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Tim Dickinson | Leaked NRA Documents Reveal 'Mindboggling' Spending 
National Rifle Association executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre is under fire for excessive 'wardrobe' expenses after allegedly running up charges of $270,000 at a Beverly Hills boutique. (photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/REX)
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Dickinson writes: "Excessive spending at the National Rifle Association is 'draining NRA cash at a mindboggling speed' and poses 'an existential threat to the financial stability' of the gun group, according to slate of leaked documents that have spurred calls for the resignation of CEO Wayne LaPierre."
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District Attorneys From Across Metro Atlanta Say They Won't Prosecute Women for Abortions
Jennifer Bellamy, 11 Alive
Bellamy writes: "District attorneys across metro Atlanta have said they would not prosecute a woman for seeking out an abortion in Georgia under the new 'heartbeat' law, which would criminalize abortion after six weeks - when a fetal pulse is detected."
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Trump Shows Signs He Will Pardon Servicemen Accused or Convicted of War Crimes
Dave Philipps, The New York Times
Philipps writes: "President Trump has indicated that he is considering pardons for several American military members accused or convicted of war crimes, including high-profile cases of murder, attempted murder and desecration of a corpse, according to two United States officials."
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Border Official Admits Targeting Journalists and Human Rights Advocates With Smuggling Investigations
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
Devereaux writes: "When first confronted with evidence that it was collaborating with Mexican law enforcement in a sweeping intelligence-gathering operation targeting journalists, activists and attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico divide, Customs and Border Protection was silent."
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ICE Plans to Transport 225,000 Immigrant Kids to Shelters Over the Next Five Years
Justin Rohrlich and Heather Timmons, Quartz
Excerpt: "The Trump administration is looking for a private contractor to move the dramatically increasing number of children detained at the US border with Mexico to shelters across the country."
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Brazil: Sowing the Seeds of Bolsonaro
Giacomo Gabbuti and David Broder, Jacobin
Excerpt: "Brazil is today in the grip of a terrifying far-right regime, as Jair Bolsonaro's government embarks on rolling back decades of advances for workers, women, and LGBT people."
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To the GOP extremists trying to invoke “the unborn” to jail people for abortion:

Where are you on climate change? OH right, you want to burn fossil fuels til there’s hell on Earth.

If they were truthful about their motives, they’d be consistent in their principles. They’re not.

32.7K people are talking about this

Romm writes: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed Republican hypocrisy on abortion and climate change in a series of tweets Friday afternoon."
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