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THE LIGHTS ARE dim, set to eternal dusk. You enter and blink. If there are booths, they should be plush: Naugahyde or brocade limned in gold. Napkins are linen, tables likely cloaked. Maybe a Persian rug lies underfoot. Taxidermied animal heads peer from the walls. From your seat, you might see a living white-tailed deer…

China uses facial recognition technology to track Uyghur Muslims. The US military uses drones to kill suspected terrorists—any nearby civilians. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement—which has locked children in cages near the Mexican border—relies on software for communications and coordination, like all modern organizations. Someone had to write the code that makes all of that…

Play Video Donald Trump says Ukraine and China should investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. ‘Nobody has any doubt that they weren’t crooked,’ the president says in a press conference in front of the White House Trump admits he pushed Ukraine for dirt on Biden and calls on China to investigate – live Topics…

Welcome to Majority.FM’s AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop Reminder, this is the last week you’ll find the AM Quickie in your Majority Report feed. So go to AMQuickie.com and subscribe today! TODAY’S HEADLINES: Trump quotes a mega-church pastor on Fox News who warned of civil war if the President is impeached. Meanwhile, a new study warns that big banks are offloading risky mortgages onto taxpayers as the climate crisis threatens to put many of those homes literally underwater. And lastly, a federal judge blocks a Trump administration regulation would that keep migrant families to be detained for lengthy periods of time. And our QUICKER QUICKIES HEADLINES: A new poll released by CBS News shows a majority of Americans and a supermajority of Democrats surveyed support an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. The poll shows 55% of respondents approve of the impeachment inquiry, while 45% disapprove.  The New York Times reports that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has sharply scaled back his online advertising, cutting spending so severely since August that he is now investing only a fraction of what his top rivals are on Facebook and Google, the two dominant internet platforms. From Politico: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to expand use of a process that fast-tracks undocumented immigrants for deportation without the involvement of immigration courts. And the AP reports that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is denying a journalist’s claim that Johnson grabbed her thigh at a private lunch two decades ago.  Sunday Times columnist Charlotte Edwardes says the incident took place when she worked at The Spectator, a conservative newsmagazine, while Johnson was its editor.  Johnson also is under scrutiny for claims that an American businesswoman, Jennifer Arcuri, received money and perks from London coffers while Johnson was mayor of the British capital.

Enlarge this image A visitor to the at the National Rifle Association annual meeting walked past signage for the event in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Conroy/AP Updated at 4:04 p.m. ET The National Rifle Association acted as a “foreign asset” for Russia in the period leading up…

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The U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 25 north of Las Cruces. (Heath Haussamen/NMPolitics.net) COMMENTARY: We’re accustomed to occupation around here. The Spanish took this land by force in 1598 from the Native people who were here. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, the United States took the land, again by force. We’re…

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Donald Trump said he was ‘concerned about the rise of any group of hate’ and referred to white supremacists and anti-fascist activists. The US president was leaving to travel to Dayton and El Paso to meet with first responders, families and victims of the recent shootings when he…