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PBC News & Comment: DNC Dooms Party with Bernie Ban, SCOTUS OK’s Voter Caging

In surprise move at meeting to fix superdelegate problems, DNC adopts suicidal purity rule: presidential candidates must be registered Democrats…–corporate Clintonites double down on failed strategies, telling progressives to go fuck themselves

–Trump allies pursue lawsuit over campaign law violations by Hillary Victory Fund

–at WhoWhatWhy, Klaus Marre says Dems are “poised to fumble away” midterms

–listener John Zweibel, a frustrated progressive Democrat from Hawaii, offers a comment

–SCOTUS rules in favor of Voter Caging, upholding Ohio’s purge of inactive voters with special focus in Democratic strongholds

–Trump crapped all over the G7 Summit, and keeps attacking Canada’s Trudeau for doing his job

–at WashPost, Callum Borchers thinks that Trump bullied Trudeau to impress Kim Jong-un

–all eyes on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, as US plays carrots and sticks right down to the start of the meeting

–GOP war on Obamacare moves to the courts, because Americans would rather die than use “socialized medicine”

NY Times deplores Trump’s allergies to science

–but in eye-opening in-depth interview, Jonathan Latham uses the “Poison Papers” to argue that EPA and predecessors have always bowed to industry

–in surprising editorial, LA Times bluntly opposes Anti-Semitism Awareness Act

–Bay Area high school valedictorian has mike cut when she addressed campus sex assault

–NY judge halts deportation of the pizza delivery guy, for now

–former PBC producer Joshua Emerson Smith covered protest at San Diego border yesterday

–Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $20 million to CUNY J-school

–progressive talk radio returns to San Francisco