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Dan Rather | It Is Important Not to Confuse Patriotism With Nationalism 
Dan Rather. (photo: USA Today) 
Dan Rather, Dan Rather's Facebook Page 
Rather writes: "I have long been suspicious of those who would vociferously and publicly bestow the title of 'patriot' upon themselves with an air of superiority." 
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US Judge Blocks Trump Move to End DACA Program for Immigrants 
Dan Levine and Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters 
Excerpt: "A U.S. judge in San Francisco temporarily barred President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday from ending a program shielding young people brought to the United States illegally by their parents from deportation." 
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New Congressional Report Blasts Trump for Ignoring Russian Interference Around the World 
Conor Finnegan, ABC News 
Finnegan writes: "President Donald Trump has ignored the threat posed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Western democracies including the U.S., leaving a vacuum that presents a dangerous challenge to America's national security and foreign policy interests, according to a blistering new report by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." 
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Shockingly Racist Juror Statements Don't Matter to the Supreme Court Conservatives
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate 
Stern writes: "Barney Gattie served on the jury in Georgia that sentenced Keith Tharpe to death for the murder of Jaquelin Freeman. Gattie is white; Tharpe is black, and so was Freeman. Seven years after the trial, Gattie stated in a sworn affidavit that he believed 'there are two types of black people.'" 
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Trump Is Working to Make America Hell for Immigrants - Both Legal and Illegal 
James Hohmann, The Washington Post 
Hohmann writes: "Immigration enforcement arrests are up 40 percent, Trump has slashed the number of refugees allowed into the United States to the lowest level since 1980 and the Justice Department has tried to crack down on 'sanctuary cities' during his first year." 
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Dirty Elections in Honduras, With Washington's Blessing 
Alexander Main, Jacobin 
Main writes: "US support for the corrupt election in Honduras continues its history of obstructing the country's democracy." 
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2017 Weather and Climate Disasters Cost US Record $306 Billion 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "2017, one of the hottest years in modern history, was also an extremely costly year." 
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