Charles Pierce | The Fear, Like the Cruelty, Is the Point

14 July 19 Make No Mistake, We Will Fight for Funding This is a great publication, with a wonderful Readership and a serious problem: funding. Before we will allow the organization to be jeopardized by the lack of a "reasonable" budget we will stand up and fight. We fight against external forms of injustice everyday. We are well aware of how to do it. So far for July 169 donors are keeping the ship afloat. Literally tens of thousands are ignoring the appeals. We need your help. Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611

14 July 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News The “Anybody But Me” Mindset: “You need to find an alternative source of funding.” We hear it all the time. Advertising, wealthy philanthropists, grants, anything or anybody but me! It is the mindset, the belief system of a feudal serf. What Reader Supported News is about at its core is community empowerment through community participation. They don’t own this, you do. That’s why it works for you. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Charles Pierce | The Fear, Like the Cruelty, Is the Point  Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "This whole administration* is about scaring poor and desperate people. It's the only consistent thing about it. It's the only policy idea these geniuses have." READ MORE E Jean Carroll: 'I thought there might be a little brouhaha, but that was it. I didn't think it through.' (photo: Chris Buck/Guardian UK) E. Jean Carroll: 'I Accused Donald Trump of Sexual Assault. Now I Sleep With a Loaded Gun' Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK Pilkington writes: "A loaded gun by the bed is one of the prices you pay if you are a woman who has just accused the president of the United States of raping you." READ MORE Philip Brailsford. (photo: BBC) Police Officer Who Lost His Job After Brutal Killing of Unarmed Man Is 'Rehired to Collect Lifetime Pension' Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post Rosenberg writes: "A police officer who was charged with murder for shooting an unarmed man in a hotel hallway was reportedly rehired temporarily so he could collect a pension."  READ MORE Reps. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas (from left), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., attend a House oversight hearing on conditions for detained migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) 'Shaken to My Core': Testimony Describes Conditions for Detained Migrants Brian Naylor, NPR Naylor writes: "A House panel heard at times emotional testimony about conditions at facilities run by the Department of Homeland Security." READ MORE Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) arrives ahead of the State of the Union address in the chamber of the US House of Representatives at the US Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. (photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images) Rashida Tlaib Wants to Tax the Rich, Save Detroit, and Free Palestine Daniel Denvir, Jacobin Excerpt: "In 2018, Rashida Tlaib was elected to Congress. Her election was extraordinary in many ways: she ran as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America; she became the first Palestinian-American in Congress; and she was part of a crop of left-wing challengers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar whose victories shocked the Democratic establishment in Washington. And they've kept shocking them." READ MORE Flowers are placed on the front steps of the Wellington Masjid mosque on Friday, after a shooting incident at two mosques in Christchurch. (photo: Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images After Christchurch Shootings New Zealanders Hand Over Guns BBC News Excerpt: "Gun reforms were enacted after a gunman shot dead 51 people at two mosques in March." READ MORE Algae Blooms. (image: NASA) Massive Toxic Algae Blooms Predicted in Lake Erie and Gulf of Mexico Tom Philpott, Grist Philpott writes: "In Midwestern farm country, this year's wet, wild spring-which is likely tied to climate change-has already severely delayed planting and led to massive amounts of soil erosion. Now the downstream effects are coming into focus." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation