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RSN: William Boardman | Dark Foreboding: Is the American Democratic Experiment Over?
 William Boardman, Reader Supported News Boardman writes: "Apocalyptic thinking has been with us for a long time, and it sometimes ushers in actual apocalypses, albeit at human scale, without biblical finality. For a century now, the Yeats poem above has served as an increasingly common reference point for those who fear apocalyptic events approaching." READ MORE  Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Brett Kavanaugh Is Bad News
Jack Mirkinson, Splinter News Mirkinson writes: "Brett Kavanaugh, whom Donald Trump has nominated to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, likely appealed to the president in part because of his establishment pedigree." READ MORE
Trump Pardons Oregon Ranchers Whose Case Sparked 2016 Militia Standoff
Sam Levin, Guardian UK Levin writes: "Donald Trump on Tuesday issued full pardons to two Oregon ranchers whose imprisonment prompted a militia standoff with the federal government." READ MORE  A migrant mother feeds a bottle to her daughter in a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Trump Administration Admits They've Lost Track of Roughly 20 Percent of Toddlers' Parents
Adam Peck, ThinkProgress Peck writes: "During a conference call with reporters and U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw on Friday afternoon, government officials acknowledged that as many as 20 percent of the youngest children ripped from their parents on Donald Trump's orders won't be reunified with their families any time soon." READ MORE  Residents in far southwest Fort Worth have been complaining about sporadic cell phone coverage. The ban on Chinese cellular equipment companies could make cell service even rarer in rural communities. (photo: Jeff Roberson/AP)
Ban on Chinese Gear Would Hurt Rural Areas' Cell Coverage, 911 Calls
Tim Johnson, McClatchy DC McClatchy writes: "A proposed U.S. national security ban on equipment from two Chinese telecommunications companies would leave dozens of small, rural cellular companies that rely on their cheap equipment without working cell towers and greatly reduced coverage." READ MORE  Roma women in Bergen-Belsen after the concentration camp was turned over to the Allied 21st Army Group on April 15, 1945. (photo: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
Far-Right Calls to Register Roma 'Echoes' Europe's Dark History
Patrick Strickland, Al Jazeera Strickland writes: "On May 16, 1944, Nazi gunmen encircled a section of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland where some 6,000 Roma prisoners were held. They were preparing to send the inmates to the gas chambers." READ MORE  A pangolin pup rescued from trafficking. (photo: Tikki Hywood Foundation/Mongabay)
Zimbabwe's Chiefs Revive Tradition to Save the Country's Last Pangolins
Andrew Mambondiyani, Mongabay Mambondiyani writes: "Christopher Zimunya, a 72-year-old leader of the indigenous VaJindwi people in eastern Zimbabwe, beamed as he spoke about pangolins. Sitting on the veranda of his small, thriving convenience shop at 22 Miles Business Centre, Zimunya told Mongabay that pangolins are revered in this part of the country, an area known as Zimunya communal land." READ MORE |
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