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'Buckle Up Buttercup': Avenatti Licks His Chops After Michael Cohen Plea Deal Reported "I'm not surprised by the news. The only thing that I'm surprised about is that it took this long," added Stormy Daniels' attorney Read more |
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'Scary': After Abnormally Warm Winter, Arctic's Strongest Sea Ice Breaks Up for First Time on Record Ice that's generally about 65 feet thick has become much thinner due to warming trends, allowing the unusually warm winds blowing through the region to push the ice apart Read more |
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As Trump Drags US Backwards, China's Massive Spending on Clean Energy Delivers Reduction Targets 12 Years Early While maintaining economic might, the trillions of dollars spent by China on renewable energy appears to be paying off Read more |
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Trump's Coal-Friendly EPA Rule Decried as 'Sheer Reckless Folly' and 'All-Out Assault on Our Climate and Communities' "Trump is actively destroying the planet in order to enrich his billionaire friends in the fossil fuel industry. We must fight back." Read more |
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'In a Functional Democracy, This Would Be a No-Brainer': Warren Unveils Bold Anti-Corruption Legislation "These reforms have one simple aim: to take power in Washington away from the wealthy, the powerful, and the well-connected who have corrupted our government and put power back in the hands of the American people." Read more |
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Declaring Free and Open Internet 'Critical' for Democracy, 23 State AGs Call on Court to Reinstate Net Neutrality The FCC's unpopular repeal of net neutrality protections leaves Americans exposed not only to abusive practices by ISPs but also potential safety hazards, argue states Read more |
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"It's a Long List": Ahead of New Legislation, Warren Documents Endless List of Trumpian Corruption Using the hashtag #EndCorruptionNow, senator attempts herculean task of putting president's cronies and supporters in context of broad and troubling framework Read more |
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Standing Against Trump's Cruel Policies at VMAs, Children of Immigrant Families Powerfully Declare 'We Are All Human Beings' "We are sending a strong message: families belong together and not in cages." Read more |
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'Everybody Pull!': North Carolina Protesters Topple Confederate Statue Silent Sam "So thankful for the students at UNC who toppled the Confederate statue on their campus. They did what the administration and politicians in North Carolina should've done decades ago." Read more |
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Feds Preparing Charges Against Trump Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen, AP Sources Confirm "Mr. Trump's associates seem to be all career criminals. Does he have one honest person in his orbit?" Read more |
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These Giant Portraits Will Stand in the Path of Trans Mountain Pipeline to Make 'Powerful Statement of the Future We Want' The People on the Path series offers creative resistance to controversial fossil fuel project Read more |
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'Don't Party... Return the Children!': While Federal Agents Get White House Salute, Critics Denounce Trump's Xenophobia and Cruelty Immigrant rights advocates noted that ICE and CBP are responsible for "carrying out Trump's brutal family separation policy" and "countless other abuses" Read more |
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Medicare for All Fact Check From Hell Persists as Sanders Rebukes CNN for Putting 'Blind Faith' in Right-Wing Economist "It is incredible how similar this is to the media's performance on Iraq. 1. Rely on charlatans and get everything wrong. 2. Justify your performance by pointing out that everyone else also relied on charlatans." Read more |
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What Is Democratic Socialism? Senator Bernie Sanders Explains For one thing, "it means ending the international disgrace of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a right while we end up spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other major nation." Read more |
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As Arctic Warming Stalls Summer Weather, Study Warns of Intensifying 'Very-Extreme Extremes' "This is #climatechange, and the time to act on it is now." Read more |
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Progressives Cheer NYT Editorial Board Endorsement of Zephyr Teachout for Attorney General New York Democrats can find in Teachout "their most effective champion for democracy and civil rights, good government and the environment, workers' rights, fair housing, and gender equality," the editorial board writes. Read more |
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Any Invites for Victims of Wall Street Greed? 10 Years After Global Meltdown, Lehman Brothers Planning 'Disgraceful' Reunion "People will be absolutely disgusted about this unacceptable and highly inappropriate gathering." Read more |
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'We Are Climbing Rapidly Out of Humankind's Safe Zone': New Report Warns Dire Climate Warnings Not Dire Enough "Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences." Read more |
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Nearly Three Days Later, Jake Tapper Admits CNN "Fact Check" on Medicare for All Was, Uh, Not Factual "Having now acknowledged the need for two corrections, he should consider whether he and the other people working on this understand the issue of Medicare for All well enough to appoint themselves as fact checkers." Read more |
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Former Koch Industries Lawyer Turned Top Trump EPA Official Set to Deliver Major Win for Big Polluters "Even if the president ends up in prison, we're going to be paying for this era for the rest of our lives." Read more |
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In Latest Sign That Trump Team Has Given Up on Denying Collusion, Giuliani Admits Purpose of Trump Tower Meeting The president's lawyer's comments came weeks after Trump himself tweeted that his campaign staff made an attempt to gather information from a Kremlin-linked lawyer about Hillary Clinton Read more |
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In Wake of Anti-Choice Senate Vote, Argentines Join Movement to Abandon Catholic Church "Obtaining the vote for women, the divorce law, marriage equality, the gender identity law, the assisted human fertilization law, the law of integral sexual education, the dignified death law were all done fighting clerical power, which seeks to have total dominion over our minds and bodies." Read more |
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Trump's 'Immoral' Plan to Allow Coal States to Self-Regulate Could Send 365 Million Tons of Carbon Into Atmosphere "Yet another reminder that this administration values polluter profits over Americans' basic right to clean air." Read more |
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Demanding Wide-Reaching Reforms and an End to Slavery, Inmates in 17 States Plan Prison Strike "Every single field and industry is affected on some level by prisons, from our license plates to the fast food that we eat to the stores that we shop at." Read more |
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'Your Bombs Are Killing Victims Here': U.S.-Made Bomb Hit School Bus in Attack That Killed 40 Yemeni Children Munitions experts confirmed that a Lockheed Martin-produced bomb was behind the deaths of dozens in last week's attack Read more |
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Jake Tapper's Flawed 'Happy Fact Check Friday' on Medicare for All Widely Condemned "Once again, the main impediment to the success of Medicare for All is actually liberals who are either stupid or dishonest about this stuff." Read more |
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'He Belongs in The Hague': MSNBC Slammed for Handing Erik Prince Megaphone to Sell Trump (Again) on Privatizing Afghan War "What if—hear me out—instead of privatizing the war in Afghanistan, we ended it. Crazy, I know. But, maybe..." Read more |
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'Hothouse Earth' Co-Author Says 'People Will Look Back on 2018 as the Year When Climate Reality Hit' Although Trump has proved a historic villain in terms of addressing the urgent planetary crisis, the majority of Americans accept that global warming is caused by human activity Read more |
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Saying Trump EPA Made 'Mockery of the Statute,' Court Orders End to Illegal Delay of Chemical Disaster Rule "Families who live under the shadows of chemical facilities deserve safer practices to prevent future disasters." Read more |
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'If You're Poor or Disabled, the GOP Wants You to Die': Outrage as Trump Pushes More Cruel Medicaid Restrictions "Threatening poor people's lives—which is what getting rid of their healthcare coverage essentially means—is not a way to eradicate poverty. It is simply a way to punish the poor for being poor." Read more |
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Demanding End to 'Unprecedented' Secrecy, Senators Say Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself About Role in Post-9/11 Torture Program "Release documents from Judge Kavanaugh's time in the White House in the same manner as was done for all previous Supreme Court nominees. The truth should not be hidden from the Senate or the American people." Read more |
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Watch What Bill McKibben Calls 'One of the Best and Most Straightforward Videos about Climate Change I've Ever Seen From a Political Leader' With the last five years the hottest since records began, Senator Bernie Sanders says that "What Trump and his friends in the fossil fuel industry are doing is criminal." Read more |
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If You Wanted to Kill Crucial Climate Research, 'You Might Do It Like This' Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke put his high school football teammate in charge of approving funding for climate research, which scientists say has been roadblocked this year Read more |
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Trump Rant About Canceled Military Parade Panned as Product From 'Diseased Mind of a Shrieking Dimwit' Chorus of ridicule follows president's bizarre excuses and declaration that funds will now be used to "buy some more fighter jets!" Read more |
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As 'Unprecedented Flooding Havoc' Kills Hundreds in Kerala, Indian Scientist Decries 'Man-Made Disaster' "I hope everyone will learn a lesson from this," says V.S. Vijayan. "Due to climate change, such tragedies are bound to increase... We can take measures to lower the intensity of such impacts." Read more |
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As Corporate Media Has 'Moved On,' Just a Reminder That 565 Children Are Still Separated From Families Due to Trump's Monstrous Policies "Interest in the Omarosa story far exceeds interest in the child separation story. This week, despite hundreds of kids still in limbo, child separation barely registers." Read more |
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Trump White House Reportedly 'Rattled' Amid Belief That Omarosa Has 200 Recordings of the Inner Circle "My single favorite part about the Omarosa tapes is that no one, not a single soul at the White House, knows how many tapes there are." Read more |
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Senate Dems Threaten Suit to Get Kavanaugh Records as Poll Shows Trump Nominee Least Popular in Decades "Not only is Brett Kavanaugh extreme, he's wildly unpopular. The momentum is on our side, and we're not done yet." Read more |
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Even Before #GOPTaxScam, Analysis Shows CEOs Made 300 Times More Than Average Workers in 2017 CEO compensation rose by up to 1,070 percent between 1978 and 2017, while the typical American worker's wages went up by 11.2 percent Read more |
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'Believe Me, My Tapes Are Much Better Than Theirs': Omarosa Continues to Troll President With Release of New Secret Recording "Donald Trump has met his match," says former White House aide Read more |
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'Complete Joke': Democrats Ripped for Totally Failing to Grill FCC Chair Ajit Pai Over Net Neutrality Cyberattack Lies "There were many opportunities to talk about how the FCC misled the press and mistreated reporters. That should have been the story of this hearing, but they didn't make Pai sweat nearly enough." Read more |
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Aretha Franklin, Soul Legend and Icon of Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, Dies at 76 "Aretha Franklin was a force behind the scenes during the civil rights movement—donating concert proceeds, posting bail for activists, hosting fundraisers, and using her platform to promote voting rights." Read more |
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Confirming True Intentions Behind Attack on National Monuments, Trump Plan Kicks Open the Gate for 'Mining, Logging, and Drilling' Conservationists say courts should rule on monument reductions before the administration can "open up stolen land to corporate land barons and sell off our protected lands to the highest bidder." Read more |
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'Journalists Are Not the Enemy': 300+ Newspapers Unite to Defend the Free Press from Trump's Unprecedented Attack "A pluralistic democracy can't survive without a free and independent press, and any powerful person who claims to have 'an exclusive' on the truth should not be trusted." Read more |
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'I've Got a Bad Feeling About This': Making Analysts Nervous, Trump Reportedly Relaxing Cyber-Warfare Rules While the precise implications of Trump's move are unclear, critics called the rule reversal a "huge deal" and expressed alarm about what lax restrictions on cyberweapon use could mean under Trump's direction Read more |
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Stalling Trump's 'Illegal Rubber-Stamp' of Keystone XL, Federal Court Orders Full Environmental Review "This is a huge win for the landowners and Tribal Nation members whose water and environment would be forever threatened by this dangerous tar sands project." Read more |
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Shed Not a Tear for War Criminal John Brennan, Say Legal Experts, But Also Recognize Danger of Trump Abusing Power to Punish Critics "The First Amendment does not permit the president to revoke security clearances to punish his critics." Read more |
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'How Many More Women Have to Die?" Days After Lawmakers Reject Legalization Bill, Argentine Woman Dies From At-Home Abortion "Secrecy saves no life. Secrecy kills." Read more |
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'Belly Flop': With Only One Percent of Leases Sold, Even Fossil Fuel Industry Understands Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Is Ridiculous "Even corporate polluters aren't buying what Zinke's selling." Read more |
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Senate Dems Demand 'Immediate Action' to Reunite Immigrant Families Torn Apart by Trump "Leading medical experts have condemned family separations as causing children numerous—and in some cases lifelong—psychological and physical developmental harms." Read more |
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Only Reason for Dem to Meet With Trump Nominee Kavanaugh: 'To Tell Him Directly to His Face That They Will Oppose His Confirmation' Progressive group denounces meetings a handful of Seante Democrats are holding with Trump's conservative pick for Supreme Court justice Read more |
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Glyphosate—It's What's for Breakfast: Study Finds Cancer-Causing Weedkiller in Popular Oatmeal, Cereals, and Snack Bars Concerned that "President Trump's lawless EPA" won't take action to protect children from the chemical, EWG calls on companies to end use of glyphosate Read more |
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'Bankrupt Intellectually,' GOP No Match for Energized Democratic Voters Inspired by Progressive Vision, Says Sanders "What the Democrats need to do," argues Sanders, "is excite people – get young people, working people to the polls. If they do that, I think we're going to be just fine." Read more |
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"It's About Time": Canada Celebrated for Banning Bee-Killing Neonics While US Backslides "Unfortunately, it looks like the EPA is trying to be the last agency on Earth to recognize that these pesticides should be banned." Read more |
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To Curb Capitalism's Toxic Impacts, Warren Unveils Plan to Give Workers More Control Over Corporate Decisions "We need to end the harmful corporate obsession with maximizing shareholder returns at all costs, which has sucked trillions of dollars away from workers and necessary long-term investments." Read more |
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Victory for Bold Progressive Ilhan Omar Puts Second Muslim Woman on Historic Path to Congress Battling "the politics of fear and scarcity," Omar pledges to fight for Medicare for All and other reforms placing American families over corporate profits Read more |
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Randy "IronStache" Bryce, Who Ran on Toppling Right-Wing Zealot Paul Ryan, Victorious in Wisconsin "It's a win for working families all across this district, this state, and the entire country. Working people have been shut out of politics." Read more |
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Demolishing Claims of 'Waning' Progressive Movement, Bold Left-Wing Candidates Score Big Primary Wins Across Nation "We're just getting started. We're going to change America for hundreds of years. Thank you to everyone who is forcing change." Read more |
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'It Was a Set-Up': Internal Docs Show How US Agencies Arranged Marital Status Interviews with Immigrants, Then Arrested and Deported Them "Every one of these instances is about a family that has a citizen and a noncitizen, and probably children...Here we have a trap laid out to separate them." Read more |
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'Potential War Crimes': Lawmakers Demand Answers About US Role in Saudi Slaughter of Yemeni Civilians Noting that he served on active duty as a Judge Advocate General officer in the U.S. Air Force, Lieu wrote that "a number of the coalition's airstrikes look like war crimes." Read more |
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Denouncing 'Wanton Disregard for Congress and the American People,' Dems Call on Ajit Pai to Come Clean About False FCC Cyberattack "Lawmakers are rightly demanding answers. But they should also act immediately to overrule Ajit Pai's corrupt gutting of net neutrality." Read more |
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In Latest Attack on Fair Housing Act, Carson Moves to Gut Anti-Segregation Rule "Without this rule, communities will not do the work to eliminate discrimination and segregation." Read more |
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New Survey of 63,000 Scientists Across 16 US Agencies Details How Trump Is 'Sidelining Science' "When you can't research threats and share accurate information with the public, there are real consequences. People depend on federal science to protect them from pollution, chemical exposure, and natural disasters." Read more |
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Roger Stone Deletes 'Proud' Nazi Space Force Image Posted to Instagram, But the Internet Never Forgets Longtime Trump loyalist "found a way to simultaneously endorse Space Force and Nazis." Read more |
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Think 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Were Hot? New Study Warns Next Five Years Won't Be Any Better "The coming warm period is associated with an increased likelihood of intense to extreme temperatures," researchers observe in an alarming new paper Read more |
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There's a Fentanyl Crisis in the United States. Nebraska Is About To Murder Someone With It on Purpose If only "states with the death penalty spent half as much time developing policy to support people in their lives as they did figuring out ways to kill people" Read more |
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'No, Secretary Zinke. Record-Breaking Wildfires in California Have Everything to Do with Climate Change' People who actual understand science, and also care about planet's future, accuse Interior Secretary of "either being willfully ignorant or purposely deceptive." Read more |
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'Deeply Disturbing': For Second Time This Year, Facebook Suspends Left-Leaning teleSUR English Without Explanation "It seems like the censorship power many people on the left want Silicon Valley executives to unilaterally exercise might end up being wielded against the left. One good way to know that would happen is that is already is happening." Read more |
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Not Saying the Words "John McCain" Is Least Vile Thing About Trump's Signing of $717 Billion Military Spending Bill "Can't think of anything that better sums up the moral bankruptcy and cliquishness of D.C. media than the uniform meltdown over a $717B defense bill not being properly credited to McCain as if that's the goddamn problem." Read more |
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With Merger Pending, Bayer Shares Plunge After Court Orders Monsanto to Pay $289 Million to Cancer Victim The nosedive comes as groups say nearly-finalized merger threatens consumers, farmers, and planet Read more |
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'Deeply Flawed' Report Admits Immigrant Youth Put in Solitary and Restrained With Bags Over Their Heads, But Claims 'No Abuse' Found The treatment teens were subjected to in a Virginia facility "are unacceptable and un-American, whether or not they meet the state's legal threshold for abuse or neglect," says ACLU Read more |
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In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in 'Hospice' "Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat." Read more |
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Watchdog Calls for Investigation Into Wilbur Ross' Financial Dealings Campaign Legal Center says commerce secretary violated federal law Read more |
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'A Change Is Gonna Come': Poll Shows Democratic Voters Like Socialism More Than Capitalism "The system has failed tens of millions of people who want and deserve something better." Read more |
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Google Tracking User Data Even When 'Location History' Is Off: AP New investigation by Associated Press shows how iPhone and Android users' location data is still recorded even when they have been misled to believe it isn't Read more |
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'More Questions Than Answers' as Ellison Follows Denial of Abuse Accusations With Silence A former girlfriend accused the lawmaker of domestic assault over the weekend, days before Ellison's primary for Minnesota attorney general Read more |
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'I Just Fight Back': Trump Celebrates Firing of Peter Strzok, FBI Agent at Center of Unhinged Conspiracy Theories The ousted FBI agent's lawyer argued that the decision to terminate Strzok was made "in response to political pressure" and "should be deeply troubling to all Americans" Read more |
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As UN Rights Chief Warns Trump's Press Attacks 'Close to Incitement of Violence,' Newspapers Ready Coordinated Response Trump's anti-media rhetoric could "set in motion a chain of events which could quite easily lead to harm being inflicted on journalists just going about their work." Read more |
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Sharing Family's Immigrant Story, Stephen Miller's Uncle Horrified by His Xenophobic, Hypocritical Nephew Chief artchitect of Trump's racist immigration policies receives tough review from family member with brutal op-ed from his mother's brother Read more |
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Here's the Video of Schoolchildren Just Moments Before Being Massacred by U.S.-Backed Saudi Bombing "This blood is on America's hands, as long as we keep sending the bombs that kill so many Yemenis." Read more |
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Healthcare Activist Ady Barkan, Reproductive Rights Leaders Call on Collins and GOP Colleagues to #StopKavanaugh "This is all hands on deck. What we saw with the ACA is that people just didn't quit. We need to do that now," says Cecile Richards Read more |
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Heather Heyer Remembered 'for Daring to Stand Up' as Anti-Racists Counter DC White Supremacist Rally "Today, we honor Heather, and all who stood up to hate, by recommitting ourselves to fighting all forms of racism and bigotry." Read more |
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As Victims' Families Fight for Justice, Secret Report Details How Israel Used Armed Drone to Kill Gazan Children Israel's use of the technology to kill Palestinians, says the families' attorney, raises "many questions concerning human judgment, ethics, and compliance with international humanitarian law." Read more |
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'Dragging Their Feet': Trump Admin Delays Closure of Texas 'Tent City' for Migrant Children—Again State lawmakers who toured the facility say the delay is due to the federal government's backlog of background checks and fingerprints Read more |
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Facing Insider Trading Charges, Trump's First Congressional Backer Suspends Re-Election Campaign After ethics watchdogs called for investigations for more than a year, Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) was arrested on Wednesday Read more |
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'Absolute Failure': DNC Passes Perez Resolution Reversing Ban on Donations From Fossil Fuel PACs Activists immediately denounced the measure, which "also recommits the party to an 'all of the above' energy stance." Read more |
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'Guilty on All Counts!': In Historic Victory, Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Roundup Cancer Lawsuit "This is a company that has always put profits ahead of public safety, and today, Monsanto has finally been held accountable." Read more |
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'Disaster Capitalism Strikes Again!': Puerto Rico's High Court Gives Green Light to Charter Schools, Vouchers New ruling overturns finding by lower court that charters and vouchers—part of the island's education overhaul post-hurricane—were unconstitutional Read more |
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In Latest 'Shameful Abdication' of Duty to Students, DeVos Moves to 'Unshackle' For-Profit Colleges Peddling Useless Degrees "There is no line Secretary DeVos won't cross to pad the pockets of for-profit colleges." Read more |
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Anti-Pipeline Kayaktivists Hit With Felony Charges Under Louisiana's New ALEC-Inspired Law That Criminalizes Protest Activists battling the pipeline project say the fossil fuel company's private security "abducted" the kayakers before they were charged by police Read more |
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Progressives 'Furious' After Report of DNC Proposal to Reverse Ban on Fossil Fuel Donations "Honestly, these people are bound and determined to deflate and demobilize their base," declared author and activist Naomi Klein Read more |
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As DefCon Begins, Child Hackers Ready to Crack US Voting Systems (Because Adult Hackers Find It Just Too Easy) "These websites are so easy to hack we couldn't give them to adult hackers—they'd be laughed off the stage" Read more |
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Viral Tweet Helps Fuel 5.8 Million Frequent Flyer Mile Donations to Families Separated by Trump A charity dedicated to reuniting refugee families using donated miles expects to be able to help 390 people thanks to the new contributions Read more |
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Racist President at It Again: Trump Claims Kneeling NFL Players 'Unable to Define' What They're Protesting "NFL players have continuously defined what they're protesting: white supremacy, police brutality, and racial injustice. You're not listening." Read more |
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'Peak Dystopia': Chicago Police Bolster Distrust With 'Bait Truck' Full of Nikes in Poor Black Neighborhood Critics called the sting operation "an appalling display of misplaced priorities and a step backwards on the path to trust and legitimacy." Read more |
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In Clear Sign of Progress for Medicare for All Advocates, Insurance and Pharma Giants Build Wall to Defeat Single-Payer "Whether they like it or not, we will succeed in guaranteeing healthcare for all because this is an idea whose time has come." Read more |
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Let the Great Logo Race for Trump's Idiotic Space Force Begin... And the winner is? Not the people who live on Earth. Read more |
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Though "Too Late" Now, Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel's "Torture Journaling" Critics say this "detailed account" of the CIA director's role "in horrendous acts of torture" further confirms "that she is totally unfit to lead the agency." Read more |
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Dismissing Ben Shapiro's Debate Offer as 'Just Like Catcalling,' Ocasio-Cortez Says 'Men With Bad Intentions' Don't Deserve a Response "I don't owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions. And also like catcalling, for some reason they feel entitled to one." Read more |
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With Crucial California Bill Back in Play, California Lawmakers Warned: Back Net Neutrality or "Feel Constituents' Wrath" "California assemblymembers won't get a second chance and they need to decide immediately to either side with the public or be willing to pay the price for catering to big telecoms." Read more |