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Sen. Elizabeth Warren | America Can Never Go Back to the Era of Back-Alley Abortions

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25 January 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News LOOK AT THE EFFECT RSN HAS: The best endorsement for any project is its ability to achieve good. What we are most proud of at RSN is our ability to effect change by winning hearts and minds. Help us continue, help us grow with your contribution. Sincerely, Marc Sure, I'll make a donation! Sen. Elizabeth Warren | America Can Never Go Back to the Era of Back-Alley Abortions Elizabeth Warren, TIME   Warren writes: "When I was a girl growing up in Oklahoma, women got abortions. But because those procedures were illegal, many of them ended up with back alley butchers. And we all heard the stories: women who bled to death or died from an infection."   READ MORE Trump Says He Would Speak to Mueller Under Oath in Russia Investigation   Josh Dawsey, David Nakamura and Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post   Excerpt: "President Trump said Wednesday he is 'looking forward' to test...

Progressive Breakfast: The Shutdown Debacle: Trump and the Politics of Hate

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MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage The Shutdown Debacle: Trump and the Politics of Hate The GOP’s shameful treatment of DREAMers isn’t accidental or random. It exemplifies the repugnant preying on racial fears that is a core strategy of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. We must build a broad majority that rejects that politics and its practitioners. U.S. Talks Trade War At Davos Commerce’s Ross declares trade war under way. Bloomberg: “Trade wars ‘are fought every single day,’ and the U.S. has been engaged in one ‘for quite a little while,’ Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in comments that diverge from President Donald Trump. ‘The difference is the U.S. troops are now coming to the rampart,’ Ross told reporters reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ross’s comments about the Trump administration’s move Tuesday to slap new tariffs on solar panel and washing machine imports conflict with Trump’s own statements.” Mulvaney Moves To Reorient CFPB Acting consumer ...