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    09 October 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News WE NEED “SOME” MONEY TO RUN IT — HELP! — We have to have some money to run this process. We have a large dedicated readership, but the donations — only — come in when the situation turns absolutely dire. We should not be struggling like this for basic funding. Respectfully. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Racism Was Baked in from the Beginning of Reefer Madness AUTHORONE Pierce writes: "Not far from this very keyboard there is a marijuana store. It is the size of a Target, all white and glass, and from the street, it looks like a place where you’d go to buy modern kitchen appliances or high-end electronics." READ MORE   Contribute to RSN Follow us on  facebook  and  twitter ! Update My Monthly Donation PO Box 2043 / Citrus Heights, CA 95611

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke. Michael Moore Oct 7     (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) On November 8th, the Republican Party will face a reckoning. This won’t happen through magical thinking, or hoping it into existence. It’ll happen because the nearly 200 million of us who make up the majority of this country did our part.  Yesterday, President Biden did his:  With the stroke of his pen, Joseph R. Biden officially pardoned the thousands of Americans who were convicted on federal charges of simple marijuana possession since it became a crime in the 1970s. But he didn’t stop there… He also encouraged all governors to follow his lead and do the same with people convicted on state charges for simple possession of marijuana.   He asked the Attorney General and Health and Human Services Secretary to review how marijuana is categorized legally — the first step to changing its categorization from a Schedule 1 drug. Currently...

    07 October 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News BIG PROBLEMS OVER TRIVIAL CASH — We are really struggling for the bare-bones budget that we need to function. The reason, the ratio of readers to donors is 1000 to 1. Many people are helping. Many, many more are not. Have to break through that barrier. Situation growing unnecessarily dire, again. In earnest. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   James Risen and Ken Klippenstein | The CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine. Why Did They Get It So Wrong? James Risen and Ken Klippenstein, The Intercept Excerpt: "High-tech surveillance may have blinded the U.S. to how corruption has weakened the Russian military." READ MORE Three Senior Islamic State Militants Killed in US Strikes in Syria Guardian UK Excerpt: "A rare US helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's north-east killed a senior Islamic State militant hiding out there and a separate US ...

  October 6, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Oct 7   The scandal involving Herschel Walker, the staunchly anti-abortion Georgia candidate for the Senate who appears to have paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, got worse today. After he claimed he did not know the woman who said he paid for an abortion, the woman said she was the mother of one of his other, newly acknowledged, children, so of course he knows her. Just five years ago, Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA), who belonged to the Republican Pro-Life Caucus, resigned just hours after the story broke that he pressured a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. Now, Republicans are rallying around Walker, with former NRA spokesperson and former  Breitbart  writer Dana Loesch saying: “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.” In the  Philadelphia Inquirer , columnist Will Bunch pointed out that Republican leaders have not condem...

  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY EYES EMOJI —  The only state legislative race where a representative is trying to knock out a senator has been flying under the radar — until now. State Sen. Becca Rausch (D-Needham) is accusing her rival, state Rep. Shawn Dooley (R-Norfolk),  of playing fast and loose with campaign finance and  ethics rules  to further his bid for her seat. She also says a  recent newspaper ad  of Dooley’s “masqueraded” as an editorial board endorsement “when no editorial board process is even available” and that it erroneously claimed she wants to “defund the police.” Dooley says Rausch and her supporters are distorting his views on abortion  — he  voted  against the 2020 ROE Act but  voted  to expand abortion access after  Roe ’s fall   — and employing “scare tactics” by trying to tie him to former President Donald Trump. Dooley  said he voted for Trump  when he unsuccessfu...