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Robert Reich | This Is Not a Drill. Trump Is About to Allow Corporate Control of the Internet. 

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "Folks, this is not a drill. Trump's FCC chairman Ajit Pai is moving full speed ahead with a plan to end Net Neutrality, the single most important safeguard against corporate control of the internet."
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Michael Flynn Appears to Have Flipped on Trump, Now Cooperating With Mueller's Investigation
Reuters
Excerpt: "Lawyers for Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, have told Trump's legal team they can no longer discuss a probe into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, indicating Flynn may be cooperating with the investigation, the New York Times reported on Thursday."
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States Notify Parents of 9 Million Children They Will Lose Their Health Insurance Unless Congress Acts
Colby Itkowitz and Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Officials in nearly a dozen states are preparing to notify families that a crucial health insurance program for low-income children is running out of money for the first time since its creation two decades ago, putting coverage for many at risk by the end of the year."
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Baltimore Cop Killed Right Before He Was Going to Testify Against Other Cops
David McFadden, Toronto Star
McFadden writes: "A Baltimore detective killed by a gunman last week was slain a day before he was set to testify in a corruption probe into activities of indicted officers, the city's police commissioner confirmed Wednesday."
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Trump Pushing for More War? US Military Presence in Mid-East Has Grown by 1/3 Just in Last Four Months
John Haltiwanger, Newsweek
Haltiwanger writes: "President Donald Trump has increased the number of U.S. troops and civilians working for the Department of Defense in the Middle East to 54,180 from 40,517 in the past four months, representing a 33-percent rise."
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During WWII, Thousands of US Troops Were Used as 'Guinea Pigs' by US Military, Then Discarded
Jessica Huseman, ProPublica
Huseman writes: "During World War II, the government subjected thousands of troops to mustard gas tests - and kept it a secret."
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How the US Government Hid Fracking's Risks to Drinking Water
Neela Banerjee, InsideClimate News
Banerjee writes: "The fracking provision, widely known as the Halliburton loophole, after the oilfield services company once run by Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, is among a host of exemptions to federal pollution rules that Congress and successive administrations have given oil and gas companies over the last 40 years."
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RSN: 10 Years Later: Fracking and the Halliburton Loophole, Jeb Bush Set to Place Blame for Failed Peacekeeping in Iraq, The States Sending Pregnant Addicts to Jail, Not Rehab

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Glenn Greenwald | Democrats Continue to Delude Themselves About Obama's Failed Guantanamo Vow 
 
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 
Greenwald writes: "As everyone knows, 'closing Guantánamo' was a centerpiece of the 2008 Obama campaign. In the Senate and then in the presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly and eloquently railed against the core, defining evil of Guantánamo: indefinite detention." 
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Charles Pierce | Jeb Bush Set to Place Blame for Failed Peacekeeping in Iraq 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "Jeb (!) Bush has surprised the staff at the Café by becoming one of its regulars. We had held a booth open for Ben Carson, certainly, and the Ricks - Santorum and Perry - have had their own since 2011." 
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Bern, Baby, Bern: Sanders Vaults to Lead in Critical New Hampshire 
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone 
Dickinson writes: "The 'democratic socialist' senator from Vermont is beating Hillary Clinton in the key primary state." 
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Barack Obama Calls on Congress to Reinstate Voting Rights Act 
Jana Kasperkevic, Guardian UK 
Kasperkevic writes: "The US president pens a letter in support of new, broader legislation to restore minority protections as voting rights have come under attack in several states." 
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California Governor Brown Signs Law Barring Grand Juries in Police Deadly Force Cases 
Melanie Mason, LA Times 
Mason writes: "Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a measure that prohibits secret grand juries to weigh in on cases involving excessive or deadly force by law enforcement, and another affirming the public's right to take audio or video recordings of police officers." 
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The States Sending Pregnant Addicts to Jail, Not Rehab 
Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast 
Allen writes: "The CDC and ACLU recommend treatment for drug-addicted mothers, but some states see jail time as a more fitting solution." 
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10 Years Later: Fracking and the Halliburton Loophole 
Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch 
Hauter writes: "Ten years ago, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The giant energy bill included massive giveaways for the fossil fuel, nuclear and ethanol industries and provided only token incentives for renewables and improved energy efficiency." 
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