al Jazeera
van Eerten writes: "The Woolsey Fire, like many of those that have ravaged California, destroyed houses, land and crops. It also destroyed the livelihood for hundreds of undocumented individuals, including Jacob, who work in the fields in and around the area."
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An iceberg at Innaarsuit, Greenland. (photo: Magnus Kristensen)

Greenland's Ice Melt Is in 'Overdrive,' With No Sign of Slowing
Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News
Berwyn writes: "Melting on Greenland's ice sheet has gone into 'overdrive,' with meltwater runoff increasing 50 percent since the start of the industrial era and continuing to accelerate, new research shows. As more water runs off the ice sheet, it drives sea level rise, putting new pressure on coastal communities around the world."
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