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'This Is Incredible': Enormous Crowds Flood Streets Across US Demanding End to Police Brutality and Justice for George Floyd "It feels like it's more than just a moment. Finally, finally it's more than just a moment." Read more |
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'American Secret Police'? Trump Deployment of Unidentified Law Enforcement Officials Across DC Sparks Alarm "The United States would normally condemn this tactic if used by dictators of other countries, and its use here directly threatens our democracy." Read more |
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Labor Bureau Says 'Misclassification Error' Is Making Unemployment Rate Look Lower Than It Really Is "Long story short, BLS is telling us that we're at 16 percent unemployment." Read more |
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'These Unions Dishonor the Labor Movement': Nearly 200 Academics, Lawmakers, and Activists Demand AFL-CIO Expel Police Unions "The AFL-CIO cannot stand for criminal justice reform, while at the same time allowing police unions to use your power to impede reform." Read more |
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Condemning Police Conduct as 'Disgusting,' Federal Judge Bars Denver Cops From Using Chemical Weapons on Protesters "Citizens should never have to fear peaceful protest on the basis of police retaliation, especially not when protesting that very same police violence." Read more |
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'Quietly Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,' Trump Opens 5,000 Square Miles of Atlantic Ocean to Commercial Fishing "Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks, dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats that will pay the price." Read more |
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As Americans Rise Up Against Racial Injustice, International Crisis Group Calls on Trump to 'Stop Making Situation Worse' "Sometimes, sitting by quietly and saying nothing is not an option," the International Crisis Group wrote. Read more |
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Groups Denounce Gutting of Environmental Rules 'When Trump Thinks No One is Paying Attention' Order denounced as "latest in string of outlandish authoritarian acts" from the U.S. president. Read more |
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By Pouring Billions Into Fossil Fuel Industry, EU's Central Bank Accused of 'Playing Both Firefighter and Arsonist' "By recklessly buying billions in fossil fuel bonds the bank is propping up the single biggest obstacle to tackling the climate crisis." Read more |
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"When They Say We Don't Have the Right to Protest," Says Naomi Klein, "That's the Moment to Flood the Streets" As Trump declares "law and order" clampdown against peaceful demonstrations, author and activist reminds people of most important lesson she's learned studying history of shock doctrine tactics. Read more |
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Amid Covid-19 and Nationwide Protests, America's Billionaires Got $79 Billion Richer Over the Last Week "Surging billionaire wealth juxtaposed with the suffering and plight of millions undermines the social solidarity required for us to recover together in the years ahead." Read more |
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Ilhan Omar Criminal Justice Reform Bills Offer 'Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems' "If we are to change this pattern of violent racism, we need to fundamentally restructure our criminal justice system." Read more |
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'This is Huge': Move to Defund Police Gains Support Nationwide "In moments of crisis, people want services and resources that go directly to help people rather than police that surveil, brutalize, and kill us." Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Jamaal Bowman's Progressive Primary Challenge Against Longtime Rep. Eliot Engel "This moment requires renewed and revitalized leadership across the country AND at the ballot box." Read more |
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Staffer Outrage, Sickout Spurred by NYT Publication of Sen. Cotton 'Send in the Troops' Op-Ed "Running this puts @nytimes' Black staff in danger." Read more |
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Fossil Fuel Industry Could Face $25 Trillion Collapse Due to Clean Tech, Climate Policies, and Covid-19 Pandemic "It's time for a #GreenRecovery: resilient, fair, sustainable economies that meet the climate crisis," declared Greenpeace's executive director. Read more |
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AFL-CIO's Veteran Council Demands Resignation of Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs Chair Over Violent Clearing of Lafayette Square "President Trump has set a violent and misguided tone in the wake of George Floyd's tragic murder. It is time for our leaders at every level to challenge and repudiate this dangerous rhetoric—and for those at the top of our military, who failed in this responsibility, to step down." Read more |
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'The Planet Is at Stake': DNC Panel Pushes Biden to Back $16 Trillion Plan to Fight Climate Crisis "Trump's going to call Biden a lefty no matter what, right? So let's energize our base, let's energize the middle. Let's do what's right." Read more |
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'What Authoritarianism Looks Like': Trump Condemned as Busloads of US Soldiers Arrive in Nation's Capital "The numbers of U.S. military security forces in D.C. right now is just ridiculous. This is pure intimidation. Trump is very afraid. The longer we stay in the streets, the more frightened he gets." Read more |
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'This Isn't Going Away': Defying Curfews and Police Brutality in Relentless Push for Justice, Uprising Over Killing of George Floyd Keeps Growing "Essential workers are exempt from the curfew, and what we are doing here is essential." Read more |
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NYT Rebuked for Tom Cotton Op-Ed Calling for US Military to Use 'Overwhelming Show of Force' Against Protests "This is the most openly authoritarian piece of writing I've read from an American politician who has been in power during my lifetime." Read more |
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'Yes, I Will Name Names': AOC Leads Charge Against Empty Corporate Claims of #BlackLivesMatter "This moment calls for transformation," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Give people change." Read more |
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Majority of Americans Believe Actions and Anger of George Floyd Protesters Justified, Polling Shows "The current findings represent a marked change in public opinion from prior polls." Read more |
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Putin Declares Federal Emergency After Diesel Fuel Spill in Arctic River That Could Take Decades to Recover Reports indicate melting permafrost caused by global heating may have damaged the industrial facility. Read more |
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'Should Be Bigger News': Analysis Finds Nearly One Third of Owed Unemployment Benefits Have Not Been Paid Bloomberg found a $67 billion gap between the sum of benefits paid out by the Treasury Department and the amount that is owed to jobless Americans. Read more |
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Sen. Warren Demands Federal Probe Into Attorney General Barr's Order to Tear-Gas Peaceful Protesters "These attacks on peaceful American protesters steps from the White House were sickening and appalling." Read more |
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Global Meat Giants Fuel Major Future Risk of Creating Next Pandemic, Investor Group Warns "Factory farming is both vulnerable to pandemics and guilty of creating them." Read more |
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After Nearly 10,000 Arrested During Week of Protest, Three Other Police Officers Finally Charged Over Murder of George Floyd "All you had to do was arrest three more." Read more |
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Jane Goodall Warns Humanity Will Be 'Finished' After Covid-19 Without Ending 'Absolute Disrespect for Animals and the Environment' "Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has created this situation where disease can spill over to infect human beings." Read more |
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Sanders Calls on Democrats to Embrace 8-Point Plan to End Police Brutality, Protect Communities "We have got to act boldly to eradicate systemic racism and police violence. I am calling for sweeping policy reforms to protect people—particularly communities of color—who have suffered violence for far too long." Read more |
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'Deplorable Monument to Racism' Gone After Philadelphia Removes Statue of Former Mayor Frank Rizzo "While we are glad that the symbol is removed, we will continue to fight until the white supremacy that allowed Rizzo to come to power in the first place is eradicated." Read more |
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Hope for Other Cities to Follow After Minneapolis School Board Votes Unanimously to End Police Contract "N ow that Minneapolis has showed you it's possible…you know what to do." Read more |
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ACLU Lawsuit Accuses Police in Minnesota of 'Targeting and Attacking Journalists' Covering George Floyd Protests "We are facing a full-scale assault on the First Amendment freedom of the press," said an ACLU attorney. "We will not let these official abuses go unanswered." Read more |
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'We Need to Put Guardrails in Place': Senator Unveils Plan to Bar Use of US Military Force Against Protesters "I thought that would seem obvious to everyone. But as we take up the NDAA next week, I'm going to be pushing to ensure the president can't treat the U.S. military as his personal palace guard." Read more |
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'One Racist Down. Hundreds in Office to Go': Applause as Bigot Steve King Ousted in Iowa Primary "Goodbye, Rep. Steve King. You are certainly not the only white supremacist in federal government, but you were among the most prominent," tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read more |
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'They're Afraid': GOP Ripped for Enabling Trump as McConnell Blocks Resolution Condemning Assault on Peaceful Protesters "They're afraid of Donald Trump. And that leads to Donald Trump getting worse and worse and worse. It's appalling." Read more |
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Overtly Racist Trump Brags No President Has Done More Than Him for Black Community 'Since Abraham Lincoln' Latest gaslighting efforts comes less than one day after order to have nonviolent civil rights protesters swept off the streets of Washington, DC in a volley of rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash grenades. Read more |
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Clamoring for Mic at Black Lives Matter Event, Rep. Eliot Engel Admits "If I Didn't Have a Primary I Wouldn't Care" "Frankly," said a representative for Engel's progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman, "we couldn't have made the case more clearly ourselves that after 31 years, it's time for change." Read more |
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From 'No Comment' to 'Didn't Really See It': GOP Lawmakers Squirm When Asked About Trump Threat to Unleash Military on Protesting Americans "This was the same response in Nazi Germany." Read more |
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In 'Targeted Strike' Against Environmental and Racial Justice, Trump EPA Curbs State Power to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects "This president and this administration are at war with justice and well-being—particularly for the communities that lack these fundamentals the most." Read more |
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'He Must Resign': Attorney General Barr Personally Ordered Police Assault on Peaceful DC Protesters, Report Says "AG Bill Barr's behavior has been deeply problematic since he was sworn in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs to resign." Read more |
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'Do the Right Thing': Veterans Call On National Guard Members to Refuse to Deploy Against Protesters "It is asinine for a rich man hiding in a bunker to ask these troops, most of whom probably signed up to pay for access to college and healthcare, to take actions that will inevitably lead to more violence and haunt them for the rest of their lives." Read more |
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Minneapolis School Board to Vote on Ending Contract With Police Over Failure to 'See Humanity in Our Students' The school district cannot "claim to fight institutional racism" while aligned with the police department, said a board member. Read more |
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To Provide Safety and Solidarity, DC Residents Open Doors to Protesting Teens Cornered by Police Crackdown "I hope that they go out there today, peacefully as they did yesterday, and not blink," said Rahul Dubey, who sheltered dozens of people, "because our country needs them." Read more |
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'This Must Stop': Leading Journalism Groups Demand Law Enforcement Halt Attacks on Working Press "When you silence the press with rubber bullets, you silence the voice of the public." Read more |
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'Extinction Is a Political Choice,' Scientist Says After Study Warns of Threat to Civilization From Humans Destroying Wildlife "This new study shows yet again that the very survival of humanity is at stake if we don't end the heartbreaking wildlife extinction crisis." Read more |
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'This Isn't a Healthy Democracy': Warnings of Domestic Military Threat as Top US General Walks DC Streets in Combat Fatigues "The commander of the joint chiefs is surveying the streets of D.C. in uniform like he's planning a military assault." Read more |
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ACLU Demands Congressional Probe Into 'Politically-Motivated' Attack on Peaceful Protest Outside Trump White House "This appears to be grossly unjustified use of a dangerous chemical weapon on protesters and raises serious human rights concerns under international law," the civil liberties group said. Read more |
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DC Bishop 'Outraged' by Trump Clearing Protests With Tear Gas and Using Bible as a Prop for Church Photo Op "Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence," the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said of the president. Read more |
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Demands for Trump Removal Grow as 'Fascist' Speech Condemned as Declaration of War Against US Public "Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late." Read more |
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After Trump's Authoritarian 'Law and Order' Speech, Military Helicopters Descend Low Over DC to Intimidate Protesters "What Trump did tonight is going to be remembered as a significant and grave moment in this horror of an era we are living through." Read more |
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'As Incoherent as It Is Dangerous': Trump Threatens to Designate Antifa—Which Isn't an Actual Group—as Terrorist Organization "Let's be clear," warned the ACLU. "There is no legal authority for designating a domestic group. Any such designation would raise significant due process and First Amendment concerns." Read more |
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With Over 100,000 Dead and Depression-Level Unemployment, Sanders Calls McConnell's Sandbagging of Covid-19 Relief 'Incomprehensible' "Our most vulnerable communities are hungry, desperate and under enormous emotional stress. The American people want action from Congress and they want it NOW." Read more |
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'I Took the Helmet Off and Laid the Batons Down': Michigan Sheriff and Police Didn't Disperse Their Town's Protest—They Joined It "Do I think this has solved the issue between police and unarmed black, human beings? No. But I do believe that this type of leadership is a positive step in the right direction and gives me hope for black men and women around the world and for all of humanity." Read more |
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Watch: This Is What It Looks Like When the Response to Protests Against Police Violence Is... More Police Violence Driving SUVs into demonstrators. Firing paint-ball rounds at people on their own front porch. Pushing an elderly man to the ground. These were just a few of the incidents witnessed as a militarized nation faced off against its own people on Saturday. Read more |
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'Insanity Outside the White House': After Trump Stokes Tensions, Fresh Clashes Between Police and Protesters in US Capitol "I call upon our city and our nation to exercise great restraint even while this President continues to try to divide us," said DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser in response to president's comments. Read more |
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'If You Want to End Unrest, End the Conditions That Create It,' Declares Ocasio-Cortez Amid Nationwide Protest Instead of calls for things to simply calm down and "go back to normal," said New York Congresswoman, "let's create a new world—one where all people are held to the same standard of the rule of law." Read more |
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What ACLU Says Was Trump Call to "Literally Murder Protesters," Facebook Says Doesn't Violate Standards "Facebook has once again failed to act against an explicit violation of its own rules and has allowed the violent and racist post to remain up." Read more |
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Cornel West Says 'Neo-Fascist Gangster' Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as 'Failed Social Experiment' "I thank God people are in the streets," said the Harvard philosopher and activist. "Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don't care? People are callous?" Read more |
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In Show of Solidarity, Public Transit Workers Refuse to Transport Police Units or Those Arrested at #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd Protests "More than ever, we need a new civil rights movement that is joined with the labor movement." Read more |
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Pressley, Omar, Bass, and Lee Introduce Resolution to Condemn Police Brutality and Demand Nationwide Reforms "For too long, black and brown bodies have been profiled, surveilled, policed, lynched, choked, brutalized, and murdered at the hands of police officers." Read more |
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US Border Patrol Denounced as 'Rogue Agency' for Using Predator Drone to Spy on Minneapolis Protests "This is what happens when leaders sign blank check after blank check to militarize police, CBP, etc while letting violence go unchecked." Read more |
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Amid Global Pandemic—With Nearly 363,000 Dead—Trump Terminates US Ties With the World Health Organization "When every single country in the world is able to work with the WHO, except for one whose president advocates treating coronavirus with bleach and UV light, who do you think is at fault?" Read more |
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After Days of Protest, Police Officer Derek Chauvin Charged With 3rd Degree Murder for Killing George Floyd "Don't think for a minute that Derek Chauvin would have been arrested if people in Minneapolis weren't standing up and fighting." Read more |
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Mnuchin and DeVos Sued for Unlawful Seizure of Student Loan Borrowers' Tax Refunds During Pandemic "Secretaries DeVos and Mnuchin have inflicted needless financial pain on student borrowers and their families." Read more |
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Carrying Out Trump's "When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts" Order Would Violate 4th Amendment, Warn Legal Experts "Donald Trump is calling for violence against black Americans. His advocacy of illegal, state-sponsored killing is horrific. Politicians who refuse to condemn it share responsibility for the consequences." Read more |
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Honduran Family Sues US Govt for Separation Lawyers Say Was Deliberately Meant to 'Torment and Traumatize' "These federal agents made a choice, a cruel and heinous choice, to deliberately inflict pain and trauma upon a family seeking refuge." Read more |
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Dimming VP Hopes, Klobuchar's Failure to Prosecute Police Misconduct Highlighted as Outrage Over Killing of George Floyd Intensifies "You can't refuse to prosecute killer cops and act like you don't have blood on your hands." Read more |
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At Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are 'Not At All Confident' They'll Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds "E ven if they *do* end up getting food, you have to understand the mental and physical toll of living with that kind of fear, and how that affects relationships, work, health, and everything else." Read more |
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Rep. Katie Porter Accuses UnitedHealth of 'Putting Profits Before Patients and Providers' in Midst of Pandemic "It's flat out wrong for the world's largest insurance company to pass costs on to families in the middle of a pandemic—I want answers." Read more |
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With COP 26 Pushed to Late 2021 Due to Pandemic, World Leaders Urged Not to Delay Climate Action "Right now, real leaders should be doubling-down their efforts to ensure a green and just recovery in handling this health crisis and the climate emergency." Read more |