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19 May 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WILL DONALD TRUMP KILL RSN? - Outrage over the rise of Trump is causing a huge grassroots mobilization. That’s a good thing and long overdue. It also causing an explosion in grassroots fundraising, especially online. That’s drastically changing the landscape. It’s taking us nearly twice as long to raise half as much as we were in 2014. We have cut everything that could be cut. We’re down to essentials now. No one on our end has any intention of walking away. So we’re going to have to slug it out until things improve. A lot of people will ignore this message. We are hoping that a few won’t. In peace and solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Can the Republic Recover From Donald Trump?  Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "On Monday, at the Center For American Progress's annual Ideas hootenanny, Sally Yates made a point

19 May 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE NEED EVERYONE TO PITCH IN NOW - We have received some wonderful contributions this month both large and small. But in total only 247 people have responded. As a result we are well behind where we should be. We must do everything we can to finish now. We need everyone to pitch in now, today. Please. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!! Bob Bauer | The Cohen Reimbursements and 'Retainers': Tall Tales and Other Possibilities  Bob Bauer, Lawfare Bauer writes: "Through the thick fog of inconsistent and peculiar explanations, it is close to impossible to penetrate to the truth behind the payments by President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels, now apparently reimbursed by Trump." READ MORE Paige Curry. (photo: ABC 13) The Tragic Awareness of a Santa Fe High School Shooting Survivor Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New

18 May 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News We Cannot Operate Without Minimal Support - We are on day 13 of trying to raise what we could easily have raised in one day. It’s not going to work. If Reader Supported News is to have any chance of covering its budget it will take a serious sustained effort. With the greatest respect, who can donate? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Trump Orders Replica Nobel Peace Prize to Display on His Desk  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "Donald J. Trump has ordered a replica of the Nobel Peace Prize and is displaying it prominently on his desk in the Oval Office, the White House confirmed on Wednesday." READ MORE Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, and mass shooting survivors, from left, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky and Alex Wind participate in a panel discussion about guns, on March 20, 2018, at Har

18 May 18 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! FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Democrats Join In to Make Torture a Bipartisan Affair  Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "Sometimes, you just want to give up. Or at least, shake the country by its exceptionalism and tell it to look in a mirror." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation EXCERPTS:  Three Republicans opposed Haspel's nomination: Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Jeff Flake of Arizona and John McCain of Arizona, although McCain did not vote because he's battling brain cancer at home Most of the Democratic votes in favor of Haspel came from senators who are up for re-election in November in states

Democracy Dies in Darkness The truth behind the rhetoric Mike Pence says America has found religion “Religion in America isn’t receding. It’s just the opposite,”  the vice president said at a conservative Christian college in Michigan , citing statistics about the share of Americans who pray, read the Bible and attend church. Alas, this was an apocryphal claim. It all began with an article in the Federalist (“New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Not Shrinking, But Growing Stronger”), which discussed findings from two academics. Pence misinterpreted their work. The academics actually found that, except for a core group of true believers ,  religion was fading away in the United States. In fact, their study suggests that as religion has become more politicized in the United States, more moderates have abandoned it — not at all what Pence claimed. “Our data do not support the conclusion that religion is on the rise in the United States,