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June 23, 2018

Democrats are Losing Their Fear of AIPAC and Haim Saban

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss

Trump’s embrace of Netanyahu has opened the door for formerly-silent Democrats to be critical of Israel. “There’s a willingness to look at Israel’s actions that maybe wasn’t possible when Obama was president.”

June 22, 2018

Quartering

Seema Reza The Quarry

What it means to bring a war back home is the subject of Seema Reza’s searing poem about our soldiers.

The CEOs Profiting Off of Immigrant Detention

June 22, 2018

Few Americans know about our nation's system of immigrant detention centers. Learn more about who profits and who the prison industry helped put in power.

Who is Stephen Miller? Senior Advisor for Policy

June 22, 2018

The mastermind behind Trump's travel ban has been waging a war against minorities for a long time – Narrated by Debra Messing

Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a Six-Year-Old Has to Find Her Own Way

June 22, 2018

A Salvadoran woman becomes her family’s lifeline when her sister was taken to a detention facility in Texas and her niece to an Arizona shelter.

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance

June 22, 2018

We rewrote the Battle Hymn because, well . . . because it needed it.

The Little Girls Blocking President Donald Trump

June 22, 2018

The First Lady went to the border, but she did not accomplish as much as that little girl standing up to Trump on the cover of Time Magazine or as much as Jenny Lisette Flores.

June 22, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | June 22, 2018

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The Little Girls Blocking President Donald Trump. Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance. Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a Six-Year-Old Finds Her Own Way. Who is Stephen Miller? CEOs Profiting From Immigrant Detention.

June 22, 2018

The Forced Separation of Families Is Trump's 'Katrina Moment'

Jill Abramson The Guardian

Donald Trump is making George W Bush’s same fatal mistake by showing heartlessness in a time of crisis

June 22, 2018

Here’s the Real Science Behind Jurassic World

Joshua A. Krisch Vocativ

Can we clone dinosaurs? Would ankylosaurus smack down an Indominus Rex? Were pteranodons always scarier than Hitchcock’s birds? What the heck was a Mosasaur, and can I have one?