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10 February 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News SO FAR TODAY, "5" DONATIONS, TOTAL - 22 Readers stepped up yesterday. Almost all made very small donations. Today is starting out much worse. It's early but so far we have 2 donations totaling $30. We'll get 30,000 readers today. Will we get 50 donors? Throw something in the hat. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: James Risen | US Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents and Trump-Related Material    James Risen, The Intercept   Risen writes: "The US intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents from Russian operatives, according to sources familiar with the matter. The operation has also inadvertently yielded a cache of documents purporting to relate to Donald Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election."   READ

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10 February 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News YOUR WONDERFUL AND INDISPENSABLE WORK: I am in full support of RSN and have found it immensely helpful in keeping abreast of our body politic from a perspective which is not driven by money but by the appeal to truth and accountability among all the institutions of our government as well as among all of us who are citizens of this country and world. I have sent what is for me a significant contribution to you. I hope that your cause will not only survive but thrive in the months and years ahead, because I for one am fully convinced that we as citizens need what you provide. Thank you. / Donovan L., Ph. D., RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Mort Rosenblum | "Bastille" Is Not French for Bullshit    Mort Rosenblum, Mort Report   Rosenblum writes: "The old saw, monkey-see-monkey-do, is hard to avoid as Donald Trump plans to ape France's Bastille Day parade. H

10 February 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News HOW RSN IS RESCUED BY THE FEW - Each day - somehow - RSN is literally rescued by a handful of donors. Sometimes they are very small donors and sometimes much larger. But it's always a "few people" that take a moment out of their day to lend their support. Join them, they can't do it alone. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bob Bauer | The Demagogue as President: Speech, Action and the Big Parade    Bob Bauer, Lawfare   Bauer writes: "We are constantly confronted with the question of how seriously to take the president's words. By one interpretation, not so much: His verbal excesses and outrages should not be confused with action."   READ MORE Rachel Brand. (photo: Melina Mara/WP) In an Ominous Sign for the Mueller Investigation, Number 3 at DOJ Resigns   Carrie Johnson and Jessica Taylor, NPR   Excerpt: "The