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STAYING ALIVE ON READER DONATIONS AIN’T EASY - You don’t get rich this way. That’s not the question on the table. The question on the table is can we get you to make a donation you can afford? Yes, that works and always has. In peace and solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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FOCUS: Jane Mayer | The Case of Al Franken 

Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
Mayer writes: "Last month, in Minneapolis, I climbed the stairs of a row house to find Al Franken, Minnesota's disgraced former senator, wandering around in jeans and stocking feet. It was a sunny day, but the shades were mostly drawn. Takeout containers of hummus and carrot sticks were set out on the kitchen table."
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RSN: John Cory | Lessons Never Learned

23 September 18 A Week To Go and We’re at Less Than 50% We only have one week left in the September fundraising drive and we still haven’t reached the 50% mark. Still fewer than 300 readers have clicked the donation link and chipped-in. We must have a budget, there is no way out of it. With urgency. Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611

23 September 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News A WEEK TO GO AND WE’RE AT LESS THAN 50% - We only have one week left in the September fundraising drive and we still haven’t reached the 50% mark. Still fewer than 300 readers have clicked the donation link and chipped-in. We must have a budget, there is no way out of it. With urgency. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! RSN: John Cory | Lessons Never Learned  John Cory, Reader Supported News Cory writes: "On March 17, 1973, All in the Family aired the episode 'Gloria the Victim.' The storyline is that Gloria barely escaped a rape attempt on her way home. The family debates what to do - to report it or not to report it." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

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FOCUS: Eve Ensler | Over It Redux* 

Eve Ensler, Reader Supported News
Ensler writes: "I am over rape culture, where privileged men with political and physical and economic power take what and who they want, when they want it, as much as they want, any time they want it."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
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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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RSN: Gabriel Sherman | Roger and Me

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Gabriel Sherman | Roger and Me 
 
Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine 
Sherman writes: "For the past six years, ever since I began researching a biography of Roger Ailes, there probably hasn't been a day when I haven't thought or talked about him." 
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David Sirota | Elizabeth Warren Talks Possible Donald Trump Impeachment, Supports Single-Payer Healthcare 
David Sirota, International Business Times 
Excerpt: "The question now has got to be what are we going to do going forward. It's the threat that Donald Trump poses every single day - a threat that he keeps magnifying at every opportunity. So that's where I am keeping 100 percent of my attention; I just don't have anything leftover for looking backwards." 
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Supreme Court Strikes Down North Carolina Congressional District Maps 
Ariane de Vogue, CNN 
de Vogue writes: "The Supreme Court struck down two congressional district maps in North Carolina Monday, holding that the state had engaged in an unconstitutional racial gerrymander." 
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America's Obsession With Rooting Out Communism Is Making a Comeback 
Julia Carrie Wong, Guardian UK 
Wong writes: "Anti-communist language remains on the books in several states, and in California at least, it's not going anywhere." 
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Turkey Summons US Ambassador to Protest 'Aggressive' Handling of Turkish Bodyguards 
Emily Shugerman, The Independent 
Shugerman writes: "Bodyguards for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were involved in a brawl last week when the president visited the White House. Nine people were injured and two were arrested in the flare-up between bodyguards and anti-Erdogan protestors. The Turkish Foreign Ministry now says the US ambassador has been given a 'written and verbal protest' over the US's handling of the situation." 
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Brazil President Insists: 'I Won't Resign, Oust Me if You Want' 
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Excerpt: "Brazilian President Michel Temer said he will not step down even if he is formally indicted by the Supreme Court amid a corruption scandal and large demonstrations calling for his resignation." 
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Virginia Pipeline Opponents Adopt Divestment Model Used Against Coal, Dakota Access 
Mark Hand, ThinkProgress 
Hand writes: "Opponents of a proposed natural gas pipeline in Virginia are starting a divestment campaign, a tactic that has grown in popularity among climate and anti-pipeline activists in recent years, to persuade banks to end their financing of the Mountain Valley Pipeline." 
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RSN: Matt Taibbi | Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever

In most cases, 'RIP' is added after a person's passing. 

Matt Taibbi has done a stellar job! Article below is A MUST READ!

IMHO, omitted was that impartial studies continue to determine that Fox News = Fake News viewers are woefully uninformed. Roger Ailes contributed to the pathetic ignorance in America. 

The special place in HELL reserved for Roger Ailes might be next to Robert McNamara...within close proximity of places reserved for Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger and others. 

The poor education system in the US provided fertile ground for Ailes' PERPETUATION OF IGNORANCE and the destruction of cognitive reasoning skills. 

Roger Ailes created the Dumbing Down of America! 

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FOCUS: Matt Taibbi | Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever 
 
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 
Taibbi writes: "On the Internet today you will find thousands, perhaps even millions, of people gloating about the death of elephantine Fox News founder Roger Ailes. The happy face emojis are getting a workout on Twitter, which is also bursting with biting one-liners." 
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RSN: The World's Biggest Carbon Emitters Officially Join the Paris Climate Deal, No, Obama Isn't "Bypassing" Congress , US Beekeepers Fear for Livelihoods as Anti-Zika Toxin Kills 2.5 Million Bees,

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The World's Biggest Carbon Emitters Officially Join the Paris Climate Deal, No, Obama Isn't "Bypassing" Congress 
 
Gwynne Taraska and Andrew Light, ThinkProgress 
Excerpt: "On Saturday, the United States and China formally joined the Paris Agreement, a historic global pact to curb greenhouse gas pollution and build resilience to the damaging effects of climate change." 
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Why Isn't It a Bigger Deal That Trump Is Being Advised by Sadistic Pervert Roger Ailes? 
Michelle Goldberg, Slate 
Goldberg writes: "A vicious misogynist and workplace predator is working with the Republican presidential nominee. This is not normal." 
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Racists Are Smearing Chobani Yogurt for Hiring Muslim Refugees 
James Kirchick, The Daily Beast 
Kirchick writes: "Chobani yogurt head Hamdi Ulukaya is a wildly successful capitalist. So what did he do wrong, by alt-right standards? He hires Muslim refugees." 
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Mother Teresa Becomes a Saint as Pope Francis Performs Canonization Ceremony 
Emma Bowman, NPR 
Bowman writes: "Pope Francis officially declared Mother Teresa a saint before a crowded St. Peter's Square Sunday morning, 19 years after her death." 
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Florida GOP Ready to Retreat From Planned Parenthood Fight 
Sarah Ferris, The Hill 
Ferris writes: "Several House Republicans in Florida say they're willing to concede defeat in their party's months-long battle over Planned Parenthood if that's what it takes to pass a $1.1 billion funding package for the Zika virus." 
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Brazil Elite Codifies Budget Practice Used to Impeach Rousseff 
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Excerpt: "Brazil's newly-installed President Michel Temer has signed legislation that essentially authorizes the identical financial accounting maneuver that was used to justify the impeachment bid against ousted President Dilma Rousseff's just days after she was removed from office." 
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US Beekeepers Fear for Livelihoods as Anti-Zika Toxin Kills 2.5 Million Bees 
Alan Yuhas, Guardian UK 
Yuhas writes: "Huddled around their hives, beekeepers around the south-eastern US fear a new threat to their livelihood: a fine mist beaded with neurotoxin, sprayed from the sky by officials at war with mosquitos that carry the Zika virus." 
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RSN: Black Lead Matters, Report Shows 750,000 Asthma Attacks Will Be Caused by the Oil and Gas Industry by 2025

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Paul Krugman | Black Lead Matters 
 
Paul Krugman, The New York Times 
Krugman writes: "Donald Trump is still claiming that 'inner-city crime is reaching record levels,' promising to save African-Americans from the 'slaughter.' In fact, this urban apocalypse is a figment of his imagination; urban crime is actually at historically low levels. But he’s not the kind of guy to care about another 'Pants on Fire' verdict from PolitiFact." 
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Colin Kaepernick Pledges $1 Million to Charity as National Anthem Protest Spreads 
NBC News 
Excerpt: "San Francisco 49ers star Colin Kaepernick is putting his money where his mouth is - pledging to donate $1 million to community organizations Thursday." 
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This Small Indiana County Sends More People to Prison Than San Francisco and Durham, NC, Combined. Why? 
Josh Keller and Adam Pearce, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "Donnie Gaddis picked the wrong county to sell 15 oxycodone pills to an undercover officer. If Mr. Gaddis had been caught 20 miles to the east, in Cincinnati, he would have received a maximum of six months in prison, court records show. In San Francisco or Brooklyn, he would probably have received drug treatment or probation, lawyers say." 
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Fox News Just Showed How Little It Cares About Sexual Harassment Allegations 
Samantha Page, ThinkProgress 
Page writes: "After Fox News chief Roger Ailes was accused of sexual harassment, questions immediately arose over how seriously the network would take the issue. Reports quickly surfaced that Ailes was getting a $40 million golden parachute and would be retained as a 'consultant.'" 
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Underpaid, Overworked Farmworkers Set to Get Liberal Labor Protections. Farmers Grumble. 
Nathanael Johnson, Grist 
Johnson writes: "California’s legislature just passed a bill that’s a big win for farmworkers but a big defeat for farmers. The bill, which comes after decades of campaigning by the United Farm Workers union, would make farms subject to the same rules for overtime pay as other businesses." 
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Fate of Dakota Access Pipeline Rests in Hands of Federal Judge 
Matt Agorist, EcoWatch 
Johnson writes: "Earlier this month, a few dozen Native Americans showed up to protest the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile-long pipeline that would cross right through their sacred land. As word spread, however, the few dozen turned into more than 4,000 native Americans." 
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Report Shows 750,000 Asthma Attacks Will Be Caused by the Oil and Gas Industry by 2025 
Samantha Page, ThinkProgress 
Page writes: "New analysis from the Clean Air Task Force shows that by 2025 America’s children will experience 750,000 asthma attacks each summer that will be directly attributable to the oil and gas industry." 
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RSN: Roger Ailes, the Clintons, and the Scandals of the Scandalmongers , Asylum Seekers Donate Their Weekly Allowance to Italy Earthquake Victims, Trump's Foreign Policy Advisor Teamed Up With Blackwater and a Saudi Prince to Arm Al-Qaida in Syria

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Jane Mayer | Roger Ailes, the Clintons, and the Scandals of the Scandalmongers 

Jane Mayer, The New Yorker 
Mayer writes: "This election year, the big question was supposed to be whether Hillary Clinton would shatter the glass ceiling. Instead, it has become the year in which one of the country's most towering glass houses has shattered." 
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Women Poised to Lead Democratic Return to Power in the Senate 
Megan Carpentier, Guardian UK 
Carpentier writes: "Female candidates are leading the push for a Democratic return to power in the Senate as Donald Trump's sagging poll numbers leave the Republican majority under extreme pressure." 
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French Police Create Propaganda for ISIS by Ticketing Muslim Women on Beaches 
Robert Mackey, The Intercept 
Mackey writes: "Islamic State sympathizers on social networks seemed surprised to find police officers in Nice 'creating propaganda on their behalf' by providing the perfect illustration of their case that France humiliates Muslims." 
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Private Prison Company Fights to Seal Documents About Strip Searches 
Travis Loller, Associated Press 
Loller writes: "Private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America is trying to seal from public view documents in a lawsuit that claim female visitors to a Tennessee prison were forced to undergo strip searches to prove they were menstruating." 
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Trump's Foreign Policy Advisor Teamed Up With Blackwater and a Saudi Prince to Arm Al-Qaida in Syria 
MintPress News 
Excerpt: "Joseph Schmitz, Donald Trump's foreign policy advisor, is facing criticism for his involvement in a plot to arm Syrian rebels with close ties to al-Qaida." 
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Asylum Seekers Donate Their Weekly Allowance to Italy Earthquake Victims 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "In a show of solidarity this week, more than six dozen asylum seekers living in a shelter in southern Italy donated almost 200 Euros to the victims of central Italy's deadly earthquake." 
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The Real Crime Is What's Not Done 
Chase Madar, The New York Times 
Madar writes: "The latest criminal charges of public officials in the contamination of the Flint, Mich., water supply seem righteous. Surely these criminal charges will bring, at long last, justice for Flint. Not really. Though these sorts of charges fulfill an emotional need for retribution and are of great benefit to district attorneys on the make, they are seldom more than a mediagenic booby prize." 
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RSN: How Ramen Became the Unlikely New Symbol of Prison Neglect, North Carolina Police Kill Unarmed Deaf, Mute Man Over Speeding

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Margaret Talbot | Fox News and the Repercussions of Sexual Harassment 
 
Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker 
Talbot writes: "One of the surprising things about the Fox News sexual-harassment story is that the women who have come forward with allegations include several of the network's better-known anchors and reporters." 
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How Ramen Became the Unlikely New Symbol of Prison Neglect 
Chandra Bozelko, Guardian UK 
Bozelko writes: "Prisons are different from the outside world. But they're not different enough to exclude basic human behavior: wherever there's an opportunity to stockpile something of value, people with the means will do so. And then they'll use that power against people who have less." 
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North Carolina Police Kill Unarmed Deaf, Mute Man Over Speeding 
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teleSUR writes: "Police in North Carolina shot and killed 29-year-old Daniel Harris, who was unarmed, deaf and mute, within seconds of his exiting his car after a speeding violation that turned into a chase near his home, neighbors told local media Monday." 
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Accused Rapist Sentenced to No Jail Time So He Can Have a 'College Experience' 
Kate Irby, The Charlotte Observer 
Irby writes: "Two seniors at a Massachusetts high school told police they were at a party with David Becker, 18, in April when they went upstairs to a bedroom and talked to Becker until they fell asleep. They said they woke up to Becker sexually assaulting them, and he apologized to one of the victims in a text message the next day, saying 'Sorry, it's my fault.'" 
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Fires 'Thousands' of Government Officials 
TIME 
Excerpt: "Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Sunday that he would be sacking every member of his administration who was appointed by a previous President. The move - the latest in what Duterte calls a campaign against corruption - is one of several that have left critics troubled over what they say is an excessive wielding of executive power." 
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Louisiana's Flood Couldn't Have Been Stopped, but It Didn't Have to Be So Devastating 
Heather Smith, Grist 
Smith writes: "Louisiana's Amite river basin, which flooded and destroyed 60,000 homes earlier this month, is surrounded by deserted flood control projects that were begun after a massive flood in 1983. All that proposed infrastructure could have saved thousands of homes - but the Amite River Basin Commission left them either half-baked, or never started them in the first place." 
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