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Republicans for the Rule of Law

June 14, 2019

These top Republican former law enforcement officials render a verdict

93PUNX, Vic Mensa | Camp America

June 14, 2019

A Trump official says that the immigrant children ripped from their parents are in places just like "summer camp." Yeah, like this.

It's Even Worse When He Tells the Truth

June 14, 2019

If there's something strange in your presidential campaign, who ya gonna call? NOT the FBI.

June 14, 2019

3-D Chess? We Just Want Nancy Pelosi to Connect the Dots.

Elie Mystal The Nation

What I’m hearing and seeing are weak arguments made to gaslight late-night viewers into thinking that everything is under control, even as more and more members of her own caucus manifestly break with her position on impeachment in public.

June 14, 2019

Elizabeth Warren’s Rise Is a Plus for Issue Politics — And a Bad Sign for Billionaires

Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone

If Warren is rising, it’s not because people are tired of Sanders. It’s because they’re pissed at soulless, nationless, money-sucking companies and overpaid, under-prosecuted executives. This is also why Sanders is still very much in contention.

June 14, 2019

Major Rent Law Reform Strengthening Tenant Protections in NY

Amy Plitt Curbed

Legislators have reached a deal to extend and strengthen rent regulation throughout New York state

June 14, 2019

Brazil Fails to Replace Cuban Doctors, Hurting Health Care of 28 Million

Shasta Darlington and Letícia Casado The New York Times

“The child mortality rate here dropped to 7 percent from 17 percent in five years thanks to Mais Médicos,” said Dr. Dalva. “I told people to think about that before they voted.”

June 14, 2019

To Amal

Hedy Habra Verse Daily

The Lebanese American poet struggles to transcend a mother’s worry in a war-torn city, “your nightmare, a faint echo/of raging battles.”

June 13, 2019

Sanders Calls For 21st Century Bill of Rights - How Democratic Socialism Is the Only Way to Defeat Oligarchy

Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders

"I didn't hear Jamie Dimon criticizing socialism when Wall Street begged for the largest federal bailout in American history—some $700 billion from the Treasury and even more from the Fed," Bernie Sanders before speech on Democratic Socialism.

June 13, 2019

The Untapped Power of Rural Voters

LaTosha Brown The New York Times

Rural voters hold enormous potential for progressives. When Donald Trump came in 2016, many rural voters were desperate. He promised to bring back factory jobs. He promised to bring back coal-mining jobs. Sure, these were lies. But they were lies.