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35 House Democrats Join Reps. Bush and Pressley in Calling on Biden to End Federal Executions for Good Warning that future administrations could follow in Trump's footsteps, the lawmakers urge Biden to commute the death sentences of all federal inmates to "ensure that there would be no one left on death row to kill." Read more |
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'Mask Up, America': Biden Signs Pandemic Mandates for Traveling and Federal Properties "The experts say that by wearing a mask from now until April, we'd save more than 50,000 lives," the president asserted. Read more |
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Rights Advocates Alarmed by US Spy Agency's Purchase of Warrantless Phone Location Data "Congress must end this lawless practice and require the government to get a warrant for our location data, regardless of its source." Read more |
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48 Years After Landmark Ruling, Advocates Push to #ReimagineRoe and Build Abortion Justice " Roe is the floor. We want an end to Hyde. We want people to access abortion care, when they need it, without discrimination, stigma, or harm." Read more |
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Biden Orders on Food Aid Heralded as 'Most Significant Anti-Hunger Actions in Modern Times' The expected executive action comes as "families are struggling with food insecurity like never before." Read more |
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'Hell, Even David Brooks Agrees' Democrats Should 'Absolutely Kill the Filibuster' "Can't believe David Brooks and I finally agree on a thing," said one progressive organizer. Read more |
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'One More Check Is Not Enough': Ilhan Omar Calls on Biden to Back Recurring Direct Payments "We need to provide those struggling and left behind with consistent reliable cash payments during this Covid-19 crisis." Read more |
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As Economic Suffering Grips Regular Americans, Wall Street Behemoths Ready Feast of Stock Buybacks "We're going to be aggressively buying back, and consistently," said Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman. Read more |
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Despite Absence of Nuke-Armed States, World Celebrates Arrival of Global Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons "Today we reach a major milestone on the road to a more peaceful and secure world, free from the ultimate menace of nuclear war." Read more |
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Majority of US Voters Across Political Spectrum Back Landmark Pro-Democracy Reform Bill: Poll One prominent campaign finance expert called the For the People Act "an incredibly important piece of comprehensive democracy reform." Read more |
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'Deeply Alarming': AstraZeneca Charging South Africa More Than Double What Europeans Pay for Covid-19 Vaccine "This is the problem when you have essential medicines in the hands of big business, with almost no transparency as to pricing." Read more |
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'If This Is a Trial Balloon... Hopefully It Fails': Biden Warned Against Naming Corporate-Tied Michael Barr as Top Bank Cop "It's hard to imagine a worse pick than Michael Barr to be the nation's top bank regulator. Barr is deeply invested in the Wall Street and Silicon Valley corporations he would regulate, which should disqualify him." Read more |
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Schumer Urged to Deny Committee Seats to Hawley, Cruz, and Other Republicans Who 'Incited Deadly Insurrection' Republicans who attempted to overturn the 2020 election, said MoveOn, "have no place in the U.S. Senate and most certainly should not be rewarded for their deadly attacks on democracy." Read more |
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'Basically Trying to Overturn the Senate Election': McConnell Delaying Democratic Takeover in Effort to Preserve Filibuster "McConnell is already abusing the filibuster to block the constitution of the new majority. Nuking the filibuster is the appropriate response." Read more |
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'A Good First Step': Senators File Ethics Complaint Over Cruz and Hawley's Role in Capitol Insurrection The move by a group of Democrats comes as demands are building for the two Republicans to be ousted from the Senate over the deadly attack. Read more |
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Progressives Applaud Biden Pick of Rosenworcel to Lead FCC Out of Carnage Left by Ajit Pai "She knows the FCC from the bottom up and she understands how to make good things happen there," said one former Commissioner. Read more |
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135 Civil Rights Groups Oppose New Domestic Terrorism Statutes, Say Tackle Far-Right Violence With Existing Laws "Members of Congress should not reinforce counterterrorism policies, programs, and frameworks that are rooted in bias, discrimination, and denial or diminution of fundamental rights like due process." Read more |
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"Let's Turn This 'Temporary Halt' to Permanent Ban": Biden Praised for Pause on Drilling Leases "The federal oil and gas program is nothing but an injustice," said Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians. Read more |
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Lawmakers, Journalists Back New Yorker Magazine Work Stoppage to Protest 'Egregious' Wage Proposal "This isn't about not being grateful," said a former contributor. "It's really just about paying rent." Read more |
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'A Big Deal': Lawmakers Reintroduce Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United "We cannot allow the wealthiest individuals and corporations to flood our elections with cash through complex webs of super PACs and dark money groups that put special interests above the will of the American people." Read more |
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To Restore Trust After Years of Trump 'Corruption and Self-Dealing,' Biden Team Urged to Release Full Financial Disclosures "Directing his nominees and appointees to disclose detailed records of consulting work for businesses and foreign governments is the first step in helping restore faith in government." Read more |
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'A Hugely Consequential First Move': Biden Offers to Extend Nuclear START Treaty With Russia "After four years of efforts to kill arms control and chase the false security of nuclear dominance, the U.S. is coming back to its senses," said one peace activist. "Unless you're a defense contractor, this is good news for everyone." Read more |
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In Must-See Clip, Democrats Told to End Era in Which 'Only the Bad Guys Understand They're in a Fight' "Democrats are in a fight; they just often don't act like they know it," says analyst Anand Giridharadas. "That has to change if this country is to be saved and Biden is to have a shot." Read more |
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'A Good Way to Unite the Country,' Says Watchdog, 'Would Be to Convict and Prosecute Donald Trump' "He's no longer president," said another group, "but accountability isn't over." Read more |
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Advocates Hail Biden Executive Order on LGBTQ Rights as the Most Far-Reaching in US History Human Rights Campaign applauded the directive as "a turning point in our fight for equality under the law." Read more |
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'Affirmation of Complete Incompetence': Biden Team Says Trump Vaccine Distribution Plan Nonexistent "There is nothing for us to rework," said one of President Biden's Covid advisers. "We are going to have to build everything from scratch." Read more |
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Reality 'Starting to Sink In,' Says McKibben, After European Investment Bank Chief Admits 'Gas Is Over' "There's nothing clean about gas—it's not a 'transition fuel' or a 'bridge fuel,' it's a dirty fossil fuel just like coal and oil," said Greenpeace EU. "It's time to stop bankrolling the #ClimateEmergency and stop public money back gas projects." Read more |
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'Clean House of Every Last Trumpist': Biden Urged to Keep Firing Spree Going by Sacking Social Security Holdovers "The only thing that is acceptable at the Social Security Administration is a new commissioner and a new deputy commissioner who believe in the system, the movement won't accept anything less." Read more |
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'Now Let's Cancel Them,' Demands AOC as Biden Extends Pause on Student Loan Payments "Biden can cancel all $1.7 trillion of student debt by executive order," said The Debt Collective. Read more |
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As Romney Says Covid Relief Bill 'Not Well-Timed,' Progressives Urge Biden to Abandon GOP Outreach, Move Swiftly on Bold Package "A Republican minority shouldn't be allowed to hold the nation's economic recovery and public health hostage." Read more |
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Joy, Relief, and Healing as Biden Ends Trump's Racist Muslim Ban in Day One Executive Order "This is a momentous occasion for the millions of Americans who were separated by the ban and those who stood up against this injustice at airports nationwide." Read more |
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Under Pressure From Workers, Biden Fires 'Extreme, Anti-Union' Labor Board Lawyer "Today is a good day," declared the SEIU, which had called on the president to immediately oust NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb. Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders Lead Call for Solidarity With #HuntsPointStrike "Essential workers should not have to go on strike for decent pay, and no worker should be threatened for exercising their constitutional rights." Read more |
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'The Last Administration Able to Act in Time': Youth Climate Leaders Say Global Future Depends on Boldness of Biden "Our eyes are on you," the group of campaigners said. "The time for lies is over." Read more |
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'Pure Sadism': Biden Blasted for Continuing Trump's Recognition of Guaidó Coup Regime and Deadly Sanctions in Venezuela "How about a new Good Neighbor Policy on non-interference?" asked CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin. Read more |
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Joining COVAX 'Not Enough': Biden Told to Compel Big Pharma to Share Vaccine Recipe With the World "If the United States leads the way to expand production, we can overcome scarcity, rationing, and preventable death, suffering, and misery." Read more |
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Progressive International Calls on Biden to End Illegal US Sanctions Responsible for 'Untold Death and Devastation' "Biden must take urgent action to restore the right of all countries to have sovereign relations with the world, untrammeled by U.S. interference through their sanctions policy." Read more |
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'The People Are Demanding Action': Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders Lays Out Visionary First 100 Days for Biden "We cannot allow Mitch McConnell and the Republican leadership to sabotage legislation that would improve the lives of millions of working Americans and is wildly popular." Read more |
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Press Freedom and Human Rights Advocates Lament Trump's Denial of Pardons for Assange and Snowden "Trump gave us one final reminder that he is an enemy of press freedom. Now Biden must decide if he wants to continue Trump's legacy." Read more |
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After 'Incredible First Steps' on KXL and Paris, Biden Urged to 'Go Further' on Climate "The Biden White House needs to chart a much more aggressive course for dealing with our climate emergency." Read more |
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Warning Against Further 'Erosion' of Civil Liberties, Tlaib Leads Charge Against New Domestic Terrorism Laws "While many may find comfort in increased national security powers in the wake of this attack, we must emphasize that we have been here before and we have seen where that road leads." Read more |
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'He's Gone': Celebrations as 'Worst and Most Dangerous President in American History' Departs White House "Goodbye and good riddance Donald Trump. See you at your trial," said Sen. Ed Markey. Read more |
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"This Is Democracy's Day": Joe Biden Sworn In as 46th President of the United States Biden and Kamala Harris took the oaths of office on steps of the U.S. Capitol amid a catastrophic public health crisis and economic meltdown made worse by Trump's incompetence and malfeasance. Read more |
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Democrats Urged to Reject 'Desperate' McConnell Effort to Preserve Filibuster and Kneecap Biden's Agenda Progressives denounced McConnell's call to uphold the legislative filibuster as a "blatant attempt to undermine the Democratic majority before it has even been seated." Read more |
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'A Fitting End': Hours Before Leaving Office, Trump Quietly Revokes Order Restricting Lobbying by Former Federal Officials "Great summary of Trump's many farcical 'drain the swamp' betrayals." Read more |
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'Even Nixon Didn't Pardon His Cronies on the Way Out': Trump Grants Clemency to Bannon on Final Day of Presidency "Amazingly, in his final 24 hours in office, Donald Trump found one more way to fail to live up to the ethical standard of Richard Nixon." Read more |
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'Good Riddance You Fascist White Supremacist': Trump Farewell Gets Cold Shoulder "Today is the last full day of the worst and most dangerous president in American history," said Sen. Bernie Sanders... Read more |
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After Inciting Deadly Capitol Terror Attack, Hawley Delays Confirmation of Biden Homeland Security Chief "Josh Hawley liked what he saw on January 6th," said Rep. Mondaire Jones. "He'd like to see more." Read more |
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'Subsidizing the Spread of Covid': Report Shows Corporate Landlords Received Public Funding Yet Still Kicked Out Tenants "Giving 'Covid relief' to those most likely to evict is like giving money to stop climate change to oil barons—it makes the problem worse." Read more |
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57% of US Voters Want Trump Barred From Seeking Office Ever Again: Poll "After what he has done, the consequences of which we were all witness to, Donald Trump should not be eligible to run for office ever again," said incoming Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Read more |
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'Right on Schedule': Hours Before Biden Inauguration, GOP Backers of Tax Cuts for the Rich Resume Cynical Deficit-Mongering "With a Democrat about to become president, Republicans are now pretending to care about deficits and debts again. Let's not pretend to believe them this time." Read more |
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As Guatemalan Forces Beat Back Migrant Caravan, Biden Urged to Reverse Trump Policies of 'Cruelty and Coercion' "The answer is not to continue doing more of the same but to envision a new direction that respects the political and economic self-determination and dignity of our Central American neighbors." Read more |
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'Major Win for the Planet': Federal Court Strikes Down Trump Coal Power Plant Rule "This decision frees up the new Biden administration to begin working immediately on the science-based greenhouse pollution rules we desperately need to make up for lost time." Read more |
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Senate Democrats Prove 'Democracy Reform Is a Top Priority' by Putting 'For the People Act' First "From a violent insurrection at the Capitol to the countless attempts to silence the vote of millions of Americans, attacks on our democracy have come in many forms," said incoming Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Read more |
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Ahistorical 1776 Report Issued by Trump Denounced as 'Racist Garbage' and 'Most On-Brand Thing Possible' "Releasing the 1776 Commission report on MLK Day is the Trump administration reaffirming its commitment to racism above all else." Read more |
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'A Terrible Idea': Biden Warned Against Picking Big Tech Lawyers to Lead DOJ Antitrust Division "Bringing in anybody from Big Tech to a leadership role in antitrust is a political, policy, and managerial disaster." Read more |
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'Smartest Thing We Can Do Is Act Big': Yellen Bolsters Demand for Biden to Enact Bold FDR-Style Agenda "Instead of feel-good talk of unification," said journalist John Nichols, "FDR called out the Wall Street speculators, the bankers, and their conservative apologists." Read more |
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From Reconciliation to a 'Nuclear Strike on the Filibuster': Progressive Memo Details Steps Biden Can Take to Defeat GOP Obstruction "Biden was elected with a mandate to break gridlock and deliver results. He should use it." Read more |
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As Senate Reconvenes, Why Isn't Chamber Immediately Moving to Convict Trump for 'Inciting Deadly Attack on Our Country'? "If the Senate trial was a right-wing judicial confirmation, Trump would have been convicted already." Read more |
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Poor People's Campaign MLK Day Message to Biden: Act on Bold Agenda to Heal Nation "In 1967, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King called out the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism. In 2021, his words are no less relevant." Read more |
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Progressives Push Back as Trump, Pentagon, and ICE 'Hijack' MLK's Message "Dr. King was an anti-war, anti-capitalist justice seeker who rejected poverty, racism, militarism, and the death penalty," Rep. Ayanna Pressley reminded those who would co-opt the slain human rights leader's words. Read more |
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UN Experts Urge US to Respond to Capitol Attack With 'Renewed Commitment to Peaceful Pluralism,' Strengthened Democracy "We maintain our hope that the U.S. democracy will emerge strengthened from this crisis without damage to its institutions." Read more |
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'No One Can Censor Reality': Human Rights Group Pushes Back After Israel Retaliates Against 'Apartheid' Label "Israel cannot be considered a democracy, for it works to advance and perpetuate the supremacy of one group of people, Jews, over another, Palestinians." Read more |
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'A Fearless Champion for Consumers': Warren Applauds Biden Pick of Rohit Chopra to Head CFPB "Financial predators, watch out." Read more |
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Warning World Is on 'Brink of a Catastrophic Moral Failure,' WHO Chief Denounces Vaccine-Hoarding by Rich Nations "The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries." Read more |
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Fearing Possible 'Insider Attack,' Feds Vetting 25,000 National Guard Troops Ahead of Biden Inauguration "The very people assigned to protect the city over the next several days could present a threat to the incoming president." Read more |
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Indigenous-Led Movement Credited With 'Huge Victory' as Biden Plans to Rescind Keystone XL Permit on Day One "Our communities have been fighting KXL for over a decade, tooth and nail, in the dirt and in the courts." Read more |
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Lindsey Graham Excoriated for Equating Trump Accountability With Divisive 'Vengeance' "How do you lecture about 'unity' and 'healing' after seeking to end American democracy?" asked one Democratic member of Congress in response. Read more |
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From Paul Ryan to Nikki Haley: GOP Nightmare of Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders About to Come True "When Republicans controlled the Senate they used the reconciliation process to provide huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations," said Sanders on Saturday. "We're going to use reconciliation to protect working families, the sick and the poor." Read more |
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'A Jim Crow Relic That Must Be Abolished': Demand to End Filibuster Grows "Do Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy?" said one progressive organizer. "I don't see a way they can do both." Read more |
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'Talk About a Super Spreader': Analysis Finds Online Election Misinformation Fell by 73% After Trump Barred After Trump's lies disappeared from Twitter and Facebook, the dissemination of falsehoods and the conversations based on them fell dramatically. Read more |
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'His Conduct Was Seditious': House Democrats From Texas Demand Ted Cruz Be Expelled From Senate "In his effort to appease Donald Trump and his supporters, Senator Cruz encouraged these terrorists to wage armed insurrection against America." Read more |
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Sotomayor Says 13 People Executed During Trump Killing Spree 'Deserved More From This Court' "This is not justice," said the liberal Justice after the state murder of Dustin John Higgs as she excoriated the court's conservative majority for essentially rubber-stamping the administration's rushed death penalties. Read more |
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As Democrats Confirm They Did Not Host Pre-Insurrection Capitol Tours, Which GOP Members Can Say the Same? "I can say with 100% confidence I didn't give any Capitol tours to anyone last week," said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on Friday. "Any Republicans out there who want to join us in answering this question?" Read more |
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Biden Urged to Ramp Up Vaccination Effort as CDC Warns New, More Contagious Coronavirus Variant Could Soon Become Dominant in US "We've got to accelerate vaccine rollout STAT," stressed one physician on Biden's Covid-19 task force. Read more |
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After Biden Unveils Covid-19 Relief Plan, Tlaib Doubles Down on Demand for $2,000 Monthly Payments "Stop compromising the working class, and our most vulnerable neighbors," said the Michigan congresswoman. Read more |
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'Thoughts and Prayers to the NRA': Reviled Gun Lobby Group Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy "The world will be a better place when the NRA is finally destroyed. Looks like that day is closer." Read more |
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Sunrise Movement to Rally in NYC, Chicago, Calling on Senate Dems to Tackle Pandemic and Unemployment Crises The youth-led climate action group called on Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin to use their new majority "to deliver on the needs of the people who backed their victory." Read more |
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Omar and Ocasio-Cortez Tell Josh Hawley to 'Resign'—And Poll Shows Majority of Missouri Voters Agree "While you may politically regret what you've revealed about yourself, you still have no place in public office," Ocasio-Cortez said of Hawley. Read more |
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US Fast Food Workers Strike, Demanding Congress #RaiseTheWage to $15 an Hour and Union Rights "As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office," said one McDonald's worker, "we're urging the nation's leaders to pass a $15 minimum wage in the first 100 days of the new administration." Read more |
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Promised Vaccine Stockpile Doesn't Even Exist? Governors Demand Trump 'Answer Immediately for This Deception' States "thought they were getting more doses and they planned for more doses and opened up to 65 and up, thinking they were getting more." Read more |
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Trump Accused of Trying to 'Inflict as Much Harm as Possible' With Billions in Global Health Funding Cuts During Pandemic "These rescissions are filled with damaging and irrational cuts to programs critical in the fight against Covid-19." Read more |
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In Face of Trump Failures, Health Experts Welcome Biden's Choice to Take Over Covid-19 Vaccine Effort "The nation and the world need someone of Dr. Kessler's caliber to deal with the remaining, colossal challenges with coronavirus vaccines," said Public Citizen president Robert Weissman. Read more |
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Amid Trump Killing Spree, Family of Martin Luther King Jr Joins Chorus Demanding: 'Abolish the Death Penalty' Corey Johnson—who was Black, Covid-19 positive, and had an intellectual disability—was executed Thursday. Dustin Higgs, also Black and infected with the virus, is now set to be the 13th person put to death since Trump resumed federal killings. Read more |
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With US on Edge and Trump Still in Power, State Capitals on Guard Against Far-Right 'Shock Troops' "The Capitol siege has provided far-right extremists with significant momentum," warned one expert. Read more |
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Heightening Risk of Accidental Nuclear War, Russia Follows Trump's Lead and Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty Moscow is reportedly willing to reverse its decision to pull out if the U.S. rejoins the pact credited with helping to prevent nuclear war. Read more |
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'Dangerous and Delusional': Biden Warned Against Compromising With Insurrectionist GOP on Covid Relief "We have the majority, and we have a mandate. We need to bring immediate, comprehensive relief to people without compromising with the same party that just encouraged and excused an insurrection." Read more |
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54% of Americans Want Trump to Face Criminal Charges for Inciting Deadly Mob Attack on US Capitol: Poll The new survey also found that 56% of Americans want the Senate to remove Trump and bar him from holding office again in the future. Read more |
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'$2,000 Means $2,000': Ocasio-Cortez Says $1,400 Payments in Biden Plan Fall Short of Promised Relief "$2,000 does not mean $1,400." Read more |
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Biden's $1.9 Trillion Relief Plan: $400 Unemployment Boost, $1,400 Checks, and Billions in Additional Aid "Congress should immediately move to pass President-elect Biden's plan," said Claire Guzdar of the Groundwork Collaborative. "And we can't stop there." Read more |
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'Damning' New IG Report, Says ACLU, Shows Just How Far Trump Team 'Was Willing to Go to Destroy' Immigrant Families "Just when you think the Trump administration can't sink any lower, it does." Read more |
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Trump Rule Aimed at Forcing Banks to Fund Gun Makers and Big Oil Called 'Parting Gift' to Corporate Cronies "We call on the Biden administration to pursue all available courses of action to ensure that this rule never takes effect." Read more |
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Because 'Time for Urgent, Bold Change Is Now,' 200+ Groups Tell Biden to End Failed War on Drugs "We are urging the administration to abandon criminalization as a means to address substance use, and instead ensure universal access to equitable evidence-based solutions rooted in racial and economic justice and compassion." Read more |
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Arrests in Minnesota After Water Protectors Chain Themselves Inside Pipe Section to Halt Line 3 Construction "Enbridge's last-ditch effort to build fossil fuel infrastructure is killing people and the planet." Read more |
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New Analysis Shows US Police 3 Times More Likely to Use Violence Against Leftist Protesters Than Far-Right The report's findings came as a surprise to virtually no one. Read more |
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Conservationists File Lawsuits to Stop 'Death Sentence to Wolves' Ordered by Trump "This delisting decision is what happens when bad science drives bad policy." Read more |
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'No Reason for This—Other Than Greed,' Says Sanders as GAO Shows Medicare Pays Twice as Much as VA for Same Drugs "We can no longer allow the pharmaceutical industry to rip-off the more than 40 million people who receive prescription drug coverage through Medicare Part D and fleece U.S. taxpayers." Read more |
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Over 75 Indigenous Women Urge Biden to Stop Climate-Wrecking Pipelines and Respect Treaty Rights "Joe Biden, we are asking you to stand on the right side of history and humanity by putting an immediate end to the deadly pipelines destroying our Earth, our communities, and all life." Read more |
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Bond Modification Sought After Alleged Kenosha Killer Kyle Rittenhouse Drinks Beer, Flashes White Power Signs With So-Called 'Proud Boys' "The defendant's continued association with members of a group that prides itself on violence, and the use of their symbols, raises the significant possibility of future harm." Read more |
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'Famine Not Seen in 40 Years': UN Warns Pompeo Decision in Yemen Could Lead to Hundreds of Thousands—If Not Millions—Dead "It literally is going to be a death sentence," said the World Food Programme chief about the U.S. Secretary of State's decision to label the Houthis a terrorist organization. Read more |