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Majority of Americans Believe Actions and Anger of George Floyd Protesters Justified, Polling Shows "The current findings represent a marked change in public opinion from prior polls." Read more |
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Putin Declares Federal Emergency After Diesel Fuel Spill in Arctic River That Could Take Decades to Recover Reports indicate melting permafrost caused by global heating may have damaged the industrial facility. Read more |
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'Should Be Bigger News': Analysis Finds Nearly One Third of Owed Unemployment Benefits Have Not Been Paid Bloomberg found a $67 billion gap between the sum of benefits paid out by the Treasury Department and the amount that is owed to jobless Americans. Read more |
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Sen. Warren Demands Federal Probe Into Attorney General Barr's Order to Tear-Gas Peaceful Protesters "These attacks on peaceful American protesters steps from the White House were sickening and appalling." Read more |
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Global Meat Giants Fuel Major Future Risk of Creating Next Pandemic, Investor Group Warns "Factory farming is both vulnerable to pandemics and guilty of creating them." Read more |
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After Nearly 10,000 Arrested During Week of Protest, Three Other Police Officers Finally Charged Over Murder of George Floyd "All you had to do was arrest three more." Read more |
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Jane Goodall Warns Humanity Will Be 'Finished' After Covid-19 Without Ending 'Absolute Disrespect for Animals and the Environment' "Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has created this situation where disease can spill over to infect human beings." Read more |
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Sanders Calls on Democrats to Embrace 8-Point Plan to End Police Brutality, Protect Communities "We have got to act boldly to eradicate systemic racism and police violence. I am calling for sweeping policy reforms to protect people—particularly communities of color—who have suffered violence for far too long." Read more |
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'Deplorable Monument to Racism' Gone After Philadelphia Removes Statue of Former Mayor Frank Rizzo "While we are glad that the symbol is removed, we will continue to fight until the white supremacy that allowed Rizzo to come to power in the first place is eradicated." Read more |
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Hope for Other Cities to Follow After Minneapolis School Board Votes Unanimously to End Police Contract "N ow that Minneapolis has showed you it's possible…you know what to do." Read more |
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ACLU Lawsuit Accuses Police in Minnesota of 'Targeting and Attacking Journalists' Covering George Floyd Protests "We are facing a full-scale assault on the First Amendment freedom of the press," said an ACLU attorney. "We will not let these official abuses go unanswered." Read more |
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'We Need to Put Guardrails in Place': Senator Unveils Plan to Bar Use of US Military Force Against Protesters "I thought that would seem obvious to everyone. But as we take up the NDAA next week, I'm going to be pushing to ensure the president can't treat the U.S. military as his personal palace guard." Read more |
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'One Racist Down. Hundreds in Office to Go': Applause as Bigot Steve King Ousted in Iowa Primary "Goodbye, Rep. Steve King. You are certainly not the only white supremacist in federal government, but you were among the most prominent," tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read more |
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'They're Afraid': GOP Ripped for Enabling Trump as McConnell Blocks Resolution Condemning Assault on Peaceful Protesters "They're afraid of Donald Trump. And that leads to Donald Trump getting worse and worse and worse. It's appalling." Read more |
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Overtly Racist Trump Brags No President Has Done More Than Him for Black Community 'Since Abraham Lincoln' Latest gaslighting efforts comes less than one day after order to have nonviolent civil rights protesters swept off the streets of Washington, DC in a volley of rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash grenades. Read more |
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Clamoring for Mic at Black Lives Matter Event, Rep. Eliot Engel Admits "If I Didn't Have a Primary I Wouldn't Care" "Frankly," said a representative for Engel's progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman, "we couldn't have made the case more clearly ourselves that after 31 years, it's time for change." Read more |
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From 'No Comment' to 'Didn't Really See It': GOP Lawmakers Squirm When Asked About Trump Threat to Unleash Military on Protesting Americans "This was the same response in Nazi Germany." Read more |
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In 'Targeted Strike' Against Environmental and Racial Justice, Trump EPA Curbs State Power to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects "This president and this administration are at war with justice and well-being—particularly for the communities that lack these fundamentals the most." Read more |
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'He Must Resign': Attorney General Barr Personally Ordered Police Assault on Peaceful DC Protesters, Report Says "AG Bill Barr's behavior has been deeply problematic since he was sworn in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs to resign." Read more |
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'Do the Right Thing': Veterans Call On National Guard Members to Refuse to Deploy Against Protesters "It is asinine for a rich man hiding in a bunker to ask these troops, most of whom probably signed up to pay for access to college and healthcare, to take actions that will inevitably lead to more violence and haunt them for the rest of their lives." Read more |
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Minneapolis School Board to Vote on Ending Contract With Police Over Failure to 'See Humanity in Our Students' The school district cannot "claim to fight institutional racism" while aligned with the police department, said a board member. Read more |
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To Provide Safety and Solidarity, DC Residents Open Doors to Protesting Teens Cornered by Police Crackdown "I hope that they go out there today, peacefully as they did yesterday, and not blink," said Rahul Dubey, who sheltered dozens of people, "because our country needs them." Read more |
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'This Must Stop': Leading Journalism Groups Demand Law Enforcement Halt Attacks on Working Press "When you silence the press with rubber bullets, you silence the voice of the public." Read more |
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'Extinction Is a Political Choice,' Scientist Says After Study Warns of Threat to Civilization From Humans Destroying Wildlife "This new study shows yet again that the very survival of humanity is at stake if we don't end the heartbreaking wildlife extinction crisis." Read more |
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'This Isn't a Healthy Democracy': Warnings of Domestic Military Threat as Top US General Walks DC Streets in Combat Fatigues "The commander of the joint chiefs is surveying the streets of D.C. in uniform like he's planning a military assault." Read more |
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ACLU Demands Congressional Probe Into 'Politically-Motivated' Attack on Peaceful Protest Outside Trump White House "This appears to be grossly unjustified use of a dangerous chemical weapon on protesters and raises serious human rights concerns under international law," the civil liberties group said. Read more |
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DC Bishop 'Outraged' by Trump Clearing Protests With Tear Gas and Using Bible as a Prop for Church Photo Op "Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence," the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said of the president. Read more |
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Demands for Trump Removal Grow as 'Fascist' Speech Condemned as Declaration of War Against US Public "Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late." Read more |
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After Trump's Authoritarian 'Law and Order' Speech, Military Helicopters Descend Low Over DC to Intimidate Protesters "What Trump did tonight is going to be remembered as a significant and grave moment in this horror of an era we are living through." Read more |
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'As Incoherent as It Is Dangerous': Trump Threatens to Designate Antifa—Which Isn't an Actual Group—as Terrorist Organization "Let's be clear," warned the ACLU. "There is no legal authority for designating a domestic group. Any such designation would raise significant due process and First Amendment concerns." Read more |
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With Over 100,000 Dead and Depression-Level Unemployment, Sanders Calls McConnell's Sandbagging of Covid-19 Relief 'Incomprehensible' "Our most vulnerable communities are hungry, desperate and under enormous emotional stress. The American people want action from Congress and they want it NOW." Read more |
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'I Took the Helmet Off and Laid the Batons Down': Michigan Sheriff and Police Didn't Disperse Their Town's Protest—They Joined It "Do I think this has solved the issue between police and unarmed black, human beings? No. But I do believe that this type of leadership is a positive step in the right direction and gives me hope for black men and women around the world and for all of humanity." Read more |
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Watch: This Is What It Looks Like When the Response to Protests Against Police Violence Is... More Police Violence Driving SUVs into demonstrators. Firing paint-ball rounds at people on their own front porch. Pushing an elderly man to the ground. These were just a few of the incidents witnessed as a militarized nation faced off against its own people on Saturday. Read more |
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'Insanity Outside the White House': After Trump Stokes Tensions, Fresh Clashes Between Police and Protesters in US Capitol "I call upon our city and our nation to exercise great restraint even while this President continues to try to divide us," said DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser in response to president's comments. Read more |
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'If You Want to End Unrest, End the Conditions That Create It,' Declares Ocasio-Cortez Amid Nationwide Protest Instead of calls for things to simply calm down and "go back to normal," said New York Congresswoman, "let's create a new world—one where all people are held to the same standard of the rule of law." Read more |
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What ACLU Says Was Trump Call to "Literally Murder Protesters," Facebook Says Doesn't Violate Standards "Facebook has once again failed to act against an explicit violation of its own rules and has allowed the violent and racist post to remain up." Read more |
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Cornel West Says 'Neo-Fascist Gangster' Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as 'Failed Social Experiment' "I thank God people are in the streets," said the Harvard philosopher and activist. "Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don't care? People are callous?" Read more |
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In Show of Solidarity, Public Transit Workers Refuse to Transport Police Units or Those Arrested at #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd Protests "More than ever, we need a new civil rights movement that is joined with the labor movement." Read more |
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Pressley, Omar, Bass, and Lee Introduce Resolution to Condemn Police Brutality and Demand Nationwide Reforms "For too long, black and brown bodies have been profiled, surveilled, policed, lynched, choked, brutalized, and murdered at the hands of police officers." Read more |
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US Border Patrol Denounced as 'Rogue Agency' for Using Predator Drone to Spy on Minneapolis Protests "This is what happens when leaders sign blank check after blank check to militarize police, CBP, etc while letting violence go unchecked." Read more |
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Amid Global Pandemic—With Nearly 363,000 Dead—Trump Terminates US Ties With the World Health Organization "When every single country in the world is able to work with the WHO, except for one whose president advocates treating coronavirus with bleach and UV light, who do you think is at fault?" Read more |
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After Days of Protest, Police Officer Derek Chauvin Charged With 3rd Degree Murder for Killing George Floyd "Don't think for a minute that Derek Chauvin would have been arrested if people in Minneapolis weren't standing up and fighting." Read more |
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Mnuchin and DeVos Sued for Unlawful Seizure of Student Loan Borrowers' Tax Refunds During Pandemic "Secretaries DeVos and Mnuchin have inflicted needless financial pain on student borrowers and their families." Read more |
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Carrying Out Trump's "When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts" Order Would Violate 4th Amendment, Warn Legal Experts "Donald Trump is calling for violence against black Americans. His advocacy of illegal, state-sponsored killing is horrific. Politicians who refuse to condemn it share responsibility for the consequences." Read more |
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Honduran Family Sues US Govt for Separation Lawyers Say Was Deliberately Meant to 'Torment and Traumatize' "These federal agents made a choice, a cruel and heinous choice, to deliberately inflict pain and trauma upon a family seeking refuge." Read more |
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Dimming VP Hopes, Klobuchar's Failure to Prosecute Police Misconduct Highlighted as Outrage Over Killing of George Floyd Intensifies "You can't refuse to prosecute killer cops and act like you don't have blood on your hands." Read more |
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At Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are 'Not At All Confident' They'll Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds "E ven if they *do* end up getting food, you have to understand the mental and physical toll of living with that kind of fear, and how that affects relationships, work, health, and everything else." Read more |
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Rep. Katie Porter Accuses UnitedHealth of 'Putting Profits Before Patients and Providers' in Midst of Pandemic "It's flat out wrong for the world's largest insurance company to pass costs on to families in the middle of a pandemic—I want answers." Read more |
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With COP 26 Pushed to Late 2021 Due to Pandemic, World Leaders Urged Not to Delay Climate Action "Right now, real leaders should be doubling-down their efforts to ensure a green and just recovery in handling this health crisis and the climate emergency." Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren Leads Demand to Audit OSHA as Covid-19 Sparks 'Massive Worker Safety Crisis' "OSHA's failure to take stronger actions will result in more workers being made sick and killed by this virus." Read more |
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Anger and Unrest Nationwide as Protests Over Killing of George Floyd Spread Across US Cities "When people look to these individuals who are frustrated, who are angry, for not just Mr. Floyd but countless others for whom there was no video evidence, as there was in this case, who lost their lives—that is what you are seeing bubble up." Read more |
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'Never Seen Anything Like This': Watch Police Arrest CNN Journalist and Camera Crew During Live TV Coverage of George Floyd Protests "They arrested a CNN reporter and camera crew for reporting the news but not Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd on camera." Read more |
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As Minneapolis Protests Over Killing of George Floyd Intensify, Trump Threatens to Send in Military With Green Light to Open Fire "The president of the United States is threatening to use live fire on his own citizens." Read more |
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In Latest Legal Blow to Trump and Dirty Energy, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Keystone XL Permit "Contrary to what the Trump administration has argued, the law is clear. We won't sacrifice imperiled species so giant corporations can profit from the dirty fossil fuels that pollute our waters and climate." Read more |
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'Someone Sees the Writing on the Wall': As Election Looms, Lindsey Graham Urges Older Right-Wing Judges to Step Aside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has also reportedly reached out to older judges to ask them to retire. Read more |
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Pelosi Accused of 'Trying to Do an End-Run Around Her Own Party' by Sending Spy Powers Bill to Conference "Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Schiff have done everything in their power to ensure the House cannot vote on the warrantless surveillance of Americans' internet activity." Read more |
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Ethics Complaint Filed to Force Trump's Covid-19 Vaccine Czar—a Former Pharma Exec—to Submit to Ethics Rules "Trump has put a pharmaceutical executive in charge of handing out the government contracts for coronavirus vaccine development. How could this possibly go wrong?" Read more |
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Former Federal Reserve Governor Rebukes Central Bank for Using Covid-19 Lending Power to Bail Out 'Dying' Fossil Fuel Industry "If polluters want to deny the existence of the ongoing bailout, Congress should swiftly repeal these blatant corporate tax giveaways and make fossil fuels ineligible for stimulus lending programs." Read more |
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ACLU Sues Tech Firm to Halt 'Unlawful, Privacy-Destroying' Facial Recognition Activities Clearview AI's behaviors, said one attorney, "represent one of the largest threats to personal privacy by a private company our country has faced." Read more |
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As More Parents Head Back to Work Amid Pandemic, Advocates Demand $100 Billion Federal Boost for Child Care "Without child care, there's no recovery." Read more |
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'Cowardly' and 'Shameful': Critics Say Trump Refusal to Release Mid-Year Economic Forecast an Obvious Election Year Ploy "It gets them off the hook for having to say what the economic outlook looks like." Read more |
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'Grotesque': While 41 Million People Lost Jobs Due to Covid-19, US Billionaires Grew Nearly $500 Billion Richer "Billionaire wealth is surging at the same time that millions face suffering, hardship, and loss of life. This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society." Read more |
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Warnings of 'Catastrophic Consequences' as Locust Swarms Hit India and Pakistan in Midst of Coronavirus Crisis For India, the invasion comes alongside "eviscerating heat." Read more |
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Progressives Say 'People Know Who Real Looters Are': Not Those Angry Over Police Killings, But Oligarchs Robbing Nation Blind "Americans know who the real looters are. It's the billionaires who plundered America for $434 billion during the pandemic while the essential workers keeping our country afloat make barely over minimum wage." Read more |
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With Trump-Aligned Votes as 'Anvil Around Her Neck,' Susan Collins Down 9 Points to Likely Dem Challenger The four-term Republican senator from Maine who presents herself as a centrist has faced national criticism for her votes during the Trump administration. Read more |
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With Nation Focused on Pandemic, Trump Interior Dept. to Greenlight Killing of Bear Cubs and Wolf Pups in Their Dens "Killing has no place in our National Wildlife Refuges." Read more |
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Trump Executive Order Against Social Media Giants Denounced as Unlawful Ploy to 'Eviscerate Public Oversight of His Lies' "Undoubtedly the first step down an increasingly dark path of Trump using the power of his office to intimidate media companies, journalists, activists, and anyone else who criticizes him into silence." Read more |
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President Amplifies 'Cowboys for Trump' Calls for Executing Democrats "Thank you Cowboys," Trump tweeted. Read more |
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Calls for Peace—But Mostly Justice—as Minneapolis Erupts in Anger Over Police Killing of George Floyd "We share these painful emotions and demand justice, but we also urge everyone who wishes to raise their voice to engage in peaceful protests and observe social distancing," Floyd's family and attorney said in a statement. Read more |
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'We Live to Fight Another Day... Keep Calling,' Say Privacy Defenders as House Postpones Vote to Reauthorize FBI Mass Spying Powers "Leadership will be working hard behind the scenes to strike some sketchy back room deal and try to get this through. We can't let that happen. Keep the pressure on." Read more |
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Pioneering AIDS Activist Larry Kramer—Whose "Rage Helped Inspire a Movement"—Dead at 84 "There is no question in my mind that Larry helped change medicine in this country," said Dr. Anthony Fauci. "And he helped change it for the better." Read more |
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'What Corporate Welfare Is All About': Sanders Condemns Lack of Price Controls on Taxpayer-Funded Remdesivir "Gilead did not make this drug alone. The public has a stake and must have a say in setting the price." Read more |
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ACLU Sues FDA Over Abortion Care Restrictions in Midst of Covid-19 Crisis The federal government's decision "results in discrimination in access and threatens to harm patients and their clinicians during a time of national crisis." Read more |
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'Just Let the Patriot Act Die You Cowards': House Lawmakers Urged to Vote Down Flawed Domestic Spy Bill "It would be unconscionable for the Democratic House to pass any PATRIOT Act reauthorization without critical privacy reforms." Read more |
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Global Groups Challenge Financial Sector to 'End Its Support for Fossil Fuels and Climate Chaos' Ahead of ExxonMobil Shareholders Meeting "Fossil fuels are a bad investment, not only from an environmental and human rights perspective, but also from a financial one." Read more |
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Private Insurers Urged to Extend Free Covid-19 Coverage Until Pandemic Over "If you are going to contract Covid-19, you'd better hurry up or you're out of luck!" Read more |
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Trump-Connected Fossil Fuel Companies Permitted to Delay Payments of $56 Million in Pollution Fines During Pandemic " People are struggling to find rent money for next month, but thank god the Trump administration is providing relief for the millions these poor, vulnerable corporate polluters owe." Read more |
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Though Busily Ranting on Twitter, Trump Completely Silent on Police Killing of George Floyd as Biden Demands Federal Probe "George Floyd deserved better and his family deserves justice. His life mattered, I'm grateful for the swift action in Minneapolis to fire the officers involved—they must be held responsible for their egregious actions," said Biden. Read more |
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Facebook Under Fire After Its Response to Coronavirus Misinformation Makes Clear Company Could Do More to Combat Political Lies "It's not about free speech. It's about money." Read more |
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As US Death Toll Hits 100,000 People, Here's a Simple Guide to 12 Things Trump Did To Make Covid-19 Much Worse The president's "chaotic and incompetent response has fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths." Read more |
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Adam Schiff Ripped as 'Biggest Hypocrite in Congress' for Undermining Effort to Curb FBI Spy Powers "He constantly talks about how the Trump administration is dangerous and authoritarian. But time and time again he has done everything in his power to ensure that the Trump administration has essentially limitless domestic surveillance authority." Read more |
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Without Government Intervention, Economists Warn Renters Across US Could Soon Face 'Avalanche of Evictions' " The fact that we are displacing people in a global pandemic is immoral." Read more |
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New Report Details How G20 Nations Spend $77 Billion a Year to Destroy Climate "Government money must instead support a just transition from fossil fuels that protects workers, communities, and the climate." Read more |
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Local TV Stations Pilloried for 'Shamelessly' Passing Off Amazon-Scripted Propaganda as News "Jeff Bezos can run as many scripted news segments he wants. It still doesn't change the fact that he made $34.5 billion over the course of this pandemic while putting his workers in harm's way and shirking on their hazard pay." Read more |
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'Accountability Is Coming': Federal Judges Rule California Climate Suits Against Big Oil Must Go Forward in State Court "A tremendous victory in the fight to hold Big Oil accountable for lying about climate change and leaving communities to pay for the damage." Read more |
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New PEN America Report Warns Surge of Anti-Protest Laws in Trump Era Is 'Danger to Expressive Rights of All' "There has been a determined movement, occurring largely outside the public eye, to delegitimize public protest and paint demonstrators as dangerous or even criminal." Read more |
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'A Disgusting Display': Police Fire Rubber Bullets, Stun Grenades, and Tear Gas at Demonstrators Protesting Killing of George Floyd "What is happening tonight in our city is shameful," Rep. Ilhan Omar said of police behavior. Read more |