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With Wildfires Tearing Through the West, Biden Slams Trump Denial and Calls Climate Crisis an 'Imminent, Existential Threat' "Biden and Harris should be repeating this message every hour of every day," said the youth-led Sunrise Movement. Read more |
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Condemning 'Attempt at Voter Suppression,' Colorado Sues DeJoy Over Misleading Postal Service Mailers "The importance of this election, combined with the fact it is being held amidst a national pandemic, further heightens the need to provide correct voting information to Coloradans." Read more |
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WATCH: Bernie Sanders Hosts 'Fighting for Justice in Michigan' Town Hall With Rashida Tlaib "Together, we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in our modern history." Read more |
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'Do Not Do What the President Directs,' Warns North Carolina AG as Trump—Once Again—Urges Residents to Commit Felony by Voting Twice "Do NOT vote twice (it's a felony), or waste your time, or unnecessarily risk exposure to more people." Read more |
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'Beyond Suspect': States Warn DeJoy-Led Postal Service Is Sending Misinformation About Voting to Millions of Americans " Confusing voters about mail ballots in the middle of a pandemic is unacceptable." Read more |
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Watchdog Group Files FEC Complaint Against DeJoy for 'Orchestrating an Illegal Straw Donor Scheme to Help Elect Republicans' "As Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy has done potentially irreparable damage to Americans' ability to vote safely in this election. It does not come as a surprise he apparently has a history of electoral malfeasance." Read more |
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'Downright Criminal': Leaked Emails Reveal Effort by Trump Aides to Censor and Alter CDC Covid Reports Behind Closed Doors "A Trump stooge with a history of racist statements and no medical background is doctoring CDC reports warning Americans on Covid because they make Trump look bad." Read more |
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Bernie-Inspired Organizers and Rhode Island Voters Deliver 'Crystal Clear Message' With Progressive Primary Wave "No one is entitled to their seats," said Medicare for All advocate Cynthia Mendes after winning a high-profile race. "If you're not working for people, you will be replaced." Read more |
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With Integrity of Election at Stake, 14 States Demand Injunction to Stop DeJoy's Sabotage of US Postal Service, Mail-In Voting "With the national election less than two months away, we are seeking a judicial order protecting this critical government service." Read more |
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UN: Israeli Demolition of Palestinian Homes Increases Despite Pandemic Dozens of Palestinians were recently displaced because Israeli authorities destroyed their homes, even as Covid-19 cases increased by a third. Read more |
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Fauci Warns Pre-Pandemic Normalcy Not Likely Until 'Well Into' or 'Towards the End of 2021' The public health expert also addressed the need to reduce cases headed into fall, halted vaccine trials, and reported attempts to "muzzle" him. Read more |
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'Reckless, Violent, Massacre' of 570 Wolves and Wolf Pups in Idaho Bolsters Alarm Over Trump Attack on Species Protections Wildlife advocates warn that if a Trump administration effort to lift nationwide protections proceeds, "this cruelty could extend to all wolves within our country's borders." Read more |
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'Incredibly Dark Day for Voting Rights': With Support of Trump Judges, Federal Court Upholds Florida Poll Tax Weeks Before Election "The gravity of this decision cannot be overstated. It is an affront to the spirit of democracy." Read more |
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NYT's Krugman Pilloried on 9/11 Anniversary for Claiming No 'Mass Outbreak of Anti-Muslim Sentiment' in US After 2001 Attacks Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared after 9/11, and thousands of Muslims in the U.S. were detained—and some tortured—in George W. Bush's futile anti-terror dragnet. Read more |
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Fires Ravaging US West a 'Bellwether of the Future,' Says Oregon Governor as Half a Million Residents Evacuate "I wish the 2020 wildfires were an anomaly—but this will not be a one-time event." Read more |
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Survey Shows Nearly Half in US Suffering Serious Economic Hardship—and Situation 'Going to Get Worse' "There is nothing for the people we surveyed who earn under $100,000 a year to fall back on." Read more |
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As NFL Players Offer Show of Unity, Booing by Fans Shows Objections to Protests 'Was Always About Perpetuating White Supremacy' "In the past, folks have claimed to be turned off by the Kaepernick-led protests because they disrespected the flag or the troops or the anthem or the country, or all of the above. That excuse is not applicable for the fans' ugly display Thursday night." Read more |
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New UN Report Recommends ICC Investigate Possible War Crimes by All Sides—Including US-Backed Coalition—in Yemen "Yemen has been ravaged in ways that should shock the conscience of humanity," said one of the report's authors. Read more |
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Teacher Deaths and College-Town Outbreaks Deepen Concern Over Covid-19 Risks Stirred by School Reopenings Rising infections among students and educators as reopenings begin appear to confirm warnings from teachers and parents that schools lack adequate resources to safely restart in-person classes. Read more |
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Federal Court Blocks 'Nakedly Partisan' Trump Effort to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants From Census "President Trump has tried and failed yet again to weaponize the census against immigrant communities." Read more |
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As Fires Engulf West, Democrats Not Running on Trump Climate Failures Accused of 'Political Malpractice' "People are dying and losing their homes and jobs. But politicians in D.C. are sitting on their hands, and the president of the United States is telling people that the solution is to clean up their yards." Read more |
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Sanders Slams Republican Senate for Happily Approving $740 Billion for Pentagon While Doing 'Nothing' to Address Covid Crisis "Instead of more austerity for the working class of this country, we need to impose austerity on the billionaire class and on Wall Street." Read more |
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"It's a Superspreader Event": Few Masks in Sight at Packed Trump Campaign Rally in Michigan "The lives of everyone in these photos—and of everyone they come into contact with in the next few weeks—are now at risk. But Donald Trump doesn't care, so long as his ego is fed." Read more |
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'Appalling Betrayal': New Report Details Dozens of Trump Rollbacks Perpetrated Under Cover of Covid-19 "Nearly 200,000 Americans are dead and more than 6 million have been infected with Covid-19 because of the administration's disastrous response, but Trump's top priority is showering giant corporations with deregulatory special favors," says Matt Kent of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. Read more |
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States Already Out of Unemployment Cash Helps Prove Much-Predicted Failure of Trump's Executive Action on Covid-19 Relief "America's economy is getting hammered, but when those who need help most look to Washington they see Senate Republicans posturing with bad legislation and the White House refusing to negotiate." Read more |
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After 'Disgraceful' GOP Coronavirus Package Defeated, Progressives Demand McConnell 'Get Serious' About Relief "Politicizing our lives for the benefit of partisanship is shameful and we are still demanding that Senate Republicans get back to work and pass legislation that actually matches the scope and size of the dual health and economic crises of this country," said the We Demand More Coalition. Read more |
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'Mandatory for Anyone With an Ounce of Awareness': Climate Coalition Calls on New York State to Divest From Fossil Fuels "We believe we must speak up in the face of the planetary emergency precipitated by the climate crisis." Read more |
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The American West Is Burning But Trump Hasn't Mentioned Historic Wildfires in 'Any Way, Shape, or Form' for Nearly 3 Weeks "President Trump's silence and complete disregard for the millions of people at risk is horrifying," said one climate advocate. Read more |
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'Where Are the Tests?' US Schools Reopen Amid Worrying Lack of Covid-19 Resources for Students, Educators "Sending kids back to school without adequate testing available for them or their younger family members is a recipe for disaster." Read more |
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Faced With Rising Seas and Other Consequences of Climate Crisis, Low-Lying Delaware Sues 31 Fossil Fuel Companies The state attorney general's move came just a day after Charleston, South Carolina became the first southern U.S. city to file a climate liability lawsuit. Read more |
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Stark New Visualizations Show How Climate Change Is Fueling Worsening Western Wildfires "We're seeing more wildfires, more acres burned, and longer, more intense fire seasons," says the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read more |
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'What a Healthy Democracy Should Look Like': Connecticut Small-Dollar Campaign Program a Model for Restoring Power to the People New report details how state initiative leveled the playing field for candidates and ultimately led to better legislative outcomes for communities. Read more |
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"Want to Know What a Worker's Life Is Worth in America?" Trump's OSHA Fines Meat Company Just $13,494 for Infecting 1,294 Employees With Covid "$13,494 is a bug splat on the windshield for this massive company, apparently just like those workers' lives were." Read more |
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'Autocrats Deliver?' US Joins Brazil and Hungary as Only Countries Where Quality of Life Is Getting Worse, Social Progress Index Finds The annual report offers a " reality check against the drumbeat of U.S. triumphalism," one observer said. Read more |
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'Green New Deal or the Blood Red Apocalypse. Your Choice': Dems Urged to Embrace Bold Climate Action as West Burns "This cannot become our new normal." Read more |
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Lawmakers, Progressive Coalition Unveil Framework to Create 'Thriving' Fair and Green Economy in Pandemic Recovery "We have an opportunity to not just recover from these interlocking crises, but to thrive by creating millions of good-paying, union, clean, green jobs while building a more just, healthy, and stable economy that leaves no one behind." Read more |
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Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander—Who Lied About Mass Surveillance—Joins Amazon's Board The former Army general is "personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal," says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Read more |
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'Nature Is Unraveling': New WWF Report Reveals 'Alarming' 68% Plummet in Wildlife Populations Worldwide Since 1970 "In the midst of a global pandemic, it is now more important than ever to take unprecedented and coordinated global action to halt and start to reverse the loss of biodiversity." Read more |
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'One of Many Reasons Why Single Payer Matters': For-Profit Insurers Hitting People With 'Illegal' Bills for Covid Tests "In Canada or the U.K., there are no cracks of this sort: billing the patient like this is simply not allowed," said Dr. Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program. Read more |
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Victory for Mail-In Voting in Tennessee as Federal Judge Rules Against GOP-Enacted State Law "The court recognized that forcing voters to choose between voting and their health violates the Constitution." Read more |
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'Every City Council Should Follow Suit': Portland, Oregon Becomes First US City to Ban Corporate Use of Facial Recognition Surveillance "An enormous victory for the global movement to ban facial recognition and end racist surveillance." Read more |
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'Dereliction of Duty': Outrage as USPS Board Issues Gushing Praise for DeJoy Amid Mail Slowdowns, Medicine Delays, and Straw-Donor Scandal "The Postal Board of Governors met secretly today and issued a statement saying they're fine with DeJoy slowing the mail before an election and they're not worried about any campaign finance violations because DeJoy has decided he's innocent." Read more |
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Emails Show How Trump Official at HHS Tried to Get Fauci to Downplay Covid-19 Threat to School Children "This sort of story will be recalled years from now as an example of the government interfering with science, with predictably disastrous results." Read more |
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'Reckless Homicide': Audio Tapes Reveal Trump Knew Covid-19 Was 'Deadly Stuff' for Months While Publicly Downplaying Threat Critics reserved some outrage for veteran journalist Bob Woodward, who learned the president was lying to the public about the pandemic in March. Read more |
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'Reducing Troops Not the Same as Ending Wars': Peace Activists Say Trump Drawdown in Iraq Not Nearly Enough "Trump is trying to convince voters that is now following through on a campaign promise that he failed to keep in four years and will not fulfill with half measures," says CodePink's Medea Benjamin. Read more |
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With 'Irreparable Damage' Looming, 15 State AGs File Suit to Block Trump From Fossil Fuel Assault on Arctic Refuge "Hard to say what's worse—destroying the nation's largest wildlife refuge, or further inflaming the climate crisis with new oil and gas drilling so a few fossil fuel companies can profit at the people's expense." Read more |
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While Trump Commission Warns of Climate Risk to Financial System, Recommendations 'Fall Short of Direct, Immediate Action' Required "Western states are literally burning up as this report is released," said one climate campaigner. "Its recommendations are minimal." Read more |
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'No Statute of Limitations for Felony' in North Carolina: Watchdog Group Files Official Complaint Demanding DeJoy Probe "No one is above the law, no matter the size of their bank account." Read more |
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'One of the Best Reforms We Can Make' to Improve Democracy: Ranked Choice Voting on the Ballot in Massachusetts Citizens in the Bay State and in Alaska will vote on statewide initiatives on RCV in November. Read more |
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Warren Demands DeJoy Resign or Be Removed After Probe Shows USPS 'Sabotage' Led to 'Potentially Life-Threatening' Medicine Delays "We know Louis DeJoy is sabotaging the Postal Service—and our investigation reveals his scheming has slowed the delivery of mail-order prescription drugs, threatening health risks for millions of Americans during a pandemic." Read more |
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Lula Blasts Bolsonaro and Brazil's Oligarchs for 'Creating a Monster' in Video Seen as Launching Political Comeback Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also accused the current administration of using the coronavirus pandemic as a "weapon of mass destruction." Read more |
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'Entire Western US on Fire' as Region Faces Deadly Flames Compounded by Heatwave, Blackouts, and Coronavirus Seventy wildfires raged across California, Oregon, Washington, and other western states on Wednesday. Read more |
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With World Closing in on Paris Warming Limit, UN Report Makes Case for 'Transformational Action' to Remake Global Economy "Today, the world is at a crucial juncture and we must choose the right path to a green recovery for a better future," says U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Read more |
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Warning of More Pandemics to Come, Public Health Experts Urge Collective Examination of What it Means to Live in 'Harmony with Nature' To mitigate risk, governments and communities must work together to rebuild "the infrastructures of human existence." Read more |
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As Global Population Grows, Ecological Threats and Armed Conflict Could Displace Over 1 Billion People by 2050 "Over the next 30 years lack of access to food and water will only increase without urgent global cooperation," says head of the Institute for Economics & Peace. Read more |
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Saying 'Underlying Premise' of For-Profit System Out Loud, GOP Staffer Punished for Telling Constituent People Don't Deserve Healthcare They Can't Afford The staffer for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis compared obtaining healthcare in the U.S. to purchasing new clothes, telling a three-time cancer survivor, "If I can't afford that dress shirt, I don't get to get it." Read more |
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'How Pathetic': Sanders Rips GOP for Proposing Massive Coal Industry Handout But No Direct Payments to Struggling Americans "While Senate Republicans tell us we can't afford to give $2,000 a month to the working class during the economic crisis, the Covid-19 'relief' bill they just released provides $161 million in corporate welfare to the coal industry during a climate emergency." Read more |
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Barr Slammed for Acting as 'Personal Henchman' of Trump as DOJ Moves to Take Over His Defense in Suit Filed by Rape Accuser "By putting the DOJ to work defending him over conduct that has nothing to do with his official capacity, Trump has taken another giant step toward full-blown authoritarianism." Read more |
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As Covid-19 Cases Surge in Developing Countries, USAID Disbands Coronavirus Task Force Shutting down the agency's task force "won't make Covid-19 go away," one healthcare worker said. Read more |
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As Pandemic Drags On, 'Free Them All' National Days of Action Demand Mass Decarceration Covid-19 turns "every cell and cage into a potential death chamber," organizers say. Read more |
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'Gross Mismanagement' of Public Lands: Trump Administration Urged to Cancel Planned Sales for Oil and Gas Drilling Environmentalists have decried the administration's attempts to expand drilling and fracking as "breathtakingly vicious." Read more |
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'Worst-Case Scenario': Report Finds Sturgis Motorcycle Rally a Superspreader Event Infecting Over 260,000 "These cases represent a cost of over $12.2 billion," researchers wrote. Read more |
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Covid-19 Pandemic Is 'Yet Another Wake-Up Call': 1 in 8 Deaths Across EU Tied to Environmental Pollution "Everyone must understand that by taking care of our planet we are not only saving ecosystems, but also lives, especially the ones who are the most vulnerable." Read more |
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'So Meager It Insults the American People': Democratic Leaders Say GOP Covid-19 Relief Plan Is Dead on Arrival "Senate Republicans appear dead set on another bill which doesn't come close to addressing the problems and is headed nowhere." Read more |
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'This Is What It Has Come To': Amid Fears of Politicization at FDA, Big Pharma Pledge to 'Stand With Science' Is Met With Skepticism "It is simply remarkable and beyond dangerous that President Trump has so politicized the vaccine process to the point that drug corporations—the least trusted industry in America—are now the messengers on vaccine safety." Read more |
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Despite Overseeing Soaring Civilian Casualties, Trump Points Finger at Pentagon Leaders as Warmongers Critics note the president has increased military spending to record levels while fulfilling his promise to "bomb the shit" out of militants—and their families. Read more |
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UN Warns Pandemic-Intensified Famines Are Looming, 'Endangering the Lives of Millions' "A lack of funding for emergency relief and the complications created by the coronavirus scourge have now pushed some of the world's neediest populations closer to famine conditions." Read more |
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'This Is What a Climate Crisis Looks Like': Fires Have Now Burned Record 2 Million Acres in California This Year A spokesperson for CAL FIRE called the news "unnerving," noting that "September and October are historically our worst months for fires." Read more |
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'Horrifically Catastrophic': Report Finds So-Called US War on Terror Has Displaced as Many as 59 Million People "We need a reckoning. We can't simply move on." Read more |
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'Liberal Diversity Is Not Racial Justice': Black Progressives Denounce Claims They Want Wall Street Insiders in Biden Cabinet "We need less Wall Street in the next administration and more working class representation." Read more |
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'People Are Sick and Tired of the Ranting and the Ravings': Sanders Rips Trump Effort to Rush Covid Vaccine for Political Gain "Everybody wants a vaccine, but we want to make sure that that vaccine is safe. We don't want to see that vaccine put on the market for political reasons." Read more |
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Citing 'Criminal Exposure' in Straw-Donor Scheme and Possible Perjury, House Announces Investigation Into DeJoy House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney said the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors should immediately suspend DeJoy as the probe moves forward. Read more |
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"Touted as 'Essential'... Treated as Disposable": Labor Day Anger as Migrant Farm Workers Toil Inside Wildfire Evacuation Zones "For the workers, their hands were forced by a combination of circumstances as toxic as the ash that falls over the region's famous vineyards." Read more |
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'Despicable and Shameless': Outrage Over Duterte Pardon of US Marine who Murdered Trans Woman in Philippines Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton was found guilty of homicide and sentenced in December 2015 to 10 years in prison for strangling and drowning 26-year-old Jennifer Laude to death in an Olongapo hotel. Read more |
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'This is Not Normal': Human Rights, Press Freedom Advocates Denied Remote Access to Assange Hearing The WikiLeaks founder, who exposed U.S. war crimes, faces up to 175 years in prison if the U.K. agrees to extradite Assange. Read more |
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'Hurts to Breathe... to Sleep... to Move... to Eat': In First Public Remarks Since Being Shot, Jacob Blake Describes Constant Pain "Every 24 hours it's pain, nothing but pain." Read more |
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Postmaster General Urged to 'Immediately Step Aside' as North Carolina AG Backs Probe Into Campaign Finance Fraud Allegations "It is extraordinarily disturbing that megadonor Louis DeJoy is abusing his power as Postmaster General to help President Trump win reelection, meanwhile apparently demonstrating disregard for key campaign finance laws designed to promote the integrity of our democratic elections," said Common... Read more |
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'This Is Against the Law and DeJoy Must Be Fired': Postmaster General Accused of Criminal Violation of Campaign Laws Former head of human resources at DeJoy's logistics firm, along with other employees, says the major GOP donor now running the Postal Service reimbursed workers for donations—"an arrangement that would be unlawful." Read more |
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50,000-Foot Smoke Plumes and Record-Shattering Heatwave as Climate Emergency Grips California Timelapse footage from space showing Saturday's explosion of California wildfires led one meteorologist to declare: "It cannot be overstated how terrifying this satellite image is." Read more |
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'Nightmare Scenario': Sanders Warns Nation That Trump Is Laying Groundwork for Election Result Mayhem "Trump is now using his lies and misinformation to sow confusion and chaos in the election process and undermine American democracy," says the Vermont senator. Read more |
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'We Need a Free Press But Do Not Have It': UK Climate Campaigners Defend Blockade of Murdoch's Destructive Media Empire The real story, according to Extinction Rebellion UK, is that humanity is facing "an emergency of unprecedented scale and the papers we have targeted are not reflecting the scale and urgency of what is happening to our planet." Read more |
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WATCH LIVE: Bernie Sanders 'Labor Day' Speech and Town Hall to Honor Workers and Grow Movement Former presidential candidate and progressive champion will address "the current desperation of the American working class, the need to grow the labor movement, and for working families to stand together to create an economy that works for all and not just the few." Read more |
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Moving to End Diversity Trainings, Trump WH Memo Says 'No Place' for 'Critical Race Theory' in US Government "187,000 Americans are dead from Covid-19, and the White House is spending its time making sure no one in the government gets sensitivity training." Read more |
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Civil Rights Groups Request Emergency Injuction to Stop Trump 'Sabotage' of 2020 Census "Fighting a pandemic is already a high hurdle to clear in obtaining an accurate count. It's outrageous that we must also fight against an administration seeking to skew our population numbers." Read more |
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'That's Not What Happened at All,' Say Prosecutors After Barr Falsely Claims Man Cast 1,700 Fake Ballots in Texas "Barr is a shameless liar and most importantly has been one for his entire career," tweeted New York Times columist Jamelle Bouie. Read more |
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Not 'Under My Watch' Claims Trump After Pentagon Push to Destroy Stars and Stripes Happened... Under His Watch The slashing of the newspaper's funding, noted one journalist, "was proposed earlier this year in Trump's own budget request to Congress." Read more |
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House Democrats Demand IG Probe of Pompeo's Widely Denounced RNC Speech From Jerusalem The pair of lawmakers pointed out the address appeared directly at odds with policies the secretary recently sent to State Department employees. Read more |
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Trump Mocks Biden Mask-Wearing Just as New Research Shows Stricter Compliance Could Save 120,000 Lives in US Over Next 4 Months "These are not numbers or statistics but family members, friends, and loved ones." Read more |
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'Disaster for Endangered Species and the Natural World': Advocates Decry Trump Move to Gut Habitat Protection Law "This administration doesn't care about anything but money, and wildlife will suffer." Read more |
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'The Situation Is Dire': As Trump Takes Victory Lap, New Jobs Report Reveals Alarming Surge in Permanent Unemployment "The pain is nowhere near over for millions of workers and their families across the country." Read more |
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Trump EPA Chief Lays Out Vision for Agency Critics Warn Would Create 'Apocalyptic, Devastated Planet' The agency chief suggested reigning in fossil fuel use will not help communities harmed by fossil fuel pollution. Read more |
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Armed With AR-15, QAnon-Believing GOP Candidate Threatens 'Offense' Against Progressive Squad President Donald Trump called Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is expected to win the general election in Georgia's 14th district, a "future Republican star." Read more |
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Earth Defenders Warn Against Democrats Undermining 'Rights of Nature' Movement With Watered-Down Approach The fresh push for recognizing ecosystems as rights-bearing entities comes as the documentary film Invisible Hand premieres worldwide. Read more |
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Centrist Opponent of Medicare for All Wins Primary to Replace Kennedy After Progressives Split Vote After Jake Auchincloss, a Republican until 2015, won outgoing Rep. Kennedy's Democratic House seat with only 23% of the vote in a crowded field, many are once again questioning Kennedy's decision to challenge Sen. Markey. Read more |
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WHO Official Warns No Widespread Covid-19 Vaccine Expected Until Mid-2021 The sobering comments from a spokesperson for the global health agency come on the heels of the CDC asking states to prepare for potential distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine by November 1. Read more |
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'Trump Is a Fraud, Exhibit One Billion': Trade Deficit Soars to 12-Year High Despite President's Promises to Wipe It Out "Trump pledged to eliminate the trade deficit and end job outsourcing, but the overall 2020 deficit is on track to be larger than when he took office, and his Labor Department has certified more than 300,000 American jobs were lost to outsourcing and imports during his presidency." Read more |