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27 January 19 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE SERIOUSLY NEED A GOOD DAY OF FUNDRAISING - CAN YOU HELP? - All it takes to turn a very bad fundraising day into a reasonable one is a few decent donations. That’s it. This has been a month with very few reasonable fundraising days. Now we have a problem. Who can reasonably help? Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Matt Taibbi | The Annual 'Misremembering Dr. King' Editorials Roll In  Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Taibbi writes: "Late December is when kids learn the Pentagon is a kid-friendly organization that tracks Santa Claus. On Thanksgiving, we see violence-averse presidents pardon defenseless turkeys. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is more complicated. Newspapers that during his lifetime denounced the great and complicated man 'celebrate' him through an agonizing ritual." READ MORE Roger Stone and Robert Mueller. (photo: Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast) No Escape for Roger Stone: Mueller's Case Is a Slam Dunk and He's Too Slimy to Get Flipped Peter Zeidenberg, The Daily Beast Zeidenberg writes: "As someone who prosecuted Scooter Libby and others on similar charges and defended white-collar cases involving similar charges as those alleged here - false statements, obstruction of justice and witness tampering - my takeaway is that Stone should begin getting his affairs in order." READ MORE Timmy Bee, right, a volunteer at Seattle-Tacoma international airport, gives sightseeing tips to travelers as he wears a sign supporting TSA workers on the back of his jacket on Friday. (photo: Ted S Warren/AP) End of Shutdown: Workers Left With Debts, Bad Credit and Shattered Trust Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK McCarthy writes: "Even as he announced an end to the longest government shutdown in US history, Donald Trump warned that a new shutdown could begin in just three weeks 'if we don't get a fair deal from Congress.'" READ MORE Vote. (photo: Getty Images) New Mexico Advances Ambitious Voting Rights Bill to Abolish Felon Disenfranchisement Amanda Michelle Gomez, ThinkProgress Gomez writes: "New Mexico lawmakers advanced two major voting rights bills on Friday, illustrating a growing nationwide trend as lawmakers are prioritizing the issue following rampant problems at the polls during the 2018 midterm elections." READ MORE Washington state has banned people under 21 from buying semi-automatic assault rifles. (photo: Elaine Thompson/AP) The Sheriffs Resisting Washington's New Gun Laws: 'I'm Not Going to Enforce That' Jason Wilson, Guardian UK Wilson writes: "In Washington state, a freshly implemented ballot initiative and a raft of new bills may produce some of the tightest firearms regulations in the US. But standing in the way is a group of rural law enforcement officers who say point blank that they won't enforce any of it." READ MORE Justin Trudeau. (photo: Sean Kilpatrick/AP) Justin Trudeau Fires Ambassador to China After Remarks on Huawei Case Reuters Excerpt: "In an unprecedented move, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said he had fired his ambassador to China, who had prompted a political furor with comments about Huawei's high-profile extradition case." READ MORE Fossil fuel emissions. (photo: Thawt Hawthje/Flickr) US EPA Senior Official Falls Short of Calling Climate Change a Crisis Humeyra Pamuk and Richard Valdmanis, Reuters Excerpt: "The Trump administration's senior air pollution official said on Friday that he and his agency were still exploring the science of climate change and fell short of calling it a crisis." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation