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Major Victory as $226 Billion New York Pension Fund Announces Largest Fossil Fuel Divestment of Its Kind New York is the first U.S. state to release a fossil fuel divestment plan. Read more |
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New Research Shows 'Pandemic Profits' of Billionaires Could Fully Fund $3,000 Stimulus Checks for Every Person in US "America's billionaires could pay for a major Covid relief bill and still not lose a dime of their pre-virus riches." Read more |
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'A Terrible Decision': Progressives Denounce Biden Pick of 'Mr. Monsanto' Tom Vilsack as Ag Secretary "We need a USDA Secretary on the side of everyday people. If this is not the fox guarding the henhouse, it's pretty damn close." Read more |
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Ilhan Omar Rips Congress for Approving $740.5 Billion Bill to 'Appease Defense Contractors' While Skimping on Covid Relief "It is unconscionable to pass a Pentagon budget that continues to fund unnecessary projects and endless wars during a time of widespread suffering across our country." Read more |
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'This Is Atrocious': Trump White House Proposes Covid Relief Plan With $0 Weekly Unemployment Boost "The president's proposal starts by cutting the unemployment insurance proposal being discussed by bipartisan members of the House and Senate. That is unacceptable." Read more |
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'No Dissents': US Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Trump Allies' Bid to Overturn Loss in Pennsylvania Lawyers for the commonwealth argued that the petitioners asked the justices to "undertake one of the most dramatic, disruptive invocations of judicial power in the history of the republic." Read more |
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Civil Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Planned Closure of More Than Half of Early Runoff Voting Sites in Key Georgia County The coronavirus pandemic "has had extremely harsh effects in Black and Latinx communities and makes in-person voting on Election Day an untenable option for many voters," the groups' letter states. Read more |
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'Home Means Everything': Campaigners Aim to Stop All Evictions for Duration of Pandemic "This is a time where it's not an overstatement to say that for many people, eviction can lead to death." Read more |
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Trump's Food Box Program Running Dry as US Hunger Crisis Heads Into Holidays "People can't believe the government promised food and reneged." Read more |
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Over 550 Groups Urge Biden to Become #PlasticFreePresident With Eight Executive Actions to Address Pollution Crisis "Implementing this historic plan would protect vulnerable frontline communities and marine life while addressing a key driver of climate change." Read more |
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'Not a Criminal': Top UN Anti-Torture Official Urges Julian Assange's Release The WikiLeaks founder's "prolonged solitary confinement in a high security prison is neither necessary nor proportionate," said United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. Read more |
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Sanders Leads Senate Demand for $1,200 Stimulus Checks Over 'Get-Out-of-Jail Free Card' for Corporations "The American people need help and they need help now." Read more |
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'Time Is Running Out for Millions': Progressives Rally for People's Bailout as McConnell Pushes Corporate Immunity "This is the moment to save lives and to boldly chart a path towards a more equitable future through a just recovery from Covid." Read more |
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Top Democrat Condemns Trump Plan to Sell 'Most Highly Sophisticated Killing Machine' to UAE "Does it make the Middle East safer," asked Sen. Chris Murphy, "or does it just make defense companies richer?" Read more |
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'Methane Misinformation': Report Details Broken Climate Pledges of Oil and Gas Giants "No amount of spin changes the fact that the oil and gas extraction is wreaking havoc on our communities and our climate." Read more |
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'It's the Right Thing to Do': Schumer, Incoming NY Reps Urge Biden to Cancel Student Loan Debt "You don't need Congress, all you need is the flick of a pen and President-elect Biden—then President Biden—can make this happen," the Senate minority leader said. Read more |
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'They Pointed Guns at My Kids': Outrage After Florida Cops Raid Home of Scientist Who Refused to Censor Covid-19 Data "DeSantis needs to worry less about what I'm writing about and more about the people who are sick and dying." Read more |
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Sustainable Farming Advocates Warn Biden That Vilsack 'A Very Bad Pick' for Ag Secretary "America needs an Agriculture secretary that will finally prioritize sustainable family farming and national food security over corporate profits." Read more |
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A Threat to 'Both Society and Consumers': New Campaign Urges Reviewers to Stop Recommending Amazon Doorbell Cameras "Ignoring the broader societal impact of a product does not make your review 'neutral,' it makes it reckless and incomplete." Read more |
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Trump 'America First' Vaccine Order Denounced as 'False Choice' That Ignores Real Problem: Pharma Monopolies "Monopolies have no place in a pandemic—especially for scientific insights that build upon billions of dollars in public money." Read more |
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'What Can We Do to Fix It?' Trump Reportedly Offered to Help Pennsylvania GOP Attempt to Overturn Biden Win "It may not be working, but this is still dictator stuff, and let's not ever let ourselves get used to it." Read more |
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'Bad News': Biden Picks Retired General and Raytheon Board Member Lloyd Austin as Pentagon Chief Raytheon, one journalist pointed out, is "a key supplier of bombs to the U.S.-Saudi war in Yemen that has lobbied aggressively in opposition to curbs on arms sales to the Saudi-led coalition." Read more |
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In 'Huge Victory for Polar Bears and Our Climate,' Court Rejects Trump Approval of Offshore Drilling Project in Arctic While welcoming the win, activists vowed to continue fighting against destructive oil and gas extraction in the region. Read more |
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On First Day in Office, LA County District Attorney George Gascón Announces Move to End 'Unsafe and Unjust' Cash Bail "I recognize for many this is a new path… Whether you are a protester, a police officer, or a prosecutor, I ask you to walk with me." Read more |
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Millions of Tenants 'Headed for Absolute Disaster' After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities "This is like a Charles Dickens novel. It's an evolving story of how people at the bottom are suffering." Read more |
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As World Teeters on Brink, Over 250 Scientists and Scholars Warn of Full-Fledged 'Societal Collapse' "It is time to invite each other into difficult conversations, so we can reduce our complicity in the harm, and be creative to make the best of a turbulent future." Read more |
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On Way Out the Door, Trump EPA Rejects Tightening Deadly Soot Pollution Standards "The failure to strengthen particulate-matter protections is a dereliction of duty that puts lives at risk." Read more |
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Victory for Transgender Rights as Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case on School Bathroom Policy "Trans and non-binary people belong everywhere," said the ACLU. Read more |
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Report Blames Trump Admin for 330% Rise in Afghan Civilian Casualties "In 2019 airstrikes killed 700 civilians—more civilians than in any other year since the beginning of the war in 2001 and 2002." Read more |
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Trump Launches 'Despicable' Last-Minute Attack on Social Security With Rule Aiming to Restrict Disability Benefits "Joe Biden needs to undo these cruel regulations—and clean house at SSA—on day one." Read more |
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Citing 'Historic Abuse' of Judicial Process, Over 1,500 Attorneys Call for Sanction of Trump Campaign's Legal Team "Every attorney, including the organized bar and disciplinary authorities, should disavow lawyers who trample the truth and undermine democracy through their false statements." Read more |
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'The Future We Are Looking At': Wall Street to Begin Betting on Water Scarcity "If nothing else does it, this should make you passionate about climate change." Read more |
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'Insane and Pathological': Head of Iran's Central Bank Says US Blocking Covid-19 Vaccine Purchases The Trump administration is allegedly using sanctions to thwart Iran's efforts to obtain vaccine stock through the WHO's COVAX program. Read more |
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140+ Rights Groups Demand Congress Leave Corporate Immunity Provisions Out of Covid Relief Deal "This would be the worst time to disincentivize businesses and employers from doing everything they can to protect the health and safety of working people and consumers." Read more |
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'Perdue Pleaded the Fifth': Ossoff Debates Empty Podium as GOP Senator No-Shows Amid Scrutiny Over Stock Trades "It shows an astonishing arrogance and sense of entitlement for Georgia's senior U.S. senator to believe he shouldn't have to debate at a moment like this in our history." Read more |
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Xavier Becerra, Biden Nominee to Lead HHS, Said in 2017 That He 'Absolutely' Supports Medicare for All "We'll get to see how much he meant it." Read more |
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Argentina Passes "Millionaire's Tax" to Fund Covid-19 Recovery "We're coming out of this pandemic like countries come out of world wars, with thousands of dead and devastated economies," said one senator. Read more |
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'Money For War': US Arms Sales Soar and Bipartisan Militarism Thrives Amid Covid-19 Pandemic Trump on Saturday claimed a Democratic-led Senate will "destroy the military through a lack of funding," but Congress last week passed a $740 billion Pentagon budget while Americans await economic relief. Read more |
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Democracy 'Has To Be Defended': It Is Possible and Necessary, Critics Say, To Stop Trump From Running in 2024 "In a society fully committed to democracy, Congress would use this lame-duck period to impeach, convict, and disqualify Donald Trump from pursuing public office in the future, as the Constitution allows." Read more |
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Hours After Brian Kemp Declined to Overturn Georgia's Election Results, Trump Slammed GOP Governor at Lie-Filled Rally "What I need" one journalist said, "is for lawyers who specialize in little-used federal criminal statutes like Sedition to explain to me why a federal official openly seeking to conspire with another federal official to overthrow a democratically elected government isn't a crime." Read more |
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Trump Demands Names of 27 Congressional Republicans Who Acknowledged Biden's Victory Two right-wing lawmakers insist Trump won the election, while 220 GOP members of the House and Senate—roughly 88 percent of congressional Republicans—refuse to say either way. "Send me a list," Trump tweeted, "of the RINOs" who recognize Biden as the winner. Read more |
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With 'Economy On the Verge of Renewed Carnage,' the Squad Demands Relief Prioritizing Working People "The next Covid-19 relief package must include stimulus checks," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. "There is no good reason to exclude it." Read more |
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Pentagon Says Almost All US Troops to Leave Somalia—But Military Operations Will Continue "This action is not a change in U.S. policy," said the Defense Department, which has been conducting an air and ground war in the East African nation since 2007. Read more |
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Federal Judge Delivers 'Huge Victory' for Immigrants, Ordering Trump Administration to Fully Restore DACA "It opens the door for more than a million immigrant youth who have been unfairly denied their chance to apply for DACA," said the director of the Justice Action Center. Read more |
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Urging Tens of Billions in Emergency Aid, Top UN Officials Warn 2021 Set to Be 'Catastrophic' for World's Poorest "This is a global crisis and the solutions must be shared equitably as global public goods." Read more |
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Ahead of Youth-Led Day of Action, Young Elected Officials Push Biden to Enact National Emergency Climate Plan In a letter to the president-elect, the officials say they "believe it is imperative we take action on the climate crisis because it is a threat multiplier for water security, deadly disease, and environmental racism." Read more |
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'Strong Hearts to the Front!': Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline Construction on the Enbridge Line 3 extension—which will transport up to 760,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil daily—began earlier this week, despite strong Native opposition. Read more |
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Sanders Opposed to Relief Plan That Gives 'Absolutely No Financial Help' to Tens of Millions of Suffering People "Given the enormous economic desperation facing working families in this country today, I will not be able to support the recently announced Manchin-Romney Covid proposal unless it is significantly improved." Read more |
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'50 Years in the Making': In Historic Vote Against Failed War on Drugs, House Passes Marijuana Decriminalization "Don't let anyone tell you that organizing doesn't matter." Read more |
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Trump—Consumed With 'Narcissistic Crusade' Over Election Loss—Slammed for Silence on Surging Pandemic As U.S. daily deaths set a new record on Wednesday, topping 2,800, the president posted an "unhinged" 46-minute-long rant on Facebook, claiming without any evidence that "this election was rigged." Read more |
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'Short-Sighted and Inhumane': Human Rights Groups Sound Warnings as Bangladesh Sends Rohingya Refugees to Low-Lying Silt Island "The relocation of so many Rohingya refugees to a remote island, which is still off limits to everyone including rights groups and journalists without prior permission, poses grave concerns about independent human rights monitoring." Read more |
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155 Years After Abolition, Slavery Is Still Legal in the United States—Democratic Lawmakers Are Trying to Fix That A joint congressional resolution would close the 13th Amendment's "slavery loophole," from which the prison-industrial complex and businesses big and small profit. Read more |
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'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil "If things carry on as they are, the outlook is bleak, unquestionably. But I think it's not too late to introduce measures now." Read more |
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The Pandemic Is Raging Out of Control, So Pompeo Invited 900 People to an Indoor Holiday Party? "It’s so insane, it just makes sense." Read more |
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'One Person Standing in the Way': Abysmal Jobs Report Puts New Pressure on McConnell for Covid Relief "Instead of passing a relief bill, Senate Republicans have been confirming judge after judge—filling the federal bench while Americans fill hospitals across the country." Read more |
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Demanding Clemency for Lisa Montgomery, UN Experts Warn US on Verge of 'Arbitrary Execution' "Ms. Montgomery was the victim of an extreme level of physical and sexual abuse throughout her life against which the state never provided protection and for which it failed to offer remedies." Read more |
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'We're in a Climate Emergency. Act Accordingly': Greta Thunberg Says Denmark's 30-Year Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Not Fast Enough " The real news here is that Denmark will apparently go on extracting fossil fuels for another three decades," said climate campaigner Greta Thunberg. Read more |
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Because She Was Wrong About Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg Joins Campaign Against Flournoy Declaring that "we do not need a hawk with relationships with the weapons industry," Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams also urged Biden not to pick Michèle Flournoy as defense secretary. Read more |
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Largest US Federal Workers Union Blasts Trump-GOP Push for Pay Freeze as 'Demeaning, Dishonest, and Cruel' "It's sad that even on his way out, President Trump still can't resist the opportunity to stick it to the government workers." Read more |
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'What the Hell Are They Doing?' Outrage as GOP Tries to Adjourn House With Millions Going Hungry, Covid Surging "They're treating this like a game. Leaders don't abandon people in their time of greatest need," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read more |
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Trump's "Eyes and Ears" at DOJ Reportedly Banned From Building After Trying to Get Inside Information on Election Fraud The news report broke as the White House announced the appointment of the official, Heidi Stirrup, to the board of visitors to the United States Air Force Academy. Read more |
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Director of National Intelligence Admits Government Used Section 215 to Track Browsing History After initially denying the practice, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe admitted the government engaged in activity "that could be characterized" as tracking website visits. Read more |
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'You Alone Can Save His Life': Edward Snowden Urges Trump to Pardon Julian Assange "Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange," the NSA whistleblower tweeted. Read more |
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200+ Health Experts Urge Biden to Reduce 'Dangerously Overcrowded' Prisons During Pandemic "We need to decarcerate to keep people in these places and in the surrounding communities safe." Read more |
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'Last Decade to Save the Planet': Group Puts Forth 50 Bold Climate Actions for Biden "President-elect Biden said his administration wouldn't just tinker around the edges, but instead would lock in progress no future president can roll back. Our recommendations are a roadmap for doing exactly that." Read more |
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Facing Opposition From Progressives, Gina Raimondo Withdraws From Consideration as Biden's HHS Chief "We're in the middle of the worst public health crisis in modern history—it is absolutely amazing that a person with this particular record is even in CONTENTION for the nation's top healthcare job," said one journalist. Read more |
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Campaigners Put Forth 'Cabinet Climate Test' for President-Elect Biden "We demand an executive branch ready to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and face the climate crisis at scale." Read more |
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Indian Farmers Continue Historic Protests After 250 Million People Rise Up Against Modi's Neoliberal Policies "The government side [was] not ready to listen to any of our demands and they have left us with no choice but to protest on the streets," said one farmer-organizer. Read more |
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Just Days Before Exit, Trump Plans 'Going Out of Business' Sale With Arctic Drilling Leases "The Interior Department's Arctic Refuge leasing process has been flawed from the outset, ignoring science and Indigenous voices throughout." Read more |
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Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Favor Raising Taxes on Incomes Over $400K A majority of respondents—regardless of political affiliation—also back tuition-free college for students whose families earn less than $125,000 annually. Read more |
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As Pandemic Soars to Deadly New Heights, 'Conservative Ideology Itself' Blamed for Disastrous US Response "The conservative belief that government is more often the problem than the solution," argue two progressive analysts, "made it practically inevitable that Republicans would render their own government ineffective." Read more |
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Google Illegally Surveilled, Interrogated, and Fired Workers Who Tried to Organize, NLRB Says "For a company with the slogan 'don't be evil,' the findings are pretty damning." Read more |
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In Open Letter to Jeff Bezos, Over 400 Lawmakers From Around the World Join #MakeAmazonPay Campaign "We stand ready to act in our respective legislatures to support the movement that is growing around the world to Make Amazon Pay." Read more |
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Demands for Probe, Possible Criminal Charges as Trump Accused of Withholding Data Needed to Reunite Families "Unconscionable. Who made the call to not release this information sooner?" Read more |
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With Pandemic a 'Tipping Point,' UN Warns 1 Billion More People Headed for Extreme Poverty by 2030 Unless strong and meaningful action is taken now, including major social investments and a Green New Deal-style program, the Covid-19 crisis will make an already dire economic situation much worse. Read more |
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Sanders Slams McConnell for Pushing '3-Martini Lunch' Deduction and Zero Relief for 26 Million Hungry Americans "The Republicans l-o-v-e corporate socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest. Ain't gonna happen." Read more |
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Ignoring Warnings His Election Lies Could Get People Killed, Trump Posts 46-Minute Rant Full of 'Unhinged' Falsehoods "Georgia elections director yesterday: Trump's rhetoric is going to get people killed. Trump today: here's 46 minutes of unhinged conspiracy theories." Read more |
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WATCH: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Grills Treasury Secretary Mnuchin on Unused CARES Act Funding Mnuchin has signaled he will return about $175 billion in unallocated funds, even as the coronavirus pandemic and unemployment crisis rage. Read more |
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Recently Pardoned Flynn Shares Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law and Make Military Oversee New Election "Wow! Sounds a bit like a coup," responded one critic. Read more |
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Advocates Applaud 'Historic' Moment as MORE Act Advances to First-Ever Marijuana Legalization Vote on House Floor "For the first time in American history, the public will see the 'People's House' vote to end the senseless, cruel, and racist policy of marijuana criminalization and prohibition." Read more |
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'Dead-End for Climate': Coalition Denounces Senate Bill to Fund Nuclear Industry Bailout "Instead of propping up the nuclear energy industry, Congress should be driving the transition to truly renewable energy.” Read more |
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Despite Trump Efforts to Foment War With Iran, Experts Say Biden Has Chance to Restore Needed Diplomacy "The window to get back into the nuclear deal, and stave off growing threats of war, will be short." Read more |
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After $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for Rich, Trump Backs GOP Pay Freeze for Federal Workers as Pandemic Rages Unions representing federal workers have denounced the proposed pay freeze as "insulting" and a "cruel slap in the face." Read more |
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As Nonprofit Sector Suffers, Coalition Calls on Congress to Force Wealthy Foundations to Ramp Up Charitable Giving "Increased funding could be immediately absorbed by food banks, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and organizations addressing issues like poverty alleviation, economic development, safe and secure voting, and social justice." Read more |
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New Data Show Income of Top 0.1% Soared 345% While That of Bottom 90% Stagnated Over Past 40 Years "It's all a matter of political choices," progressive economist Thomas Piketty said in a recent interview. "You can have economic justice together with economic prosperity." Read more |
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ACLU Sues to Find Out How and Why Federal Agencies Are Accessing Americans' Cell Phone Location Data "We're suing to bring some much-needed transparency to these disturbing practices," explained one ACLU staff attorney. Read more |
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UN Chief Pleads for Stronger Climate Policies to End 'Suicidal' Addiction to Fossil Fuels "It's time to imagine, and plan for, a better future." Read more |
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'An Acknowledgment of the Next Generation': New Zealand Declares Climate Emergency "It is up to us to make sure we demonstrate a plan for action, and a reason for hope," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Read more |
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Hitting Back at Manchin, AOC Rejects Notion That Only 'Begging Corporate CEOs for Money' Counts as 'Serious' Politics "I find it amusing when politicians try to diminish the seriousness of our policy work, movement organizing, and grassroots fundraising to 'she just tweets.'" Read more |
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'Bye-Bye, Betsy DeVos. You Won't Be Missed,' Says Sanders as Billionaire Education Secretary Attacks Push for Tuition-Free College "What do you call a billionaire who registered a $40 million, 164-foot yacht in the Cayman Islands to avoid $2.4 million in U.S. taxes, while undermining public schools? The worst Education Secretary in the history of America." Read more |
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Critics Smell 'Economic Sabotage' as McConnell Unveils Covid Plan With $0 for Unemployment Boost, Direct Payments "McConnell is making it pretty clear that if Dems don't win the Georgia Senate races, he will cripple the American economy, hoping it will let the GOP win the midterm." Read more |
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Expert Panel Advises CDC That US Healthcare Workers and Nursing Home Residents Should Get Covid-19 Vaccine First The country has documented nearly 13.7 million confirmed cases and over 270,000 deaths from the disease, more than any other nation. Read more |
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Israel Releases Mays Abu Ghosh, Palestinian Student Jailed for Membership in Leftist Campus Group Abu Ghosh—imprisoned for 15 months after joining a banned college organization that opposes Israel's illegal occupation—described torture by her jailers. Read more |
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After Months of Obstructing Covid Relief, GOP Has Left 'Children Begging Santa for Their Basic Needs' "We can either have billionaires, or we can make sure all children are fed, with warm beds to sleep in. Pick one. We cannot have both." Read more |
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'I Guess He's the Next One to Be Fired': Even William Barr Says No Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud The Trump-appointee's comments came as the president's reelection campaign filed yet another lawsuit challenging the election outcome. Read more |
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'Protect Us': Colorado High School Students Post Video Pleading With Local Authorities to Ban Fracking "We shouldn't be afraid for our health when we step outside our own houses," says one of the students in the video. Read more |
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Without Climate Action, Number of Low-Income Homes Affected by Flooding Projected to Triple By 2050, Study Shows "We don't train our attention on these neighborhoods but many of them are already suffering significantly from these problems." Read more |
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Warren Presses Biden to Enact 'Effective Economic Stimulus' With Single Pen Stroke: Cancel Student Debt "All on his own," Warren said during a hearing with Fed chairman Jerome Powell, the incoming president "will have the ability to administratively cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt." Read more |
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Tlaib Says Lack of Popular Stimulus Checks in Bipartisan Relief Plan Shows 'Disconnect' Between Senate and People "There may not be bipartisan support for an additional check" among Republican and Democratic lawmakers, said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, "but there is support outside of Congress." Read more |
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As Lame-Duck Trump Pushes for Arctic Pillage, Bank of America Latest Bank to Rule Out Drilling in Alaska Wildlife Refuge "Now that every major American bank has stated unequivocally that they will not finance this destructive activity, it should be clearer than ever that any oil company considering participating in Trump's ill-advised lease sale should stay away." Read more |