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[] [New Video and Audio Captures 'Horrifying' Reality of Children Taken From Parents as GOP Pressed to 'Find Their Conscience'](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Jake Johnson, staff writer As newly published images, videos, and audio provided brief and "horrifying" glimpses inside America's child detention facilities in the midst of President Donald Trump's massive attack on immigrant families, all 49 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus on Monday united behind a bill that would... [] [] News... [] [Protesting 'Morally Repugnant' Trump Policies, Poor People's Campaign Demands Action on Housing, Health, and Climate](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Julia Conley, staff writer The Trump administration and its open hostility toward Americans living in poverty were the target of the Poor People's Campaign's weekly actions that began Monday, with economic justice advocates marching to government agencies headed by President Donald Trump's cabinet. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poverty Rampant, Puerto Rico Destroyed, Single Payer "Too Expensive," and Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water. But You Can Have Space Force!](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) [U.S. President Donald Trump looks up toward the Solar Eclipse on the Truman Balcony at the White House on August 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer President Donald Trump announced Monday that he's directing the Pentagon to create a new branch of the military—Space Force. The announcement, which invoked racism, was met with a chorus of criticism on social media. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cruel Separation of Families 'Rooted in the Racism' of Bannon, Miller, and Trump's Xenophobic Base](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Julia Conley, staff writer Trump critics argued on Monday that the debate over President Donald Trump's policy of prosecuting asylum seekers and separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border should be centered on the driving force behind the practice—the racism of top Trump officials and those who continue to support him. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Your financial support is critical to our survival. 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Punish Anyone Who Documents Them](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct9_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Jake Johnson, staff writer The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved legislation that would sentence anyone who attempts to film the actions of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in the occupied West Bank to as much as five years in prison. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study Shows 300,000 US Homes at Risk, $1 Trillion Price Tag as Rising Seas Trigger Chronic Flooding](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Julia Conley, staff writer Driven by the climate crisis, flooding could a common occurrence for the owners of more than 300,000 American homes in the coming decades, according to a new study—and could have a domino effect on surrounding communities, schools, and infrastructure as flooding damage causes tax revenues to plummet. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Heinous Lie': Trump DHS Secretary Denies Existence of Family Separation Policy](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Jake Johnson, staff writer In a "heinous lie" aimed at distorting the historical record and avoiding responsibility for the mass cruelty perpetuated on her watch, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen falsely claimed in a series of tweets late Sunday that the Trump administration does "not have a policy of separating families at the border." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) [] [] Views... [] [One Hundred Years Ago, Eugene Debs Gave An Anti-War Speech That Landed Him in Prison](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) [Eugene Victor Debs, American Union leader, addressing a crowd, 20th century. Debs ran for President of the United States on behalf of the Social Democratic Party in 1900, and the Socialist Party of America in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. Artist Unknown. (Photo: Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) by Peter Dreier "But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [Florida Trial Lawyer Offers $100,000 Reward for Evidence That Corporations Are Behind Frivolous Lawsuits Against Corporations](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Russell Mokhiber "We know that big corporate interests have successfully attacked the credibility of our civil justice system by highlighting frivolous lawsuits. They do it so they can eliminate truly righteous lawsuits." --------------------------------------------------------------- [We Get It — Trump Is Awful](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) ["Giving a narcissist like Trump that kind of coverage is like feeding a malignancy."(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) by John Atcheson Now what? --------------------------------------------------------------- [What Does Poverty Feel Like?](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) ["Dreams were seen as a waste of the mental energy needed to seek out and acquire the basics: food, rent, clothing, whatever was essential to get through a day, a week, or at most a month." (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct16_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) by Beverly Gologorsky The poor in America. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Toxic Effects of Stress on Children Separated From Parents](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) ["The Department of Homeland Security recently confirmed that from April through May of this year, nearly 2,000 children were separated from their families by the U.S. Border Patrol." (Photo:Getty) ](1f9d0/ct17_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) by Deborah Gross, Ellen Olshansky This kind of trauma overwhelms the body. It causes feelings of terror and helplessness. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fetishizing "Identity Politics" Could Cost Democrats in 2020](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) 1f9d0/ct18_1/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL by Briahna Gray It’s inevitable that every election between now and 2020 will be read like tea leaves, full of potential insights into how to unseat Trump. But that analysis must be rooted in evidence — what policies candidates actually support and how they frame them — rather than forcing pre-existing ideological... --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AuyuAytQVL) [] [] Newswire... 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