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25 June 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News ONE GOOD DAY WOULD DO WONDERS - It would do absolute wonders to have one good day of fundraising before the end of the month. Who out there can step up? In peace and solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! The NRA Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was It Russian Money?  Chris Smith, Vanity Fair Smith writes: "Congressional Democrats, the F.B.I., and Robert Mueller want to know why Putin-tied oligarchs took such an interest in American gun ownership." READ MORE Jared Kushner. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Jared Kushner, Who Doesn't Like Reading History Books, Says He Has a New Middle East Peace Plan Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, ThinkProgress Varkiani writes: "President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner says he has a new peace plan for Palestine and Israel." READ MORE Occupy ICE in ...

22 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News STANDING BACK WATCHING RSN STRUGGLE - We have already served more than 500K readers this month. “359” have donated anything. In truth, that is abusive. 300 additional donations and we are finished for the month. There’s no reason for this difficulty. We serve our readership, not corporate powers. Who sees the value in that? Who will help? - Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bernie Sanders | A World for All of Us, Not Just the Billionaires  Bernie Sanders, The Nation Sanders writes: "To fight today's extreme inequality, we must strengthen the coalition of progressive democrats and challenge the global oligarchy." READ MORE Demonstrators rally against Trump's policy of separating families at the southern border. (photo: Eugene Garcia/EPA) Trump Administration Is Doing Little to Reunite Separated Children, According to Immigration Att...

Donald Trump's presidency is collapsing Rex Huppke Contact Reporter We know President  Donald Trump  is a strong man, possibly the strongest and most fit president we’ve ever had. But even his broad shoulders — which many say are the broadest of all the presidential shoulders — can’t carry the weight of the scandals that are presently piling up. We’re only one year into Trump’s presidency, and we’re already witnessing its entirely predictable collapse. Consider the news swirling about on Thursday: The phrase “pee tape” was trending on Twitter, thanks to excerpts from former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming book describing Trump’s obsession with one of the more lurid claims in the controversial dossier compiled by a British spy. We don’t know if there’s actually a video recording of Trump watching Russian prostitutes urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel room. But we know it’s at least a possibility, and that’s not good for a president. Comey’s bo...

Democracy Dies in Darkness Keeping up with politics is easy now By Amber Phillips Get this: One of the biggest political stories of the week actually had nothing to do with President Trump. It had everything to do with a surprising amount of power flexed by gun-control activists in the wake of last month's Parkland, Fla., shooting. A high school student tweeted a call to action for advertisers to boycott a Fox News show, and at least half a dozen major companies accepted. That fact alone is remarkable, but what's even more remarkable is this all happened in 36 or so hours, suggesting the national conversation on guns is changing extremely rapidly. Students Kelsey Friend and David Hogg recount their stories about a mass shooting at their high school a day after it happened. Hogg has turned into a spokesman of sorts for stricter gun laws. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Here's what happened, and why it's ...