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Trump Has Called for Pentagon to Make Beds Available for 20,000 Children at US Military Bases The Defense Department has also announced it will deploy military lawyers to the southern border to prosecute immigrants Read more |
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As 'Wealthiest and Freest Country in the World,' Nikki Haley Tells Bernie Sanders It's 'Ridiculous' to Examine US Poverty "As it happens, I personally believe that it is totally appropriate for the U.N. Special Rapporteur to focus on poverty in the United States," Sanders responded Read more |
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"Stop the War! Feed the Poor!": March by Poor People's Campaign Ends With Arrests in DC The protest on Capitol Hill comes ahead of a mass mobilization planned for Saturday Read more |
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"I'm So Happy Because I Have My Son": Intercept Documents Mother's Brave Fight to Reclaim Son From Trump's Cruel Policy "She was looking for help in the U.S. and never imagined that her claim of domestic violence would be laughed at and mocked by the Border Patrol agents who processed her, or that she and her son would be separated amid the sound of his panicked screams." Read more |
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Saying 'A Handful of Pardons' Won't Cut It, NFL Players Demand Sweeping Prison Reform "If President Trump thinks he can end these injustices if we deliver him a few names, he hasn't been listening to us." Read more |
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Bringing on Badly Needed 'Prophetic Voice,' New York Times Hires Michelle Alexander as Full-Time Columnist The author and criminal justice reform advocate is the "first woman of color and the first Bernie supporter hired as a columnist" by the paper's opinion section Read more |
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'Crisis of Trust': Poll Finds People Living in Democracies Think Governments Aren't Acting in Public Interest "Democracies cannot afford to be complacent if they are to survive and prosper." Read more |
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Barbara Lee Urges UN to Probe Trump's Human Rights Abuses at Border as Violation of International Law "I am appalled by the reports and images from detention facilities in Texas and other states along the border, where more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents by border patrol agents." Read more |
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Outrage as White Supremacist Organizer of Fatal Charlottesville Rally Plans DC Anniversary Event "They're terrorists. And they should be run out of D.C.," responded one critic Read more |
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'Abu Ghraib for Eighth-Graders': Allegations of Immigrant Children Being Tortured at Virginia Detention Facility "This is outright torture." Read more |
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'Shut This Place Down': Children Drugged and Given Forced Injections at Texas Detention Facility, Lawsuit Says "You don't have to be a rocket scientist here; it looks like they're trying to control agitation and aggressive behavior with antipsychotic drugs... That's like the old Soviet Union used to do." Read more |
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'To Make It Easier to Screw the Poor,' Trump Wants to Massively Reorganize Federal Government Provisions of this "closely guarded" plan reportedly include merging the Education and Labor Departments, and creating a welfare "megadepartment" Read more |
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'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Mass Demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport as Kids Ripped From Parents Arrive in New York "We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them." Read more |
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House Democrats Propose Bill to Counter Trump's 'Dangerous' Executive Order to Lock Up Families Indefinitely "The Keep Families Together Act does what this administration won't do, by including a variety of measures to prevent children from being separated from their parents." Read more |
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Trading 'One Form of Child Abuse for Another,' Trump Executive Order Called a Sham, Not a Fix "Instead of imprisoning children in separate internment camps away from their parents, this administration will now imprison children in the same internment camps as their parents." Read more |
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Affirming Belief That Waters Are for Drilling and Pillaging, Trump Erases Ocean Protection Policy New executive order revokes Obama-era policy put in place following Deepwater Horizon. Read more |
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Twitter Locks Accounts of Splinter News Staffers After Website Publishes White House Adviser Stephen Miller's Phone Number President Donald Trump's Twitter account did not meet the same fate as those of Splinters' writers after he shared two high-profile figures' private contact information Read more |
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In Poignant Homage to Lives Lost, Guardian Prints Names of All 34,361 Refugees Known to Have Died Fleeing War and Persecution Since 1990s "We are not just a number. Every migrant and refugee has a name and a story." Read more |
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Telecom-Backed Democrat in California Just "Mutilated" Nation's Strongest State Net Neutrality Bill "These California Democrats will go down in history as among the worst corporate shills that have ever held elected office. Californians should rise up and demand that at their Assembly members represent them." Read more |
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From Microsoft to General Dynamics, Corporations Under Pressure to End Business Dealings With ICE "As the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, we refuse to be complicit." Read more |
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On World Refugee Day, Trump Gets Big Fat "F" for Treatment of World's Displaced and Persecuted Among other failures, assessment from Refugees International notes administration's "inhumane separation of children from parents who are seeking asylum" Read more |
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After Weeks of Lies and Cruel Family Separations, Trump Says He Will Sign Order to Save Children From Horror He Created "Trump can sign all the executive orders he wants. It won't change the fact that his administration chose to rip infants out of their parents arms in an effort to terrorize people seeking safety and refuge." Read more |
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Internet Pioneers Warn New EU Rules Would Turn Web Into "Tool for Automated Surveillance and Control" As key legislative panel approves measure, experts say copyright directive poses an "imminent threat" to online users and the network itself Read more |
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Paving Way for 'Transformative Social Policy', Canada Approves Recreational Marijuana Legalization Ninety years of prohibition will come to a close as Canada rolls out a regulated marketplace for cannabis in the coming weeks Read more |
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"These Are Prisons for Babies": Forcibly Separated From Parents, Youngest Kids Sent to So-Called "Tender Age" Detention Those who have visited the facilites describe "play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis." Read more |
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'Womp, Womp': Lewandowski Epitomizes Trump Team's Cruelty After Told of Down Syndrome Child Separated From Her Mother A distillation of "Trumpian cruelty," said one. Among "the most inhumane moments I've ever seen," said another. Read more |
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'If Kids Don't Eat in Peace, You Don't Eat in Peace!' Democratic Socialists Drive DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Out of Mexican Restaurant "We will not stand by and let Secretary Nielsen dine in peace, while she is directing her employees to tear little girls away from their mothers and crying boys away from their fathers at our border." Read more |
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'Outraged, But Frankly Not Surprised': In Defense of Serial Violator Israel, US Ditches UN Human Rights Council Move decried as latest "example of how unconditional support for Israel means you can't support human rights standards anywhere for anyone. Israel threatens entire international system for defending human rights, such as it is." Read more |
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The White House Didn't Want You To Hear Stephen Miller's Voice Defend Family Separation (And the NYT Said OK) "Miller is orchestrating a systematic, criminal, human rights abusing, child abuse operation. Let the public hear his sick rationalization to understand how utterly evil this is." Read more |
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'Outrageous and Unprecedented': Ethical Violation Alarm Bells Over Zinke Foundation Deal With Halliburton Head "This is all a perfect encapsulation of how Ryan Zinke has operated at Interior—being deceitful about intent, and always seeing how he can personally benefit," said one critic Read more |
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'Morally Bankrupt': After Tax Cuts for Richest, House GOP Unveils $5.4 Trillion Attack on Nation's Safety Net The Republican budget's "extreme cuts to healthcare, retirement security, anti-poverty programs, education, infrastructure, and other critical investments are real and will inflict serious harm on American families." Read more |
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Trump Finally Admits He's Responsible: "You Have to Take the Children Away" The president also attacked the press for publishing images from his own government showing children in cages and threatened to cut off funding for Central American nations Read more |
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Sessions' Separation of Families Results in Charges of Child Abuse and Immorality From His Own Church "We have an ethical obligation to speak boldly when one of our members is engaged in causing significant harm in matters contrary to the Discipline on the global stage." Read more |
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The Koch Brothers Are Bankrolling Local Efforts to Kill American Public Transit "At the end of the day, fuel consumption helps them." Read more |
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Take This Empire and Shove It: Openly Hostile to Capitalism, Outspoken U.S. Army Lieutenant Resigns "I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement." Read more |
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Did Trump's Pick for Consumer Agency Help 'Lock Immigrant Children Up in Cages'? Senators Demand Answers Kathy Kraninger, the president's pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, "helps oversee the agencies that are ripping kids from their parents," Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown observed Read more |
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Calling for Global Carbon Tax, James Hansen Says We're Failing 'Miserably' at Tackling Climate Crisis "Emissions aren't going to go down if the cost of fossil fuels isn't honest." Read more |
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Mass Mobilization Planned for June 30 to Protest Trump's Cruel Separation of Families "Every day, the administration is choosing to separate children from their families...They're not only bragging about it, they're using it to advance their political agenda." Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren Says Let's Be Clear: Trump Is Holding "Thousands of Kids Hostage to Try and Get Congress to Pay for His Stupid Wall" "This is his policy," says senator, "and he can stop it." Read more |
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Millions Lack Food, Housing, and Healthcare, But 38 Democrats Just Joined GOP to Spend $716 Billion on Endless War and Empire Had the Pentagon's budget simply remained the same as it was in 2017, Congress "could have funded public college for every student in the U.S. and had $12 billion left over," noted media analyst Adam Johnson Read more |
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Protesting 'Morally Repugnant' Trump Policies, Poor People's Campaign Demands Action on Housing, Health, and Climate "We are being sold an immoral narrative that there isn’t enough. There's not enough to house the homeless—but there's enough to build luxury condos everywhere. We are here to right these wrongs." Read more |
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Poverty Rampant, Puerto Rico Destroyed, Single Payer "Too Expensive," and Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water. But You Can Have Space Force! Trump channels Jim Crow era in announcing more militarized space Read more |
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New Video and Audio Captures 'Horrifying' Reality of Children Taken From Parents as GOP Pressed to 'Find Their Conscience' "Republicans in Congress have the power to put a stop to Trump's cruel family separation policy today. Strongly worded statements and tweets are insufficient." Read more |
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Cruel Separation of Families 'Rooted in the Racism' of Bannon, Miller, and Trump's Xenophobic Base As thousands of children are separated from their parents and detained, "proud racist" and senior adviser Stephen Miller is "setting immigration policy and using children as poker chips" Read more |
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'Toxic for Democracy': Voting Rights Advocates Vow to Fight After Supreme Court Punts on Gerrymandering Supreme Court sends Wisconsin and Maryland cases back to lower courts while eyes remain on North Carolina case Read more |
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Israel's Solution to Global Condemnation of War Crimes? Punish Anyone Who Documents Them "We reiterate our call to Israel's Parliament to oppose the bill, which would constitute a serious breach of press freedom," said the International Federation of Journalists Read more |
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Study Shows 300,000 US Homes at Risk, $1 Trillion Price Tag as Rising Seas Trigger Chronic Flooding Damage to homes in coastal areas could set off a domino effect—eroding property values, weakening tax bases, and affecting schools and infrastructure Read more |
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'Heinous Lie': Trump DHS Secretary Denies Existence of Family Separation Policy "This is a policy made solely by this administration, and you can stop it right now. And every second you don't you are directly responsible for unimaginable amounts of misery. Period." Read more |
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Mark Father's Day With Vigil at Facility for Migrant Children Torn From Parents We need #JusticeOnFathersDay because #FamiliesBelongTogether. Read more |
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Outrage After White House Vows New CFPB Nominee Will Continue Mulvaney's Efforts to Gut Agency Critics say the Senate should "immediately move to hold confirmation hearings and vote to reject this wholly unqualified candidate." Read more |
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Coalition Ignores Famine Warnings and Continues Assault on Yemen as Critics Question US Complicity While senators demand answers from the Pentagon, anti-war advocates are calling the attack on Hodeida a failure by the U.S. to stop it and demanding an end to American military support for the coalition Read more |
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Praise for Progressive 'Torchbearer' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Takedown of 'Career Politician' Joe Crowley "The contrast between them couldn't be more stark and Crowley seems scared. She's fierce." Read more |
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On Prison's 6,000th Day, Groups Demand Trump "Choose Justice Over Inhumanity" and #CloseGitmo "It is outrageous that the U.S. government continues to perpetuate the myth of an 'endless war,' as a supposed justification for holding prisoners indefinitely" Read more |
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Facebook Execs and GOP Leaders Meet to Discuss 'Provably False' and 'Ridiculous' Myth of Anti-Rightwing Bias "Facebook has not learned lessons from 2016 and is too interested in mollifying the right wing." Read more |
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Progressives Denounce Democratic Senators for Trying to Keep Trump on a 'Permanent War Footing' in Korea After the president revealed he wants to eventually bring home troops stationed in South Korea, Democrats introduced a bill that aims to prevent him from doing so Read more |
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"Appalling. Inhumane. It Needs to Stop." Trump Policy Has Ripped 2,000 Kids—47 Per Day—From Parents in Just Six Weeks The president continues to lie about his responsibility for the so-called "zero tolerance" policy Read more |
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Forget His Fancy Lotion and Chick-Fil-A, Pruitt's Gutting of EPA Rule Threatens Drinking Water of 117 Million Americans "Don't let Scott Pruitt's ethics scandals distract you, because they're not distracting him from executing his agenda of dismantling even the most basic public health protections." Read more |
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Former Bank of Canada Head: Pipeline Protesters May Be Killed. So Be It. "North American governments have shown the 'fortitude' necessary to kill indigenous people often enough that this is no idle threat," warns Bill McKibben. Read more |
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'This Isn't Middle School': Judge Sends Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort to Jail Over Witness Tampering Facing a possible life sentence on numerous charges, development raises questions about future cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller Read more |
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As ATT-Time Warner Close Deal, Floodgates 'Wide Open' for Corporate Mega-Mergers "America is getting crushed by big, unresponsive, powerful corporate monopolies, the modern version of the trusts of the gilded age." Read more |
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'Historic First': Nebraska Farmers Return Land to Ponca Tribe in Effort to Block Keystone XL "We want to protect this land," said the tribe's state chairman. "We don't want to see a pipeline go through." Read more |
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WATCH: Trump Once More Goes Batty on Live TV With His Friends at Fox and Friends One observer characterized the president's performance as "one of his most deranged ever." Read more |
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'Mind-Blowing': Military Contractors Making Tens of Millions Helping Trump Tear Families Apart "I'm guessing that in MVM's mission statement, one of the central components isn't the care of refugee children." Read more |
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'Monstrous': GOP Using 'Functionally Kidnapped' Immigrant Children as Hostages to Advance Anti-Immigrant Agenda By pushing for border wall funding and legal immigration cuts alongside limits to Trump's family separation policy, GOP is showing it is not really against separating immigrant children from their parents Read more |
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As World Commemorates 70th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Looks Like Trump About to Ditch UN Human Rights Council According to activists and diplomats in Geneva, withdrawal appears to be "imminent" Read more |
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'National Disgrace': Poverty Wages Make Affordable Housing a Myth for Low-Income Americans "In the richest country in history, no family should have to make the awful choice between putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their heads." Read more |
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How Can World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Give Back? Staffers at the Washington Post Think Decent Wages and Benefits Would Be Good Start "All we are asking for is fairness for each and every employee who contributed to this company's success: fair wages; fair benefits for retirement, family leave and healthcare; and a fair amount of job security." Read more |
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Huckabee Sanders Defends Ripping Children From Parents, Because It's "Very Biblical to Enforce the Law" "That is actually repeated a number of times throughout the Bible," said the White House press secretary Read more |
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World's Millionaires and Billionaires Now Control Half the World's Personal Wealth, New Analysis Shows "The rich are getting a lot richer and doing so a lot faster." Read more |
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For 'Persistently Illegal Conduct,' New York AG's Lawsuit Demands Trump Foundation Be Shuttered "Mr. Trump's wrongful use of the foundation to benefit his campaign was willful and knowing." Read more |
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Can US Government 'Secretly Plot to Assassinate' Americans Without Due Process? Judge Says No, Allowing Case Against 'Kill List' to Proceed "For too long, the U.S. Government has sentenced people to death in secret, including American citizens, denying them their constitutionally-guaranteed right to walk through the courthouse doors and defend themselves." Read more |
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'Madness': In Effort to Revoke Citizenship, Team Trump Combing Through Decades-Old Fingerprints of Immigrants News of the program comes as federal officials are terrorizing communities with "military-style raids" and separating children from their parents at the border Read more |
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Children's Detention Center Tour Reveals Trump Mural That Would Look 'In Place In a Banana Republic' "I have been inside a federal prison and county jails. This place is called a shelter but these kids are incarcerated." Read more |
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Amid Scathing Accusations of War Crimes, UN Votes 120-8 to Condemn 'Indiscriminate' Israeli Violence Against Palestinians "We cannot remain silent in the face of the most violent crimes and human rights violations being systematically perpetrated against our people," said the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Read more |
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'Utterly Terrifying': Study Affirms Feedback Loop Fears as Surging Antarctica Ice Loss Tripled in Last Five Years "The most robust study of the ice mass balance of Antarctica to date," scientists say, "now puts Antarctica in the frame as one of the largest contributors to sea-level rise." Read more |
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'We Must Do More Than Resist': Bold, Progressive Agenda Championed at #WeThePeople Summit "We're not just pulling the party to the left. We're pulling the party into the future." Read more |
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Reading About Nation's Racist History Has Made This Republican Realize Ditching Voter ID Laws 'Simply the Right Thing to Do' Former state Supreme Court justice Bob Orr has had a change of heart thanks to Ron Chernow's biography Grant Read more |
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'What Do You Call a Country That Institutionalizes Child Abuse?': Democrats Hold Sit-In Demanding End to Trump Family Separation Policy "Every hour that goes by is another hour of trauma for these moms, dads, little boys, girls, and babies." Read more |
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'Shallow at Best and Ridiculous at Worst': Analysis Eviscerates FCC Chair's Arguments for Killing Net Neutrality Researchers say Ajit Pai's claim that the rules hindered broadband deployment is total "bogus." Read more |
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Sounding Alarm Over Possible #GOPTaxScam 2.0, 130 Groups Warn Lawmakers Against 'Another Massive Tax Cut' for Wealthy New letter warns of conservatives seeing "an excuse for still deeper cuts" to social safety net Read more |
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Calling Gun Violence a Public Health Epidemic, Nation's Doctors Call for Assault Weapons Ban "Did we mute our opposition to smoking, because Big Tobacco defended it? No, we let the science lead us...The AMA must not back down from addressing gun violence." Read more |
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Warren, Sanders Rip FEMA for Failing to Provide Accurate Count of Hurricane Deaths in Puerto Rico "We are extremely concerned by the ongoing inability to obtain an updated, accurate death toll from Hurricane Maria, and the Trump administration's failure to provide any assistance or demand accountability in that process." Read more |
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'Despicable': Outrage Over Trump's Plans for So-Called 'Tent Cities' to Imprison Child Migrants "U.S. authorities should focus on keeping families together, ensuring due process in asylum adjudications, and protecting the rights of children." Read more |
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'This Is What Winning Looks Like': DNC Bans Donations From Fossil Fuel Companies Resolution cites climate crisis's "existential threat to civilization" and fossil fuel industry's chokehold on democracy Read more |
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After Bragging About Vanquished North Korean Threat, Trump Declares Nation's "Biggest Enemy" Is Journalism He Doesn't Like "We've become inured to this, but what would we say about another country where their leader was calling journalists their 'biggest enemy'?" Read more |
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Sanders Spearheads Call to Defeat Economic System That 'Deliberately' Creates 'Massive' Poverty in US The lawmakers emphasize "our sacred responsibility to provide a safety net for those in need." Read more |
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In 'Historic Victory', Maine Voters Demand Ranked-Choice Voting in Statewide Elections...Again Reaffirming support for the system, Mainers are "leading the way in pro-democracy reforms, non-partisan reforms that level the playing field, that open the political process to more voices and more choice." Read more |
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As Internet Captured by #MPRraccoon, Big Telecoms and FCC Salivate Over Pending Death of #NetNeutrality "Omg guys the #mprraccoon just grabbed onto a ---- *Twitter is not yet included in your Internet Service package. Please pay $9.99 to upgrade and read the remainder of this tweet.*" Read more |
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'Shameless Capitulation to Amazon': Seattle Lawmakers Repeal Tax Aimed at Tackling Homelessness "There's a bargaining power problem here, and cities are on the wrong side of it," said one tax policy expert Read more |
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'Dark Moment of Shame': With Explicit US Backing, Saudi Attack on Yemen's Humanitarian Lifeline Begins "Suffering for Yemen on an even grander scale with blessing of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump. Congress must step in and demand an end to this complicity." Read more |
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Creating 'Massive Media-Telecom Behemoth,' Judge Approves ATT-Time Warner Merger "The decision to approve the AT&T/Time Warner merger further entrenches AT&T as a media gatekeeper that harms the public interest and opens the door for more media consolidation in the future." Read more |
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Amid Warnings Saudi Attack Will Plunge Yemen Into Famine, Urgent Demand for US to End 'Complicity in This Atrocity' "For years we have watched American politicians proclaim their concern over the immense human suffering caused by the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, and now is the chance to turn that concern into action." Read more |
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'Peace Is Bad for Business': War Profiteer Stocks Plummet After Diplomatic Progress With North Korea Last year, investors were drooling over the prospect of all-out war with North Korea, but Tuesday's summit has them worried Read more |
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Putting Solar Panels in Pipeline's Path, Campaign to Combine Power of Sun 'With Power of the People' Indigenous-led campaign that aims to block Keystone XL pipeline with solar arrays "models the massive overhaul our energy system needs to stop the worst of climate change." Read more |
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Poor People's Campaign Leaders Among Dozens Arrested Nationwide as Moral Movement Persists Ahead of Capitol Hill forum, Rev. William Barber and Rev. Liz Theohalis reportedly still in police custody Read more |
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Speaking From Experience, Iran Warns North Korea Trump Could Scrap Agreement Before He Even Gets Home "We are not optimistic about these talks," an Iranian government spokesman said following the Trump-Kim summit Read more |
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Trump's Diplomatic Strategy for Summit With Kim Jong Un Included 'Batshit Crazy' Fake Movie Trailer "Seriously, have you ever seen something this f'ing strange, let alone something produced by the White House?!" Read more |
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News Organizations Challenge Facebook Over 'Dangerous' Effort to Categorize Political Journalism as Propaganda "We cannot and will not engage in any process that conflates legitimate newsgathering with politics or advocacy." Read more |
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"Humble Public Servants"? While "Unpaid" by White House, Trump Advisers Jared and Ivanka Hauled in at Least $82 Million Last Year "For comparison, members of the U.S. House and senior House staff can’t earn more than $28,000 in outside income in 2018." Read more |
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FULL STATEMENT: Joint Agreement Signed by Trump and Kim at Singapore Summit "The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula." Read more |