Senator Al Franken Tells Supporters: 'I'm Not Giving Up My Voice'

29 December 17 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News STAND UP FOR READER SUPPORTED NEWS: Come on folks don't just sit there and let RSN struggle financially. What we need to function is a drop in the bucket. When you get involved, when you take an ownership stake, good things happen. Help RSN! / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Senator Al Franken Tells Supporters: 'I'm Not Giving Up My Voice'    Jessie Van Berkel, StarTribune  Van Berkel writes: "In one of his last speeches to supporters before he resigns, U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., promised to continue fighting for the causes he has championed over the past decade."  READ MORE Natasha Bertrand | Trump Made a Revealing, Off-the-Cuff Comment That Could Explain Why He Hasn't Fired Mueller  Natasha Bertrand, Business Insider  Bertrand writes: "While Trump said he expected Mueller would treat him 'fairly,' his remark about how the investigation had galvanized his supporters is perhaps a better indicator of why Trump may have taken firing Mueller off the table, for now."  READ MORE Trump: Give Me a Border Wall or I'll Deport the Dreamers  Eric Levitz, New York Magazine  Levitz writes: "Donald Trump just made Democrats an offer they can't accept. In a Friday-morning tweet, the president issued an ultimatum: Build me a border wall - and make it harder for legal immigrants to bring their foreign family members into the United States - or the Dreamers get it."  READ MORE Is the US Exporting Its Travel Ban With Thousands of TSA and DHS Agents in 70 Countries?  Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!  Goodman reports: "The Department of Homeland Security is increasingly going global, with thousands of agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration stationed in more than 70 countries around the world."  READ MORE Inequality Neither Inevitable Nor Irreversible in 2018  Earl Bousquet, teleSUR  Bousquet writes: "Once upon a time it was impossible to even think of what inequality looked like around the world. Today, it's being assessed globally - and the pictures emerging are all too ugly."  READ MORE Palestinian Refugee Camp Is the Most Tear-Gassed Place on Earth, According to New Study  Ibrahim Husseini and Liam O'Hare, Al Jazeera  Excerpt: "A Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank may be the most exposed place to tear gas in the world, according to the author of a new study."  READ MORE Trump Administration Rolls Back Offshore Drilling Safety Rules From Deepwater Horizon Spill  Juliet Eilperin and Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post  Excerpt: "The Trump administration is overhauling how federal officials monitor safety procedures on offshore drilling operations, revising a pair of rules enacted in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill on the grounds that they are overly burdensome on industry."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation