News & Views | Net Neutrality's Crucial Midnight Deadline

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] [] Please help. We're close, but there's too much at stake for us to fall short. We still must raise over $9,000 by midnight tonight so we can keep publishing. While Common Dreams has served the progressive community for 21 years, we cannot survive if don't meet our goal. If you have been waiting for the right time, please know that the time is now. [Please Support Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] $36.7K [] [Common Dreams Fundraising Goal] [] $50K [] [Donate](1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] [] News & Views | 8/31/18 [] Feature... [] [With Midnight Deadline, California Senate Under Pressure to Pass Landmark Net Neutrality Bill](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN by Jake Johnson, staff writer With just hours to go before the end of California's 2018 legislative session, open internet advocates ramped up pressure on the state's senators to ignore the aggressive lobbying of the telecom industry and pass SB 822, which has been described as the strongest net neutrality bill in the country. [] [] News... [] [With Nearly 500 Children Still in Custody, Rep. Barbara Lee Slams Trump Over 'Government-Sanctioned Child Abuse'](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Activists rally and call on the Trump administration to meet the court ordered deadline to return immigrant children to their families after being separated at the southern border, outside Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, July 25, 2018 in New York City](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer With more than a month having passed since the federal court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to reunite separated families, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) denounced as "government-sanctioned child abuse" the fact that there are still nearly 500 children in government custody. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Just Hours After Ordering Pay Cut for Millions of Public Workers, Trump Proposes $100 Billion Gift to Richest 1%](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) 1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN by Jake Johnson, staff writer Hours after he launched yet another "direct attack" on workers by canceling a modest pay raise for around two million federal employees, President Donald Trump told Bloomberg on Thursday that he is considering a regressive and possibly illegal plan to use his executive power to hand the rich another $100 billion in tax cuts by indexing capital gains to inflation. --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Trudeau Goes All In for Climate-Killing Pipeline, Canadians Issue Final Calls to Ditch Trans Mountain Purchase](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) 1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN by Julia Conley, staff writer Climate action groups on Friday denounced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's expression of determination to forge ahead with expanding the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline, which officially passed into the hands of the Canadian government from the energy giant Kinder Morgan this week. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. We can’t fall short -- our survival depends on it. Make sure Common Dreams keeps bringing you the news that matters -- please pitch in now.](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [I Believe in Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] [] ['I Can't Kill These People': In Off-the-Record Comments, Trump Reportedly Bragged About Not Compromising With Canada in NAFTA Talks](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) 1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN by Jake Johnson, staff writer Further disrupting already contentious NAFTA negotiations with Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly bragged in off-the-record remarks to Bloomberg—but "obtained" and published by the Toronto Star on Friday—that he is not compromising with Canada at all, but can't admit this publicly because "it's going to be so insulting they're not going to be able to make a deal." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump's Executive Order on Retirement Accounts Panned as 'Cruel Joke on American Workers'](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Tip jar that says "401k plan!"](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer President Donald Trump is expected to mark the approaching Labor Day weekend by signing an executive order on retirement account rules that one advocacy group says appears to be "nothing more than a cruel joke on American workers" that will further enrich deep-pocketed donors and Wall Street. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ocasio-Cortez Calls Attacks on Her Intellect 'Lazy' While Others Note Widespread 'Brain Drain' That Dominates Washington](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN by Julia Conley, staff writer Rising above recent attacks on her intellect and preparedness to serve her congressional district in the U.S. House, Democratic candidate for New York's 14th district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared unfazed by the criticism she has faced, in a tweeted statement on Friday. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] [] Views... [] [Writing a New Chapter, Not an Obituary, for the Planet](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Now is our chance to defend — not lose — the Earth.(Photo: Christopher Michel/Flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by Lidy Nacpil, May Boeve, Patti Lynn A recent New York Times Magazine article suggests action to address climate change is futile --------------------------------------------------------------- [First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Indigenous leaders, coast protectors, and others demonstrate against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, on March 10, 2018. (Photo: Jason Redmond/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by Shannan Stoll Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Cuomo-Nixon Debate Was a Preview of Democrat-DSA Battles to Come](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon shake hands at Hofstra University in Hempstead on Wednesday, Aug. 29th, 2018 ahead of their the Democratic gubernatorial primary debate. (J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday/AP) ](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by Matt Taibbi Democrat Sith Lord Gov. Andrew Cuomo slimed his way past the corporate money issue and attacked Cynthia Nixon’s celebrity --------------------------------------------------------------- [Catholic Support for War: Another Child Abuse Scandal](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [“Over and over again in history the Church has become so corrupt it just cries out to heaven for vengeance.”(Photo: Elvis Kennedy/Flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by Brian Terrell The Church cannot condemn child abuse by pedophiles and yet bless the government's murder of children in its wars, if it wants to be consistent and faithful to Christ --------------------------------------------------------------- [It’s the Corruption, Stupid](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Corruption infests Trump's cabinet. (Photo: AP/Evan Vucci)](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by Bob Burnett Donald Trump has only enabled "the swamp." --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Good and the (Potentially Very) Bad in Trump’s NAFTA Renegotiation](1f9d0/ct30_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [We shouldn’t be too optimistic about the NAFTA renegotiation actually helping workers. (Getty Images) ](1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) by David Dayen All in all, it’s a good heuristic to judge trade deals by how mad business lobbyists are about them, and judging from the Business Roundtable’s grumblings, the renegotiation has the potential to be decent --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct32_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] [] Newswire... [] [Common Cause Urges Senate to Withhold Consent on Lifetime Appointments to Supreme Court Until a Complete Record of All That’s at Stake is Public](1f9d0/ct33_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Trump’s Forthcoming Retirement Savings Executive Order: A Cruel Joke on Workers](1f9d0/ct34_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Expected August 31 NAFTA Notice: A Final Deal Must Be Judged on Whether It Will Stop NAFTA’s Serious Ongoing Damage](1f9d0/ct35_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order Halting Grizzly Hunt](1f9d0/ct36_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Government Watchdogs Call on the New York Attorney General to Dissolve Trump’s Company and Revoke Its Corporate Charter](1f9d0/ct37_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] [More Newswire](1f9d0/ct38_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] [] [Facebook](1f9d0/ct39_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [Twitter](1f9d0/ct40_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] Share This Newsletter... [] [Support Independent Media](1f9d0/ct41_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) [] Keep Independent Media Strong --------------------------------------------------------------- [Support Common Dreams with a tax-deductible donation](1f9d0/ct42_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) If you prefer to donate by phone, call 207.775.0488 or by check, print [this form](1f9d0/ct43_0/1?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN) Common Dreams, PO Box 443, Portland, ME 04112, USA | 207.775.0488 Common Dreams is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your contribution is tax deductible. EIN: 20-3368194 [Manage subscription preferences](1f9d0/q-003a/zout?sid=TV2%3AUugriiDHN)