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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) [] [] News & Views | 5/4/18 [] Feature... [] ['Worst Mistake I Ever Made': Union Support Nosedives as Workers Express Regret for Trump Votes](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi by Jake Johnson, staff writer Many American union workers who voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election are increasingly beginning to regret their decision and realize that Trump has been firmly on the side of the rich all along. That's according to new survey data published by Reuters on Friday, which shows that... [] [] News... [] [Adjusting Its Criminal Complaint, Watchdog Groups Says Guiliani's Statements Only Further Incriminate Trump](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) 1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi by Julia Conley, staff writer Thanks to statements made by the newest member of President Donald Trump's legal team, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, this week, a government watchdog's legal complaint against the president was bolstered this week with new evidence that Trump violated campaign finance and ethics laws. --------------------------------------------------------------- [#BlockHaspel: As Clock Ticks, Groups Ratchet Up Pressure to Stop Torturer Gina Haspel From Heading CIA](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) ["Torture is wrong"](1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer As the White House steps up its defense of Gina Haspel with a 27-page talking points memo, advocacy groups are staging a last-ditch effort to block her nomination to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Last Year, Amazon Paid No Federal Income Taxes. Now, It's Trying to Kill a Local Tax That Aims to Help the Homeless](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) [Bezos](1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer After Amazon stocks soared last week—making founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, $12 billion richer—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tweeted that the company paid no federal income tax last year, which was confirmed by independent analysis on Thursday, and comes as Amazon is trying to kill a proposed tax that aims to end Seattle's homelessness crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch Live: Sanders Joins Philly DA Larry Krasner for Roundtable Discussion on America's 'Broken' Criminal Justice System](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) 1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi by Common Dreams staff Denouncing a criminal justice system that "incarcerates 2.2 million people and disproportionately incarcerates people of color," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, author and professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Civil Rights Corps litigation director Premal Dharia for a roundtable conversation on possible solutions to America's mass incarceration crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warning of 'Another Never-Ending War,' Sanders Demands Answers Over US Ground Troops in Saudi Arabia](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) [Bernie Sanders Yemen Saudi Arabia](1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) by Jake Johnson, staff writer As yet another news cycle was dominated by the latest chapter of the President Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels controversy on Thursday, the New York Times quietly published an alarming report detailing a secret U.S. Green Beret operation along Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen that was launched by the Trump White House late last year with no debate, discussion, or congressional authorization. --------------------------------------------------------------- [With Scathing Letter to Paul Ryan, House Chaplain Rescinds Resignation and Says He Was Fired for Fair Tax Prayer](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) 1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi by Julia Conley, staff writer A week after announcing his resignation from his role as chaplain of the House of Representatives, Rev. Patrick Conroy has reconsidered whether House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has the authority to force him out of his position—and decided against it, retracting his decision to leave his post in a letter to Ryan on Thursday. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) [] [] Views... [] [Impeach Scott Pruitt for Dismantling the EPA, Not His First-Class Flights](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) 1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi by Basav Sen This is the real Scott Pruitt scandal—the story of a man systematically dismantling the agency he leads to benefit the oil and gas industry --------------------------------------------------------------- [Steve King Wants to Force States to Hurt Animals—and People](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) [ "The Animal Welfare Act, doesn’t provide any legal protections for the more than 9 billion animals raised and killed for food in the U.S. each year." (Photo: file)](1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) by Elizabeth Enochs King’s amendment, if passed, wouldn’t just affect animal protection laws; it could also preempt countless laws meant to protect consumers. --------------------------------------------------------------- [We Filed a Complaint About Trump’s Ethics. Giuliani Made it Possible.](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) [Rudy Giuliani’s disclosure that President Trump repaid his attorney for the hush agreement with Stormy Daniels could still be a campaign finance violation. (Photo: Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) by Norman Eisen, Noah Bookbinder Lawyers are supposed to help their clients, not put them in jeopardy. --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Did Benghazi Become a Ruin? NYT Ignores US Role—in Multiple Media](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) ["This is not the first time US media, or the New York Times in particular, have erased US responsibility Libya’s travails." (Photo: Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) by Jim Naureckas Seven years ago, the United States and its allies used military force to overthrow Libya’s government and its been in almost continual civil war since. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Senators Have a New Plan to Expand Indefinite Detention and Endless Global War](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) 1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi by Christopher Anders Corker and Kaine are working overtime to try to jam through their AUMF— a dumpster fire of bad ideas --------------------------------------------------------------- [Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) ["The mass or indiscriminate use of antibiotics by industrial farms poses a severe danger to the public health, since it breeds antibiotic-resistant bacteria into the human food supply." (Photo: Human Society of the United States)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) by Glenn Greenwald “In my 20 years of investigating animal abuse, I’ve never seen conditions this horrifying at a corporate farm.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AckDls7RCi) [] [] Newswire... 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