RSN: Solar Power Is Growing So Fast That Older Energy Companies Are Trying to Stop It, Republican-Backed Voter ID Law in North Carolina Struck Down by Judge

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Elizabeth Warren: We Need Regulators Who "Work for the American People"

Eyder Peralta, National Public Radio
Peralta reports: "Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, says newly released recordings of conversations between Federal Reserve officials show that the same kind of cozy relationships that led to the 2008 financial crisis still dominate Wall Street."
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Republican-Backed Voter ID Law in North Carolina Struck Down by Judge
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington reports: "A federal appeals court has blocked two key elements of a new law introduced by Republicans in North Carolina that civil rights groups have criticised as a brazen attack on the ability of African Americans to vote."
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Two Days After Egyptian President Assures Press Freedom, Egypt Seizes All Copies of Newspaper to Censor Article
David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times
Kirkpatrick reports: "The Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country's largest private newspapers in order to censor an article."
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Michael Dunn Guilty of Murdering Black Teen Over Music
News 13
Excerpt: "Less than six hours of deliberations, and the jury returned in the first-degree murder retrial of Michael Dunn with a guilty verdict."
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Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Three Years Without Trial
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Last week, the New York City Department of Corrections announced it will stop using solitary confinement to punish adolescents held in its troubled Rikers Island jail complex."
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Solar Power Is Growing So Fast That Older Energy Companies Are Trying to Stop It
Brad Plumer, Vox
Plumer reports: "If you ask the people who run America's electric utilities what keeps them up at night, a surprising number will say solar power. Specifically, rooftop solar."
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RSN: Freedom Summer II, Monsanto vs. the Monarchs: The Fight to Save the World's Most Stunning Butterfly Migration, et al

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Robert Reich | Freedom Summer II

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "I spent several days in New York last week with students from around the country who were preparing to head into the heartland to help organize Walmart workers for better jobs and wages."
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Juan Cole | Solar Power for the Global Masses: The Next Revolution
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "As the price of solar panels drops, they increasingly are being spontaneously bought and installed by villagers throughout the world, who are often ill-served, or not served at all, by the central power grid in their countries."
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Why Men Don't See the Harassment Women Experience. Yes, All Women.
Amanda Hess, Slate
Hess writes: "How can some men manage to appear polite, kind, even 'wonderful' in public while perpetuating sexism under the radar of other men's notice? And how could this dynamic be so obvious to so many women, yet completely foreign to the men in their lives?"
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Charles Pierce | The Problem Isn't the VA or Eric Shinseki
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "And thus ends the honorable career of a soldier who was correct about the lies behind the greatest policy disaster of our times, about the essential criminality of the people who launched the invasion of Iraq, but whose primary failures as an administrator were his inability to oversee the people in his department who were directly trying to cope with the flood of casualties that resulted from all of those soldiers."
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Will Durst | If You Thought Oligarchy and Aristocracy Were Bad, You'll Really Hate Kochocracy
Will Durst, AlterNet
Durst writes: "In the bad old days, medieval German Lords figured out how to pocket some quick coin by charging a toll on the primitive paths meandering across their lands. The money wasn't used to improve the roads or better the lives of the peasants or clean the rivers their pigs pooped in but rather heighten the piles in their treasury."
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NFL: Last Sports Bastion of White, Male Conservatives
Neal Gabler, Reuters
Gabler writes: "Why does the NFL have such a tenacious hold on the national consciousness - particularly that of white males, the primary fans of professional sports? It might be that the NFL, in both its high points and its low ones, encapsulates the prevailing white male conservative ethos of modern America better than any other league."
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Monsanto vs. the Monarchs: The Fight to Save the World's Most Stunning Butterfly Migration
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams writes: “If the monarchs can be said to have a fatal flaw, it’s that they’re are entirely dependent upon milkweed. And milkweed, once common in the American Midwest, has been all but eliminated from the cropland where it once thrived, the loss a side effect of our growing, and increasingly efficient, industrial agriculture system. While the monarch itself isn’t yet endangered, its stunning migration could soon become a thing of the past.”
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