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RSN: William Boardman | Trump Isn't The Problem, He's the Manifestation of America's Id 
Economist Paul Krugman. (photo: Reuters)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "In an apparently deliberate exercise of hatred and bigotry, the Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity."
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The Supreme Court Just Put a Ding in the Surveillance State
Cristian Farias, New York Magazine
Farias writes: "In 2014, Chief Justice John Roberts drew praise from every corner when he led a near-unanimous Supreme Court to rule that it's unconstitutional for the government to rummage through a smartphone without first obtaining judicial authorization."
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (photo: Getty Images)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (photo: Getty Images)

The Owner of the Red Hen Explains Why She Asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Leave
Avi Selk and Sarah Murray, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening - nearly 200 miles from the White House - when the choice presented itself."
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American, Frontier, Southwest and United airlines each refused to help separate children from their parents. (photo: iStock)
American, Frontier, Southwest and United airlines each refused to help separate children from their parents. (photo: iStock)

American, Frontier, Southwest and United Airlines Refuse to Transport Immigrant Children Separated From Parents for Government
Bart Janson, USA Today
Janson writes: "American, Frontier, Southwest and United airlines each refused Wednesday to fly immigrant children separated from their parents for the federal government, as President Trump ordered a halt to separations as part of his 'zero tolerance' policy for undocumented border crossings."
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FDA Is on the Verge of Approving First Marijuana-Derived Drug
Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post
McGinley writes: "Marissa, who cannot speak and uses a wheelchair, quickly went from eight seizures a day to half that number; these days, the 21-year-old has some weeks in which she doesn't have any seizures."
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Cuba Has a New President. It's Clear He's Got His Work Cut Out for Him.
Andres Pertierra, Jacobin
Pertierra writes: "The difficult truth is that right now nobody knows what his ascension means for Cuba. Perhaps not even Díaz-Canel himself."
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Stomach contents of an albatross chick photographed in the Pacific in 2009. (photo: Chris Jordan/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service HQ)
Stomach contents of an albatross chick photographed in the Pacific in 2009. (photo: Chris Jordan/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service HQ)

Marine Plastic: Hundreds of Fragments in Dead Seabirds
Victoria Gill, BBC News
Gill writes: "Parent birds unwittingly feeding plastic to their chicks means that the birds emerge from their burrows with stomachs filled with plastic, and with insufficient nutrition to enable them set out to sea and forage for themselves."
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