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Watchdog Calls on Authorities to Drop 'Absurd' Charges Against Journalists Covering Black Lives Matter Protests More than 600 attacks against members of the press covering the ongoing protests have been reported to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. Read more |
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Mail-In Voters and Candidates Sue to Block 'Unconstitutional' Assault on Postal Service by Trump and DeJoy "This isn't just an attack against the fabric of our democracy: it's a personal attack against each and every American citizen." Read more |
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'The Price of Failure Is Just Too Great to Imagine': In DNC Speech, Sanders Urges Popular Front to Defeat Donald Trump "The future of our democracy is at stake. The future of our economy is at stake. The future of our planet is at stake." Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez Welcomes Help From Anti-Trump Republicans in Defeating President—But Rejects Kasich's Attempt to Define Party "Something tells me a Republican who fights against women's rights doesn't get to say who is or isn't representative of the Democratic Party." Read more |
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Democrats Demand McConnell Bring Senate Back Into Session to 'Protect USPS and Our Election' Speaker Nancy Pelosi had directed House members to return to Washington, D.C. for an emergency vote Saturday on legislation to reverse Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's recent policy changes. Read more |
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'Disturbing Milestone': Just 12 US Billionaires Now Own More Than $1 Trillion in Combined Wealth "This is simply too much economic and political power in the hands of twelve people." Read more |
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'I Hope the Postmaster General Comes Prepared. I Know I Will,' Says Rep. Katie Porter as DeJoy Agrees to Testify on USPS Changes U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will appear before the House Oversight Committee next week amid concerns that he and President Trump are trying to sabotage the November election. Read more |
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Activists Demand Bolder Efforts to Address Pollution After Scientists Find Microplastics in Human Organs "The best way to tackle the problem is to massively reduce the amount of plastic that's being made and used." Read more |
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After Organizing Mass 'Sick-Out,' Arizona Teachers and School Staff Applauded for 'Bold' Collective Action to Stop Unsafe Reopening "Teachers are in a position to have a voice, and they just weren't being heard." Read more |
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Climate Activists and Scientists Raise Alarm After Death Valley Endures Potentially Record-Breaking 130ºF "It's not a record that will last," says author and activist Bill McKibben. Read more |
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'Go Away! Go Away!' Factory Workers Heckle Belarusian Strongman as Nationwide General Strike Kicks Off "Lukashenko is a former president," said one strike leader. "He needs to go." Read more |
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Trump Administration Denounced for 'Foolish and Deeply Damaging' Plan to Drill in Arctic Wildlife Refuge Local residents, who rely on caribou native to the refuge for sustenance, have called the area 'the heart and soul of mother earth.' Read more |
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'What a Disgrace': Pentagon Weighing $2.2 Billion in Cuts to Military Healthcare Just After Passage of $740 Billion Budget "The Trump administration is always looking for ways to cut your healthcare, regardless of who you are, where you live, or what you do." Read more |
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'It's Going to Take Everyone': Demonstrations Planned Nationwide to 'Save the Post Office From Trump' "We have a narrow window to stop a wannabe dictator from sabotaging our elections." Read more |
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'Stop Lukashenko': Hundreds of Thousands Protest Against Belarusian Leader for Eighth Straight Day Demonstrators are demanding new elections amid outcry over authorities' violent crackdown on dissent. Read more |
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Top Dems Demand Postmaster General DeJoy Testify, Citing 'Grave Threat' to 'Our Very Democracy' The "Postal Service is a public institution that both serves and belongs to every person in our nation." Read more |
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Dems Urged to Say, 'Yes, Snowden Should Be Pardoned' After Trump Floats Possibility The comment from the president prompted fresh praise for the former intelligence contractor who "blew the whistle on illegal government activity kept secret for years." Read more |
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'Go Home, Racists!': BLM Counterprotesters Shout Down White Nationalists in Stone Mountain, Georgia "Hundreds of workers from across Georgia took a stand against racism and won." Read more |
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Following Outrage, Trump Pulls Nomination of "Unapologetic Racist' William Perry Pendley to Oversee Nation's Public Lands "Pendley never should have been nominated, and the fact that he was shows you what you need to know about this administration's conservation priorities." Read more |
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Sanders Warns of Trump Effort to 'Destroy the Post Office to Sabotage This Election' The warning from the Vermont senator follows a USPS announcement that it's halting its collection of mailboxes in multiple states—which voting rights advocates rebuked as evidence of "massive voter suppression." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama Agree: Trump's Attack on Postal Service a Direct Assault on 2020 Election "What elections should not be about in a democratic society is winning because your opponents are prevented from voting. And that is exactly what Trump is doing right now." Read more |
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To Halt Fascist March With Progressive Power, Sanders and Omar Host 'United Against Trump' Town Hall at DNC Convention "We have a moral responsibility to oust Trump." Read more |
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Denounced as Going 'Too Far' When Sanders Said It—American Bar Association Backs Full Voting Rights for Incarcerated People "This Resolution follows a long American Bar Association tradition affirming and supporting the expansion of Americans' right to vote." Read more |
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Forget Your Feelings About Trump, Say Allies of NSA Whistleblower, 'Snowden Pardon Would Be a Major Win' "Edward Snowden is a patriot. Our democracy is better off because of him," tweeted the ACLU. "As we said four years ago, the president should pardon him." Read more |
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Insurance Industry Front Group to Bombard Democratic Convention With Ads Attacking Biden-Backed Public Option The ads by the Partnership for America's Health Care Future fearmonger over potential tax hikes and recycle industry talking points against "government-controlled health insurance." Read more |
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'Exact Right Message': Ed Markey's Must-Watch 2020 Campaign Ad Praised for Highlighting Broken Social Contract "With all due respect, it's time to start asking what your country can do for you." Read more |
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'Big News': GAO Says Top Trump DHS Officials Wolf and Cuccinelli Appointed Illegally Democratic lawmakers said the GAO decision "paints a disturbing picture of the Trump administration playing fast and loose by bypassing the Senate confirmation process to install ideologues." Read more |
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Further Escalating Tensions, Trump Administration Seizes Alleged Iranian Fuel Bound for Venezuela Iran's ambassador to Venezuela, Hojad Soltani, said that neither the ships nor their owners are Iranian but did not address whether the gasoline came from his country. Read more |
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Outrage in Oregon After Federal Agents Teargas Protesters Who 'Held the Line Against Injustice' by Blocking Bus With Deportees "The actions by federal troops are all too familiar, designed for political headlines, meant to intimidate & strike fear into our communities instead of keeping us safe." Read more |
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Amid 'Coup Attempt in the Making' by Trump, Top Democrat Demands Rapid IG Probe Into Postmaster General Rep. Gerry Connolly warned that the timing of Louis DeJoy's policy changes suggest a "deliberate attempt" to influence the November election. Read more |
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Despite 'Frantic' Walk-Back Efforts, Group Says Trump Threat to Destroy Social Security Must Be Believed—and Defeated "The only prudent course for people who care about their earned Social Security is to defeat Trump this November." Read more |
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'Morally Obscene,' Says Sanders as McConnell Adjourns Senate for Month-Long Recess Without Deal on Coronavirus Relief "During the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans think they can take a long vacation while millions of Americans face hunger and eviction." Read more |
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Trump EPA Plows Ahead With 'Mind-Bogglingly Stupid and Destructive' Rollback of Methane Emissions Rules "Even for the Trump administration, this is an appalling new low." Read more |
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Palestinian Rights Advocates Refuse to Applaud Israel-Trump-UAE Deal That Upholds 'Ongoing, Devastating Apartheid' "The Trump administration hit upon the Nobel Peace Prize-winning idea that you can supposedly solve the Israel-Palestine conflict by pretending Palestinians don't exist." Read more |
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Watchdog Warns Unchecked Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps Threaten Workers With 'Dystopian Mass Surveillance' As competing bills aimed at privacy rights make their way through Congress, employers mull the use of apps to quell the spread of Coronavirus in the workplace. Read more |
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Oil Spill's Damage to Marine Area Around Mauritius 'Substantial' and Maybe 'Irreversible,' Expert Warns "There are very few such marine areas with such rich biodiversity left on the planet. An oil spill like this will impact almost everything there." Read more |
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Victory for Democracy as Supreme Court Blocks 'Merciless' GOP Effort to Restrict Mail-In Voting in Rhode Island Thanks to the high court's decision, said one voting rights advocate, "hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island voters will be able to safely cast their ballots without risking their health." Read more |
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UN Chief: Pandemic Must Be Met With Commitment to Peace "Covid-19 is a human tragedy, but we can mitigate the impacts by the choices we make." Read more |
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As GOP Blocks Covid Relief, Experts Warn of 'Wave of Despair' and Devastating Anecdotes Show Crisis Already Here "I feel truly abandoned by this country," one person posted on Reddit's unemployment page this week. Read more |
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'Screams of Torture' as Authoritarian Government in Belarus Continues Attacks on Protesters, Journalists Following what pro-democracy advocates say was a rigged election, world leaders condemn the violence against protestors and the press, and the authoritarian regime's main opponent has fled the country. Read more |
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'Silence Is Complicity': GOP Condemned for Doing Nothing as Trump Openly Touts Sabotage of Postal Service "Donald Trump knows that if the people are heard in November, he and Republicans up and down the ballot will lose," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "This is what we're up against—and this is why we have to fight back with all we've got." Read more |
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Tennessee GOP Targets Racial Justice Movement by Turning Encampment Protests Into Felonies Punishable by Prison Term "Bonus penalty for exercising your protest rights in an unapproved manner: you lose your voting rights." Read more |
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Rep. Neal Urged to Condemn Smear Campaign Targeting Progressive Challenger Alex Morse After Internal Chats Revealed "Everyone who bought into this bullshit smear campaign needs to recant, apologize, and more importantly, LEARN SOMETHING for god's sake." Read more |
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'Only a Tiny Little Minute, But Eternity Is In It': AOC Suggests 60 Seconds Is All She Will Need at DNC "So the DNC is giving AOC a TikTok minute while Republican John Kasich gets a whole speaking slot," lamented one progressive critic. Read more |
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Ro Khanna Announces 'No' Vote on DNC Platform Over Exclusion of 'Moral Issue of Our Time'—Medicare for All "I will be voting 'No' on the platform because when we say that healthcare is a human right," says the progressive congressman from California, "we must truly mean it—and fight for it." Read more |
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'Just Comes Out and Says It': Trump Declares Postal Service Can't Handle Mail-In Voting Because He's Blocking Funding "This is crazy by any standard. The president of the United States is actively trying to sabotage the election." Read more |
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'Emergency Was a Sham': Top Democrat Says IG Report on Saudi Arms Deal 'Deeply Damning' for Pompeo "What sort of emergency makes itself known a few months in advance and can be resolved with weapons delivered years later?" Read more |
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Groundbreaking Study Shows Organic Diets Drastically Lower Glyphosate Levels in the Body "We all have the right to food that is free of toxic pesticides." Read more |
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Denouncing 'Smear Campaign' Against Alex Morse, Former Detractor Calls for Focus on 'Damage Richie Neal Is Doing to Our Democracy' " What is being done to Morse is a huge travesty—much more sinister than people yet know." Read more |
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As Florida Sets Daily Record for Covid-19 Deaths, Sheriff Bans Deputies From Wearing Masks The policy "actively puts peoples' lives at risk," critics warn. Read more |
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'Vital Democracy Reform' Takes Hit in Oregon After US Supreme Court Undermines Another Ballot Initiative A state-level effort to put redistricting in the hands of the people amid the pandemic was set back after the nation's highest court intervened. Read more |
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House Democrats Introduce Urgent Bill to End 'Deliberate Sabotage' of Postal Service by Postmaster General "A once-in-a-century pandemic is no time to enact changes that threaten service reliability and transparency." Read more |
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'Major Victory': Court Tosses Out Trump Interior's Gutting of Century-Old Protections for Migratory Birds Critics charge that the administration's policy on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act "was nothing more than a cruel, bird-killing gift to polluters." Read more |
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Study Shows 'Unambiguous Evidence' Covid-19 Infectious in the Air, Researchers Claim While study not yet peer-reviewed, one expert said: "If this isn’t a smoking gun, then I don’t know what is." Read more |
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Amid Pandemic and Economic Pain, UNICEF Unveils First-Ever Project to Combat Child Suffering in US "Children in our country don't fare as well as children in other wealthy countries around the world, so we have a lot of work to do." Read more |
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With Biden-Harris Ticket Set, Climate Groups Demand 'Transformative Action From Day One' If Elected "Let's do our part to end this era of chaos and defeat Republicans up and down the ballot. Then, let's turn up to make a Biden-Harris administration lay the groundwork for a Green New Deal." Read more |
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Racist, QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene Wins Georgia GOP Primary Marjorie Taylor Greene's views "have no place on the ballot or in Congress," said DCCC chairwoman Cheri Bustos. Read more |
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With Warren Sidestepped, Wall Street Execs Cheer Biden's Pick of Harris for VP Biden's selection of the California senator comes after Wall Street executives made clear that they would prefer "almost anyone" but Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Read more |
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'A Conspiracy to Steal the Election, Folks': Alarms Sound After Postal Worker Reports Removal of Sorting Machines The removal of key equipment from Post Offices should be viewed as nothing less than "sabotage," said one observer. Read more |
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'Our Movement Didn't Just Win. We Earned Mandate for Change,' Says Ilhan Omar After Soundly Defeating Big-Money Challenger "In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records. Despite the attacks, our support has only grown." Read more |
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In 'Battle for the Soul of This Nation,' Biden Names Kamala Harris as Vice Presidential Running Mate "All of us will need to do everything we can do defeat Donald Trump this November, and Joe Biden will need strong progressive energy to win," said the PCCC in response. Read more |
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Coalition Objects to 'Profoundly Inappropriate' Trump Plan to Accept GOP Nomination at 'Hallowed' Gettysburg Battlefield "Our national parks should not be exploited for political gain. They are meant to be enjoyed by all Americans, regardless of party affiliation or politics." Read more |
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Labor and Environmental Groups File Legal Petition Demanding Trump Solve 'Unconscionable' Shortage of PPE for Essential Workers "Workers aren't being honored or protected, they're being sacrificed." Read more |
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Progressive Groups Pressure Biden and Trump to Include Nuclear Disarmament in Campaign Platforms "The United States urgently needs a leader who will have the courage to look at, think hard about, and speak openly about the dire perils posed by our country's vast nuclear arsenal." Read more |
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Progressive Ilhan Omar Faces Dark Money and Right-Wing Attacks in Minnesota Primary "When you speak truth to power, power fights back," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said of Omar's primary challenge. Read more |
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Alleging 'Cover-Up to Protect Secretary Bernhardt,' Lawmakers Demand Criminal Perjury Probe Into Top Interior Official "Officials who violate the public trust and break the law must be held accountable." Read more |
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Scores of Education Experts Call on Schools to Reject Screen-Saturated Return to Learning "Now is the time for parents and teachers to come together and demand what children really need." Read more |
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Trump EPA Plan to Gut Emission Rules for Oil and Gas Industry Denounced as 'Beyond Comprehension' "If Trump is reelected and this rule sticks, it is probably the single most consequential near-term climate decision of his presidency." Read more |
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Medical Experts Denounce 'Irresponsible' Rush to Covid-19 Vaccine by Russia "The collateral damage from release of any vaccine that was less than safe and effective would exacerbate our current problems insurmountably." Read more |
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Major 'Milestone' for Workers as California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft Must Classify Drivers as Employees "This is a resounding victory for thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers who are working hard—and, in this pandemic, incurring risk every day—to provide for their families." Read more |
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'Just Insane': As Pandemic Rages and Hunger Soars, Trump USDA Under Fire for Blocking Access to Food Benefits "This is not the time for people who are already vulnerable to lose their benefits." Read more |
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DNC Announces Progressive Champion Ocasio-Cortez Will Speak at Convention Previous speculation indicated the popular New York Democrat would be left off the program. Read more |
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#SaveThe600 Coalition Slams Trump Executive Action as 'False Promise' to Laid-Off Workers and Desperate Families "It is likely illegal, unworkable, won't get money to anyone quickly or for long, and is deeply inequitable." Read more |
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Sanders Joins Calls for Resignation or Removal of Postmaster General Over Efforts to 'Suppress the Vote and Undermine Democracy' The Vermont senator accused Postmaster General Louis DeJoy of "a blatant attempt" to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the November elections. Read more |
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Privacy Advocates Demand Ban on Facial Recognition in Schools in Response to Damning Study on the Technology A new publication warns that the surveillance technology in schools could exacerbate racial biases. Read more |
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Weeks After Voting for $740 Billion Pentagon Budget, Ted Cruz Says 'Magic Money Tree' Isn't Available to Struggling Families "It's not a goddamn joke, Ted," Sen. Ed Markey said. Read more |
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Trump Trade Policies and Mishandling of Coronavirus Pandemic Have 'Wiped Out' US Manufacturing Jobs: Economist "Trump's erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric." Read more |
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Lebanese Prime Minister and His Entire Cabinet Resign Amid Mass Protests Over Deadly Beirut Explosion Outgoing Prime Minister Hassan Diab called the devastating blast a "crime" and blamed it on the "chronic corruption" of Lebanon's political elite. Read more |
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Citing 'Years of Chaos and Impunity,' ACLU Calls for Breakup of Department of Homeland Security "We have to remove the loaded weapon that sits on the proverbial coffee table in the Oval Office." Read more |
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Marginalized Communities Could Be 'Shortchanged' for Decades to Come by Trump's Abrupt Change to Census Deadline, Critics Say Last week, the Trump administration shortened the Census deadline by a month as the government scrambles to get an accurate count amid the pandemic. Read more |
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'We Are Expecting the Worst': Alarm Over Eco Crisis Grows Amid Fears Ship Leaking Oil Near Mauritius Could Break in Two Climate campaigers charge that "this oil leak is not a twist of fate, but the choice of our twisted addiction to fossil fuels." Read more |
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Maryland Coalition Urges Democrats to 'Stand With Majority of Americans' by Supporting Medicare for All in 2020 Platform "In the middle of a global pandemic, it's a winning electoral strategy for the Democratic Party," one organizer said of supporting Medicare for All. Read more |
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'Impossible to Stay Quiet': With Nearly 100,000 Kids Infected by Covid-19 in Just Two Weeks, Medical Experts Warn Against Hasty Return to School "Rushing to reopen our schools will directly jeopardize the lives of our students and educators, and that is a risk we cannot take," said Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. Read more |
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Experts Warn Trump Executive Action on Unemployment Insurance Deliberately Leaves Out Poorest Americans "Literally every new detail about these executive orders confirms that in addition to being wildly unconstitutional, they will do absolutely nothing to help anyone who's suffering." Read more |
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Lawmakers Demand Removal of Postmaster General DeJoy Over 'Nefarious' Efforts to Destroy the Postal Service and 'Aid Trump Reelection' "He is working to dismantle a fundamental institution of our democracy. He needs to resign or be removed, now." Read more |
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Critics Warn Against Smear Campaign, 'Creepy Victorian Moralizing' Aimed at Progressive Challenger Alex Morse "Would be quite something if the groups backing Alex Morse took a stand here on behalf of free, consenting adults not in a subordinate role to do what they want with their lives," said one political observer. "Not counting on it but we'll see." Read more |
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Vowing to Defend Retirees, Biden Denounces 'New, Reckless War on Social Security' by Trump "This is no art of the deal. This is not presidential leadership. These orders are not real solutions. They are just another cynical ploy designed to deflect responsibility." Read more |
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Progressives Call Trump Executive Orders What They Are: Illegal. Inadequate. Misleading. 'A Disgrace.' 'A Sham.' 'A Cruel Joke.' If president actually "cared about helping Americans," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago." Read more |
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Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected in November One progressive critic called the president's promise "a full-on declaration of war against current and future Social Security beneficiaries." Read more |
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'This Is a Five-Alarm Fire': With 2020 Election at Stake, Call Goes Up for Mass Mobilization to Save Postal Service "Can't stress this enough— if the USPS is sabotaged, this will amount to the greatest voter suppression campaign in history." Read more |
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'Executive Order Stunt No Substitute for Real Relief,' Say Progressives of Legally Dubious Trump Proposal Coalition accuses Republican Party of "abandoning their constituents and the country as a whole, and causing chaos and turmoil by refusing to negotiate on COVID-19 relief." Read more |
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'Friday Night Massacre' at US Postal Service as Postmaster General—a Major Trump Donor—Ousts Top Officials "America is in a dead sprint to authoritarianism. The man is pulling out all the stops to prevent the citizens of this country from holding a legitimate election in which he might face removal from office." Read more |
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Fossil Fuel Investments and Hawkish Foreign Policy Among Serious Issues Progressives Have With Susan Rice as Possible VP Pick "If you're a Democratic Party leader and you're still invested in oil and gas it’s just a problem." Read more |
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Prohibited From Holding Police Officer to Account, Federal Judge Calls on Supreme Court to Overturn 'Qualified Immunity' "Those who violate the constitutional rights of our citizens must be held accountable. When that day comes we will be one step closer to that more perfect Union." Read more |
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Analysis Shows Rapid and Reckless Reopenings Not Only Bad for Public Health—But the Economy Too "There is no way around it: getting the economy back on track means controlling the pandemic." Read more |
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Leading Demand for IG Probe, Warren Accuses Trump and New Postmaster General of 'Sabotaging' Postal Service "They are delaying Social Security checks and other mail and potentially disenfranchising millions of voters." Read more |
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"Let's Make It Happen!" Declares Jayapal of Medicare for All After Single-Payer in Canada Lauded as Shield Against Pandemic "It is worth fighting for a system that puts public health ahead of profits: Medicare for All," said a doctor touting Canadian system. Read more |
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Bolstering Case for Transformational Green Recovery, New Study Finds Lockdown Emissions Had 'Negligible' Effect on Climate Crisis "We still need far more serious measures to make a difference—we need structural change." Read more |
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'Enraging and Inexcusable': Louisiana Supreme Court Rules Black Man Convicted of Garden Tool Theft 20 Years Ago Should Die in Prison "A system that condemns a man to life in prison for stealing a pair of hedge clippers is not justice," said the ACLU. Read more |
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DNC Appears Ready to Sideline Progressive Standout Ocasio-Cortez at Upcoming Convention "You want Bill Clinton to speak but maybe not AOC. Okay, dummies." Read more |