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Dozens Arrested as Over 1,000 Jewish Activists and Allies Shut Down Entrances to ICE Headquarters Demanding Closure of Trump Detention Camps "It's not just symbolic—we're actually shutting down ICE," said one organizer Read more |
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As Asylum Ban Takes Effect, Rights Groups Sue Trump Over Effort to 'Inflict Maximal Cruelty on Vulnerable People' "This is the Trump administration's most extreme run at an asylum ban yet. It clearly violates domestic and international law, and cannot stand." Read more |
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Resolution Condemning Trump's Racist Attacks 'Not Enough,' Say Progressives: 'We Must Impeach' House Democrats, said CREDO Action, must "use all the power they have to try to remove a racist from the White House" Read more |
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Appeals Court Delivers 'Tremendous Blow to Federal Workers' With Decision to Uphold Trump's Anti-Union Executive Orders "There must be a check on the president's power to destroy federal employees' union rights." Read more |
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Disney Heiress Who Went Undercover to Disneyland 'Livid' at Conditions and Pay "Every single one of these people I talked to were saying, 'I don't know how I can maintain this face of joy and warmth when I have to go home and forage for food in other people's garbage.'" Read more |
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Kellyanne Conway Questions Reporter's Ethnicity While Defending President's Latest Racist Remarks "So McCarthyism, now against people whose ancestors aren't from Europe." Read more |
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Amid Amazon Prime Day Protests, Sanders and Omar Lead Call for Probe of 'Brutal and Hazardous Working Conditions' "The reports of dangerous, dehumanizing conditions—where 125,000 Americans are working for the wealthiest man in the history of the world—are sickening." Read more |
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All Democratic 2020 Frontrunners But Biden Denounce DOJ for Failing to Hold Officer Accountable In Eric Garner's Death Sen. Kamala Harris called the decision "a miscarriage of justice" while Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote that the Garner family "has suffered too much" Read more |
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'Good,' Says Elizabeth Warren, After Billionaire Right-Winger Peter Thiel Says She's 2020 Democrat He Is 'Most Scared By' "Good." Sen. Elizabeth Warren had just one word to say on Tuesday after billionaire right-winger Peter Thiel said she was the "dangerous one" among all the current 2020 presidential candidates. Thiel, the uber wealthy co-founder of Paypal and a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, told... Read more |
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'Our Fight for Justice Is Far From Over': Bernie Sanders Thanks Cardi B for Backing 2020 Campaign "This man been fighting for equal rights, HUMAN rights for such a long time." Read more |
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Not One Republican Votes to Allow Debate on Resolution Condemning Trump's Racist Attacks "House Democrats must stand together and listen to these new leaders in the party who are fighting for their communities by standing up to Trump's hate." Read more |
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NYPD Must #FirePantaleo Now, Eric Garner's Family Says After DOJ Announces It Will Not Prosecute Officer Accused of Using Chokehold "The Justice Department's decision not to prosecute Daniel Pantaleo sends a dangerous message to law enforcement that they can kill with impunity." Read more |
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'Devastating, Illegal, and Unethical': Trump Denounced for Imposing Sweeping Attack on Abortion Rights Nationwide Warning of "severe" consequences for reproductive healthcare, critics condemn the Title X gag rule as "blatantly coercive and a violation of medical ethics and patients' rights." Read more |
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'A Hotter Future That's Hard to Imagine': Super-Charged by Climate Crisis, New Study Warns of 'Killer Heat' Set to Overtake US "If we wish to spare people in the United States and around the world the mortal dangers of extreme and relentless heat, there is little time to do so and little room for half measures." Read more |
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'Time for Puerto Rico to Wake Up and Rise Up': Thousands Take to Streets Demanding Embattled Governor Resign "He does not deserve the job he has, and the people have spoken." Read more |
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If Trump Wants to 'Talk About Our Missiles,' Says Iranian Foreign Minister, US Must Stop Pouring Theirs Into Middle East "If you want to discuss ballistic missiles, then we need to discuss the amount of weapons sold to our region." Read more |
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'The Difference Is Thousands of Lives': Sanders Releases Chart Contrasting Biden's Incremental Healthcare Plan With Medicare for All "Biden's plan would preserve a broken system," said Sen. Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign Read more |
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'Impeach This President': Target of Racist Attacks, Rep. Ilhan Omar Vows to Hold Trump Accountable for His Crimes Among progressive lawmakers urging the American people not to play into Trump's hateful hands, Omar says Congress should be focused on "doing the work that will get us the country we all deserve, one that is truly functioning for all of us, one that sees and values every single person in it." Read more |
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WATCH: Omar, Pressley, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez Hold Press Conference on Racist 'Vile Garbage' Spewed by Trump "It is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution," said Rep. Ilhan Omar. "It is time for us to impeach this president." Read more |
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Describing 'Future We Want to Live In' Scores of Groups Unveil New Blueprint for Reproductive Rights "The last two years," says new agenda, "have seen increasingly hostile attacks on reproductive autonomy and rights" Read more |
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AOC Slams Lindsey Graham for Comments Akin to '1950s McCarthyism' as Battle Between Progressive Dems and White House Continues "This man has lost his damn mind and revealed his soul," said one commentator of Graham Read more |
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'Human Life More Important Than Corporate Profits': Sanders Joins Community to Stop Financial Vultures From Liquidating Hospital "We should not be talking about shutting down a major hospital and converting that property into hotels or condos." Read more |
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Trump Denounced for 'Incitement to Violence' Against Ilhan Omar After Latest Racist Attack on Congresswoman House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls on representatives to formally condemn Trump's comments Read more |
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As Trump Sows Discord, Chief of Staff Mulvaney Reportedly Focused on 'Building Empire for the Right Wing' "Cabinet members are pressed weekly on what regulations they can strip from the books and have been told their performance will be judged on how many they remove." Read more |
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Decrying Low Wages, Poor Working Conditions, and Support for ICE, Labor Advocates Call for Prime Day Boycott as Amazon Workers Walk Out "While Amazon fuels bargain-hunting on Prime Day with hefty discounts, employees are being deprived of a living wage." Read more |
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Amid China Trade Tensions, Pentagon Eyes Toxic Rare Earths Development in US Processing of rare earths has unleashed environmental catastrophe in China Read more |
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'Racist' and 'Patently Unlawful': Trump Unveils New Rule to Block Asylum-Seekers at Southern Border "We'll be challenging it in the courts and in the streets." Read more |
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'Not Acceptable': Analysis Estimates Biden Healthcare Plan Would Kill 125,000 People in First Decade Alone As Biden vows to "do everything in my power" to defend system based on for-profit insurance industry, People's Policy Project shows death toll would be equivalent "of 42 September 11-style attacks" Read more |
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'Act Now. Our Lives Are in Your Hands': Demanding Climate Action, Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down Traffic in Five UK Cities "We've all read the science, we know the story, the whole phase of denial is over, and if it takes civil disobedience to make a difference, then so be it." Read more |
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#RacistPresident Trends as Pressley, AOC, Tlaib, and Omar Hit Back at Trump's Bigoted Attack "We are what democracy looks like. And we're not going anywhere. Except back to D.C. to fight for the families you marginalize and vilify everyday." Read more |
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Sanders Accuses Biden of Parroting Pharma and Insurance Industry Script With Attacks on Medicare for All "At a time when Donald Trump and the health insurance industry are lying every day about Medicare for All, I would hope that my fellow Democrats would not resort to misinformation about my legislation." Read more |
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As ICE Raids Begin, Advocates Remind Immigrants That 'You Have Rights' "I can only imagine the fear our immigrant communities feel this morning." Read more |
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September Candidates Climate Forum to Go On Despite Dropping Sponsor "The voters deserve to know where all of the Democratic candidates stand on this issue, and how exactly they would address the climate crisis if elected." Read more |
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Trump Takes Pelosi's Side Against AOC and The Squad as Intraparty Fight Over Immigration Continues "Pelosi, in short, is trying her best to play the game of politics as usual—the only game she has known as she has ascended the party hierarchy. 'The Squad,' on the other hand, is trying to change the rules of the game." Read more |
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Activists Demand Regulator Reject All New Energy Projects in Her Last Weeks on Job Because Planet Can't Wait "We cannot lock our national energy grid into decades more of fossil fuels such as natural gas and oil." Read more |
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With ICE Raids Expected to Begin Sunday, Message From AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Others is Clear: 'Know Your Rights' Sanders is using his large mailing list to "target a message to supporters that may be impacted by the upcoming enforcement raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement." Read more |
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Heavy Rainfall Barry's Real Danger—and Climate Crisis is to Blame "When the air is warmer, it can hold more water vapor. So that when a storm moves through an area that has warmer, wetter air, there's more of a source for the precipitation." Read more |
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Somalia and Canada Mourn Journalist Killed in Attack on Somali Hotel Friday "Hodan Nalayeh came here… to change the narrative on Somalia—the violence, the war." Read more |
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Despite Congress Providing $4.6 Billion in Additional Funding for Border, Pence Says Conditions Still the Fault of Democrats "You gotta love it when Pence immediately puts complete blame for the horrors he saw on the Dems even after they threw money at monsters." Read more |
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'We Cannot Overstate the Harm This Decision Will Have': Oklahoma Judge Upholds Ban on Common Abortion Procedure "We will keep fighting this unconstitutional ban to make sure Oklahomans have access to the best medical treatment." Read more |
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News That Border Patrol Chief Was Part of Racist Facebook Group 'Not Surprising': Critics "The agency's culture is violent and racist for a reason." Read more |
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UltraViolet Says Acosta Departure Shows 'Need to Hold All the Powerful People,' Like Trump, Accountable Resignation of labor department secretary "should only be the beginning" Read more |
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CBP Agents' Coin Mocking Care of Migrant Children Exemplifies Agency's Culture of 'Reflexive Dehumanization,' Critics Say "Quite clearly, the inhumanness, disrespect, and xenophobia among some CBP agents knows no bounds." Read more |
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US House Applauded for Approval of 'Sweeping' Provisions That Target Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' As part of the annual defense spending bill, lawmakers passed several amendments on PFAS, including one that would designate them "hazardous substances" under the Superfund law Read more |
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"Endless War Isn't Inevitable": House Votes to Stop Trump From Launching Unauthorized Attack on Iran "Congress must continue using every available tool at its disposal to ensure that Donald Trump and John Bolton's march to war is fully blocked." Read more |
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Trump's POS Labor Secretary, Acosta, Out. POS Number 2, Linked to Abramoff, to Fill Role Deputy Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella will now serve as acting secretary Read more |
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Progressives Push Back After Congressional Black Caucus Attacks Justice Democrats Over Primary Challenges "This is a democracy and voters deserve choices." Read more |
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To Bolster Grassroots Groups' Demands for Climate Action, Philanthropists Raise $600,000 for Extinction Rebellion and School Strikers "Our climate crisis demands a new paradigm, requiring the phasing out of fossil fuel infrastructure, the phasing in of non-fossil energy sources, and large-scale removal of carbon from the atmosphere." Read more |
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'Embarrassing Nepotism': Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Appoints Son as Ambassador to US One critic said that it's "only a matter of time now before the son of Brazil's wannabe despot has an official meeting with the daughter of America's wannabe despot." Read more |
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Powerful and Emotional Testimony From Escobar, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Pressley on Family Separation and Child Imprisonment Four members of Congress retold in witness testimony to their fellow lawmakers Friday morning what they saw and experienced during a recent visit to a U.S. border detention facility in Texas, sparing no graphic or emotional detail. Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y... Read more |
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'Visit the Camps Yet?' Campaign Urges Pelosi to See for Herself the Horrific Conditions at Trump Detention Centers "Speaker Pelosi, visit the camps! And bring the conservative Democrats with you—so you can all see why Trump's child abuse at the border needs to be reined in now." Read more |
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'This Is a Dangerous Game': Iran Tells US and UK to Leave Gulf Region Immediately as Tensions Soar With control of world's oil supplies still dominant U.S. goal, the Iranian government claims U.K. attempting to provoke conflict with illegal tanker seizure and false accusations Read more |
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'We Have a President Who Lost the Popular Vote by Three Million': Sanders Backs Abolishing the Electoral College Nearly two-thirds of Americans support replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote system, according to recent polling Read more |
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Weakening TV Programming Rules, GOP-Controlled FCC Throws Kids Under the Bus "Today's decision by the FCC will be remembered as one in which the commission's three GOP members embodied the worst qualities of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge." Read more |
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Calling for Dignity for All Immigrants, Families Separated by Obama Administration Demand Apology From Biden "We cannot sit back and allow Biden to defend the three million deportations and the unprecedented expansion of detention that happened under his watch. We need more from the party that claims to support us." Read more |
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Pelosi, After Railing Against AOC and Others in NYT Interview, Tells Critics in Caucus Not to Vent Criticism on Twitter "You got a problem? See Maureen Dowd. Going off the past couple weeks, that seems to be the new complaint policy." Read more |
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Urging Congress to Support Medicare for All, Groups Declare Universal Healthcare 'A Racial Justice Necessity' "Communities of color need a healthcare system that rectifies these long-standing structural biases and challenges. Medicare for All is that system." Read more |
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'We Welcome Their Hatred': Sanders Unveils Anti-Endorsement List of Billionaire CEOs and Wall Street Bankers "I am proud to announce the modern-day oligarchs who oppose our movement." Read more |
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Factory Farm Manure Energy Is a Very Shitty Idea, New Paper Says "A real clean agricultural revolution would include only 100 percent clean and renewable energies and not methane-producing, smog-forming biogas." Read more |
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'Only the Tip of the Iceberg': Outrage Over Border Abuses Grows Amid Reports of Sexual Assault and Retaliation by CBP Agents "This is trauma that will forever impact their lives." Read more |
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Days Before Hurricane Expected to Hit New Orleans, City Endures 10 Inches of Rain as Mississippi River Swells "Overlapping extreme-weather events aren't just a New Orleans problem." Read more |
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Billionaire Mega-Donor Haim Saban Says He Loves All 2020 Democrats—Except Bernie Sanders "Siri, show me the hatred that we welcome," tweeted Sanders speechwriter David Sirota Read more |
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7,000+ Colleges and Universities Declare Climate Emergency and Unveil Three-Point Plan to Combat It "We all need to work together to nurture a habitable planet for future generations and to play our part in building a greener and cleaner future for all." Read more |
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'Just as We Said They Would,' Says Ocasio-Cortez as ICE Opens Three New Detention Centers in Defiance of Congress "DHS and ICE are flagrantly violating congressional orders." Read more |
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CIA Torture Unredacted: Four-Year Investigation Reveals What Was Hidden in US Senate Torture Report New report is the most comprehensive public account of one of the most disturbing elements of America's so-called 'War on Terror’ Read more |
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Mission Accomplished for Far-Right Brexiteers? After Leaked Memos, UK Ambassador Who Called Trump 'Inept' Resigns "We're on course to become the 51st state of Donald Trump's USA, with Boris Johnson as his consul," tweeted Guardian columnist Owen Jones Read more |
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Ilhan Omar Responds to Tucker Carlson's Xenophobic Tirade: 'Kinda Fun Watching a Racist Fool Like This Weeping About My Presence in Congress' "No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect," said the Minnesota congresswoman Read more |
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On First Anniversary of Kavanaugh Nomination, Groups Demand Democrats Follow Through on Promise to Probe Perjury and Assault Accusations "Serious questions remain about whether Kavanaugh is ultimately fit to be a Supreme Court justice, and House Democrats now have the power to get answers." Read more |
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'Fighting for a Livable Future': Amazon Workers at Minnesota Warehouse Organize Strike for Next Week's #PrimeDay "We want to take the opportunity to talk about what it takes to make that work happen and put pressure on Amazon to protect us and provide safe, reliable jobs." Read more |
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Pelosi Joins McConnell in Deferring to Trump on Acosta's Future Amid Growing Calls for Labor Secretary to Resign "The man currently running the Department of Labor knowingly enabled a sex trafficking pedophile, preventing his victims from seeking justice." Read more |
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'Time to Act for the Future of Our Planet': Other Lawmakers Urged to Join Fight as Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Unveil Climate Emergency Declaration "Instead of remaining complicit in worsening the effects of climate change, members of Congress in both the House and Senate must respond to this resolution with the urgency and support that this moment demands." Read more |
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'Completely Terrifying': Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event "Once we're over the threshold...you're dealing with how the Earth works, and it goes on its own ride." Read more |
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Study Warns Melting of 'One of the World's Most Dangerous Glaciers' Could Cause 20-Inch Sea Level Rise NASA scientist says that "after reaching the tipping point, Thwaites Glacier could lose all of its ice in a period of 150 years." Read more |
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'The Answer to a Question No One Is Asking': Billionaire Philanthropist Tom Steyer Announces 2020 Presidential Bid "Let's take our democracy back from corporations and special interests," says latest candidate to enter the crowded Democratic field, "and give it to the people—the way it was always intended." Read more |
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In Terms of Combating Climate Crisis, Renowned Naturalist David Attenborough Declares: 'We Cannot Be Radical Enough' The comments came during testimony to Parliament Read more |
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Call to Action by Journalists, Academics Urges Americans to Use 'All Nonviolent Means Necessary' to Shut Down Trump Detention Camps "From abolitionism to Standing Rock, Americans have come together time and again to defy horrific injustice. Now, as the government tries to normalize concentration camps, it is time like never before to target those responsible." Read more |
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'We Need to Ban It Entirely': Beyond Regulation, New US Campaign Calls for Moratorium on Facial Recognition Surveillance "Imagine if we could go back in time and prevent governments around the world from ever building nuclear or biological weapons. That's the moment in history we're in right now with facial recognition." Read more |
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'Never Again Means Close the Camps!': Hundreds of Jewish Activists Surround ICE Office to Protest Trump Detention Centers "We have a responsibility as a people whose history included these kinds of atrocities to identify the signs and prevent them from happening." Read more |
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CBO Analysis Shows $15 Federal Minimum Wage Would Raise Pay for 27 Million Workers and Lift 1.3 Million Out of Poverty "It has been more than 10 years since congress raised the minimum wage—the longest stretch in history. This is a shameful benchmark. Congress should immediately pass the Raise the Wage Act." Read more |
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AOC, Bernie Sanders to Introduce Resolution Calling 'Existential Threat' of the Climate Crisis an 'Emergency' "We are facing a climate emergency that requires a massive and immediate federal mobilization." Read more |
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With Administration Under Fire for Abuses, Pompeo Unveils Panel Critics Say Will 'Politicize' and 'Undermine' Human Rights "If this administration truly wanted to support people's rights, it would use the global framework that's already in place." Read more |
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Ahead of Trump 'Utter Fantasy' Speech on Environmental Record, DC Flooding Sparks Warnings on Danger of Climate Inaction "We don't have time for more lies. We must address the climate crisis now," says Sen. Bernie Sanders Read more |
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With $19 Million Haul for Second Quarter, Warren Cements 'Grassroots Commitment' in Campaign "I am humbled by the depth of grassroots commitment to our campaign." Read more |
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'Any Further Delay Is an Injustice': Given Green Light by Cuomo, Rep. Richard Neal Urged to Request Trump's New York Tax Returns Immediately "New York has provided Congress a new route for getting answers. Chairman Richard Neal should immediately request Trump's state tax returns as he is now legally entitled to do." Read more |
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"That Public 'Whatever' Is Called Public Sentiment": Critics Hit Back After Pelosi Once Again Disses AOC, Omar, and Others "Call me old fashioned, but I thought the Democratic speaker of the House was supposed to bolster House Democrats and hold a Republican president accountable." Read more |
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USDA Indefinitely Suspends Honey Bee Tracking Survey as States Get Approval to Use Bee-Killing Pesticide "Yet another example of the Trump administration systematically undermining federal research on food safety, farm productivity, and the public interest writ large." Read more |
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Smithsonian Seeking Child Migrants' Drawings of Horrific Detention to Document 'History as It Unfolds' Request by Smithsonian's National Museum of American History comes as U.N. rights chief condemns "alarming situation" at southern border facilities Read more |
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'This Is a Scandal': Documents Show ICE and FBI Using Facial Recognition to Mine Millions of Driver's License Photos "ICE is running facial recognition searches against millions of photos. You. Your family. Your friends. This is a major violation of privacy." Read more |
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Chants of 'Equal Pay!' Ring Out for World Cup Champs as Fans Back US Women's Fight for Gender Parity "At this moment of tremendous pride for America, the sad equation remains all too clear, and Americans won't stand for it anymore." Read more |
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'Only Ray of Hope in This Bleak Setting': As Greek Right Regains Power, Applause as Varoufakis-Led MeRA25 Wins First-Ever Seats in Parliament "As of today, we embark upon a steadfast campaign against the most parasitic and cruel form of oligarchy that New Democracy will strive to erect upon the foundation of Mr. Tsipras's bailout agreement." Read more |