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Sanders and Warren Are Transforming How Presidential Campaigns Are Paid For
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an interesting piece and it clearly documents how profoundly grassroots funding for campaigns can affect the political landscape in the U.S. Politico, the publication, and David Siders, the author, include a perfunctory assertion that Joe Biden is still the frontrunner and favorite. They quote a Morning Consult poll to establish that. Morning Consult has been consistently more bullish on Biden's position in the race than other polls. Most polls show Biden falling back with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders drawing even. The larger context is that Warren and Sanders' quite similar progressive message dominates the race for the Democratic nomination. That message is the true frontrunner for the democratic nomination. - MA/RSN  David Siders, Politico Siders writes: "The latest batch of fundraising reports released this week confirmed a new reality of presidential politics: the traditional, big-dollar model of funding a presidential campaign is going the way of landlines and the VCR." READ MORE  Joel Diamnat checks on a patient during a visit to a free clinic in Solana Beach, California, in 2013. The clinic provides free routine medical care to patients without health insurance, including many undocumented migrants from Mexico who live in the area. (photo: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
The Trump Administration Will Deny Visas to Uninsured, Low-Income Immigrants
Nicole Narea, Vox Narea writes: "President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Friday night barring immigrants who do not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay medical care costs from getting visas of almost any kind to enter the US." READ MORE  Activist Greta Thunberg speaks during the strike for a 'Town-Gown Climate Accord' hosted by the Iowa City Climate Strikers, Oct. 4, 2019. (photo: Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Iowa Teens Delighted as Greta Thunberg Leads Unexpected Climate Strike
Chris Robinson, Guardian UK Robinson writes: "Three days prior to Greta Thunberg's surprise visit to Iowa City on Friday, the organizer and local climate activist, Massimo Biggers, a 14-year-old Iowa City high school student, was preparing to strike." READ MORE  U.S. Border Patrol agents. (photo: Reuters)
Journalist Says a CBP Officer Withheld His Passport Until He Agreed He Writes 'Propaganda'
Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Knowles writes: "It took a moment for Ben Watson to realize the officer was not joking."
Walter Shaub, an attorney who served as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics until 2017, tweeted that the incident should go to the DHS inspector general for review.
“A customs agent withholding the passport of a journalist until he agrees to say he writes ‘propaganda’ is actionable misconduct, even in Trump’s America,” he said.
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How the Broadband Lobby Impersonated a Million People to Kill Net Neutrality
Jeremy Singer-Vine and Kevin Collier, BuzzFeed Excerpt: "Sarah Reeves sat on her couch in Eugene, Oregon, staring at her laptop screen in furious disbelief. She was reading the website of a government agency, where her mother appeared to have posted a comment weighing in on a bitter policy battle for control of the internet. Something was very wrong." READ MORE  Iraq's anti-government protests first erupted on Tuesday in Baghdad before spreading to other cities. (photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Dozens of Iraqi Protesters Killed as Demonstrations Intensify
teleSUR Excerpt: "For the past week, wide-scale demonstrations have hit several Iraqi cities as protesters demand economic improvements and the removal of government officials." READ MORE  A bulldozer preparing the ground for fence replacement near the U.S.-Mexico border. (photo: TSD)
'Outrage': New Video Shows Bulldozers Destroying America's Most Iconic Cacti to Build Trump's Border Wall
Brain Kahn, Gizmodo Kahn writes: "The Trump administration has run roughshod over environmental laws in a rush to build an unnecessary border wall. And in footage that emerged on Friday, construction efforts are just running roughshod over the environment, period." The saguaro defines the Southern Arizona landscape. The stately cacti can grow more than three arms—the biggest of which can weigh upwards of six tons—live 150-175 years on average, according to the National Park Service. Despite their prickly appearance, they even sprout flowers that provide a bounty of nectar for desert creatures, including the endangered lesser long-nosed bat that calls Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument home. And of course, they’re a cornerstone for the people who live in the desert or dream of it, too. Dahl told Earther bulldozers were busy knocking down saguaros and other desert plants and piling them up into slash piles when he visited the park on Tuesday. The destruction took place on the west side of the park in preparation for construction to begin there on a 78-mile chunk of Trump’s wall. Organ Pipe, which runs directly up against Mexico and sits about two hours west of Tucson, already has a variety of barriers in place. They include five miles of fence to keep pedestrians out and another 25 miles of posts that act as vehicle barriers. The latter are visible in the background of the videos and photos Dahl shared with Earther.
The irony is that in a park, all species are generally protected. The Organic Act of 1916, which resulted in the creation of the National Park Service, states that the agency exists to “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.” I don’t think mowing down saguaros inside a park’s boundary was quite what the act’s authors had in mind.
That said, there is, of course, some legal wiggle room here. The government has access to what’s called a Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot strip of land along the border it can manage for border protection. The saguaros being knocked down are technically within that strip. But even still, under normal circumstances, the actions there would be governed by U.S. laws that include environmental protections and reviews. In the case of the wall being built by the Trump administration, many of those reviews have been waived because the president declared a bullshit national emergency to fast-track construction.
For Dahl, who has been visiting Organ Pipe and the other parks of Southern Arizona for decades (to say nothing of the millions of others who enjoy the region’s protected landscapes), the whole process is a slap in the face. But happening upon the real-time destruction taking place at the border was a whole new experience for him.
“Outrage,” he said, “that’s the appropriate emotion.”
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