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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Jun 26, 2017 Fox News gives Dear Leader the softball interview he was looking for Donald Trump returned twice in the past week to his favorite place for softball questions. Fox News rewarded him with exactly what he was looking for—these questions weren’t even softballs. They were little fluffy clouds of cotton candy wafted toward him on a breeze of adulation, and...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 Hillary Clinton and EMILY's List announce 15,000 women interested in running for office In the wake of the 2016 elections, EMILY’s List renewed its efforts to recruit women to run for office, and apparently a lot of women are interested: @HillaryClinton: For more than 30 years, @emilyslist has paved the way for women to run & succeed in elected office, including me....     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 26, 2017 Brace for food price hikes thanks to Donald Trump's deportation force File this one under “This is what you voted for, Donald Trump supporters”: Research by the Farm Bureau suggests that the federal immigration policy Trump is promoting could result in a massive farm labor shortage across the country, causing domestic fruit output to plunge anywhere from 30...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 Man mistakenly detained is tenth immigrant to die under ICE custody this year An undocumented man who may have been mistakenly arrested by federal immigration agents is the tenth immigrant to die while under ICE custody this fiscal year.  Rolando Meza Espinoza was arrested at work at the end of March and had been under federal custody since. On June 8, Meza...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 Scientist felt 'bullied' when EPA chief of staff told her to mangle her congressional testimony As noted here and here, the Trump regime is intent on wrecking the Environmental Protection Agency. And it is clear from the comments of the head of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors that the wrecking will include making propaganda and other lies part of the agency’s mission going...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Jun 27, 2017 Led By President Trump, CNN’s Gloating Detractors Party Hearty After it fired three journalists in the wake of botched reporting on a Trump associate, CNN took vicious hits from the President and a multitude of his supporters.     Daily Beast        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 Stuck in Rikers for Six Months. No One Told Him Bail Was $1. A Rikers inmate claims his lawyers didn’t tell him his bail had been reduced.     Daily Beast        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Protesters Descend On The Capitol To Protest Senate GOP’s Health Care Bill The Senate GOP’s health care bill will be a nightmare for women.     Daily Beast        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 McConnell Pulls Trumpcare Vote, Heads ‘Back to the Trenches’ to Kill Obamacare Like a zombie, the GOP’s health-care bill refuses to die. “We can get this done with a little more time,” one aide said. Time is running out though.     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Jun 5, 2017 The Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US Voting System On Monday, the Intercept published a classified internal NSA document noting that Russian military intelligence mounted an operation to hack at least one US voting software supplier—which provided software related to voter registration files—in the months prior to last year's...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jun 5, 2017 Trump's Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban's Chances in Court President Donald Trump began the week with a barrage of early-morning tweets blasting the courts for blocking his travel ban executive order. But in doing so, he may have just made it more likely that the courts will keep blocking the ban. People, the lawyers and the courts can call it...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jun 5, 2017 Republican Congressman on Suspected Islamic Radicals: "Kill Them All" In response to the London terror attack, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) had an extreme proposal: kill anyone suspected of being an Islamic radical. On his campaign Faceboook page, Higgins, a former police officer, posted this message: The free world…all of Christendom…is at war with...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Jun 5, 2017 How Trump and His Allies Have Run With Russian Propaganda The concept is straight from the Soviet playbook: Plant false information and use it to influence the attitudes of another country’s people and government. This “active measures” technique from the Cold War era appears to have been resurrected with alarming success by the...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Jun 27, 2017 In Senate ‘Better Care’ Act, Kasich Tastes His Own Bitter Medicine How soon history is forgotten when a governor tries to burn both ends of the candle at the same time without lighting themselves on fire in the process. But that’s exactly what Ohio Gov. John Kasich has managed to do and get away with as he weighs-in on what Republicans in Congress have in...     Plunderbund        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 Ohio Ranks High In ‘Rigged’ Elections: AP Report Donald Trump bellowed last year about an election system he said was “rigged” against him, even though he won both his adopted Republican Party’s nomination for president and then the presidential election. If American democracy is a rigged system, as the New York billionaire...     Plunderbund        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 Mike DeWine Finally Announces For Ohio Governor’s Race Well, as we and everybody else knew he would, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced his candidacy for governor over the weekend. What, after all of these years, is an Ohio election without Mike on the ballot running for something? He has struck such positive accord with Ohio’s editorial...     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Jun 27, 2017 Big Turmoil in Big Sky Country Listen to Episode 773 of Slate’s The Gist:     Slate        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 How Trump Can Get His Muslim Ban On Monday, the Supreme Court issued what has been billed as a split decision on Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from six majority-Muslim countries. The court kept the ban in place for those who couldn’t prove a “bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.” As...     Slate        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 The Bill Lives I asked Georgia Sen. David Perdue Tuesday morning, as he was heading to a lunch with his GOP colleagues, if he thought there was any chance Republican leaders were bluffing when they said the health care bill needed to pass this week or never.     Slate        more   
• The American Prospect
• Jun 27, 2017 The Powerlessness of Power: Politics in Britain Today (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Twelve months after the Brexit plebiscite, and two weeks after the general election, British politics has no direction, no sense of purpose, and no commanding personalities. The classic institutions of the state—the civil service, big business, the media, the...     The American Prospect        more   
• Jun 27, 2017 Cheer Up, Democrats Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly on camera press conference in the Capitol.  This article originally appeared at The Huffington Post. Subscribe here. How discouraged should Democrats be after failing to win any of the four...     The American Prospect        more   
• Jun 26, 2017 The Fight to Organize Port Drivers -- Modern-Day Indentured Servants   (Photo: AP/Damian Doverganes) A caravan of trucks from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif. drive around the Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Earlier this month, USA Today released a big investigative story on the plight of port truck...     The American Prospect        more   
• Jun 26, 2017 A New Farm Worker Union Is Born Bob's Burgers and Brew, a hamburger joint at the Cook Road freeway exit on Interstate 5, about two hours north of Seattle, doesn’t look like a place where Pacific Northwest farm workers can change their lives, much less make some history. But on June 16, a half-dozen men in work clothes pulled...     The American Prospect        more   
• Jun 26, 2017 Republicans Resort to the Same Strategy They Always Use on Health Care: Lying   Cheriss May/Sipa via AP Images Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services, speaks at President Trump's press conference with members of the GOP, on the passage of legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act, in the Rose Garden of the White Hous.  At some point in...     The American Prospect        more   
• The Hill
• Jun 26, 2017 Trump: Obama didn't 'choke,' he 'colluded or obstructed' President Trump on Monday said President Obama took no action against Russia for its actions in the 2016 election because he expected Hillary Clinton to win.Trump concluded that Obama had not "choked" in taking no...     The Hill        more   
• Jun 26, 2017 Three resign from CNN after Russia story retraction Three CNN staffers resigned after the network retracted a story tying a top President Trump ally to a Russian investment bank.Thomas Frank, the author of the story, Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the CNN investigativ...     The Hill        more   
• Jun 26, 2017 Senate adds penalty for going uninsured to healthcare bill People who have a lapse in coverage for 63 days would have to wait six months before obtaining insurance.     The Hill        more   
• Jun 25, 2017 TSA de-cluttering tests get attention from ACLU The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is testing new safety procedures meant to de-clutter bags that could require airline passengers to remove books and other items from their carry-on luggage when going through...     The Hill        more   
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