RSN: Marc Ash | Pragmatism Won't Win the Presidency

06 September 19

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06 September 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Serious Fund-Raising, Here and Now: Reader Supported News is surviving and maintaining services in the worst economic environment our organization has ever seen. But just barely. Today we ask for the support of all RSN readers who can afford to give. This will be a good fund-raiser. Thanks to all in advance. -- ma/RSN Sure, I'll make a donation! RSN: Marc Ash | Pragmatism Won't Win the Presidency Marc Ash, Reader Supported News Ash writes: "The New York Times recently decided to make what has been painfully obvious about Joe Biden and his campaign from the onset the subject of a feature story." READ MORE It Wasn't a Debate, but CNN's 7-Hour Climate Forum Laid Bare Key Differences Among Democrats E.A. Crunden, ThinkProgress Crunden writes: "CNN's seven-hour town hall on the climate crisis wasn't the debate many activists have spent months calling for. But Wednesday night's marathon event teased out notable differences among Democratic presidential contenders, giving voters a taste of how each candidate might approach climate policy if elected." READ MORE FBI Document: Monitoring Immigration Activists as Violent "Extremists" - Though There's Been No Violence Igor Derysh, Salon Derysh writes: "An FBI document obtained by Yahoo News shows that the bureau is monitoring groups that protest the Trump administration immigration policies as 'extremists.'" READ MORE As Trump Looted FEMA and the Military for His Border Policies, DHS Bought High-End Chairs With Taxpayer Funds Scott Bixby, The Daily Beast Bixby writes: "Much of the new furniture is earmarked for the department's new Washington, D.C. headquarters, dubbed 'the most ambitious federal building project since the Pentagon.'" READ MORE New York Announces Antitrust Investigation Into Facebook, Kicking Off Bipartisan Effort Taylor Telford and Tony Romm, The Washington Post Excerpt: "New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday that her office is launching an antitrust investigation into Facebook, kicking off a bipartisan wave of independent state investigations targeting the company as well as Google's parent company, Alphabet." READ MORE Robert Mugabe: Hero, Villain, Human Elsie Eyakuze, Al Jazeera Eyakuze writes: "This is the country that Mugabe helped build. This is the country Mugabe helped destroy." READ MORE After a Quiet Summer, 'Dangerous' California Wildfire Burns Equivalent of 753 Football Fields in Five Hours Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch Rosane writes: "As of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, the Southern California blaze had spread to 1,974 acres and was 10 percent contained." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

The Trump Investigations Are Far From Over

25 March 19 Need a Quick Start on Donations This Morning Yesterday was quite a bad day. Need to catch up a bit today. Normally if we get a good start early, it sets the tone for the entire day. Can you help with that? Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611

24 March 19 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News LOSING RSN RIGHT NOW IS A DANGEROUS DIRECTION - Hang in there, Marc and friends. For years I've been an irregular regular contributor, pitching in roughly quarterly for my own accounting purposes. I've rarely missed, but don't mind your justified vitriol. You are performing an invaluable service to our country. Wake up, folks. Losing RSN right now is a dangerous direction. / Bill, RSN / Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! The Trump Investigations Are Far From Over  Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine Kilgore writes: "Even if the 'no more prosecutions' reports are accurate, though, the president's hardly out of the woods with respect to scandals involving his presidency, his campaign, or his personal business." READ MORE Adam Schiff. (photo: David Butow / Redux) ALSO SEE: Democrats Are 'Absolutely' Willing to Go to the Supreme Court if Full Mueller Report Is Not Released, Nadler Says Adam Schiff: There's Still 'Significant Evidence' That President Donald Trump Colluded With Russia Sam Brodey, The Daily Beast Brodey writes: "As Congress waits for Attorney General William Barr to communicate the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, on Sunday morning a key Democratic lawmaker insisted there remains 'significant evidence' that President Donald Trump colluded with Russian agents during the 2016 campaign." READ MORE Chelsea Manning leaves the Albert V. Bryan U.S. District Courthouse on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Alexandria, VA. (photo: Jahi Chikwendiu/WP) Chelsea Manning: Supporters Demand Release From Solitary Confinement Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK Lartey writes: "Supporters of Chelsea Manning have demanded her release from effective solitary confinement, in which she has been held for more than two weeks since being jailed for contempt of court." READ MORE 'We are tearing apart families, destroying futures, and wasting human potential on a mind-blowing scale.' (photo: iStock) Locking Up Black People Is Big Business Rashad Robinson, The Root Robinson writes: "Since the 1980s our prison population has more than quadrupled. Crime, of course, has not quadrupled. It's been at historic lows." READ MORE A resident of Big Pine Key, Fla., with a Federal Emergency Management Agency official after Hurricane Irma in 2017. FEMA unnecessarily shared sensitive personal data of perhaps 2.3 million disaster victims with a contractor, a government report said. (photo: Sam Hodgson/NYT) FEMA Put 2.3 Million Victims of Wildfires, Hurricanes at Risk of Identity Theft Daniel Politi, Slate Politi writes: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency unnecessarily shared personal data of 2.3 million disaster survivors with an outside contractor, putting that information at risk for potential identity theft and fraud." READ MORE The attack stands out as one of the deadliest in the region reeling from worsening ethnic and jihadist violence. (photo: Reuters) Over 130 Mali Herders Killed as Regional Unrest Intensifies teleSUR Excerpt: "At least 134 Fulani herders died in central Mali Saturday when gunmen attacked the villages of Ogossagou and Welingara, although authorities say the exact number of victims is still unknown, Reuters reports." READ MORE Houston, Texas. (photo: Getty Images) ALSO SEE: No Timetable for Reopening Texas Ship Channel Following Leak Texas Argues 'Polluters Will Be Punished' for Chemical Fire as Public Anger Mounts E.A. Crunden, ThinkProgress Crunden writes: "Texas is suing a chemical company notorious for environmental violations after a hazardous fire reignited at a storage facility on Friday, sparking renewed concerns over health and safety." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Is Donald Trump a Fascist?

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NEED A QUICK START ON DONATIONS THIS MORNING - Yesterday was quite a bad day. Need to catch up a bit today. Normally if we get a good start early it sets the tone for the entire day. Can you help with that? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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Is Donald Trump a Fascist? 

Peter Beinart, The New York Times
Beinart writes: "The list of Trump-era jeremiads keeps growing."
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Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Erin Schaff/NYT)

ALSO SEE: Christine Blasey Ford Calls for FBI Probe Before
Testifying About Kavanaugh

SEE ALSO: Anita Hill Urges Senators to 'Push the Pause Button'
on Kavanaugh Hearing, Says FBI Should Investigate

Republicans Reject Kavanaugh Accuser's Request to Delay Hearing for FBI Investigation
Kelsey Snell and Scott Detrow, NPR
Excerpt: "The Senate Judiciary Committee will move forward with a hearing scheduled for Monday on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, despite a request for further investigation from his accuser."
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks a vehicle. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

Immigrants Seeking Shelter After Hurricane Florence Fear Deportation as FEMA Shifts Funds to ICE
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Immigration authorities say they have suspended enforcement actions in areas affected by Hurricane Florence, but tensions remain high. North Carolina is one of the states that pioneered police collaboration with ICE."
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Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock)

Email Systems: The Overlooked Weak Link in Election Security
Jack Gillum and Jessica Huseman, ProPublica
Excerpt: "A ProPublica survey found that more than one-third of counties overseeing toss-up congressional elections have email systems that could be vulnerable to hacking."
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A classroom. (photo: Nicholas Fevelo/NY Daily News)

Everything Texas Doesn't Want to Teach You
Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
Milbank writes: "I tip my 10-gallon hat to the Texas school board, which just voted to 'streamline' the public-school curriculum in a way that will surely Make America Great Again."
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The vast majority of these deaths – 5.4 million – occur in the first five years of life. (photo: Yucatan Times

UN: A Child Dies Every Five Seconds, Most Are Preventable Deaths
Reuters
Excerpt: "An estimated 6.3 million children died before their 15th birthdays in 2017, or one every five seconds, mostly due to a lack of water, sanitation, nutrition and basic healthcare, according to report by United Nations agencies on Tuesday."
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A beach covered with brown sargassum seaweed. (photo: Richard Charan)

The Seas Are Trying to Tell Us Something
Jorge Ramos, Splinter News
Ramos writes: "Our feverish oceans are spitting out hurricanes. They are spewing invasive seaweed onto our beaches. Beneath the water, the coral is turning pale. Something is wrong, very wrong."
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Andy Borowitz | Military Refuses to Participate in Trump's Parade, Citing Bone Spurs

18 August 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News HOW BAD ARE WE REALLY DOING ON FUNDRAISING? - The best single day of fundraising in our history was in March of 2013. Over five hundred donors contributed more than thirteen thousand dollars - “in one day.” We are on day 11 of this funding drive and we still don't have half that much, 5.0K from 235 donors. We're down to the people who hate to donate, and they're the ones who have to save the organization. Got to get you onboard. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Military Refuses to Participate in Trump's Parade, Citing Bone Spurs  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "The Pentagon has turned down Donald J. Trump's request for a grand military parade in Washington, D.C., citing a sudden outbreak of bone spurs that would prevent men and women in uniform from participating." READ MORE Elliott Broidy and his wife, Robin Rosenzweig. (photo: Alex J. Berliner/Shutterstock) GOP Fundraiser Under Investigation for Alleged Effort to Sell Government Influence Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett, Ellen Nakashima and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Excerpt: "The Justice Department is investigating whether longtime Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy sought to sell his influence with the Trump administration by offering to deliver U.S. government actions for foreign officials in exchange for tens of millions of dollars, according to three people familiar with the probe." READ MORE Georgia voters fill out their ballots. (photo: Getty) Georgia Election Board Plots Jim Crow-Like Assault on Black Voting Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress Millhiser writes: "A Georgia election board proposed shutting down seven of the nine polling locations in an overwhelmingly black rural county. It's the sort of blatantly illegal idea that would have been swiftly dismissed by federal courts in an age when an openly racist president was not appointing judges to the federal bench." READ MORE Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his humanitarian work with the UN. (photo: Allison Joyce/Reuters) Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary General, Dies Chris Johnston, Guardian UK Johnston writes: "The former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, has died at the age of 80 after a short illness, his family and foundation announced on Saturday." READ MORE Protester holds a sign with Eric Garner's final words 'I can't breathe.' (photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters) Why Is New York Still Paying Eric Garner's Killer Six Figures? Raven Rakia, The Appeal Rakia writes: "July marked the fourth anniversary of Eric Garner's death. The city of New York is still paying NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo - the man who put Eric Garner in a chokehold - six figures." READ MORE Some houses affected by Hurricane Maria remained covered in tarps or missing roofs as recently as June in San Juan, Puerto Rico's El Gandul neighborhood. (photo: Carlos Giusti/AP) FEMA Wants Puerto Rico to Start Paying for Part of Its Recovery Adrian Florido, NPR Florido writes: "Eleven months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has said that the island's emergency is over. And because of that, the agency has begun scaling back its financial assistance to the island." READ MORE The tide rushes in as dusk falls on the San Onofre Generating Station on March 25, 2014. (photo: Allen J. Schaben/LA Times) California's San Onofre Nuclear Plant Is a 'Fukushima Waiting to Happen' Steve Chapple, Los Angeles Times Chapple writes: "Southern California Edison is keeping 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in San Clemente." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

RSN: Jeffrey Toobin | How Trump's Supreme Court Pick Could Undo Kennedy's Legacy

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Steel coils lay in a yard at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Canada. President Trump recently announced tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports. (photo: Cole Burston/Getty Images)

Canadians Rally Around Retaliatory Tariffs Aimed at the US
Jackie Northam, NPR
Northam writes: "The Canadian tariffs are designed to hit products like steel and bourbon from states like Ohio and Kentucky that heavily favored Trump in the presidential election."
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HuffPost An Egregious Example Of Congressional Republicans Covering For Trump

It’s clear that Gowdy has zero interest in doing his job or carrying out the committee’s purported mission. As pointed out recently by the Project for Government Oversight (POGO), the chairman has publicly stated that he believes “Congress has proven itself incapable of conducting serious investigations…” To state the obvious: Yes, It’s near impossible to conduct a serious investigation if the Oversight chairman is not even willing to use his authority to compel witnesses to answer questions.

Trump Incompetents Abandon PUERTO RICO

Trump Incompetents Abandon PUERTO RICO

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