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Progressive Breakfast: Why Republicans Are Rebooting the For-Profit College Industry

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MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Why Republicans Are Rebooting the For-Profit College Industry PROSPER, a controversial rewrite of the Higher Education Act that just passed out of committee in the House of Representatives in a strict party-line vote, will reboot floundering for-profit colleges and revive the scandals associated with this industry should it clear intact the full House and Senate. It turns back the clock to the time when predatory for-profit schools and lenders could pay off government officials and political appointees, then turn around and cripple students with debt and worthless degrees. GOP Scrambles To Line Up Votes For Tax Bill Rubio says he will vote no on Republican tax bill without changes, other GOP senators voice concern. ThinkProgress: “One of Congress’ most spineless senators has thrown a wrench in the Republican Party’s plan to overhaul the tax code before Christmas. The Washington Post reported Thursday that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is a no on th...
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Bill McKibben | The Resistance to Trump Will Be Local

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20 January 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News IF THE NEED FOR FUNDING WERE NOT SERIOUS WE WOULD NOT SAY SO - Funding is in fact critically lacking and the situation is now quite serious. Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bill McKibben | The Resistance to Trump Will Be Local  Bill McKibben, The Nation   McKibben writes: "Whenever progress is blocked in Washington, the pressure for progress always finds other outlets. During the George W. Bush administration, for instance, environmentalists looked to state and local governments for action on climate change, and the result was a slew of commitments that helped build the renewable-energy industry."   READ MORE The Federal Government Just Shut Down. What Happens Next?   Michael Collins, USA TODAY   Collins writes: "The federal government ran out of funding at midnight, but you may not have noticed."   READ MORE Fusion GPS: Kreml...
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Pennsylvania's Gerrymandered House Map Was Just Struck Down - With Huge Implications for 2018

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23 January 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WE HAVE A FUNDING CRISIS ON OUR HANDS - We have donors, many good ones, in fact. But the the overall response rate - at a fraction of one percent - is just too low. It is absolutely causing a crisis. If we did not need the funding we would not spend this much time raising money - would not happen. What we need really are a few good donors. See what you can do. - Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Pennsylvania's Gerrymandered House Map Was Just Struck Down - With Huge Implications for 2018  Andrew Prokop, Vox   Prokop writes: "If the ruling holds, it will be an enormous help to Democrats' efforts to regain control of the House of Representatives in 2018 - because Pennsylvania's House map was one of the most wildly biased toward Republicans in the country."   READ MORE Shutdown Ends After Dems Agree to Trust That McConnell Will Allow '...
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Government Shutdown

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     Regrettably, the federal government is closed. Like you, I am frustrated by this turn of events, and I am working hard to reach a principled solution to reopen the government. For months, President Trump and Congressional Republicans have prioritized corporate tax cuts over passing a budget that helps working families. Congress repeatedly passed short-term spending bills over the last several months in order to provide additional time to negotiate a long-term, bipartisan budget agreement. However, no real talks ever occurred and the President has provided contradictory and changing objectives. I am focused on passing a robust budget for our national security and our economic security, improving health care, helping families and businesses recover from last fall's devastating hurricanes, and putting real resources into the opioid crisis. Congress must also boost border security and find a way to protect the young people who were brought to this country...
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CHARLIE BAKER'S $935 MILLION BIG DIG!

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DOT notes: Big rail projects and small bridges Officials also making efforts to coordinate projects to minimize disruptions JACK SULLIVAN Feb 12, 2018 SOUTH COAST RAIL  project officials said phasing in the new line by running it through Middleboro not only gets the service operating years ahead of time, it gives the line a head start on the full build-out without adding to the projected $3.2 billion cost. In a presentation Monday to a joint meeting of the Department of Transportation board and the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board, James Eng, deputy rail administrator for MassDOT, said the clamor for rail service from Fall River and New Bedford showed there had to be a train to Boston sooner rather than later. “We heard from the public that they want service now from Fall River and New Bedford and they want good service,” Eng told the combined boards. Gov. Charlie Baker last week filed an amended environmental impact report to begin building the proj...
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Fact Checker: Trump surpasses 3,000 false or misleading claims

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Democracy Dies in Darkness The truth behind the rhetoric Trump surpasses 3,000 false or misleading claims If we ran a Hall of Fame for Pinocchios, the president might very well be our first inductee. The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every one of Trump’s suspect statements keeps growing.  Our latest update  includes 3,001 false or misleading claims Trump made since the day he took office to the end of April. When we first started this project for the president’s first 100 days, Trump averaged 4.9 fishy claims a day. The rate has accelerated over time — Trump is now averaging nearly 6.5 claims a day. Unlike other politicians, Trump is prone to repeating his Pinocchio-worthy claims, which drives up the count. Some of his greatest hits include the false claim that he passed the biggest tax cut in history (72 times), his claim that the Russia probe is a made-up controversy (53 times), and his claim that Democ...
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After 16 Years, Afghanistan War Is 'At Best A Grinding Stalemate,' Journalist Says

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After 16 Years, Afghanistan War Is 'At Best A Grinding Stalemate,' Journalist Says February 6, 2018 TERRY GROSS Enlarge this image A U.S. Army helicopter crew chief scans the ground near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan in June 2017. Capt. Brian Harris/AP America's war in Afghanistan is the longest war the U.S. has ever fought. Beginning a month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the initial mission was to remove the Taliban from power and destroy the al-Qaida terror network. Now, nearly 17 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll points out that the war's goals have changed. "The objective is not a grand peace ceremony on some grand aircraft carrier," Coll says. "It's to reduce the violence in Afghanistan, to reduce the suffering of innocents in Kabul, to support the constitutional government that we invested in after Sept. 11 so heavily in money and in American lives and sacrifices on the battlefield...
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