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

Charles Pierce | The Latest Republican Gambit to Get Rid of Roy Moore Is Nakedly Unconstitutional

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THIS IS A FUNDRAISER THAT MUST SUCCEED: We must find a way this time around to raise the bar on raising funds. We are spending more money on critically important initiatives, without any safety net. Your support could not be more vital or timely. Sincere thanks. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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Charles Pierce | The Latest Republican Gambit to Get Rid of Roy Moore Is Nakedly Unconstitutional 

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The 17th amendment is an important part of the legacy of the Progressive movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It took the election of senators out of the hands of the invariably corrupt state legislatures and gave it over to the people themselves."
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White House Officials Just Called Losing Your Health Insurance a Tax Break
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "13 million more Americans will be uninsured so corporations can get a tax cut."
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Charles Manson, Cult Leader of Brutal 1969 Murders, Dies
Colin Dwyer, NPR
Dwyer writes: "Charles Manson, the cult leader who drew lasting infamy for directing mass killings in 1969, has died at the age of 83."
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Franken Spokesman: Senator Won't Resign, Doing a Lot of 'Reflecting'
Brett Samuels, The Hill
Samuels writes: "A spokesperson for Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said the senator would not resign in the wake of an accusation he kissed and groped a woman without her consent, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Sunday."
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Is the $35 Billion Rehab Industry Ready for a Disruption?
Mandy Stadtmiller, The Daily Beast
Stadtmiller writes: "In today's recovery industry, what many people think of as 'rehab' is about as far from the prestigious environment of the Betty Ford Center as you can get."
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No Resignation as Robert Mugabe Addresses Nation
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resisted mounting pressure to step down, telling the nation that he will preside over a ruling party congress next month."
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California Hit Hard by Trump Administration's Undoing of Green Policies
McClatchy DC
Excerpt: "When 50,000 acre-feet of water went gushing out of the Sacramento River last month, it fast became a test of California's ability to protect its environmental policies from an increasingly hostile Trump administration. The episode proved humbling."
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Greg Palast | The Pig That Burst the Keystone Pipeline

19 November 17 AM

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MORE ON “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS” The reference in a recent fundraising message about going out of business was plucked from a reader comment about not intending to contribute unless the organization was going out of business. We are not going out of business but that mindset certainly has an enormously destabilizing effect. In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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Greg Palast | The Pig That Burst the Keystone Pipeline   

Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Website
Palast writes: "Yesterday, the Keystone pipeline cracked and dumped 210,000 gallons of oil onto the South Dakota prairie. Here’s the reason the pipeline burst: the PIG didn’t squeal."
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Judge Considers Whether Trump’s Tweets Should Open Up Government’s Dossier Probe
Josh Gerstein, Politico
Gerstein writes: "A federal judge is considering whether President Donald Trump’s own tweets could force the federal government to reveal more information about its efforts to verify the claims in the controversial privately compiled dossier about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia."
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Frustrated Foreign Leaders Bypass Washington in Search of Blue-State Allies
Michael Birnbaum and Greg Jaffe, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Some nations are finding that even if they are frustrated by President Trump’s Washington, they can still prosper from robust relations with the California Republic and a constellation of like-minded U.S. cities, some of which are bigger than European countries."
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Chicago Cop Accused of Framing Dozens Now Also Accused of Extortion
Melissa Segura, BuzzFeed
Segura writes: "A Chicago police officer who is accused of framing at least 51 people for murder will now face a new allegation: A former drug dealer says he paid Detective Reynaldo Guevara at least $1,000 a week in exchange for protection from arrest."
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Your Uncle Said What? How to Talk About Social Justice With Your Family During the Holidays
Wyatt Massey, Yes! Magazine
Massey writes: "Finding connection and engaging face to face is important social change work. Yet all too often, the same folks willing to march down Fifth Avenue or hold a sign on Capitol Hill are not willing to confront a racist uncle or climate-denier cousin."
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Mugabe Given Until Noon Monday to Quit as President of Zimbabwe
MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock, Reuters
Excerpt: "Zimbabwe’s ruling party fired Robert Mugabe as its leader on Sunday and gave the 93-year-old less than 24 hours to quit as head of state or face impeachment, an attempt to force a peaceful end to his 37 years in power after a de facto coup."
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Tom Goldtooth: Carbon Trading Is "Fraudulent" Scheme to Privatize Air and Forests to Permit Pollution
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "A new report is exposing the dangers of carbon trading, a scheme in which major companies purchase carbon credits from countries who agree to plant trees or protect existing forests."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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Frank Rich | The GOP Can't Handle Moore Problems

18 November 17 AM

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RSN: ABSOLUTELY WORTH FIGHTING FOR: I am proud to write to you today and ask for your support. I am proud of our staff, our achievements and our commitment to making our country and our world better. I am proud of our readership and the community we have built. We are, "Reader Supported News." Give us a hand please. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News

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Frank Rich | The GOP Can't Handle Moore Problems 
 
Frank Rich, New York Magazine 
Rich writes: "As more and more women come forward with allegations of Roy Moore's sexual pursuit of teenagers, the GOP Senate candidate refuses to concede the race, even after having lost the support of nearly every Republican currently serving in the Senate. At this point, what is the GOP's best course of action?" 
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Trump's "Coffee Boy" Keeps Sabotaging His Russia Story 
Abigail Tracy, Vanity Fair 
Tracy writes: "The chaos of the Trump-campaign circus attracted a variety of eccentrics, grifters, hustlers, resume-inflators and Russophiles from which the White House is now doing its best to disassociate from: former adviser Carter Page, the self-described Russian-energy expert who has been talking to the F.B.I." 
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Former Al Franken Female Staffers Speak Out: 'He Treated Us With the Utmost Respect' 
Ed O'Keefe, The Washington Post 
O'Keefe writes: "Some former female staffers of Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) spoke out on Friday in his defense, saying that he had treated women with respect while they worked in his office." 
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How Prosecutors Turn a Protest Into a 'Riot' 
Elizabeth Ariadne Lagesse, The New York Times 
Lagesse writes: "A year ago, I was finalizing plans to leave a chemical engineering Ph.D. program and join the tech sector. But as Inauguration Day approached, I became so disgusted by President-elect Donald Trump's behavior that I felt it would have been negligent to remain a bystander." 
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Hondurans in US Live in Limbo Amid TPS Uncertainty 
Nidia Bautista, Al Jazeera 
Bautista writes: "For Belinda Osorio Hanzman, being forced to return to San Pedro Sula in Honduras would mean leaving behind her two US-born children." 
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Robert Mugabe Refuses to Quit as Zimbabweans March for His Ouster 
David McKenzie, Hilary Clarke and Angela Dewan, CNN 
Excerpt: "Thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets of Harare on Saturday to demand the resignation of President Robert Mugabe, in what could spell the political end for the 93-year-old leader who has ruled the country for nearly four decades." 
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Slaughter of 90,000 Wild Horses Could Proceed Despite 80% Objection From American Public 
American Wild Horse Campaign 
Excerpt: "The American Wild Horse Campaign on Thursday harshly criticized Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke's appointment of Brian Steed, the former chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), as the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as dangerous and out of step with the wishes of the vast majority of Americans." 
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria 
Remezcla 
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways." 
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