All News Articles for 2020-01-16

Thursday, January 16, 2020
With Bernhardt Running Trump's Interior Dept., Former Corporate Clients Lavishing Tens of Millions in New Lobby Spending
"The corruption is absolutely shameless."
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Activists rally against President Donald Trump's reported plans to loosen Wall Street Regulations and repeal the Dodd-Frank Act outside of Goldman Sachs headquarters in Lower Manhattan, February 7, 2017 in New York City. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) 'I Made a Lot of Bankers Look Very Good,' Brags Trump as Wall Street Titans Enjoy $32 Billion Tax Bonanza
"It looks like Trump just let the six largest banks 'get away with murder' something he promised he wouldn't do as president," said a senior advisor to Bernie Sanders in response.
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Florida voters in November 2018 overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to 1.4 million people with past felony convictions. It's 2020 and Florida's Supreme Court Just Ruled in Favor of a Poll Tax
"Florida cannot violate the U.S. Constitution's protections. The right to vote cannot be contingent on the ability to pay."
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Dead common murres 'Scale of This Failure Has No Precedent': Scientists Say Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds
The lead author called the mass die-off "a red-flag warning about the tremendous impact sustained ocean warming can have on the marine ecosystem."
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Right-Wing 'Review Boards' in Missouri Would Pave Way for Arresting Librarians Over Books Deemed 'Inappropriate'
"Every reader and writer in the country should be horrified, absolutely horrified, at this bill."
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Sanders and Schumer Schumer Praised for Joining Sanders in Voting Against Trump Trade Deal That Ignores Climate Crisis
After the Senate passed USMCA, one activist said that "there is no excuse for any Democrat to vote for a trade deal that compromises our climate."
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Harvard Law School students demonstrate against a recruitment dinner hosted by Paul Weiss, a law firm representing ExxonMobil. Harvard Law School Students Disrupt Recruitment Event, Calling on Major Law Firm to #DropExxon
"This is a do-or-die moment in human history."
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Free Press Advocates Decry 'Unprecedented' and 'Unjustified' Restrictions on Reporter Access to Trump Impeachment Trial
"Americans expect and deserve a fully transparent impeachment trial... For the Senate to produce anything less would be a show of GOP contempt for the American people."
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mick and trump Senate Urged to Convict Trump After GAO Says White House Broke Law by Freezing Ukraine Aid
The federal watchdog's decision "should be a call to action for every senator to put country over party and vote to remove Trump from office."
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Lev Parnas arrives at Federal Court on December 17, 2019 in New York City. In Explosive Interviews, Giuliani Sidekick Lev Parnas Says Trump 'Lied' and 'Knew Exactly What Was Going On'
"It was all about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden. It was never about corruption."
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) greets Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (R) as former Vice President Joe Biden looks on ahead of the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) Progressive Groups Urge Sanders-Warren Unity to Defeat Corporate Democrats in Primary—and Then Donald Trump
"When progressives fight each other, the establishment wins."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Standing With Labor, Farmers, and Climate Groups on Trump Trade Deal, Sanders Vows to Vote Against NAFTA 2.0
"In my view, we need to rewrite this trade agreement to stop the outsourcing of American jobs, to combat climate change, to protect the environment, and stop the destructive race to the bottom."
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