News & Views | As Trump Misses Family Reunification Deadline, Children Protest 'Horrific' Immigration Policy

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [] [] News & Views | 7/26/18 [] Feature... [] [As Trump Administration Misses Family Reunification Deadline, Children Protest 'Horrific' Immigration Policy](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) 1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG by Julia Conley, staff writer Lawmakers and immigrant rights advocates called for a mass mobilization on Thursday as the Trump administration reached its court-ordered deadline for reuniting all of the families it has forcibly separated—with no sign that it would reunify as many as 914 parents with their children by 6:00pm. [] [] News... [] [Trump Organization CFO, Mentioned in Michael Cohen's Recording of Trump, Subpoenaed by Federal Grand Jury](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG by Julia Conley, staff writer A federal grand jury subpoenaed President Donald Trump's longtime chief financial officer on Thursday, two days after the release of a 2016 recording in which Trump was apparently heard discussing a payment to a model who claims to have had an affair with him. --------------------------------------------------------------- [In 'Victory for Women,' Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Pence's Indiana Law Requiring Ultrasounds Before Abortions](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [mike](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Reproductive rights groups celebrated "a victory for women" after a federal appeals court upheld a ban on a provision in an Indiana law—signed by former governor and current Vice President Mike Pence—that forced any woman considering an abortion to undergo an ultrasound 18 hours before the procedure. --------------------------------------------------------------- [139 House Democrats Join GOP to Approve $717 Billion in Military Spending](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG by Jake Johnson, staff writer With the help of 139 Democrats, the House of Representatives on Thursday easily rammed through the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which—if it passes the Senate—will hand President Donald Trump $717 billion in military spending. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report Finds Flint Water Crisis May Have Killed 119—Nearly 10 Times Official Death Toll](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [Flint sign](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Less than a week after a federal watchdog blasted all levels of government for their failures to prevent and quickly respond to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, an ongoing investigation by PBS's "FRONTLINE" found that the death toll may be much higher than the official number reported by the state. --------------------------------------------------------------- [In 'Panicked and Dangerous' Effort to Undermine Mueller's Probe, Republicans Move to Impeach Rod Rosenstein](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG by Jake Johnson, staff writer In what progressive advocacy groups and House Democrats immediately decried as a "shameless political ploy" aimed at shielding President Donald Trump from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing Russia probe, Reps. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and nine other congressional Republicans late Wednesday filed articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Producers of Ocasio-Cortez's Viral Video Make Ad for Progressive Hawaiian Kaniela Ing That Will Send 'Hopeful Chill Down Your Spine'](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [Kaniela Ing ](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer The Detroit-based democratic socialist filmmakers behind New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's viral campaign ad have produced a new video for Hawaii state representative Kaniela Ing, a progressive who is running to represent the state's 1st Congressional District. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [] [] Views... [] [A World Designed by Playground Bullies](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) ["Back to every political and bureaucratic cruelty “our team” commits in defiance of the likely wishes of a true democratic majority."(Photo: Cleo Leng/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Robert C. Koehler The money just isn’t there for most social programs, but it’s there for war, surveillance and incarceration --------------------------------------------------------------- [GOP and Corporate Dems Gain When Democrats Run Against Putin](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) ["It would be easy for news watchers to see that the Democratic Party is much more committed to a hard line against Russia than a hard line against the corporate forces imposing extreme economic inequality here at home." (Screenshot: NBC News)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Norman Solomon Amplifying the anti-Russia din helps to drown out the left’s core messages for economic fairness, equal rights, environmental protection, diplomacy and so much more --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chomsky, Prashad, Hedges and Other Leading Intellectuals: Denuclearize the Middle East](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) ["In spite of its unmatched military capabilities in the Middle East, its strong cultural institutions, its technological capacities, and its high standards of living with respect to the other states in the region, Israel has negotiated peace agreements only with Egypt and Jordan."(Photo: Erich Ferdinand/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad American political decision makers, as well as Israeli political leaders, need to rethink their political, military, economic, and cultural policies in the region --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump Has Found a Way to Make Enemies of Breastfeeding Mothers](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [“Unfortunately, people are always taking an issue that relates to women and children and turning it into politics." (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Vijay Prashad Trump bends over backward to help profit-hungry infant formula industry --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) ["People of color are already disproportionately harmed by police practices, and it’s easy to see how Rekognition could exacerbate that." (Photo: ACLU) ](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Jacob Snow The false matches were disproportionately of people of color --------------------------------------------------------------- [Power Grows Closer to Home as Big Government Fails Us](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [On many major issues, from civil rights to voting, the environment to business, who benefits from local policy varies from state to state. And it depends on who makes up your community, who votes in local elections, and who gets the power. (Photo: Frederick Bass/Getty Images) ](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) by Chris Winters It will be up to the states, the cities, the communities, and the people to rebuild a unified state --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [] [] Newswire... [] [US Coalition Efforts to Ensure Accountability for Civilian Deaths are a Welcome First Step, But More Clarity Necessary](1f9d0/ct30_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [Day After Massive #RedForFeds Protests, AFGE Launches Videos Touting America’s Workforce](1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3AjqdMI94RG) [Today’s D.C. 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