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Robert Reich | The Real Lesson of Ukraine-Gate: Trump Will Do Anything to Win in 2020
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich. (photo: Steve Russell/Toronto Star)
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Amid the impeachment furor, don't lose sight of the renewed importance of protecting the integrity of the 2020 election."
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The White House at night. (photo: Susan Walsh/AP)
The White House at night. (photo: Susan Walsh/AP)

New Poll Shows 20-Point Increase in Support for Impeachment Inquiry - Among Republicans
Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "A new poll out Tuesday from the Washington Post and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University shows dramatic shifts in support of the impeachment process."
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'Every major Democratic presidential contender must be able to answer tough questions about how they will reform the courts.' (photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
'Every major Democratic presidential contender must be able to answer tough questions about how they will reform the courts.' (photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)

Democrats Snoozed While Republicans Took Over the Courts. It's Time to Fight Back
Moira Donegan, Guardian UK
Donegan writes: "The Democratic base is tired of the party being passive about Republicans packing the judiciary. So what's their game plan?" 

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ast Sunday, a boisterous group of protesters, primarily women, marched through Washington. They stopped in front of the home of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and gathered on the steps of the supreme court. The protest, called “Reclaim the Court”, was led by civil rights groups like Planned Parenthood Action, the Center for Popular Democracy, and the Women’s March, and was meant to mark the first anniversary of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, and came on the heels of new reporting that lends corroboration to accusations of sexual assault by and provides greater evidence that he lied under oath at his confirmation hearings, charges which he has denied.

Striking United Auto Workers union members. (photo: ABC News)
Striking United Auto Workers union members. (photo: ABC News)

Striking UAW Member: We'll Strike "As Long as It Takes" to Demand Fair Salaries and Benefits
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "About 48,000 workers at General Motors have entered their fourth week on strike. It is the longest national strike at GM by the United Auto Workers in nearly 50 years."
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LGBTQ activists and supporters hold a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in a major LGBT rights case on whether a federal anti-discrimination law that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sex covers gay and transgender employees in Washington, U.S., October 8, 2019. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
LGBTQ activists and supporters hold a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in a major LGBT rights case on whether a federal anti-discrimination law that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sex covers gay and transgender employees in Washington, U.S., October 8, 2019. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Supreme Court Divided Over Gay, Transgender Employment Protection
Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared divided over whether a landmark decades-old federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in the workplace protects gay and transgender employees as they heard arguments in one of the biggest cases of their current term."
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American soldiers last month during a joint United States-Turkey patrol in Syria. (photo: Rodi Said/Reuters)
American soldiers last month during a joint United States-Turkey patrol in Syria. (photo: Rodi Said/Reuters)

Juan Cole | Winners and Losers From Trump Throwing Syrian Kurds Under the Bus
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The reasons for which the Washington Establishment is appalled at Trump's abrupt withdrawal of US special operations troops from northern Syria are not necessarily the right ones."

EXCERPT:
Former special presidential envoy for combating ISIL Brett McGurk wrote, “Trump tonight after one call with a foreign leader provided a gift to Russia, Iran, and ISIS.” 
I have enormous respect for McGurk, a seasoned diplomat with vast and intensive experience in the field, who played an important role in the defeat of the ISIL terrorist cult and earlier in negotiating the release of US prisoners in Iran.
But I disagree with this take on Trump’s move out of Syria (and apparently Trump intends to transfer out the remaining 200 special operations personnel, which he may as well, since they will be persona non grata in Kurdish Syria).
It is difficult to see in what way Russia is benefited by Turkey’s incursion into northeast Syria. 
Russia and Turkey are more or less low-key enemies in Syria. Russia backs to the hilt the Baathist government of President Bashar al-Assad and has given his Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops intensive air support as they have reconquered most of the country.

Greta Thunberg, 16, sits next to Tokata Iron Eyes, 16, during the panel Sunday at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. (photo: Courtesy of Lakota People's Law Project)
Greta Thunberg, 16, sits next to Tokata Iron Eyes, 16, during the panel Sunday at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. (photo: Courtesy of Lakota People's Law Project)

Greta Thunberg Heads to Standing Rock to Support Indigenous Activists
Yessenia Funes, Gizmodo
Funes writes: "For indigenous environmental activist Tokata Iron Eyes, climate solutions are all about indigenous rights and culture."
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