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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) to view this message in a browser window.  [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [] [] News & Views | 3/30/18 [] Feature... [] ['Among Stupidest Policies Yet Proposed,' Trump EPA to Lower Car Emissions Standards](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa by Jake Johnson, staff writer After more than a year of aggressively lobbying the Trump administration behind closed doors to gut Obama-era fuel efficiency standards aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emmissions, automakers are poised to finally have their wish granted on Sunday, when EPA chief Scott Pruitt is scheduled... [] [] News... [] [Judge Hands 'Horrifying' Five-Year Prison Sentence to Woman for the Crime of...Voting](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) 1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa by Julia Conley, staff writer A Texas judge is sending a woman to jail for five years for unknowingly casting a vote in the 2016 election when she was disenfranchised while on probation. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seizing Upon Post-Hurricane Damage, Puerto Rico's New "Education Reform" Law Paves Way for Charters, Vouchers](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [Gov. Ricardo Rossello signed into law an "education reform" bill that allows for school vouchers and charter schools. (Photo: Lorie Shaull/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Roughly six months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, the island's governor signed into law "education reform" legislation that he says "puts our students first" but that critics say stinks of a privatization plan that will do nothing to help students. --------------------------------------------------------------- [#StandWithTeachers: Wave of Red State Protests Against Low Salaries and School Funding Comes to Kentucky](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) 1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa by Julia Conley, staff writer Teachers across Kentucky on Friday became the latest educators to walk out of their classrooms, denouncing a bill that passed in the state Senate on Thursday, proposing reduced pension benefits for state employees. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Calls for Pruitt to Resign After Reports of 'Sweetheart' Rental From Energy Lobbyist's Wife](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [condo](1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer As key figures of the Trump administration face mounting concerns about conflicts of interest, a growing number of critics are calling for the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt after ABC News revealed that last year he rented a D.C. condo owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, in what some are describing as "a sweetheart deal." --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Dozen Advertisers Drop Laura Ingraham as Parkland Shooting Survivor She Mocked Rejects Her Apology](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) 1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa by Jake Johnson, staff writer The fallout over Fox News host Laura Ingraham's decision earlier this week to mock Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg over his college rejections continued to intensify on Friday, as nearly a dozen advertisers have announced that they are withdrawing support from Ingraham's show. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Under GOP Tax Law, Top 1% Get Extra $33,000 Per Year. The Poor? $40](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) 1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa by Jake Johnson, staff writer In its first analysis of how the GOP tax plan will affect Americans' personal income taxes, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC) this week underscored what most experts and working-class Americans already knew: That the Republican tax law will pour tens of thousands of extra dollars into pockets of the wealthy few while offering mere crumbs for the poor. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [] [] Views... [] [Trump Wants to Reframe the Census to Fit His Definition of America, Not Protect Americans](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) ["So while the decennial census should be a comprehensive social survey, it has no business questioning our citizenship." (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Michelle Chen The addition of a citizen question isn't a bureaucratic nuance, it's the soft edge of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is Trump The Worst President In American History?](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) ["When he criticized NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem, he wasn’t just demanding they demonstrate their patriotism. He was disrespecting their – and, indirectly, everyone’s – freedom of speech." (Photo: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)](1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Robert Reich Donald Trump is degrading the core institutions and values of our democracy. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump's War Cabinet and Coming American Despotism: Will We the People Rise Up?](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) ["Without reconciling its own shadow, this nation of law failed to fully shield the republic from the tyranny of the Old World." (Photo: Backbone Campaign/cc/flickr)](1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Nozomi Hayase Through freely associating with one another, united in love, we can walk the revolutionary way of peace, carrying the steps of our ancestors. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mohammed Bin Salman is Buying America's Silence With a Fake Veneer of Cultural Openness](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) ["We would do well to remember, amid the loud cheers and eager applause, that it was Saudi Arabia itself, with its draconian religious ideology, that created the very problems it is bending over backwards and forwards trying to deal with today." (Image: CBS News/60 Minutes)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Soumaya Ghannoushi Riyadh has delivered a small dose of cultural and economic openness in order to avoid demands for political liberalism. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why Focusing on People of Color Will Help the Movement for Gun Control Succeed](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [Protesters against gun violence at the March for Our Lives in Los Angeles. (Photo: Rising Up With Sonali / Vimeo)](1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Sonali Kolhatkar “Yes, the March for Our Lives Was About Black People, Too—and It’s About Time.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Few Thoughts on the March for Our Lives](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) ["We learned some hard lessons, not the least of which was that we’d been lied to our entire lives." (Photo: Sharon Finney/Getty Image)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) by Gary Olson If a critical mass of students begins seeing the connections among violence, racism, injustice, capitalism and Washington raining death on people abroad, the MSM will abruptly cease its fawning approval. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [] [] Newswire... [] [Federal Appeals Court Reaffirms Maui Clean Water Act Decision](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [Pruitt Arranged Sweetheart Condo Deal Directly with Fossil Fuel Lobbyist](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [] [More Newswire](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [] [] [Facebook](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [Twitter](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AufbkRHmRa) [] Share This Newsletter... 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