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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [] News & Views | 5/28/19 [] Feature... [] ['Enormous Victory for Transgender Students' as SCOTUS Declines to Hear Challenge to Inclusive Bathroom Policy](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [protest](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer LGBTQ individuals and rights groups celebrated Tuesday as the U.S. Supreme Court left in place a lower court ruling in favor of a Pennsylvania school district's policy to allow trans students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. [] [] News... [] ['Let's Expand Employee Ownership': Bernie Sanders Backs Plan to Give Workers Power Over Corporate Decisions](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We can move to an economy where workers feel that they're not just a cog in the machine—one where they have power over their jobs and can make decisions." --------------------------------------------------------------- [With Viral Tweet, Activist Urges Defeat of Massive Grand Canyon Development That Threatens Local Tribe's Water](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos by Julia Conley, staff writer Grassroots campaigners are calling on anyone who opposes a huge new development just a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park to make their objections known to local officials, as the government of a nearby town prepares to vote on the building of a new housing, retail, and entertainment complex. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Upholding Indiana's Fetal Remains Law, Supreme Court Sends 'Direct Signal' That Roe May Be In Jeopardy](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos by Julia Conley, staff writer Pro-choice groups called a U.S. Supreme Court decision on a restrictive abortion law a "mixed ruling" on Tuesday—expressing relief that the court did not rule on whether women should be permitted abortion care in certain situations but decrying the ruling's overall message about women's right to choose abortion. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['The Road to Tyranny Is Paved With Corrupt Intentions': Transportation Secretary Chao Still Profiting From Asphalt-Construction Giant](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao came under fire from ethics experts and reporters after The Wall Street Journal revealed Tuesday that she still owns shares in a major construction company that provides materials for road-paving despite pledging to divest from the company in the ethics agreement she signed before her confirmation in early 2017. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['It Is Not a Forum for Coup-Mongering,' Venezuelan Official Says After US Walks Out of Arms Control Conference](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We regret that the representative of the United States and its docile allies continue to bring to this forum matters that are outside the mandate." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Blatant Attempt to Politicize the Science': Trump Reportedly Moving to End Long-Term Studies of Climate Crisis](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos by Jake Johnson, staff writer "The Trump gang is attacking the scientific process itself in an attempt to prop up fossil fuel industries, delay inevitable action, and run the carbon bubble as long as it will last." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [] [] Views... [] [The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos by Chris Hedges The shaping of the public into antagonistic tribes works commercially. It works politically. But it is a recipe for social disintegration. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Indictment of Assange Is a Blueprint for Making Journalists Into Felons](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [Protesters demonstrate in support of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange outside Southwark Crown Court where he was today sentenced on May 1, 2019 in London, England. Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange, 47, was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions when he took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, charges he denies. The UK will now decide whether to extradite him to US to face conspiracy charges after his whistle-blow](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) by Glenn Greenwald The First Amendment is meaningless if it only protects people the government recognizes as journalists. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump's Upcoming Yankee Doodle Disaster](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [President Donald Trump lifts the "President’s Cup" to present it to Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament winner Asanoyama at Ryogoku Kokugikan Stadium on Sunday. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) by Michael WInship I was there the last time a president and his pals tried to use the Fourth of July for partisan purposes. --------------------------------------------------------------- [My Pentagon Regret](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [Many Americans have come to disapprove of those forever wars, but what have we citizens actually done about them? (Photo: Quora/Wikimedia)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) by James Carroll As the U.S. rattles its sabers at Tehran, echoes of Sabers past --------------------------------------------------------------- [An Anti-Trust Reboot Could Give Democrats Traction in Rural America](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [Farmworkers—according to some estimates numbering approximately three million—are forced to work for next to nothing as the landowners that employ them receive prices that are well below the cost of production. (Photo: Michael Davidson/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) by Anthony Pahnke, Jim Goodman For decades Democrats and Republicans have let corporate concentration and power grow, while the incomes of farmers and farmworkers shrink --------------------------------------------------------------- [We Must Defend Assange to Save Free Press from American Despotism](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [Through the silencing of Assange, the heart of democracy suffocates. (Photo: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) by Nozomi Hayase Assange sacrificed his personal liberty so that we could all be free --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3A2OEq2ceos) [] [] Newswire... 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