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Right-Wing Extremists Are Already Threatening Violence Over a Democratic House 

David Neiwert, The Washington Post
Neiwert writes: "Seeking a more lenient sentence for Patrick Eugene Stein's plot to murder hundreds of Somali immigrants in a small Kansas town, Stein's attorneys turned to a novel strategy: They blamed the inspiration for his actions on Donald Trump."
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House Democrats Will Investigate Trump's Response to Khashoggi Murder
Reuters
Excerpt: "Democrats on the US House intelligence committee will investigate Donald Trump's response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as part of a 'deep dive' into US-Saudi Arabia ties, the committee's incoming head said in a report published on Friday."
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Trump Takes Transgender Troops Cases to SCOTUS
Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to issue an unusually quick ruling on the Pentagon's policy of restricting military service by transgender people."
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Longer Stays Leave Record Number of Immigrant Children in Detention
Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle
Kriel writes: "The boys fidgeted quietly on the courtroom bench, spotless in ties and matching button-up pastel shirts - donations, presumably, from the federal shelters in which many of them have been detained alone for weeks."
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Syria: 11 Civilians Killed in US-Led Airstrikes
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Local media in Syria reported that at least 11 civilians, including women and children, have been killed by airstrikes orchestrated by the U.S.-led coalition, and that the attacks were still ongoing in the Deir ez-Zor province, in the village of Al Shaaf Friday."
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Amazon Workers in Germany and Spain Go on Strike for Black Friday
Kristine Lofgren, The Inquisitr
Lofgren writes: "Not everyone is excited about the Black Friday madness. About 620 Amazon workers in Germany, as well as others in Spain and the U.K., staged walkouts and strikes on November 23."
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Al Gore Accuses Trump of Trying to "Bury" Climate Report by Releasing It on Black Friday
Steve Frank, CBS News
Frank writes: "Environmental groups and activists blasted the White House this week, saying it was trying to 'bury' a long-awaited government report on climate change by releasing it on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Among those who spoke out was former Vice President Al Gore, who became the face of the climate debate with the 2006 documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth.'"
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Progressive Breakfast: Democrats Are Finally Waking Up

MORNING MESSAGE

Robert Borosage

Democrats Are Finally Waking Up

Dems are moving to address the populist temper of this time. The People’s Platform pushes them to add to their shared agenda, while The Better Deal’s focus on concentrated economic power will be welcomed by the party's activist base.

Tell Your Senators to VOTE NO! Today to Save Health Care

The Senate has voted to move forward on health care repeal, so our fight is far from over. More votes to come.Call your senators: Tell them to VOTE NO!Protect Medicaid and health care for everyone in the country.

Trump Tweets Transgender Ban

Trump says transgender people will not be allowed in the military. NYT:“President Trump abruptly announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military on Wednesday, blindsiding his defense secretary and Republican congressional leaders with a snap decision that reversed a year-old policy reviled by social conservatives. Mr. Trump made the declaration on Twitter, saying that American forces could not afford the ‘tremendous medical costs and disruption’ of transgender service members. He said he had consulted generals and military experts, but Jim Mattis, the defense secretary, was given only a day’s notice about the decision.”

Inside Trump’s snap decision to ban transgender troops. Politico:“House Republicans were planning to pass a spending bill stacked with his campaign promises, including money to build his border wall with Mexico. But an internal House Republican fight over transgender troops was threatening to blow up the bill. And House GOP insiders feared they might not have the votes to pass the legislation because defense hawks wanted a ban on Pentagon-funded sex reassignment operations — something GOP leaders wouldn’t give them. They turned to Trump, who didn’t hesitate. In the flash of a tweet, he announced that transgender troops would be banned altogether. Trump’s sudden decision was, in part, a last-ditch attempt to save a House proposal full of his campaign promises that was on the verge of defeat.”

‘Skinny” Health Repeal Moves Ahead

Running out of options, Senate Republicans ponder a ‘skinny’ repeal of health care. LA Times:“Unable to agree on a path forward to repealing the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans are reluctantly coalescing around what may be the last idea standing: a dramatically scaled-down bill that would leave most of the 2010 law in place… the face-saving strategy, which could come to a vote as soon as Thursday, would at least allow senators to say they acted on something. It could also trigger a conference committee with House lawmakers to reconcile the Senate bill with the more sweeping House repeal legislation, giving lawmakers another shot at reaching agreement.”

CBO says ‘Skinny’ repeal could boost uninsured by 16 million. Politico:“Republicans’ rumored slimmed-down Obamacare repeal bill could lead to 16 million more uninsured Americans next year, according to a CBO estimate requested by Senate Democrats and shared Wednesday. Democrats asked the CBO to score a mock-up of the bill based on provisions that the GOP is reportedly considering, two Democratic aides said. The mock-up included repealing Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates, medical device tax, community health center funding and prevention fund, in addition to defunding Planned Parenthood. Based on those provisions, the CBO projected that the so-called skinny repeal bill would result in premiums about 20 percent higher compared to current law.”

Bipartisan governors warn Senate not to pass ‘skinny’ Obamacare Repeal. HuffPost:“A bipartisan group of 10 governors wrote a letter Wednesday urging the Senate to reject a proposed “skinny” health care bill that Republican leaders are now trying feverishly to pass. And if the collective voice of so many governors doesn’t get the attention of GOP leaders, the letter’s endorsement by one particular Republican governor might. It’s Brian Sandoval, from Nevada. He has emerged as a key player in the health care debate because GOP leaders in Washington desperately need the vote of Nevada’s Republican senator, Dean Heller. Heller’s opposition alone could very well sink legislation, given that two out of the Senate’s 52 Republicans have already said they would oppose any Obamacare repeal option now under official discussion. And Heller has said he will listen closely to what Sandoval advises.”

The ‘Skinny Bill’ is a farce. Here’s the real reason Republicans are doing it. New York Magazine:“The alternative to this endless farce is to admit the process of developing a Republican-only repeal and replace of Obamacare is a failure. It would be easy, almost trivially easy, to patch up the law and bring down premium costs — simply halting deliberate sabotage by the Trump administration would be enough. But this would admit that the party has spent eight years making promises that it could not fulfill. And a liar who is caught usually prefers to delay exposure as long as possible.”

Health Care Vote-a-Rama

GOP senator seeks to force vote on single-payer care. The Hill:“Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) wants Democrats to show their cards on single-payer. The GOP senator has filed an amendment to implement a government-funded healthcare system in a political maneuver aimed at forcing Democrats to say whether or not they support the concept that is picking up steam on the left. A vote on the amendment has been scheduled for Thursday. To be clear, it’s almost certain Daines doesn’t support a single-payer system. The vote would be part of the ObamaCare repeal bill vote-a-rama — a rapid succession of amendments that can last hours, oftentimes stretching through the night and into the next early morning. Vote-a-ramas are often a time when senators force their colleagues across the aisle to take tough votes, which can be turned into political attack ads later.”

Dems to GOP: No amendments until you show us your bill. Politico:“Senate Democrats are taking their ball and going home in the looming health care vote-a-rama — until Republicans finally cough up their actual Obamacare repeal plan. Fed up with the GOP’s constant vacillations over how to dismantle Obamacare, Democrats say they will hold back on offering any more amendments in the health care floor fight until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) shows what plan the GOP will ultimately coalesce around. ‘Democrats are not going to participate in this one-sided and broken process,’ announced Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) Wednesday evening.”

More from OurFuture.org:

U.S. Leads World in Inequality, and It Is Getting Worse. Sam Pizzigati:“The laggard among the world’s rich nations? No contest there: the United States. The “wealthiest country in the history of the world” — the Oxfam and DFI label — has the highest level of inequality among the world’s major industrial nations. And the U.S. government is letting that inequality get worse — on every major front.”

Repeal and Replace John McCain’s Government-Sponsored Health Care. Miles Mogulescu:“In an act of startling hypocrisy, Sen. John McCain returned from his sickbed to cast the deciding vote to proceed with debate to repeal health care, even as he receives the high-quality, government-financed care members of Congress take for granted.”

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Charles Pierce | So Do We Know Where the Secretary of State Is?

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The hell? The Secretary of State is 'taking a little time off,' and we don't know where, and the State Department spokesperson doesn't know if it counts as a vacation, but we should all ask the AP reporter if we want to know if the Secretary of State is on holiday on the company dime?"
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Trump Just Kicked Transgender Troops out of the Military. This One Ugly Quote Says It All.
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "President Trump announced this morning that he will be banning transgender troops from serving in the military, and all indications are that this may also end up kicking out thousands of them who are already serving."
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Betsy DeVos: Trump's Illiberal Ally Seen as Most Dangerous Education Chief Ever
David Smith, Guardian UK
Smith writes: "While the Trumps steal the limelight and consume attention on issues from Russia to healthcare, it is DeVos, America's 11th education secretary, who is viewed by many in the sector as its most dangerous and destructive since the post was created by Jimmy Carter in 1979."
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New Abortion Restrictions Head to Missouri Governor's Office
Bill Chappell, NPR News
Chappell writes: "Missouri already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Now it's looking to place new requirements on the procedure, including having doctors meet with women seeking abortions before formal consent can be given and requiring the health department to hold unannounced annual inspections of abortion clinics."
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Ohio Plans to Restart Executions With Drugs Known to Torture
Mike Brickner, ACLU
Brickner writes: "Ohio is expected to use the very same drug in the execution of Ronald Phillips, a decision that has led to protests from pharmacologists. In a friend of the court brief, the doctors wrote that midazolam is 'unsuitable' for execution 'because it is incapable of inducing unconsciousness and cannot prevent the infliction of severe pain.'"
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Honduran Police Fire Tear Gas, Water Cannon at Student Protest
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Honduran police have violently cracked down on a student protest in the capital Tegucigalpa, using tear gas and water cannons laced with chemicals to disperse the protesters."
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Find Out What's in Your Tap Water
Environmental Working Group
Excerpt: "Starting Wednesday, the vast majority of Americans can learn about every potentially harmful chemical in their drinking water and what scientists say are the safe levels of those contaminants. The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) new national Tap Water Database is the most complete source available on the quality of U.S. drinking water, aggregating and analyzing data from almost 50,000 public water systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia."
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