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Moms' Group Sounds Alarm Over Worst GOP Bill "You've Never Heard Of" The environmental group Clean Air Moms Action released a new ad campaign Monday urging voters to fight back against two pending Republican anti-regulation laws. The ad is being run in five states where Democratic incumbent senators will be up for re-election in highly-anticipated races in 2018. It... Read more |
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Calling Trump an "Embarrassment," Sanders Says Organized Labor Key to Nation's Future "We're not going to rebuild the shrinking middle class unless we rebuild the trade union movement," declares Sen. Bernie Sanders at Indiana rall Read more |
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Giving Middle Finger to Appalachian Communities, Trump Kills Study of Mountaintop Removal Health Impacts Outrage has followed the Trump administration's decision late last week to put the brakes on a study into the health impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining in Central Appalachia. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said Monday it received a letter from the Interior... Read more |
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With Trump, Warns Scahill, "Unelected National Security Apparatus" Now Unleashed Ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's Monday night speech to outline his strategy for the 16-year-war in Afghanistan—which reportedly will be " a total abandonment" of his campaign promises and "a continuation of a failed strategy taken by his two predecessors" —journalist and foreign policy... Read more |
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Total Solar Eclipse Awes Onlookers Across United States People across the United States are looking toward the sky on Monday afternoon as a rare total solar eclipses occurs from coast to coast. Those gathered in Oregon were the first to get a view of the full eclipse: First glimpse of #SolarEclipse2017 totality in Oregon! Take a look here and watch our... Read more |
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Will Trump Pardon Notorious Sheriff Arpaio? Trump Rally Raises Tensions in Phoenix The people of Phoenix, Arizona are mobilizing ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to the city on Tuesday—a week after he defended white supremacists—amid speculation over whether he will announce at the rally a presidential pardon for Joe Arpaio, the notorious former sheriff of Maricopa County... Read more |
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Replicating Obama Failure, Trump Expected to Bolster Endless Afghan War With Troop Surge After months of delay and an apparently "tortured search" to come up with a "winning" strategy for Afghanistan, what President Donald Trump will announce Monday evening looks like it will be nothing more than an extension of the failed strategy that has kept U.S. forces in the country for 16 years... Read more |
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Demanding Ban on Killer Robots, Tech Experts Warn of Opening "This Pandora's Box" More than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) experts published on Monday an open letter urging the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots. "Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare" —letter from tech experts "Lethal autonomous... Read more |
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Progressive Armies Mobilize Against GOP Tax Cuts for Corporations and Wealthy The August recess isn't over yet, but progressive organizations are using the time to mobilize against looming Republican plans—spearheaded by the Trump administration in the White House and by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in Congress—to give corporations and the nation's wealthiest... Read more |
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Comedian and Civil Rights Icon Dick Gregory Dies at 84 The legendary comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory died Saturday at the age of 84. Gregory's son Christian announced the news on social media Saturday night. "It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family confirms that their father, comedic legend, and civil rights activist Mr... Read more |
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'He's Not Slowing Down': Sanders to Rip Trump, Push for Single Payer on Midwest Tour "What we want to do is hold some of the politicians accountable for some of the campaign promises made and bring attention to the fact that something needs to change." Read more |
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North Korea Warns US-South Korea War Games Driving Toward 'Uncontrollable Nuclear War' With the United States and South Korea set to begin joint military exercises on Monday—and as Trump administration officials attempt to de-escalate tensions after the president threatened to bring " fire and fury " upon North Korea—the regime of Kim Jong-un published an editorial in a state-run... Read more |
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Trump 'Wave of Destruction' Continues With Decision to Disband Key Climate Panel "I think it's going to be a serious handicap for us that the advisory committee is not functional," said Richard Wright, former chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate. Read more |
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'Blatant Smear': Trump Attacks Boston Anti-Racism Demonstrators as 'Anti-Police Agitators' "Again, this man attacks anti-Nazi protesters. He's determined to create a culture war in America to distract from his unethical failures." Read more |
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As Alt-Right Gathers in Boston, Thousands Counter With Rally to 'Fight Supremacy' Update : It appears that the alt-right "rally" ended hours ahead of schedule, thanks at least in part to the remarkable size of the counter-demonstration. "Thousands of counter-protesters remain in Boston," noted Mic 's Jack Smith. "The right-wing rally is totally empty." "You couldn't even call it... Read more |
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'Swamp's Doing Fine': Amid White House Turmoil, Trump Cozies Up to Right-Wing Donors "It appears that President Donald Trump can still count on one bedrock of stability: major right-wing donors." Read more |
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Citing 'Hateful Rhetoric' of Trump, Arts & Humanities Council Resigns En Masse In a strong rebuke of President Donald Trump equating white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend with counter-protesters who demonstrated against bigotry, all members of the president's Committee on the Arts and Humanities announced their resignations Friday—and urged... Read more |
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Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Ruling Against Major Pipeline Environmentalists are celebrating a federal appeals court ruling on Friday that reaffirmed New York State's decision to block a 124-mile natural gas pipeline project. "Today's ruling confirms the independent authority and responsibility of states to protect their waterbodies from natural gas... Read more |
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Bannon's Ouster Welcomed, But Much Bigger Problem Remains in White House: Trump "The problem was never just Steve Bannon. It was and always will be Donald Trump." That's how Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) responded to news that Friday would the last day on the job for Trump's top political strategist. "The larger and more urgent crisis however is that a white supremacist... Read more |
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Despite Harsh Rebuke for Charlottesville Stance, Trump's Base Remains Loyal While many in the news media, in Washington, across social media, and in the streets have swiftly condemned President Donald Trump for his comments asserting that both the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia and the counter-protesters who demonstrated against the so-called... Read more |
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Al Gore Has Just One Small Bit of Advice for Trump: 'Resign' "If you had to give Trump one piece of advice, what would it be?" "Resign," said former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore, in an interview with the website LADbible . Watch: Gore's call for President Donald Trump to resign comes amid speculation that Trump will leave office early,... Read more |
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The Magazine Covers Trump Earned This Week By Defending White Supremacy Remember when President Donald Trump was famously called out earlier this summer when it emerged there were fake magazine covers featuring him posted at some of his private gold clubs? Well, in the aftermath of his disastrous , " embarrassing ," and infuriating defense of white supremacists in... Read more |
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'Downright Unconstitutional': Gorsuch Slammed for Headlining Event at Trump Hotel "Especially as many Trump decisions are likely soon to reach the court's docket, a healthy respect for public confidence in the court should have led Justice Gorsuch to demur." Read more |
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ACLU Shifts Position on Defending Armed Demonstrations After Charlottesville The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will no longer defend groups that insist on marching with firearms, following violent gatherings of white supremacists in Charlottesville , Virginia last weekend. "If a protest group insists, 'No, we want to be able to carry loaded firearms,' well, we don't... Read more |
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Heather Heyer's Mom Won't Talk to Trump 'After What He Said About My Child' Susan Bro spoke about the loss of her daughter, Heather Heyer, in an interview with Good Morning America on Friday, saying she will not speak with President Donald Trump now after seeing his latest press conference on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. "I'm not... Read more |
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Centrist Democrats Riled as Warren Says Days of 'Lukewarm' Policies Are Over In a wide-ranging and fiery keynote speech last weekend at the 12th annual Netroots Nation conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) relentlessly derided moderate Democratic pundits calling for the party to move " back to the center " and declared that Democrats must... Read more |
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After Charlottesville, Republicans Defend Bills to Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters Following Heather Heyer death on Saturday—killed when a suspected Nazi sympathizer allegedly drove his car into a crowd of people counter-protesting violent white supremacist gatherings in Charlottesville , Virginia—Republican lawmakers have doubled down on proposals that critics say offer immunity... Read more |
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In Support of Eight Arrested for Toppling Durham Statue, Hundreds Turn Themselves In More than 200 Durham, North Carolina residents stood outside a jail on Thursday, attempting to turn themselves in for the removal of the city's Confederate Soldiers Monument—to protest the arrests of eight people who have been accused of dismantling the monument. The group chanted, "Thank you, we... Read more |
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After Attack in Spain, Trump Invokes 'Vile' Myth Celebrating Mass Execution of Muslims As Barcelona, Spain reeled from an attack on Thursday that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured, President Donald Trump quickly took to Twitter to both denounce the attack and recount a " vile " myth that claims a U.S. general— though the story has been thoroughly debunked — executed 49... Read more |
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Trump on the Brink? Impeachment Support Grows Amid Speculation He'll Resign As the majority of Americans and his own party denounce the president's response to Charlottesville, Democrats move to impeach him Read more |
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As Removal Movement Grows, Trump Sides With White Supremacists on Confederate Monuments Critics were quick to point out that President Donald Trump has once again put himself on the wrong side of efforts to combat racism and address white supremacy when he defended "beautiful" Confederate monuments in a Thursday morning tweet. Trump tripled down on his failure to condemn last weekend'... Read more |
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'Hope Not Hatred': Thousands Gather Across US in Rebuke to Trump, Neo-Nazis Replacing torches with candles and hate with hope, thousands gathered across the United States Wednesday night to mourn the death of Heather Heyer and stand peacefully against the violence perpetrated by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. "There seem to be way more people with... Read more |
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Duterte, Recipient of Trump Praise, Just Threatened to Have Human Rights Activists Shot As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly "war on drugs"—which U.S. President Donald Trump has praised as an " unbelievable " success—has continued to intensify in recent days with at least 60 people killed this week, Duterte raised further alarm on Wednesday by suggesting that human rights... Read more |
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"DEFCON 1-Level Bad": Uproar After Steve Bannon Gets Loose With Lefty Magazine In the wake of a site-crashing interview with the founder and editor of The American Prospect —in which he talked about administration in-fighting, tensions with North Korea, looming economic war with China, and his high hopes for Democrat's focus on identity politics—top Trump advisor Steve Bannon... Read more |
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Four Arrested for Toppling Confederate Statue, But Zero Neo-Nazis Yet Arrested for This Brutal Beating As communities across the United States enact or expedite plans to take down monuments revering those who advocated for white supremacy and slavery, police in Durham, North Carolina have arrested four people for their alleged roles in toppling a statue of a Confederate soldier. Meanwhile in... Read more |
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Stranding CEOs Too Slow To Quit, Trump Disbands His Own Business Councils "Trump aides: History is pounding its knuckles on the White House door and shouting that it's time to leave." Read more |
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Murder of Heather Heyer Only "Magnified Her," Mom Tells White Supremacists "I'd rather have my child, but by golly, if I gotta give her up, we're gonna make it count." Read more |
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Oregon Lauded as Progressive Model for Reproductive Healthcare Reform As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed on Tuesday a law that bans state insurance providers from covering abortion, pro-choice advocates celebrated a bill signed by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown that proponents are calling the nation's most progressive reproductive healthcare policy. "There is still work to be... Read more |
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'Embarrassing' for US, Trump Defense of Neo-Nazi Rally Stuns People Worldwide Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) charged President Donald Trump with "embarrassing" his own country during a press conference on Tuesday—and the overnight evidence suggests he's exactly right. President Donald Trump's defense of last weekend's violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was met... Read more |
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Trump Inner-Circle Privately "Appalled" and "Disgusted." Publicly? Dead Silent "What is more cowardly than dispatching anonymous sources to claim you're 'upset' while lacking the courage to just say so yourself?" Read more |
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GOP Senator Drowned Out By Cheers for 'Single Payer' at Town Hall When Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) took the stage at a scheduled town hall on Tuesday in Greeley, Colorado, he apparently didn't expect to be confronted by a crowd full of enthusiastic supporters of single-payer healthcare. "Just in general, the stuff Colorado stands for, I feel like Trump and... Read more |
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Mark Ruffalo, Michael Moore Lead NYC Protest Against 'Absolutely Racist' Trump On the heels of President Donald Trump's " unhinged " press conference Tuesday, filmmaker Michael Moore arranged for buses to transport the audience of his broadway show "The Terms of My Surrender" to Trump Tower to protest the president's defense of white supremacists and mourn the death of... Read more |
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CBO: Trump's Plan to Sabotage ACA Would Skyrocket Premiums The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Tuesday that premiums for many Americans would go up by 20 percent in 2018, should President Donald Trump follow through on his threats to stop paying the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing subsidies to insurance companies. The subsidies allow insurance... Read more |
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'This Is Sick': Unscripted and Unhinged Trump Reverts to Defending Neo-Nazis David Duke among white supremacists thanking president for standing up for "the truth" on Charlottesville Read more |
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Ignoring Threat of Rising Seas, Trump Eliminates Flood Risk Standards On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reportedly eliminates flood-risk standards for federally funded public infrastructure projects—in a purported effort to expedite the approval process for projects such as highways and bridges, as part of his $1 trillion... Read more |
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#DefendDACA: Nationwide Rallies Demand Protection for Young Immigrants Immigrant rights advocates are staging protests in at least 40 cities across the country Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to uphold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, ahead of a fast-approaching deadline that could mean an end to the Obama-era law. Tuesday marks the fifth... Read more |
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Ahead of Charlottesville, Trump Cut Funds for Group Fighting White Supremacy A few weeks before Heather Heyer was murdered and many others were injured after a coalition of hate groups gathered violently in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Trump administration—under guidance from trusted aides such as Katharine Gorka—revoked a $400,000 federal grant from a U.S. nonprofit... Read more |
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Hours After Trump Finally Denounced White Supremacists... A Racist Tweet Critics call on president to stop engaging on "racial dog whistles" with far-right elements Read more |
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Trump DOJ Wants Info on Every Person Who Visited Anti-Trump Protest Site Decrying it as "investigatory overreach" and a "clear abuse of government authority," web hosting provider DreamHost is challenging a request it received from the Justice Department for information about visitors to a client's site used to organize protests against President Donald Trump on his... Read more |
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'Shame! Shame!': New Yorkers Surround Trump Tower to Protest President's Return Protesters on Fifth Ave. in New York City shouted "Shame! Shame! Shame!" as President Donald Trump returned to Trump Tower Monday night for the first time since he took office in January. Thousands of people—and an inflatable rat designed to resemble Trump—filled the streets of Midtown letting the... Read more |
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Michael Moore: Don't Lose Sight of the 'Horror' Trump Inflicts Every Single Day During an appearance on MSNBC 's "The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell" Monday night, filmmaker Michael Moore urged Americans to keep their eyes on the entirety of President Donald Trump's policy agenda, even as "our attention is rightly on what's going on in Virginia and around the country." "... Read more |
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'Grandstanders': Trump Lashes Out as CEOs Pressured to Denounce Racism The CEOs of some of America's largest companies are rushing to distance themselves from President Donald Trump following his failure to immediately denounce white supremacist violence —and the president is lashing out. Business leaders once hailed by Trump as geniuses were ripped as " grandstanders... Read more |
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Federal Agencies Warned of White Supremacist Threat in May A government intelligence report obtained by Foreign Policy shows that federal law enforcement agencies expressed concern earlier this year about the domestic threat white supremacist groups posed and would continue to pose. While President Donald Trump spent much of his campaign and the first six... Read more |
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As Yemen Cholera Cases Reach 500,000, US and UK Condemned for Complicity The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached 500,000. "In backing this war with billions of dollars of arms sales and military support, the U.S. and the U.K. are complicit in the suffering of millions of people in Yemen." —Katy Wright... Read more |
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Dems Demand Answers About FCC's Apparent Favoritism Toward Sinclair As the New York Times published a scathing new report detailing how Sinclair Broadcast Group "is ridding itself of regulation" on Monday, three ranking Democrats on relevant House of Representatives committees sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman about his agency's... Read more |
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'Not Good Enough': Trump's Charlottesville Speech Slammed as Too Little, Too Late " Not good enough ." " Insufficient ." " Too little, too late ." "It is a sad state of affairs when it's a news story that the president of the United States condemns racism and white supremacy." —Vanita Gupta, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights These were just some of the words... Read more |
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Critics Condemn Trump Administration's "Assault on America's Water Resources" Scientists and environmentalists are condemning the Trump administration for waging war on regulations that aim to preserve U.S. water resources. "The Republican Party is moving rapidly to become the party of dirty water." —Peter Gleick, U.S. National Academy of Science "Candidate and now President... Read more |
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Trump's Threats of Military Action in Venezuela Rejected Across Latin America The Venezuelan opposition and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos have both joined the growing chorus of voices in Latin America warning the Trump administration against any possibility of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. Vice President Mike Pence's trip to four countries in Latin... Read more |
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In Massive 'Outpouring of Solidarity,' Thousands Rally for Charlottesville Thousands of Americans in cities across the country rallied Sunday night to denounce the racism displayed at the so-called " Unite the Right " rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, and to mourn the death of Heather Heyer , an activist who was killed Saturday during an anti-racist... Read more |
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While Trump Equivocates on Charlottesville, Nationwide Rallies to Denounce White Supremacy Hundreds of planned vigils and events will "mourn for the lives that were lost" and "honor all those under attack by congregating against hate." Read more |
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Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — There was nothing haphazard about the violence that erupted Saturday in this bucolic town in Virginia’s heartland. At about 10 a.m., at one of countless such confrontations, an angry mob of white supremacists formed a battle line across from a group of counter-protesters,... Read more |
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Proud Mother Says Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer 'Was About Stopping Hatred' Though there is much more to learn about the lone victim—identified by family and friends on Sunday as Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal from Virginia —who lost her life in the vicious attack in Charlottesville on a group of anti-racist demonstrators , the last public message she left behind... Read more |
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Horror in Charlottesville: One Dead After Driver Plows into Anti-Racist Demo Update: In a terrifying scene in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, the driver of a car appeared to intentionally slam into progressive demonstrators marching against a Klu Klux Klan-backed neo-Nazi rally taking place in the city. According to the Associated Press , at least one person was... Read more |
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Venezuela: Trump Threat of US Military Intervention "Madness" of US Imperialism In response to comments from President Donald Trump that he wouldn't "rule out" a "military option" against Venezuela—currently embroiled in domestic political conflict as neoliberal forces challenge the socialist-led government of President Nicholas Maduro—the nation's top officials characterized... Read more |
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White Supremacists, Armed With Tiki Torches and Hate, Denounced at UVA After a couple hundred white supremacists marched across the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville with store-bought Tiki torches Friday night, their rally descended into violence after fights broke out with UVA students and others who have also organized this weekend to oppose and... Read more |
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Universal Basic Income Needed to Break 'Addiction to Economic Growth Killing Us' As some tech giants throw their weight behind the idea of a universal basic income, one anthropologist says it's a key component of a strategy to break the "addiction to economic growth [that] is killing us" and the planet. Offering his views this week on BBC 's "Viewsnight," Jason Hickel, an... Read more |
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Trump's Profits at D.C. Hotel Show Clear Violation of Constitution, Lawmakers Say Critics of President Donald Trump raised alarm on Friday regarding the profits he's made off the presidency, particularly at his hotel in Washington, D.C.—with lawmakers saying such profits bolster their case that Trump has violated the Constitution's Emoluments Clause. Government documents... Read more |
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Critics Wary of Wisconsin Gov. Walker's Plan to Push Through Foxconn Deal Critics are raising doubts about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's plan to bring the Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn to the state, by way of a $3 billion dollar investment to fund a huge new factory in the southeastern part of the state. While the project has been heralded as an example of Walker's... Read more |
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Keystone XL Foes Vow to Put Their Bodies on the Line to Protect the Planet As Nebraska's Keystone XL pipeline hearings came to a close on Thursday, Indigenous tribes and environmentalists vowed to put their "bodies on the line" to stop a project they have argued would be a "disaster for people, wildlife, and the planet." "As the state of Nebraska stands poised to make a... Read more |
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As US Bombs Kill More Afghan Women and Kids, McCain's Plan? More War On the same day a bombing by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan reportedly killed 11 Afghan civilians, including women and children, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) offered up his proposal for "winning" the 16-year-long war in Afghanistan on Thursday by essentially calling for it to continue endlessly... Read more |
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'Wrong Way to Go': Experts Warn Trump Opioid Declaration Could Revitalize Failed War on Drugs Drug policy experts are critical of the praise that some have given President Donald Trump following his announcement Thursday that he would classify the opioid epidemic a national emergency. An emergency declaration regarding a public health crisis can put pressure on Congress to increase funding... Read more |
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Corporations Complain Their Taxes So High, But New Study Busts That Myth Corporate profits are up. Wages remain low. And, as always, the richest are angling for ever-lower tax rates. Read more |
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8 in 10 Americans Fear Nuclear War as Trump Says US 'Locked and Loaded' New poll results released Friday, provided exclusively to Axios , show that more than 8 in 10 Americans are fearful of nuclear war breaking out between the United States and North Korea. And why shouldn't people be afraid? Early Friday morning, the president said the U.S. military is "locked and... Read more |
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More Than 60 House Dems Denounce Trump for 'Raising the Specter of Nuclear War' "Trump must immediately cease talk of pre-emptive war—which must be authorized by Congress—and commit to the diplomatic path advocated by both American experts and the South Korean government." —Rep. John Conyers In a letter delivered to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday, 62 House... Read more |
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60 Percent Drop in Fines Shows Corporate Polluters Have Little to Fear From Trump "President Trump campaigned on a promise of 'law and order,' but apparently law enforcement for big polluters is not what he had in mind." Read more |
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Denier-in-Chief Trump Should Read NOAA's Frightening New Climate Report With a climate denier in the Oval Office, a " fossil fuel puppet " heading the Environmental Protection Agency, and Big Oil lobbyists filling the ranks of secretive deregulatory teams, a new report by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that 2016 was the hottest—and in... Read more |
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Analysis Shows Trump/GOP Sabotage to Blame for Coming Insurance Premium Hikes In a report released Thursday, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found that President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans' recent actions on healthcare legislation will likely cause double-digit insurance premium hikes for millions of Americans in 2018. Amid repeated attempts by Republicans... Read more |
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'Slippery Slope to Dictatorship': Majority of GOP Would Back Trump Postponing 2020 Elections Identifying it as part of the "slippery slope to dictatorship," critics are pointing to a new poll as evidence that Trump's base would likely support him even if he were to propose postponing the 2020 elections. Sixty-eight percent of voters polled by two researchers believed the president's... Read more |
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70 Percent of Americans Think Mueller Should Be Free to Go After Trump's Finances President Donald Trump has stated openly that his and his family's finances should be off limits to special counsel Robert Mueller—who is investigating possible collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia—but a new poll published Thursday shows that large majority of Americans... Read more |
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'Negotiate, Don't Escalate': Demands for Peace as Nuclear Threat Looms Following the " terrifying " exchange of threats between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a coalition of anti-war groups held an emergency rally outside of the White House Wednesday night to commemorate the anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki and "take... Read more |
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Why Was There a Huge Trump-Like Chicken Outside the White House? A giant inflatable Trump-like Chicken appeared outside the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday sparking widespread concern—but mostly laughter. According to the New York Daily News : The puffed-up poultry appears to be the same model that was created last year in China to celebrate the... Read more |
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Trump's Continued Silence on Minn. Mosque Attack 'An Outrage,' Says Rep. Ellison President Donald Trump's continued silence following the recent bombing of a mosque in a Minneapolis suburb "is an outrage," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said Wednesday. The explosion at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn., took place Saturday morning. While no one was injured... Read more |
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Canada Builds Border Camp for Asylum Seekers Fleeing US Canada's military has troops assembling heated tents that will be capable of temporarily housing up to 500 asylum seekers who continue crossing into the country where it borders New York State. "Around 250 asylum seekers are arriving each day in Montreal, the largest city in Canada's mainly French-... Read more |
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Pence's Indiana 'Cautionary Tale' for Privatizing Infrastructure Projects President Donald Trump has proposed a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure with a maligned plan that partly relies on enticing rich developers into overhauling public services—a model lauded and previously utilized by Vice President Mike Pence, who has come under fire for road privatization... Read more |
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The 1% Is Organized and Coming for Its Tax Cuts. Is the Resistance Ready? New details emerge of Republicans' effort to ensure that their bid to rewrite the tax code doesn't suffer the same fate as healthcare Read more |
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Critics Slam Trump's 'Substance-Free' Plan to Address Opioid Crisis While President Donald Trump's briefing on the current opioid epidemic in the U.S. on Tuesday was dominated by his aggressive threat to respond to North Korea's nuclear development program with "fire and fury," the president's comments on the opioid crisis were also met with concern by drug policy... Read more |
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Megachurch Pastor Says Trump Has God's Approval to Start Nuclear War Comments by president's spiritual advisor sparks condemnation amid "fire and fury" threats against North Korea Read more |
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'Stop the Insanity': Demand Grows to Strip Trump of Nuclear Authority The morning following his " fire and fury " remarks on Tuesday—which promised retaliation if the North Korean regime continues to threaten the United States—President Donald Trump took to Twitter to praise America's "powerful" nuclear arsenal, comments that intensified the groundswell of calls to... Read more |
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Trump DOJ's Latest Move Confirms "Worst Fears" About Voting Rights Legal experts and voting rights advocates are raising alarms about a reversal in the Justice Department's long-standing interpretation of a federal law that dictates when and how states can purge voters from their rolls. Regarding the pending Supreme Court case Husted v A. Philip Randolph Institute... Read more |
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With Resistance Recess, Groups Fight for Congress That 'Puts People Before Profits' Summer recess began for members of Congress last week shortly following Senate Republicans' deeply unpopular and ultimately unsuccessful push to repeal the Affordable Care Act—but lawmakers shouldn't anticipate a restful vacation. "If Democrats want to win in 2018 and take our country back from the... Read more |
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Sane Voices Urge Diplomacy After 'Lunatic' Trump Threatens 'Fire and Fury' "That this threat comes between the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki underlines the president’s dangerous lack of appreciation of the horror and evil of nuclear war." Read more |
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After 200 Days of Trump, Poll Shows Base (Finally) Abandoning President President Donald Trump's support has been on the decline since he entered office in January—but in a new poll from CNN, the president's popularity among his previously-solid base is shown to be crumbling. The newest numbers (pdf) suggest that even as Trump holds rallies in states that have been... Read more |
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'Make Your Stand': Medicare for All Supporters Ready to Hold Dems to Account "We're not going to accept no more hemming and hawing. No more game playing." Read more |
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Trump Embraces Duterte as Endless US War Expands in Philippines News that the Trump administration is gearing up to expand the global war on terror into its eighth country, the Philippines, arrived on Monday shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was pictured smiling and glad-handing with President Rodrigo Duterte, the nation's controversial leader... Read more |
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Fearing Trump Censorship, Govt. Scientists Leak Alarming Climate Report A leaked draft of an extensive federal climate change report is causing alarm on Tuesday—both because of its findings, which make clear that the U.S. is currently experiencing the effects of climate change, and because of statements by the report's authors, who say they're concerned President... Read more |
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Blackwater Founder's 'Disturbing' Plan to Privatize Afghan War Gains Ground As President Donald Trump vents his frustration with the United States' "losing" strategy in Afghanistan, the " notorious mercenary " and Blackwater founder Erik Prince has seized the moment to offer his favored alternative: privatize the war. "A private air force and a bombing app! From the people... Read more |
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Why on Earth Is Trump Attacking Nation's Nursing Home Population? Proposed rule called "disturbing" new direction for federal agency which "should be protecting patients, not making it easier for facilities to harm them and cover it up." Read more |
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Emails Show USDA Staff Told to 'Avoid' Term 'Climate Change' Under Trump Staffers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) service responsible for helping American farmers with conservation efforts were instructed by top officials to avoid the term "climate change" shortly after President Donald Trump took office, according to emails (pdf) obtained by the Guardian... Read more |
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As US Inequality Breeds Oligarchy, New Report Details Pathway to Equity Pervasive and growing inequality is corroding American democracy, and only ambitious solutions—including healthcare for all, a living wage, and the elimination of corporate money from the political process—will be sufficient to remedy the crisis. That is the conclusion of a new report published... Read more |
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'Brazen Attack on Media Freedom': Critics Blast Israel's Move to Ban Al Jazeera As journalists and free press advocates continued to condemn the Israeli government's move to shutter Al Jazeera 's Jerusalem office and revoke its journalists' press credentials, the media network responded early Monday, denouncing "this decision made by a state that claims to be 'the only... Read more |