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08 July 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOLKS, WE CAN'T DO THIS WITHOUT FUNDING: It's that simple. No accounting trick, no “new way of thinking,” no “better approach” will solve the problem. Funding is funding, we have to have it. So far this month, we do not. In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Mehdi Hasan | Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It's With Her Own Party's Future  Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept Hasan writes: "It is time for liberals and leftists who lambast Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to admit to themselves that the hippie-punching Pelosi has become a Trump enabler too." READ MORE Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. (photo: ICE) FBI, ICE Find State Driver's License Photos Are a Gold Mine for Facial-Recognition Searches Drew Harwell, The Washington Post Harwell writes: "Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver's license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans' photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show." READ MORE Jeffrey Epstein alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, who has also been accused of helping recruit girls for his sex trafficking pyramid scheme. (photo: Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images) Jeffrey Epstein Could Finally Face Justice After Years of Allegedly Sex Trafficking Underaged Girls Zack Ford, ThinkProgress Ford writes: "Billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday and could finally face federal charges for years of allegedly recruiting underage girls in a sort of sex abuse pyramid scheme." READ MORE Sen. Chris Coons talks to media after a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP/Shutterstock) Senator Says Trump Is Using 'Cruelty to Children' as Immigration Tool Peter Wade, Rolling Stone Wade writes: "On Sunday, Senator Chris Coons was a guest on CBS News' Face the Nation. Host Margaret Brennan asked the senator to speak to the duration of time that families and children are being held at migrant detention centers at the U.S. border. Coons directly said the administration's strategy is purposely harsh." READ MORE Megan Rapinoe poses with the Golden Ball next to Rose Lavelle with the Bronze Ball after the U.S. won the Women's World Cup. (photo: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images) Megan Rapinoe Owned This World Cup. Rose Lavelle Will Own the Next Four Years. Eric Betts, Slate Betts writes: "Megan Rapinoe was standing over the ball, 12 yards out from the goal, in the second half of a scoreless Women's World Cup final against the Netherlands on Sunday." READ MORE Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of Greece's center-right New Democracy party, at a pre-election rally in Athens on Thursday. (photo: Andrew Testa/NYT) Greek Elections: Landslide Victory for Center-Right New Democracy Party Helena Smith, Guardian UK Smith writes: "Voters in Greece have given Kyriakos Mitsotakis' center-right New Democracy party a resounding mandate to form a new government after it won by a landslide over the incumbent leftwing Syriza party, which has been in power since 2015." READ MORE The Jamanxim River hems the eastern side of Jamanxim National Forest, one of the most threatened protected areas in Brazil. (photo: IBAMA/Wikimedia Commons) Land Thieves Ramp Up Deforestation in Brazil's Jamanxim National Forest Sue Branford and Thais Borges, Mongabay Excerpt: "Deforestation appears to be rising dramatically in Brazil, with satellite data showing the country's Amazonian region lost more forest in May than during any other month in the past decade." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation