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Thursday, June 1, 2017

RSN: Garrison Keillor | It Was So Good to Have Trump Gone





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Garrison Keillor | It Was So Good to Have Trump Gone 
President Trump touches the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on May 22. (photo: Ronen Zvulun/EPA) 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "It was a great relief to have Mr. Twitter out of the country for nine whole days, and the entire country felt it, like when your neighbor with the busted muffler goes away for a while and takes his yappy dog with him, and you realize what a beautiful thing common civility can be." 
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Portland Stabbing Suspect: "You Call It Terrorism. I Call It Patriotism!" 
Matthew Rozsa, Salon 
Rozsa writes: "Prior to his attacks against the three train passengers, Jeremy Joseph Christian was perhaps best known for his participation in an April 'Free Speech' march in Portland. While there, Christian is reported to have chanted the N-word while draping himself in an American flag. He also posted a Facebook video at the time which showed himself performing a Nazi salute." 
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Bill McKibben on Trump Pulling Out of Paris Agreement: "It Ranks up There With the Worst Decisions in American Political History" 
Sabrina Siddiqui and Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "The environmental activist and author Bill McKibben said if reports were true, the president's planned move amounted to 'an incredibly stupid decision' that would isolate the US not simply among its allies but much of the world." 
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Amnesty International: Did $1 Billion Worth of Lost US Weapons End Up in the Hands of ISIS? 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "A newly declassified Pentagon audit shows the U.S. Army failed to keep track of more than $1 billion worth of weapons and military equipment sent to Iraq and Kuwait, including tens of thousands of assault rifles and hundreds of armored vehicles." 
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Activists Investigating Ivanka Trump Brands' Poor Working Conditions in China Have Gone Missing 
Simon Denyer, The Washington Post 
Denyer writes: "A labor activist researching working conditions in a Chinese factory that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump's label has been detained by police, according to his wife and a labor advocacy group, while two others have gone missing and are presumed also to have been detained." 
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Mike Flynn's Firm Was Paid to Make a Pro-Erdogan Propaganda Film While He Advised Trump 
Adam K. Raymond, New York Magazine 
Raymond writes: "Last year, when former national security adviser Michael Flynn's consulting firm was paid more than a half million dollars to work on behalf of Turkey, it was, at least in part, to fund the production of a documentary discrediting Fethullah Gulen, the exiled cleric accused by Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt." 
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Heather Von St. James | I Lost My Lung to Asbestos. I Fear What Trump Will Do to America's Health 
Heather Von St. James, Guardian UK 
Von St. James writes: "Ever since I learned that mesothelioma, the terminal cancer I was diagnosed with when my baby girl was just three and a half months old, was caused by asbestos - a substance I thought had been banned - I have been fighting to bring awareness to this deadly disease and the dangers of asbestos exposure." 
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

RSN: Juan Cole | Trump Sanctuary Threat Quashed by Court - Is Anything He Does Constitutional?




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Juan Cole | Trump Sanctuary Threat Quashed by Court - Is Anything He Does Constitutional? 
President Trump took aim at the court for blocking several of his executive orders. (photo: Carolyn Kasterer/AP) 
Juan Cole, Informed Comment 
Cole writes: "This is the third time a Trump policy connected to immigration has been struck down by lower courts on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, raising questions as to whether this administration has a grasp on the constitution." 
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Instead of Launching Tax Reform, Trump Could Ground It 
Ben White and Nancy Cook, Politico 
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump on Wednesday will release a plan to radically overhaul the American tax code that many Republicans say is unrealistic and could end up hurting the chances of getting anything done on the issue, long one of the party's top priorities." 
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Build It and Be Banned: California Lawmakers Move to Block State Contracts for Any Builders of Trump's Border Wall 
John Myers, The Los Angeles Times 
Myers writes: "California legislators took the first step Tuesday to ban state government contracts for any company that helps build President Trump's promised wall along the Mexico border, with the author of the plan urging colleagues 'to be on the right side of history.'" 
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Guilt by Association: How Chicago Police Criminalize Contact With Friends and Family of Those on Parole 
Mick Dumke, The Chicago Sun Times 
Dumke writes: "When the police pulled over the white Buick Regal he was riding in, Roderick Franklin told them he 'was just getting a ride to have Easter breakfast.' The officers didn't dispute that. They arrested him anyway." 
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Ivanka Trump's Clothing Line Is Made in a Chinese Factory Where Workers Earn $1 an Hour 
Elliot Hannon, Slate 
Hannon writes: "Donald Trump and his offspring-now that they're in and around the White House-like to say they're champions of the American worker. This sleight of hand from the Trump gene pool comes despite having lived lives, over the course of decades, relentlessly focused on enriching themselves at the expense of others." 
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Despite Drug War Bloodshed, Mexico on Verge of Formalizing Military's Role as Police 
Luis Gómez Romero, teleSUR 
Romero writes: "Some of the main drivers of Mexico's abysmal violence are the country's armed forces, which have de facto aided police in fighting the drug war since 2006. Now Mexico's legal framework facilitates armed forces arbitrary involvement in law enforcement." 
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New York Times Defends Hiring Climate Science Denier 
Graham Readfearn, EcoWatch 
Readfearn writes: "The New York Times has been defending the paper's hiring of a climate science denier, fighting off its critics with what it claims is a standard fashioned from hardened 'intellectual honesty.'" 
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