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First up today:\xa0 a quick round-up of results and problem reports following primary elections on Tuesday in Washington D.C. (where voters adopted a $15 minimum wage measure despite a misleading campaign funded by the restaurant industry) and in Arkansas (where runoffs were held, following voting and tabulation problems in its primary late last month). Then: Donald Trump buckled under growing political pressure and signed an executive order on Wednesday to allow parents and children to stay together after being arrested crossing the border, after falsely and repeatedly claiming he didn't have the legally authority to do so. Many questions and legal challenges lie ahead regarding the new policy, including what will now happen to the 2,300 children ripped from their parents over the past month after the Administration implemented its chaotic and ill-considered "zero tolerance" policy at the southern border.\xa0 We cover a number of stories related to all of that today, as well as some response to our coverage of the issue. That response includes a bit of a rant in regards to the necessity of putting some brakes on the disastrous Trump/GOP rule in D.C.\xa0 \u2013 like voting for Democrats this November (good one or bad ones).\xa0 Or, for those who prefer the chaos and cruelty of the Trump Administration (and there are many who do), the option to vote for Republicans or stay home entirely in support of that effort.\xa0 Brad has a bit of a rant today on the lazy argument from some progressives that "both sides are the same", even after all that we've seen in the Trump Era. He (and Desi) have a few words for those who forward arguments which support that notion, which serve only to help perpetuate the worst of the Trump/GOP's inhumane and destructive policies. Finally, as a reminder what can happen in a mostly normal, progressive country, Canada has ended 90 years of failed prohibition policy, by approving the sale and use of recreational marijuana across the entire country...