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Democracy Dies in Darkness Most popular right now Trump says ‘no more’ DACA deal and threatens to ‘stop’ NAFTA if Mexico does not better secure border Firing off tweets, the president directed congressional Republicans to pass tough new anti-immigration legislation. By Philip Rucker  •   Read more » The Intersect An updating, infuriating list of all the April Fools’ pranks on the Internet in 2018 Please send help. By Abby Ohlheiser  •   Read more » The Fix •  Analysis The White House releases a photo of its interns, and the Internet asks: Why so few people of color? Today's interns are tomorrow's leaders. By Eugene Scott  •   Read more » ‘Tired of the wait game’: White House stabilizers gone, Trump calling his own shots Trump is defiant and singularly directing his administration, making hasty decisions and bringing on advisers expected to encourage h...

THE REST OF THE WORLD IS WATCHING ISRAEL'S ATROCITIES AS THE US STAND IDLY BY!  01 April 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: Palestinians Hold Day of Mourning After 773 'Shot With Live Ammunition'  Hazem Balousha and Oliver Holmes, Guardian UK Excerpt: "Gaza hospitals, running low on blood and overstretched by the huge number of wounded, were reeling after one of the enclave's bloodiest days outside of open war, in which Israeli soldiers shot 773 people with live ammunition, according to the ministry of health." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation 01 April 18 For RSN in March a Win and a Loss In March, we again took a loss of the funding we need to for day-to-day operations. That’s a serious ongoing problem, it did not get fixed with the March fundraiser. Interestingly, we actually had more donors. More people responded in Mar...

01 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Trump's Dangerous Plot to Weaponize the Supreme Court  Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post Marcus writes: "He is ignorant of - ignorant, really, to the point of allergic to - the importance of the judiciary as an independent institution and the operation of the rule of law. Yet he is also maliciously canny." READ MORE TRUMP'S WAR CABINET!  IS THIS WHAT THE NATION WANTS? MORE ENDLESS WARS TO BUILD AMERICAN EMPIRE?   John Bolton speaking at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire, on April 17, 2015. (photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images/JTA) Patrick Cockburn | The Appointments of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in the US Bring Us Closer to War in the Middle East Patrick Cockburn, The Independent Cockburn writes: "Armed conflict between the US and Iran is becoming more probable by the day as super-hawks replace hawks in the Trump adminis...