Andy Borowitz | Trump's Budget Contains Twenty Million Dollars for Bail

12 March 19 Why We Fear Very Bad Fundraising Days It doesn’t take many good days of fundraising to pay all of RSN’s bills for the entire month. But a really bad day of fundraising just frays everyone’s nerves and kicks the can down the road towards the end of the month. Today is starting out looking like a very bad day of fundraising. Why? Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611

12 March 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News URGENT AND IMMEDIATE APPEAL FOR DONATIONS - It is - very - important to get moving on donations, right here right now. Yes we do need the money. Yes some people have helped. But we have to have a good month, whatever it takes. As of right now it's not happening. With urgency. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Trump's Budget Contains Twenty Million Dollars for Bail  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "Donald J. Trump's $4.7-trillion budget raised eyebrows on Monday when government-watchdog groups discovered that it contained twenty million dollars for bail." READ MORE The president's latest budget proposal runs directly counter to his campaign promise to safeguard Medicare. (photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP) Trump's 2020 Budget Proposes $1 Trillion Cut to Medicare, Medicaid Amanda Michelle Gomez, ThinkProgress Gomez writes: "The White House released its 2020 budget proposal on Monday, proposing more than $1 trillion in cuts to the popular programs Medicare and Medicaid and giving insight into what the executive branch would do if Congress didn't control the federal government's pocketbook." READ MORE Felicity Huffman. Thirty-three parents were charged. (photo: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) 50 Executives and Celebrities Charged Over Admissions Fraud at Top US Schools Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK Lartey writes: "US federal prosecutors have charged Hollywood actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin along with almost 50 other people over a $25m scheme to help wealthy Americans buy their children's way into elite universities including Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, and the University of Southern California." READ MORE World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee. (photo: Simon Dawson/Reuters) Tim Berners-Lee on 30 Years of the Web: 'If We Dream a Little, We Can Get the Web We Want' Alex Hern, Guardian UK Hern writes: "Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee, then a fellow at the physics research laboratory Cern on the French-Swiss border, sent his boss a document labelled Information Management: A Proposal." READ MORE Protesters took to the streets after Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced over the weekend that two officers - Terrence Mercadel and Jared Robinet - would not face charges related to the fatal shooting of Clark. (photo: IGD) Justice for Stephon Clark: Protests Erupt as DA Fails to Charge Cops Who Killed Unarmed Black Father Democracy Now! Excerpt: "Protests in Sacramento continue more than a week after the county's district attorney announced the two police officers who shot and killed 22-year-old, unarmed African American Stephon Clark in his grandmother's backyard last year will not face criminal charges." READ MORE Nicolas Maduro. (photo: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters) Trump Admin Wants $500M to Fund Its Intervention in Venezuela teleSUR Excerpt: "US President Donald Trump asked Monday Congress to cut aid to Latin America but allow the U.S. Department of State to use US$500 million to fund its interventionist policies against the government of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela." READ MORE Portland alley advocates estimate there are 76 miles of alleys in their city - all potential green public spaces. This northeast Portland neighborhood is one of many projects reclaiming forgotten concrete pathways for nature and people. (photo: Derek Dauphin) How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities Lynn Freewill-Maye, YES! Magazine Freewill-May writes: "Rachel Schutz hated watching the kids play outside, and not because she was a curmudgeon. As director of an after-school program in a Latino neighborhood near ­Portland, Oregon, she likes the outdoors, the piney tang that hangs in the damp air." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation