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'Carnage That Could Have Been Prevented': West Texas Mass Shooting Provokes Fresh Calls for Stricter Gun Laws "We've already lost far too many to gun violence—Congress must act now." Read more |
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Sanders Previews Plan to Cancel $81 Billion in Medical Debt and Tackle 'Barbaric' Number of Bankruptcies In addition to canceling all past-due medical debt, according to his campaign, the forthcoming proposal will also address all future debt Read more |
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Sanders Campaign Demands Washington Post Retract 'Fact Check' of Medical Bankruptcies Remarks The letter came a day after two researchers behind the study cited by the presidential hopeful published an op-ed defending their findings Read more |
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DeVos Denounced for Student Debt Relief Rule Change That Critics Say 'Takes a Scythe to Defrauded Borrowers' "With this policy overhaul, Secretary DeVos has cemented her legacy as best friend to predatory colleges and enemy to the students they rip off." Read more |
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After Man Serves 35 Years in Prison for $50 Robbery, US 'Should Be Ashamed of System We Allow' "Wealthy CEOs and business executives steal millions of dollars from the public and never go to jail." Read more |
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Just Ahead of Labor Day, Trump Floats Tax Cut Condemned as 'Pure Giveaway to Wealthy' "Apart from just sending millionaires checks, it's hard to think of a tax cut more targeted to the ultra-rich." Read more |
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"Scariest Thing You'll Read All Day": Report Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Reading Technology and Neurocapitalism "Your brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer." Read more |
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Tipping Point: UN Biodiversity Chief Warns Burning of Amazon Could Lead to 'Cascading Collapse of Natural Systems' "If we don't work together, we are going to die together." Read more |
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"Don't Just Watch Us. Join Us," Say Activists, as Greta Thunberg Joins Climate Strike Outside UN Headquarters Swedish teen continues weekly school strike for climate, for the first time on this side of the Atlantic Read more |
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'Be Given Our Stolen Time Back?': Trump Once Again Signals Desire to Illegally Extend Term The president's so-called "jokes" about serving longer than his elected term, said one critic, "aren't funny anymore." Read more |
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'If Environment Were a Bank,' Says Bernie Sanders, 'It Would Have Been Saved Already' Sanders has introduced a $16.3 trillion Green New Deal plan to avert climate catastrophe and create 20 million jobs in the process Read more |
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Open Letter From College Professors Urges Educators Worldwide to Cancel Class, Join Global Climate Strike "We risk losing credibility with an entire generation of students if we cannot take action in support of the defining cause of their generation." Read more |
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House Democrats Denounce DHS For Blocking Lawmakers' Access to Detention Centers Amid Reports of Rampant Abuse "This is definitely how you act when you have nothing to hide. Totally." Read more |
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Blasting Laura Ingraham as 'Neo-Nazi Fan Favorite,' Ocasio-Cortez Says Twitter Users Entitled to Vile Opinions But Not Abuse "People are free to speak whatever classist, racist, false, misogynistic, bigoted comments they'd like. They do not have the right to force others to endure their harassment and abuse." Read more |
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United Electrical Becomes First US Industrial Union to Endorse Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike The 35,000-member union called the transformative proposal "our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of good union jobs." Read more |
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'Stain on Public Service': Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer for Helping Lyft Fight Against California Labor Bill Powerful officials like the state's former U.S. senator, said AOC, "should not become corporate lobbyists." Read more |
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'Even Worse Than the DCCC Blacklist': Schumer Accused of Effort to Hamstring Progressives Trying to Unseat GOP Senators "Schumer is blackballing progressives in open primaries for GOP-held seats." Read more |
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'Your Life Will End': As GOP's Islamophobic Attacks Continue, Rep. Ilhan Omar Shares Terrifying Reality of Death Threats "I hate that we live in a world where you have to be protected from fellow humans. I hated it as a child living through war and I hate it now." Read more |
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Leaked UN Draft Report Warns Rising, Warming Oceans 'Poised to Unleash Misery' Worldwide The assessment details anticipated declines in fish stocks as well as increases in damage by superstorms and displacement due to rising seas Read more |
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Despite 'Relentless' Assault by Corporate America, Gallup Poll Shows Support for Unions at Near 50-Year High "The labor movement has a powerful wind at its back. And we will carry this momentum into new organizing campaigns and our work in the 2020 elections." Read more |
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Calling for End of "War Against Nature," Greta Thunberg's Arrival in US Brings Swell of Attention to Global Climate Strike "Something that's really common among young people is we just aren't given that platform. Now, Greta and millions of other kids are showing that we don't need it handed to us. We can fight for the platform." Read more |
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'Sociopathic Disregard for Our Future': Trump EPA Set to Gut Restrictions on Planet-Warming Methane Emissions "At a time when the federal government's job should be to help localities and states move faster toward cleaner energy and a cleaner economy, the government is walking off the field." Read more |
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'Just the Beginning': Massive Protests in UK as Thousands Flood Streets to #StoptheCoup "We're here because our democracy wasn't given to us as an act of generosity or charity by the people on top." Read more |
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'Madness': Dozens of Groups Push Back Against Trump Proposal to Bring Back Supersonic Planes "The world is burning, and supersonic planes would pour jet fuel on the fire." Read more |
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Monsanto Doctor Wanted to 'Beat the Sh*t Out of' Group of Mothers: Emails One advocate said the emails revealed "the utter contempt that Monsanto has for public health and for consumers, including mothers who only want to protect their kids' health." Read more |
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'Committed to Disruptive, Transformative Change': Ben & Jerry's, Lush, and Patagonia Among Companies to Pledge Support for Global Climate Strike "Everyone is needed to disrupt business as usual: from sports stars, actors, and teachers to food industry workers, psychologists, delivery drivers, and everything in between." Read more |
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As Alabama GOP Calls for Ilhan Omar's Expulsion From Congress, Minnesota Dem and Her Allies Hit Back "Well, the Klan has spoken." Read more |
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Indivisible Launches Campaign to End 'Inherently Undemocratic' Filibuster in the Senate "It's a gimmick that has been used to stop and delay vital progressive legislation like civil rights laws, gun safety regulations, and immigration reform." Read more |
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'It Was an Outrage': Mike Pompeo Celebrates Defeated ICC Probe Into US War Crimes The investigation was rejected after US bullying efforts Read more |
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'No Time Left for Business as Usual': Climate Activists Plan Day of Mass Civil Disobedience to #ShutDownDC "There's a tremendous amount of power that drives through those streets and parks next to those sidewalks and walks into those buildings. We want them to think about what they're doing with that power." Read more |
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Viral Video of Mississippi Voting Machine Changing Man's Vote Prompts Calls for Paper Ballots and Election Security Reform "These machines should not be used in a democracy." Read more |
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New Poll Shows 58 Percent of Canadians See Socialism Positively Canadians "see socialism far more favorably than do our American friends." Read more |
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AOC Derides NYT Columnist Bret Stephens for Whining About Twitter Bedbug Jibes: 'My Own Friends Roast Me Harder Than That' "Imagine being on Twitter and having the worst thing you're called in a given day is 'bedbug.'" Read more |
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Greta Thunberg Comes to America: Celebrations as Teen Climate Activist Arrives at Coney Island "Your journey is a symbolic reminder of the ways we need to work together across every ocean!" tweeted 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben Read more |
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As Tropical Storm Dorian Barrels Toward Puerto Rico, Trump Shifting $155 Million in Disaster Aid Funds to Migrant Detention "The money that could be used to help Puerto Rico will instead be used to detain more children and parents in concentration camps." Read more |
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'This Is a Coup': Warnings of Ploy to Ram Through No-Deal Brexit as Boris Johnson Moves to Suspend UK Parliament "Boris Johnson's attempt to suspend parliament to avoid scrutiny of his plans for a reckless No Deal Brexit is an outrage and a threat to our democracy," said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn Read more |
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New Poll Shows 65% of Democrats More Likely to Back 2020 Candidate Who Supports Medicare for All Over Obamacare Tweaks "In January, 57 percent of Democrats said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who backs a Medicare for All health system over expanding the Affordable Care Act. That number has now risen to 65 percent." Read more |
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With Amazon in Flames, Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million-Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation "If the planet could talk, it would be screaming in agony or weeping in despair. Maybe both." Read more |
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Deutsche Bank 'Has All But Confirmed' It Has At Least Partial Trump Tax Returns Subpoened by House Democrats "Outside experts have long thought Deutsche's files could be even more revealing than Trump's tax returns. Now, seemingly, they won't have to choose: They can just get both through Deutsche." Read more |
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Phoenix Voters 'Say Yes to the Future,' Rejecting Koch-Backed Effort to Ban Light Rail Expansion in Least Sustainable US City "Fantastic news, tinged with a bit of sadness that David Koch didn't live to see Phoenix voters reject his poisonous vision." Read more |
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Democracy Watchdog Warns FEC Courting 'Disaster' by Heading Into 2020 Elections Without a Quorum "Americans deserve an FEC willing and able to enforce the laws passed by Congress to protect the integrity of our elections and the President must nominate new commissioners who will serve as the cops on the beat." Read more |
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Critics Denounce Biden's Use of Tragic Family Story to Attack Medicare for All as Both 'Manipulative' and 'Cynical' "This is easily the cruelest, dirtiest, and most manipulative thing Joe Biden has done so far." Read more |
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Indigenous Tribes on Front Line of Amazon Rainforest Fires Vow to Resist Bolsonaro's "Destruction of Mother Nature" "We're putting our bodies and our lives on the line to try to save our territories." Read more |
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Ranked-Choice Voting Advocates Call On Maine Governor to 'Honor the Will of Voters' and Approve System for 2020 Primary "Ranked-choice voting upholds a core value: upholding consent of the governed." Read more |
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'Lawless' and 'Despicable': Harvard Freshman Deported After Immigration Agents Search Social Media and Find Friends Critical of US Policy "This is a move so perverse, so grotesque as to defy explanation." Read more |
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Rejecting Idea of 'Photo Op' Diplomacy With Trump, Iran's Rouhani Says No Talks Unless US Sanctions Lifted "It's possible with PhotoShop—but not in reality. Unless the U.S. removes all the sanctions—then there will be a new situation for us to consider." Read more |
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'A Death Sentence': Trump Reportedly Moving to Deport Kids With Cancer, HIV, and Other Deadly Illnesses "This is a new low for Trump. The administration is now literally deporting kids with cancer." Read more |
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19 States and DC Sue Trump Over 'Cruel, Immoral, and Illegal' Plan to Detain Migrant Children Indefinitely "We're taking the Trump administration to court to defend children from the irreparable harm caused by unlawful detention." Read more |
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'We Need a Moment of Transcendence' in US to Reignite National Imagination, Says Sanders Campaign Co-Chair Nina Turner "There is a difference between candidates running just to become president and having a presidential candidate that says I am running not just for me to become the president of the United States, but to movement build—that's Senator Bernie Sanders." Read more |
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To Fight Corporate 'Assault on Journalism,' Sanders Unveils Plan to Stop Big Media Mergers and Bolster Independent News "We cannot sit by and allow corporations, billionaires, and demagogues to destroy the Fourth Estate, nor can we allow them to replace serious reporting with infotainment and propaganda." Read more |
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'If A Kid Says Help, You Help': Adults Urged to Join Upcoming Global Climate Strike "Elders need to act like elders." Read more |
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'About Damn Time': In First of Thousands of Lawsuits Against Big Pharma, Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572M for Flooding Oklahoma With Opioids "The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma," a federal judge said Monday. "It must be abated immediately." Read more |
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For Always Making It Clear 'Which Side He Is On,' Bernie Sanders Nabs First National Union Endorsement "Bernie understands the need for workers to have a democratic, independent union movement that is unafraid to challenge corporate America's stranglehold on our economy." Read more |
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Legal Aid Group for Immigrants Says ICE Shutting Down Hotline Was 'Retaliation' for Advocacy Work "The line's termination undermines trust and accountability of government institutions, dissuades public service by community organizations, and further isolates vulnerable detained individuals." Read more |
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Democratic Establishment Backing of Hickenlooper's Colorado Senate Run a 'Recipe for Disaster,' Warn Progressives "He would join the Senate as a conservative Democrat who has already pledged to block most progressive priorities." Read more |
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New 2020 National Poll Shows Sanders and Warren Tied for First Place as Biden Drops 13 Points Monmouth's survey comes as the two progressive senators continue to draw large and enthusiastic crowds across the nation Read more |
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Bolsonaro's Misogynistic Attack on Brigitte Macron Offers Glimpse Into Psyche of 'Idiotic Baby Men' As thousands of acres of Brazil's Amazon rainforest burned, the president of Brazil—exemplifying other men who attempt to assert power over women and environment—made a "disrespectful" comment about France's First Lady Read more |
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Israeli Bombings Considered a 'Declaration of War,' Says Iraqi Political Bloc Journalist Rania Khalek said it was "difficult to believe Israel would strike Iraq without a green light from the U.S." Read more |
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With Open Internet Under Assault, 2020 Democrats Urged to Sign Pledge to Reject Telecom Cash and Restore Net Neutrality "If net neutrality is not restored, the public will lose the ability to access sites, run small businesses, and tell the stories too often ignored by the mainstream media." Read more |
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As White House Dismisses Planetary Emergency as 'Niche' Issue, Trump Skips G7 Climate Meeting At the meeting the U.S. president didn't attend, world leaders agreed to a $20 million package to fight the fires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest Read more |
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Refusing to Take Real Climate Action, Trump Reportedly Suggests Using Nukes to Stop Hurricanes "What if instead of dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes we just passed a Green New Deal and made fossil fuel billionaires pay for the devastation of climate disasters?" Read more |
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'Stop Your Cowardice': In Kentucky, Sanders Calls Out McConnell for Ignoring Protesting Coal Miners and Blocking $15 Minimum Wage "I say to Senator McConnell: Stop worrying about your billionaire friends, they're doing just fine. Start worrying about the working families of your state and around this country." Read more |
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New Poll Shows 'Deep and Boiling Anger' Towards Political Establishment Still Widespread More than half of respondents also said race relations are worsening under Trump and that they feel "anxious and uncertain" because of the economy Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Touts 'Campaign of Energy and Excitement' as Evidence He's the Candidate to Take Down Trump Comments from presidential hopeful came ahead of rallies denouncing corporate power Read more |
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As New Fires Rage in Amazon, Global Calls for Urgent Action to Avert 'Astronomical' Impacts to 'Life on Earth' Pope Francis urges protection of "that lung of forests" and French President Macron says G7 nations pledged help at summit Read more |
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While "The World Is on Fire,' DNC Kills Resolution for Climate Forum Party had been reminded of its platform asserting it will combat the 'global climate emergency' Read more |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoes Treatment for Pancreatic Tumor—Doctors Say Supreme Court Justice Completely 'Cancer-Free' "Getting a push notification that starts with the words 'Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg' will get the heart rate ramped up." Read more |
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Trump Mulling 'Uniquely Dystopian' Proposal to Use AI to Identify Mental Health Issues as Risk Factors for Gun Violence One critic called the proposal, which expands on Trump's claim that mental illnesses, not guns, are to blame for gun violence, "nothing less than chilling." Read more |
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Despite Massive Police Lockdown, Protesters Vow to Offer 'Radical Solutions' to Counter G7 Failures "If they were really interested in building a fairer world, surely the G7 would not need to put the whole region of France into lockdown, with thousands of police and 'unprecedented' levels of security." Read more |
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Warnings of Grave Climate and Human Rights Impact as US Export-Import Bank Approves $5 Billion for Natural Gas Project in Mozambique "If there is a project with serious alarm bells, it's this one." Read more |
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The Fight's Not Over, Say Activists, as Nebraska Supreme Court Approves Keystone XL Route "If history recalls Nebraska at all, it may remember this as its most regrettable decision." Read more |
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Critics Condemn Inclusion of Anti-Semitic, White Nationalist Blog Post in Daily Briefing Sent to Immigration Judges by Trump's DOJ "There is no bottom," Rep. Ilhan Omar said of the Trump administration Read more |
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After Life of Incalculable Harm, Billionaire Climate Denialist and Right-Wing Villain David Koch Dead at 79 "Death is an escape hatch for David Koch while the rest of us are left scrambling for the emergency brake before we go over the cliff." Read more |
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'Our Lungs Are on Fire': Climate Campaigners Rally at Brazilian Embassies to Protest Destruction of Amazon Rainforest "We need governments around the world to speak up against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—and put pressure on him to stop these devastating fires and protect the Amazon." Read more |
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Views of Destruction: Satellite Images Reveal Devastating Amazon Fires in Almost Real-Time With near-daily overflights and high-resolution imagery, Planet's constellation of satellites is providing a clear look at some of the fires now burning in the Brazilian Amazon Read more |
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After Handing Rich $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut, Trump Reportedly Considering Slashing Medicare and Social Security as 'Second-Term Project' "Mr. Trump, you are not going to have a second term," tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders in response to the president's reported plan Read more |
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Sanders Campaign Co-Chair Nina Turner Calls for All Democratic Candidates to Unite Against DNC Over #ClimateDebate "If all the Democratic presidential candidates say to the DNC, 'Let's have a debate or a forum about climate change'—what are they gonna do, kick out every single one of them?" Read more |
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Subsidizing Underfunded Schools, US Teachers Spend $459 of Their Own Money Each Year on Classroom Supplies Union leader responds to new analysis with vow that educators will continue "to fight to fund our future, to fight the defunding and underinvestment that created this crisis in the first place." Read more |
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Bolsonaro's 'Disastrous' Policies on Amazon Led to Fires, Say Observers "We must stand together behind the Indigenous communities and leaders across the Amazon region—from Brazil to Ecuador and beyond. For them the Amazon is more than the lungs of the world, it is their home." Read more |
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Water Rights Group Calls on Newark Officials to Resist Privatization of City's Water Supply Amid Lead Crisis "While city and state officials must respond to the current crisis with urgency, they must also protect their water system from predatory corporate operators." Read more |
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Electoral College Abolitionists Say Court Ruling Shows Why Current System 'Terrible Way of Picking the President' Case "could spur additional change and additional movement that would in some ways make a solution like the National Popular Vote stronger," one advocate said Read more |
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Protests Break Out After DNC Committee Votes Against Holding 2020 #ClimateDebate Outraged members of the Sunrise Movement stood on chairs singing the union protest song "Which Side Are You On?" Read more |
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Sanders and Warren Celebrated for Returning Donations From Employees at Hedge Funds Linked to Puerto Rico "No candidate should take contributions from hedge funds and vulture funds driving austerity in Puerto Rico." Read more |
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70 US Mayors Issue Scathing Letter Demanding Trump USDA Call Off Effort to Strip Food Stamps From 3 Million People "Executive action should not be used to hurt individuals, families, and communities." Read more |
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'Just False': Sanders Campaign Hits Back After WaPo Describes Pro-Labor Proposal as Change to Medicare for All Plan "We've said from day one that any savings employers gain from Medicare for All must be passed on to union workers in the form of higher wages and benefits. We know that because Bernie wrote the damn bill." Read more |
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'Time We Cast All Medals Into Spearheads of Revolution:' Refugee-Rescuing Boat Captain Rejects Humanitarian Award "We do not need authorities deciding about who is a 'hero' and who is 'illegal.'" Read more |
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'Game-Changer': Sanders Unveils Green New Deal Plan Detailing 10-Year Mobilization to Avert Climate Catastrophe, Create 20 Million Jobs "This is a pivotal moment in the history of America—and really, in the history of humanity." Read more |
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As Inslee Drops Out of 2020 Race, Applause and Gratitude for Elevating Climate Crisis to 'Forefront of the National Conversation' "We'll miss you in this race, Jay Inslee. Thank you for setting the pace for our elected leaders on the climate crisis, running a historic campaign, and elevating this issue for all of us." Read more |
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'She Is Failing Us': Demanding Trump Impeachment, Progressives Disrupt Pelosi 'Resistance' Award Ceremony "Trump is selling the government to the highest bidder and migrant children are dying in detention—on her watch." Read more |
