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Leonardo DiCaprio Stands With Great Sioux Nation to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline 

Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "The campaign to oppose the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) continues to gain steam with Leonardo DiCaprio and actors from the upcoming Justice League film joining the cause." 
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NBC's Military Forum Was a Master Class on How Not to Hold Candidatess Accountable 
Zaid Jilani and Alex Emmons, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "The 'Commander in Chief forum' with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that NBC's Matt Lauer moderated Wednesday night was billed as a way to interrogate the presidential candi08 September 16s on substantive veterans' and national security issues. But from the questions chosen to the format, the event served as little more than a class on how not to hold the candi08 September 16s accountable." 
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Colin Kaepernick: False Rumors of My Conversion to Islam Exemplifies Depths of This Country's Islamophobia 
Josh Peter, USA Today 
Peter writes: "Colin Kaepernick knocked down rumors that he has converted to Islam and that his girlfriend, who is Muslim, led him to protest social injustices by refusing to stand for the national anthem." 
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Four Oakland Police Officers Fired, Seven Suspended, in Sexual Misconduct Case 
Sam Levin, Guardian UK 
Levin writes: "The Oakland, California, police department has fired four officers and suspended seven in a major sexual misconduct case, but critics have questioned why officers haven't faced criminal charges and why an exploitation victim at the center of the case remains behind bars." 
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Despite Court Ruling, Voting Rights Fight Continues in North Carolina 
Michael Tomsic, NPR 
Tomsic writes: "In the swing state of North Carolina, a fight for early voting rights that seemed to end with a strongly worded federal court ruling last month, may be just getting started." 
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Republican State AGs Met With Coal, Electricity Companies Before Filing Against the EPA's Carbon Rule 
Samantha Page, ThinkProgress 
Page writes: "Coal and electricity companies paid to meet with Republican state attorneys general just weeks before those top law enforcement officials joined in suing the federal government over the EPA's Clean Power Plan, new documents show." 
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One Year After Colorado's Massive Gold Mine Spill, the Cleanup Continues 
Darryl Fears, The Washington Post 
Fears writes: "A Colorado gold mine that spilled more than 3 million gallons of wastewater into western rivers was among nearly a dozen sites added Wednesday to the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund National Priorities List." 
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RSN: Jane Sanders: Why Bernie Voters Shouldn't Get Over It, In the Hillary Clinton Era, Democrats Welcome Lobbying Money Back Into the Convention ,

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Jane Sanders: Why Bernie Voters Shouldn't Get Over It 
 
Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone 
Stuart writes: "After the dust settled Wednesday, Rolling Stone sat down with Jane O'Meara Sanders to discuss this roller coaster of a week - and year - and to find out where she and Bernie will go from here." 
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Chelsea Manning Faces Charges, Solitary Confinement After Suicide Attempt 
Nicky Woolf, Guardian UK 
Woolf writes: "Chelsea Manning may face charges relating to a suicide attempt this year, which could lead to indefinite solitary confinement or transferral to a maximum-security facility, according to a civil rights group." 
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In the Hillary Clinton Era, Democrats Welcome Lobbying Money Back Into the Convention 
Zaid Jilani and Alex Emmons, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "By quietly dropping a ban on direct donations from registered federal lobbyists and political action committees, the Democratic National Committee in February reopened the floodgates for corruption that Barack Obama had put in place in 2008." 
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6 State Employees Criminally Charged in Flint Water Crisis 
Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press 
Allen writes: "Six state employees were criminally charged this morning in district court in connection with the Flint water crisis." 
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Appeals Court Strikes Down Strict North Carolina Voting Law 
Zachary Roth, NBC News 
Roth writes: "A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the heart of a North Carolina voting law seen as the strictest in the nation, finding that Republican lawmakers intentionally discriminated against African-Americans when they passed it." 
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Racism Casts 'Dark Shadow' Over United States, Says UN Expert 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The United States is struggling to adequately tackle structural racism and criminal justice issues, which is impacting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, a United Nations human rights expert warned." 
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Fracking Pipeline Puts Tim Kaine's Fossil Fuel Industry Ties to the Test 
Alleen Brown, The Intercept 
Brown writes: "Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine is facing pressure from landowners in his home state of Virginia to stand against the planned Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to mid-Atlantic markets." 
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North Carolina DISENFRANCHISES 218,000 VOTERS, Hillary Clinton violated campaign law in New Hampshire

North Carolina’s controversial voter identification law is being used for the first time in Tuesday’s primary, and registered voters are experiencing the consequences of the voter suppression measure.

About 218,000 North Carolinians, roughly five percent of registered voters, do not have an acceptable form of government-issued ID that is now required under state law to cast a ballot.

Early voting offered a glimpse of the problems that will arise on Tuesday — during the past ten days of early voting, many college students were blocked from the polls. North Carolina’s WRAL reported that 864 people across the state had cast provisional early ballots because they did not have acceptable forms of ID, and four of the five counties with the highest concentrations of provisional ballots from voters without ID were in places with college campuses.

Bob Hall, the executive director of Democracy North Carolina, told ThinkProgress that the voter protection hotline is receiving many calls, “disproportionately from young people and students,” who are being told they do not have acceptable ID, so they have to “go through the maze of filling out forms” and provisional ballots. Those ballots run the risk of being challenged and not being counted.

We’re going right back to this message of ‘elections are not for you.’

“Because this is so much affecting young people, we’re teaching them the wrong lesson about democracy and about voting,” Hall said. “We’re really pushing them away from being involved in the political process, and that’s a bad message, but it is the message that’s coming across.”

Under current North Carolina law, people who have registered to vote within 90 days of Election Day can use an out-of-state ID to vote – an important provision for students who may attend school away from their home state. But those who registered more than 90 days before Election Day and do not have a North Carolina ID are being forced to cast provisional ballots.

University of North Carolina sophomore Isatta Feika had to cast a provisional ballot because of her out-of-state ID. She told WRAL she likely won’t vote in North Carolina again after experiencing the hassles involving voting without an ID in North Carolina. “I’m probably just going to register in Georgia and absentee vote there,” she said.

Elderly voters told the Nation’s Ari Berman how the voter ID law imposes similar barriers to voting to what they experienced in the Jim Crow South. Rosanell Eaton, a 94-year-old voter, had to recite the Preamble to Constitution to vote in North Carolina in the 1940s. Last year, she had to make 11 trips to state agencies to comply with the voter ID law.

”We had 100 years of pushing away people from the polls,” Hall said about North Carolina. “It was really only in the early 21st century, after 2000, that our participation started to come up, and now we’re going right back to this message of ‘elections are not for you.’”

Like in South Carolina, voters without ID can cast a provisional ballot if they have a “reasonable impediment” to getting photo ID, including lack of proper documents, work schedule, or family obligations. But unlike South Carolina, the impediments voters can list are limited and will not cover any voter without ID. Early voting data has shown that while black voters make up 22 percent of the state’s voting population, they account for 26 percent of those who said they had a reasonable impediment for not having an acceptable ID.

Some of the state’s restrictive voting measures are not in place on Tuesday, but will go into effect before November’s general election. North Carolina voters are permitted to vote outside their normal precinct on Tuesday because of a court injunction, but this stipulation will not be in place in November because it was eliminated by Republican-engineered legislation. Hall noted that it is likely to disenfranchise many voters in November — even this year, voters are being rejected from voting at other precincts because of confusion by poll workers.

After this Election Day, same day registration will also be eliminated in North Carolina. Hall said he saw “thousands of voters in the early voting period whose right to vote was protected through the use of same day registration, so when that does get repealed, it will have a big impact.”

The state’s voter ID law, part of a sweeping election reform law passed in 2013, is still being challenged in both federal and state court. Also pending in federal court are challenges to new laws that restrict the early voting period, eliminate pre-registration of teenagers before they turn 18 and same-day registration during early voting, and block people from voting outside their assigned precincts.

An appeal to that lawsuit could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Students Are Being Rejected From The Polls Because Of North Carolina’s Voter ID Law

Five percent of registered voters do not have the appropriate ID.

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Just ran across this from New Hampshire polling place. The freaking sign is right there!

Is that Hillary Clinton behind the sign?

One of the Republican founding fathers of American economic injustice and inequality.

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RSN: Bernie Sanders: "I am Angry", Feds' Failures Imperil Migrant Children,

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Scott Galindez | Bernie Sanders: "I am Angry" 
 
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News 
Galindez writes: "In Clinton, Iowa presidential candidate Bernie Sanders responded to Bill Clinton and the Wall Street Journal. A Wall Street CEO said that the markets are unsteady because Bernie Sanders has become a viable candidate for President. Bernie said it was a good thing: 'We are making Wall Street nervous.' Former President Bill Clinton said Bernie was angry, Bernie agreed telling the crowd the American people are angry and listed the reasons." 
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Sanders, Clinton Cool to Bloomberg's Possible Entry Into 2016 Race 
Steve Holland and Valerie Volcovici, Reuters 
Excerpt: "U.S. Democratic presidential candidates gave a cool reception on Sunday to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's potential independent White House run, with Bernie Sanders saying it would add another billionaire like Republican Donald Trump to the race." 
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North Carolina's Voter ID Law Heads to Trial 
Colleen Jenkins, Reuters 
Jenkins writes: "Opponents of a law requiring North Carolina voters to show certain forms of photo identification at the polls will ask a federal judge on Monday to strike it down on the grounds that it makes casting a ballot harder for minorities." 
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Louisiana Embraces Obamacare 
Nora Kelly, The Atlantic 
Kelly writes: "Louisiana's new Democratic governor signed an executive order to expand Medicaid. Now, the work begins." 
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Oscar Diversity Campaign May Take Time but Chris Rock Will Still Host 
Steve Gorman and Piya Sinha-Roy, Reuters 
Excerpt: "Amid an outcry against a field of Oscar-nominated performers lacking a single person of color for a second straight year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a sweeping affirmative action program on Friday, pledging to double female and minority membership by 2020. But host Chris Rock will not step away from the high-profile job." 
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Feds' Failures Imperil Migrant Children 
Garance Burke, Associated Press 
Burke writes: "As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.S. officials weakened child protection policies, placing some young migrants in homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved, or forced to work for little or no pay, an Associated Press investigation has found." 
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Landowners Under Siege in the Big Bend 
Amy Hardberger, My San Antonio 
Hardberger writes: "The so-called TransPecos pipeline proposed by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners calls for a 125-foot-wide trench to be cleared across approximately 143 miles of private property in some of the most pristine country in Texas. A channel also will be tunneled beneath the Rio Grande River. While Texas landowners will be burdened by this pipeline, they will not receive the benefits." 
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