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18 June 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News DO YOU GIVE A DAMN ABOUT READER SUPPORTED NEWS? - This organization is built literally on community service and community support. The two are 100% interdependent. That is why you get what you expect from RSN. We need you folks, in reasonable numbers, to contribute. In solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! William Boardman | With Blood on Its Missiles, US Indicted for Global Nuclear Terror  William Boardman, Reader Supported News Boardman writes: "The Plowshares Seven, all presently proceeding without attorneys of their own, will attempt to argue a necessity defense - that whatever illegal actions they have taken were necessary to prevent a greater harm, in this case nuclear destruction." READ MORE John Oliver Blasts Trump for Claiming His Border Separation Policy Is a Law Justin Wise, The Hill Wise writes: "Late-night host Jo...

18 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WE HAVE AN IMMEDIATE PROBLEM ON DONATIONS RIGHT NOW - It’s Monday morning and we have only a handful of very small donations. At this pace we will have a very bad day of fundraising. That is something we cannot afford at this stage. This is a “right now” problem. No choice but to get this moving, no matter who that offends. Who can donate? Seriously. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Frank Rich | Trump's Summit Spectacle Was Just a Momentary Distraction From His Bigger Problems  Frank Rich, New York Magazine Rich writes: "What is going to dawn on Trump now is that in television terms the summit was only a limited series while the Mueller inquiry, and its many attendant subplots, is an open-ended series with no season finale yet in view." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Dona...

18 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News AT THIS PACE WE ARE DEAD MEAT - We made - a little - progress over the weekend. It stopped on a dime this morning. 11 people have taken a moment to donate today, even as 15,000 have come. No one believes that will work. Basic funding: We have to have it. - Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Juan Cole | Top Six Dictators Who Also Divided Children From Parents Like Trump/Sessions  Juan Cole, Informed Comment Cole writes: "Separating children from their parents, as Trump, Sessions and their myrmidons are doing, is monstrous and has been characteristic of the biggest dictators of the modern era." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

KERRY’s fundraising appeal for SETTI — HEFNER, ROSENBERG sued by alleged victim — LEWIS wants to revive millionaire tax 06/20/2018 06:51 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  (ldezenski@politico.com; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths (bgriffiths@politico.com; @BrentGriffiths) FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: KERRY'S FUNDRAISING APPEAL FOR SETTI — Setti Warren  may have ended his gubernatorial bid, but pieces of his campaign are still humming behind the scenes as Setti tries to knock down the campaign's lingering deficit of roughly $25,000 before closing his campaign account. Now, former Secretary of State  John Kerry  has been enlisted in the effort to bring in funds to help cover Setti's campaign deficit via an appeal being blasted to an email list of just shy of 25,000 people. "Political campaigns today cost too much money," Kerry's writes in the email appeal going out later this morning. "Setti's campaign for governor ended with some expenses that re...

19 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News RSN ISN’T SOMETHING YOU CAN TAKE FOR FREE - To get what RSN has to offer, you have to be a part of it, you have to participate. That’s the key. It’s the participation that builds the social benefit. RSN, it’s about doing something. Help. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Michael T. Klare | Girding for Confrontation, the Pentagon's Provocative Encirclement of China  Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Klare writes: "On May 30th, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy. From now on, he decreed, the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), which oversees all U.S. military forces in Asia, will be called the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)." READ MORE Protest at a hearing of the judiciary committee. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters) No More 'Internment Camps': Democrats Disrupt Congressional...

19 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News IF WE DON'T PAY THE BILLS THERE WON'T BE AN RSN - As a result we are going to be strong minded when it comes to funding. We have stated clearly the numbers. You know. Got to get out those cards and kick in. Yes you. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: An Audio Exists of Children Being Ripped From the Arms of Their Parents at the Border  Ginger Thompson, ProPublica Thompson writes: "The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

19 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News A WEEK TO GO AND WE'RE AT LESS THAN 50% - We only have 1 week left in the June fundraising drive and we still haven't reached the 50% mark. Still fewer than 300 readers have clicked the donation link and chipped-in. We must have a budget, there is no way out of it. With urgency. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! RSN: Harvey Wasserman | Immigrants & Muslims Are Trump's Jews ... Until He Comes for the Actual Jews  Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News Wasserman writes: "Make no mistake: Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions’ assault on immigrant families and their “tactic” of separating parents from their children are right out of the Nazi playbook." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation