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Eating Away at Workers' Wages, Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Costs Soared by 121% Since 1999: Analysis "As healthcare costs escalate, wages remain stagnant. Winning Medicare for All means abolishing the parasitic private insurers that generate unprecedented inequality in our society." Read more |
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Watch Susan Collins Drive Away as College Student Tells Her 'More Kids Are Going to Die' Without Gun Control Legislation "We all know it's an important issue. The question is, will they take action right now before more kids die in their schools, before more people die at the mall, before more people die in their places of worship?" Read more |
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'Racism at Work': Texas Mounted Police Lead Handcuffed Black Man Through Streets on a Rope "If it was a white man, he wouldn't have been treated that way." Read more |
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WATCH: To Combat Hate and Gun Violence, Ocasio-Cortez Urges US to 'Go Deep' and 'Love Bigger' to Break Grip of White Supremacy "We will always be here and hold space for you to come back," AOC said directly to those now mired in racist ideologies. "We will love you back. You are not too far gone." Read more |
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'Alarming' Explosion of Toxic Pesticide Use Causing Insect Apocalypse in United States: Study "Insect abundance has declined 45 percent. This is a global crisis—we must ban neonics to save the bees!" Read more |
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'Your Rhetoric and Your Actions Led Us to This Terrible Moment': El Paso to Meet Trump Visit With Protests Against Hate "We do not need anybody fanning the flames of hate, anger, and racism," said one local activist Read more |
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McConnell's Inaction in the Face of Gun Violence Angers Democrats, Progressives Calling for Reform "I would hope and pray that he understands that he actually has the power to do the right thing here." Read more |
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#WhiteSupremacyKills: 100+ Civil Rights Groups Rally to Reject GOP's Excuses for Massacres and Demand Concrete Action "The impact of Trump's racist rhetoric and policies cannot be ignored when white supremacists—many of whom name him in their attacks and cite him in their hate manifestos—murder innocent people of color." Read more |
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'This Is Big': House Democrats Praised for Requesting Kavanaugh's Concealed Bush Admin Records "This request for documents is a critically important step toward fleshing out the woefully inadequate record of Brett Kavanaugh's career that Senate Republicans insisted was enough to confirm him." Read more |
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'Port in a Storm': Rare Win for Pro-Palestine Advocates as Court Rules in Favor of Students "Because of Justice Bannon's order, no Fordham student will be restricted or prohibited from advocating for justice in Palestine." Read more |
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Democratic Voters Rank Bernie Sanders as 'Most Qualified' 2020 Candidate to Solve US Healthcare Crisis "Bernie Sanders's fight to guarantee healthcare to all Americans through a Medicare for All system is not only a moral necessity—polls show it is also the most compelling healthcare message to mobilize voters." Read more |
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Citing Racist Massacres and 'Inexcusable' Prevalence of Guns, Foreign Countries Issue Travel Safety Warnings for United States "The world is watching." Read more |
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No Billionaires for Bernie: Alone Among Democratic Frontrunners, Sanders Gets No Cash From Wealthiest Americans "Zero billionaire donors. None. Nada." Read more |
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'What a Life. What a Remarkable Remarkable Life': Nation Mourns Passing of US Literary Icon Toni Morrison (1931-2019) "I know it seems like a lot, but I really only do one thing. I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." Read more |
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'Biggest Crisis No One Is Talking About': Quarter of Humanity Faces 'Extremely High Water Stress' Intensified by Climate Emergency "A new generation of solutions is emerging, but nowhere near fast enough." Read more |
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'Youth and Workers Uniting Behind This Crisis': German Labor Union Urges 2 Million Members to Join Global Climate Strike "This is leadership. Who will follow? The world is watching," said 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg Read more |
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Hannity Mercilessly Mocked for Proposing Armed Guards in US Schools, Shopping Malls After Shootings "Welcome to Sean Hannity's America. You head to the mall to buy overpriced garbage at Best Buy, and spend the next 30 to 40 minutes wondering if the jumpy retired cop will hear a balloon pop and start mag dumping into the crowd." Read more |
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'This Is Us': In Wake of El Paso, Eddie Glaude Delivers 'Incredibly Powerful' Statement on US History of Racism and Violence—And You Can't Just Blame Trump "And if we're gonna get past this, we can't blame it on [Trump]. He's a manifestation of the ugliness that's in us." Read more |
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'Another Nail in the Coffin' of Democracy and Journalism as US Newspaper Giants Gannett and GateHouse Announce $1.4 Billion Merger "Hundreds of communities and ultimately our democracy will pay the price for this deal. Less journalism and less deep-dive investigative reporting will only lead to less informed citizens." Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Photo of McConnell Supporters Groping Cutout: 'Is This Just Standard Culture of Team Mitch?' "These young men look like they work for you. Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll...?" Read more |
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'Economic Terrorism': After Failed Military Coup Attempt, Trump Imposes Total Embargo Against Venezuela "The U.S. gov is telling the Venezuelan people that if they want to eat, they have to change their politics." Read more |
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'This Is On You': Democrats Demand McConnell Reconvene Senate to Vote on Universal Background Checks After Months of Stalling "The House passed HR8, a Bipartisan Background Checks Act, five months ago and the Senate has yet to vote on it. You've been sitting on it since February giving bogus excuses. Care to explain the people why?" Read more |
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At Least 29 Dead After Shootings In Texas and Ohio, With Police Probing Alleged White Supremacist Views of El Paso Gunman "We live in a country where the mass shooting that took place yesterday in El Paso, Texas is not the top story because there was another mass shooting overnight in Dayton, Ohio." Read more |
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Drastic Changes to Food Production and Consumption Needed to Save Planet From Catastrophic Warming, IPCC Reveals "The case for moving towards a largely vegetarian or vegan diet gets stronger and stronger, quite apart from the moral issues about animal suffering." Read more |
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As Rosselló Resigns, Renewed Protests Demand 'Real and Radical Change' Instead of Continued Austerity and Corruption "We didn't demand the resignation of a corrupted government, for having another equally corrupted. We are demanding a real alternative." Read more |
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Indigenous Groups Applaud Protection of Grizzly Bear as Liz Cheney Claims Rule Harms 'Western Way of Life' "Liz Cheney is very upset that the people whose land was taken have interfered with the people who took the land." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Dominates as Analyses of Fundraising Data Show Vermont Senator With Widespread Support Across Nation The data "contradicts both the mainstream narrative and some national polling data that suggest that only a centrist Democrat could succeed in this political environment." Read more |
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European Regulators Praised for Declaring There Is 'No Safe Exposure Level' for Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Children Advocates celebrating the announcement noted that, by contrast, "the Trump administration is kowtowing to chemical agribusiness." Read more |
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#FirePantaleo: Demands for Justice as NYPD Officer Who Used Fatal Chokehold on Eric Garner Gets Suspension Department puts Daniel Pantaleo on suspension after administrative judge recommends firing Read more |
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17 Million Americans Purged From Voter Rolls Between 2016 and 2018, Analysis Finds "Voters often do not realize they have been purged until they try to cast a ballot on Election Day—after it's already too late." Read more |
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Scientists Say Record-Shattering European Heat Wave Made 'About 100 Times More Likely' by Climate Crisis Researchers also warned that "these records will be broken in few years." Read more |
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'Democrats Will Win This Seat' Party Says After Lone Black Member of House Republican Caucus Will Hurd Retires "Texas is the biggest battleground state. Republicans know it, and Texas Democrats damn sure know it." Read more |
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Union Leaders Rebuke Centrist Democrats for Claiming Medicare for All Would Harm Workers "Medicare for All would put money back into union members' pockets in the form of wages and other benefits. That's why major unions representing millions of workers in the U.S. are in this fight." Read more |
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'A Dystopian Surveillance State Being Built in Plain Sight': Pentagon Tests Radar-Equipped Balloons to Spy on Vehicles Across Midwest "These programs are not about stopping violence, they're about social control." Read more |
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'July Has Re-Written Climate History': Month Could Go Down as Planet's Hottest Ever "As temperatures rise, so will we," says 350.org. Read more |
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'Unacceptable': Trump Using Puerto Rico's Political Crisis to Restrict Hurricane Relief Aid "For far too long, the U.S. government has failed the people of Puerto Rico. That must end." Read more |
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Fears of 'Nuclear Chaos and Potential Catastrophe' Rise After US Exits Landmark Cold War-Era Treaty With Russia "It might have been possible to salvage the treaty if political will had existed to hammer out solutions to outstanding issues. Instead, we are at the cusp of a new arms race in Europe and Asia." Read more |
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'We Cannot Keep Handing Over Billions to Military-Industrial Complex,' Says Sanders as Senate Passes Massive Pentagon Budget "The Pentagon is set to grow by $90 billion and reach $738 billion next year. For $90 billion, we could double nutrition assistance or provide $7,000 to every child in poverty." Read more |
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'This Is a Huge Deal': Majority of House Democrats Have Signed on to Medicare for All "Amazing what a little bold leadership can do." Read more |
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Progressives Say Kamala Harris Team 'Inventing Conspiracies' About Tulsi Gabbard Rather Than Addressing Critiques "Why are people attacking the messenger rather than addressing the criticisms?" Read more |
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Shifting Subsidies to Renewable Energy Instead of Propping Up Fossil Fuel Giants Would Prompt 'Clean Energy Revolution', Study Shows "What we are doing is using taxpayers' money to boost hurricanes, to spread droughts, to melt glaciers, to bleach corals. In one word: to destroy the world." Read more |
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33 House Democrats Demand Resignation of U.S. Border Patrol Chief Over Secret Facebook Group The lawmakers wrote in a new letter that Carla Provost "was a willing participant" in the group, where agency staff shared "atrocious commentary that stokes racist and xenophobic tropes." Read more |
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'Should Send Shockwaves Across the Nation': Grave Warnings as McConnell Accelerates Right-Wing Takeover of US Courts "Senate Republicans will stop at nothing to stack the courts with partisan judges who will push their radical agenda through at any cost." Read more |
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'Outrageous': Lindsey Graham Breaks Senate Rules to Advance Sweeping Anti-Asylum Bill "Lindsey Graham is so desperate to attack asylum seekers that he just broke the rules of his own committee to advance his bill." Read more |
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'A Significant Milestone': Majority of House Dems Now Support Impeachment Inquiry, Increasing Pressure on Pelosi "That's momentum. We must keep it up." Read more |
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'We Urgently Need to Change Our Way of Living,' Experts Warn as Heat Wave Causes Historic Ice Melt in Greenland "More than 12 billion tons of water will have entered the ocean by tonight, permanently raising sea levels." Read more |
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'Timely Action Is Critical': Doctors Call On Congress to Investigate Children's Deaths In Migrant Detention Centers Three children who died between December and May exhibited sign of influenza, doctors say Read more |
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Edward Snowden Shares His Story in New Memoir That Hits Shelves in September The exiled American whistleblower's Permanent Record is due to be released on the U.S.'s Constitution Day Read more |
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Support for Medicare for All Jumps When Right-Wing Talking Points Are Countered With Strong Progressive Response: Poll "We can win this battle and guarantee health care as a human right, but we need a nominee who is going to fight hard for Medicare for All." Read more |
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Latest Proof Trump 'Unwilling and Incapable' of Engaging in Peace Talks as US Sanctions Iran's Top Diplomat "Again, President Trump has chosen an action to push Iran away from the negotiating table, isolate America on the world stage, and take diplomatic options off the table." Read more |
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With 'Flailing' Debate on Half-Measures, Say Progressives, Biden and Harris Accidentally Made Case for Medicare for All "A good demonstration of why Medicare for all makes for great messaging. All these complicated-ass half-measures are impossible to explain." Read more |
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Julian Castro, Cory Booker Not Allowing Biden to Avoid Responsibility for Obama Administration Immigration Policies "One of us has learned the lessons of the past, and one of us hasn't." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Loom Large in Night 2 of Dem Debates as Healthcare Again Dominates the Conversation "The winners of this health care debate are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren." Read more |
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Following Death Threats, Human Rights Defenders Demand Israeli Authorities Stand Up for Civil Society "This is the result of the ongoing incitement campaign against aid and human rights organizations in Israel—with the encouragement and backing of politicians and public figures." Read more |
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US Eyeing Militarization of Antarctic as Well as Arctic Treaty that "has been the cornerstone of governance" for most southerly continent could soon be torn up Read more |
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With Nation's Attention on Democratic Debate, McConnell Advances Over a Dozen Lifetime Trump Judges "Confronting this generational shift in our courts will be one of the most pressing issues for the next president—in fact, the viability of his or her entire agenda depends on it." Read more |
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Unearthed Recordings Showing Reagan Calling Africans 'Monkeys' Just 'Par for the Course' Say Critics of GOP "Tell me again how Donald Trump's Republican party isn't the Republican party you remember." Read more |
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Amid 'Existential Threat' and With Women's Freedom at Stake, CNN Slammed for Pushing Climate and Reproductive Rights to Back Burner "We need a president who will prioritize these issues—not treat them as an afterthought." Read more |
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In 'Visionary' Document, Small Island Nations Declare 'Climate Crisis' in Pacific Declaration includes demand for end to fossil fuel development and for nations most responsible for crisis to "urgently change direction." Read more |
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Pramila Jayapal Frustrated by Democrats Using Medicare for All Label to Push Plans 'That Are Not Medicare for All' "Any policy that uses the M4ALL name must embody these principles, not undermine them." Read more |
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With One Line, Elizabeth Warren Effectively Ends What Was Left of John Delaney's Campaign "Extremely rude of Elizabeth Warren to murder John Delaney on national television like this." Read more |
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'I Wrote the Damn Bill': Bernie Sanders Shuts Down Tim Ryan on Debate Stage Sanders was discussing his Medicare for All legislation when Ryan interrupted Read more |
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'The Healthcare Industry Will Be Advertising Tonight': Sanders Calls Out CNN for Airing Pharma Commercials During 2020 Debate "If Medicare for All was on trial, the entire corporate media would have to recuse itself for a y-u-g-e conflict of interest." Read more |
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'No Limit to the Depths of the Cruelty of the Trump Regime': Admin Spurns Court Order to Stop Separating Families "Where are they? How are they treated? When will they be reunited? Why were they still separated?" Read more |
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Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment to 'Wipe Clean the Dark Stain' of Citizens United "To restore our one-person-one-vote democracy, we must pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and stop this country's slide to oligarchy." Read more |
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More Than Three Eco-Defenders Killed Per Week in 2018 While Fighting to Protect Wildlife, Homes, and Livelihoods "They say we are terrorists, delinquents, assassins and that we have armed groups here, but really they're just killing us." Read more |
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'Moral Courage and Conviction' Behind Primary Challenge to Rep. Josh Gottheimer—One of the Most Conservative House Democrats Arati Kreibich says she is running because "our representatives should stand with people—not corporations." Read more |
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In Joyful Act of Resistance, Pink Seesaws Installed at Border Fence "We are all connected." Read more |
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Democrats Urged to 'Oppose This Takeover' as McConnell Rushes to Confirm 19 Right-Wing Judges Before Recess "Senators must put an end to this blatant disrespect to our judicial system, traditions, and democracy." Read more |
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'We Are in a Climate Emergency' Warn Experts and AOC as Greenland Ice Sheet Faces Possible Record-Breaking Melting "If the ice sheet melts entirely, it would raise global sea levels by almost 23 feet." Read more |
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New BLM Appointee Brings Conflicts of Interest and Plans to Sell Off Public Lands to Agency Charged With Protecting Them "It's hard to imagine anyone in this position more dangerous than William Perry Pendley." Read more |
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Led by Ted Cruz, GOP Senators Call on Trump to Bypass Congress to Give Rich Americans Another Tax Cut "This is the GOP long con in a nutshell. Trump blazes away with raw and hideous racism. Meanwhile, he and his party look for ways to ship yachtloads of cash to the super wealthy." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders, Julián Castro Among 2020 Candidates Set to Attend First-Ever Presidential Forum on Native American Issues "Through our efforts in getting equality at the ballot box for Natives, we have been able to put a little more power behind our voice," said an activist who helped organize the event Read more |
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Sen. Ron Wyden Tears Into Trump Intelligence Chief Pick as 'Least Qualified Individual Ever Nominated' "He has endorsed widespread government surveillance and shown little concern for Americans' rights, except for those of Donald Trump and his close associates." Read more |
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'This Is Shameful': Trump DOJ Guts Asylum Protections for Members of Families Threatened With Violence and Persecution "Barr has announced that a gang's threat to torture or kill you or your family doesn't constitute a foundation for seeking asylum." Read more |
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A 'Timely and Needed' Proposal: Harris and AOC Introduce Bill to Keep Frontline Communities at the Center of All Climate Legislation "It is not enough to simply cut emissions and end our reliance on fossil fuels. We must ensure that communities already contending with unsafe drinking water, toxic air, and lack of economic opportunity are not left behind." Read more |
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'Complete Chaos': Latest DCCC Controversy Claims Top Aide of Chair Cheri Bustos as Racial Representation Controversy Continues "Reminder: it's only July 2019. Stay tuned to find out which pile of dog shit the DCCC chair manages to step in next." Read more |
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To Deliver 'Fundamental Message' for 'Survival of Future Generations,' Greta Thunberg to Sail Atlantic for Americas Swedish climate activist will begin two-week journey aboard fossil fuel-free sailing yacht in mid-August. Read more |
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Terror Attack in Nigeria Kills At Least 65 People in Latest Example of 'Sharp Increase' in Extremism Tied to AFRICOM "Attempting to eradicate terrorism by force may be exacerbating the problem, provoking a terrorist backlash and serving as a recruiting tool for extremist groups." Read more |
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"It Doesn't Have to Be This Way": Faith Leaders Rally at Detention Center Demanding End to Inhumane Treatment of Immigrants "We are here in unity with local leaders who invited us. We have seen just a glimpse of the horrible conditions our immigrant neighbors are facing at the border." Read more |
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Earliest Ever 'Earth Overshoot Day' Shows Humanity's Consumption of Planet's Natural Resources Raging Unabated "Systemic change isn't radical, it's what we need to survive," says Sunrise Movement Read more |
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Slamming Use of Poor Communities as 'Dumping Grounds' by Corporate Polluters, Jay Inslee Unveils Plan to Hold Fossil Fuel Giants Accountable "For too long we have allowed the forces of economic injustice and environmental racism to perpetuate inequality and lack of opportunity. Now it is time to build environmental justice into everything we do." Read more |
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"Trump's Lies and Racism Never End": Sanders Hits Back at President's Attacks on Baltimore "While I have been fighting to lift the people of Baltimore and elsewhere out of poverty with good paying jobs, housing, and healthcare, he has been attacking workers and the poor." Read more |
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'Bad Policy and Bad Politics': Kamala Harris Accused of Hijacking Medicare for All Label to Push More Industry-Friendly Plan "Harris calls her plan 'Medicare for All,' but it's not even close." Read more |
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'This Is a Crooked CEO in the White House': Pressure on Pelosi Grows as More Than 100 House Democrats Back Trump Impeachment Inquiry "By refusing to open an impeachment inquiry, House Democratic leadership is ignoring the facts laid out by Robert Mueller at his testimony." Read more |
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'People are Dying': Bernie Sanders Heads to Canada With an Insulin Caravan "We are going to end pharma’s greed." Read more |
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McConnell Dubbed 'Moscow Mitch' for Blocking Debate on Election Security Bill Just As Senate Report Details 2016 Russian Interference "Moscow Mitch should be the focus of everyone who cares about America. Forget the current occupant of the White House, he is irrelevant without Mitch providing his safety net." Read more |