Sanders' Heart Attack Could Have Ended His Presidential Campaign. Instead, It Boosted It.

11 November 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE DO NOT NEED A WINDFALL, BUT WE DESPERATELY NEED A BUDGET - RSN runs on a fraction of what it takes to run the major corporate newsrooms. We do on a shoe string what majors require hundreds of millions to achieve. We can do great things with a modest budget. But without it we cannot function. Need some assistance, ASAP. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Sanders' Heart Attack Could Have Ended His Presidential Campaign. Instead, It Boosted It. Jess Bidgood and Liz Goodwin, The Boston Globe Excerpt: "Senator Bernie Sanders was holding court on the topic of health care for senior citizens last weekend when a bespectacled supporter asked about the health of one particular senior citizen: Sanders himself." READ MORE Mick Mulvaney. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP) Mulvaney's Move to Join Impeachment Testimony Lawsuit Rankles Bolton Allies Tom Hamburger, Carol D. Leonnig and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Excerpt: "White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's last-minute effort to join a lawsuit that could determine whether senior administration officials testify in the impeachment inquiry was an unwelcome surprise to former top national security aides, highlighting internal divisions among President Trump's advisers in the face of the probe." READ MORE Representative Adam Schiff. (photo: Erin Schaff/NYT) Schiff Makes Clear That Whistleblower Will Not Publicly Testify Manu Raju, CNN Raju writes: "House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff made clear on Saturday that the Ukraine whistleblower won't be testifying in the impeachment inquiry, arguing that the individual's testimony would be 'redundant and unnecessary.'" READ MORE A woman was raped, then arrested. (image: Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty Images) A Kansas Law School Student Reported a Rape. Then Police Arrested Her. Emily Shugerman, The Daily Beast Shugerman writes: "Prosecutors recently dropped a case of false rape reporting in Kansas. But the woman says she is still struggling to pick up the pieces of her life." READ MORE A pro-Trump supporter protests at the UCLA campus in Westwood, California on Sunday. Some were unhappy that Trump Jr. refused to take questions. (photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump Jr. Walks Out of Triggered Book Launch After Heckling - From Supporters Andrew Gumbel, Guardian UK Gumbel writes: "Donald Trump Jr. ventured on to the University of California's overwhelmingly liberal Los Angeles campus on Sunday, hoping to prove what he had just argued in his book - that a hate-filled American left was hell-bent on silencing him and anyone else who supported the Trump presidency. But the appearance backfired when his own supporters, diehard Make America Great Again conservatives, raised their voices most loudly in protest." EXCERPT: Guilfoyle, forced to shout to make herself heard, told students in the crowd: “You’re not making your parents proud by being rude and disruptive.” She and Trump Jr left the stage moments later. The fiasco pointed to a factional rift on the Trump-supporting conservative right that has been growing rapidly in recent weeks, particularly among “zoomers” – student-age activists. On one side are one of the sponsors of Trump Jr’s book tour, Turning Point USA, a campus conservative group with a track record of bringing provocative rightwing speakers to liberal universities. On the other side are far-right activists – often referred to as white supremacists and neo-Nazis, although many of them reject such labels – who believe in slamming the door on all immigrants, not just those who cross the border without documents, and who want an end to America’s military and diplomatic engagement with the wider world. A number of the loudest voices at Sunday’s event were supporters of Nick Fuentes, a 21-year-old activist with a podcast called America First that has taken particular aim at Turning Point USA and its 25-year-old founder, Charlie Kirk. In a number of his own recent campus appearances, Kirk has faced questions accusing him of being more interested in supporting Israel than in putting America first. He has responded by calling his detractors conspiracists and racists. READ MORE East German citizens climb the Berlin Wall after the opening of the border was announced in November 1989. (photo: STR/Reuters) In Place of Berlin's Wall Now Stands a Barrier of Sullen Resentment Neal Ascherson, Guardian UK Ascherson writes: "Reunification has only fed resentment and alienation among the 'losers' of the old East Germany." READ MORE An Exxon-Mobile refinery in Baytown, TX. (photo: commercial real estate news) Naomi Oreskes | The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All Naomi Oreskes, TomDispatch Oreskes writes: "It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation