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New York Uber and Lyft Drivers Sue Cuomo Over Refusal to Pay Unemployment Benefits During Pandemic "I work hard and follow the rules to support my family. The state should also follow the rules and pay drivers what we are owed so we can survive this crisis." Read more |
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Facebook Ignored Internal Warnings Its Algorithms Were Intensifying Divisiveness: Report "Facebook knows what it's doing, intentionally continues to cause harm to increase engagement and profit, and will never fix these problems themselves." Read more |
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Survey Shows 1 in 5 Teachers—Citing Covid-19 Concerns—Likely Won't Return to US Schools This Fall Polling also showed that nearly six in 10 parents may refuse to send their children back to classrooms next semester. Read more |
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'Scared of What Will Happen If He Lets People Vote': Rights Groups Know Why Trump Panicked by Mail-In Ballots "Donald Trump votes by mail, Mike Pence votes by mail, the American people should be able to vote by mail too." Read more |
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Demanding End to 'Failed Billionaire-Backed' Policies, 200+ Teachers and Activists Urge Biden to Go Bold on Public Education "The public health and economic emergencies resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic have only made public education more vulnerable. It is no exaggeration to say that the future of public education itself is at stake." Read more |
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Citing Dual Threat of Covid-19 and Duterte, Coalition Calls on Congress to Block US Arms Sale to Philippines "The U.S. should not be selling advanced military systems to an abusive, unaccountable Philippine military under cover of a global pandemic." Read more |
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'Some Honesty for Once': Alberta Energy Minister Celebrates Covid-19 for Making In-Person Pipeline Protests More Difficult "They're literally using Covid as a cover to build pipelines because they know protest is impossible." Read more |
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Countries Rushing to Reopen Risk 'Immediate Second Peak' In Covid-19 Infections and Deaths, WHO Warns Dr. Mike Ryan, director of WHO's Health Emergencies Program, called on countries that have seen a decline in cases to continue imposing social distancing and testing strategies. Read more |
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Human Footprint Threatening Nearly 50 Billion Years of Cumulative Evolutionary History: Study "Our findings indicate that the magnitude of our impact as a species on the natural world is incomprehensibly large, and appears to be overwhelmingly impacting the most irreplaceable areas and species on the planet." Read more |
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'They Killed This Man': Video Shows Minneapolis Cop Kneeling on Black Man's Neck as Onlookers Warn He's Being Crushed to Death "The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying, telling them like, 'I can't breathe,' and everything. They did not care." Read more |
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Hundreds of Medical Professionals and Groups Say Covid-19 Stimulus Plans Must Be Prescriptions for #HealthyRecovery "A truly healthy recovery... will not permit unabated climate change and deforestation, potentially unleashing new health threats upon vulnerable populations." Read more |
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'How the Trump White House Sees You': Top Economic Adviser Under Fire for Calling Workers 'Human Capital Stock' "They've always been indifferent to human life. And in the face of mass death, the masks are coming off." Read more |
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$3,278 ER Visit for Coughing Fits and Fever Amid Covid-19 Pandemic Highlights Failure of For-Profit System "Congress and insurers have made all of these promises to waive copays for treatment and testing but we're hearing that's not always the reality." Read more |
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Nearly 200 Groups in Canada Vow to Fight for Covid-19 Recovery That Puts Human and Ecological Health First "The choices we make now about how to recover from this pandemic will shape not only our health and economic future, but also the future of human life on this planet." Read more |
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'It Was Me Who Shattered 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,' Says Trump to Defend Golfing Amid Covid-19 Pandemic "A poignant Memorial Day tribute by President Trump." Read more |
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Chomsky Says Trump a 'Sociopathic Megalomaniac' Who Made US 'Singularly Unprepared' for Pandemic New comments from the renowned academic come after he accused Trump of wanting "to destroy the prospects for all organized human life... in the near future." Read more |
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'Here We Go Again': Richest Hospitals Sitting on Billions in Cash Got Golden Bailouts Compared to Those Serving Poorest "If you ever hear a hospital complaining they don't have enough money, see if they have a venture fund." Read more |
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'Watershed Moment in Election Law' as Judge Rules 'Modern Day Poll Tax' in Florida Unconstitutional Advocates for restoring the voting rights of people with past convictions welcomed the ruling as "a powerful reminder that no one can trump the U.S. Constitution." Read more |
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As Nation Mourns 100,000 Dead, Trump Goes Golfing "100,000 Americans dead. 40,000,000 unemployed. So let’s go golfing." Read more |
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Iran Warns US Not to Interfere with Venezuelan Oil Flotilla “We hope the Americans will not make a mistake.” Read more |
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Climate Protesters Call Out 'Hot Air' of Financial Giant During BlackRock Annual Meeting "The time for rhetoric and baby steps is long gone. BlackRock has to make substantial changes to its entire investment model in order to be the climate leader it claims to be." Read more |
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Demanding Greater Say in Covid-19 Safety Policies, Just 9% of Walmart Workers Report Ability to Socially Distance at Work Labor rights group United for Respect released new polling data regarding Covid-19 precautions as employees demanded to be able to serve on Walmart's board of directors. Read more |
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With Covid-19 Raging, Warnings of Worse-Than-Usual Hurricane Season Point to Trouble Ahead "Hurricane season is about to start and its risks will only grow and potentially compound any impacts from the pandemic." Read more |
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"We're Ready for Whatever, Whenever,' Says Maduro as Venezuela Vows Navy Escort to Protect Iranian Oil Tankers from US Threats Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warns that the U.S. government "must give up bullying on the world stage and respect the rule of international law, especially free shipping in the high seas." Read more |
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Senate Bill Would Guarantee Paychecks to Laid-Off Workers for Rest of 2020 'To Avoid Another Great Depression' "We cannot continue to allow tens of millions of Americans to lose their jobs, income, and health insurance during this horrific pandemic," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the bill's lead sponsors. Read more |
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Trump Condemned for Ditching Treaty That Has 'Helped Prevent Nuclear War for Nearly Three Decades' "Once again, Donald Trump's belligerent approach to foreign policy has put us all at risk." Read more |
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Despite Deadly Pandemic, Trump Says: "We Don't Want Anybody to Do Mail-in Ballots" "Five states already have all-mail elections—Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington." Read more |
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Warren Tops MoveOn Survey for Preferred Biden VP Pick The new poll shows 73% of the group's members would be more likely to vote for the former vice president if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is his running mate. Read more |
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'Just Give People the Money': Progressives Rip Third Way-Approved Complicated Tax Credit Relief Proposal "Calling this peanuts is an insult to peanuts, an immediate tangible thing people could eat." Read more |
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Underscoring 'Grotesque Nature of Unequal Sacrifice,' Richest Americans Have Added $434 Billion in Wealth Since Pandemic Hit "While millions risk their lives and livelihoods as first responders and frontline workers, these billionaires benefit from an economy and tax system that is wired to funnel wealth to the top." Read more |
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'This Is My Retirement': Trump's Covid-19 Vaccine Czar Refuses to Sell Stock Holdings of Major Drug Company "If he retains stock in companies that are investing in the development of a vaccine," said government watchdog CREW, "we can't be confident of the integrity of any process in which he is involved." Read more |
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Lockdown Delays Contributed to Massive US Death Toll, Says Modeling, Suggesting Lessons to Be Learned as States Reopen Implementing social distancing policies two weeks earlier could have saved nearly 54,000 lives, the new study found. Read more |
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"Tom Perez's Worst Nightmare": Newly Elected DNC Member RL Miller to Push Dems on Climate The longtime activist has set her sights on the party's platform, fossil fuel industry donations, and a climate debate in the next presidential race. Read more |
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Battle Covid-19, Not Medicare for All: Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group "The AHA should immediately leave the PFAHCF and redirect that money to supporting patients and frontline healthcare workers." Read more |
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As Trump Says 'Voting Is An Honor' in Rant Against Mail-In Ballots, Progressives Respond: 'Voting Is a Right' "Voting isn't a gift given by leaders. Citizens have the right to vote." Read more |
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While Pushing for Corporate Legal Immunity, McConnell Vows to Block Extension of Boosted Unemployment Benefits "Cutting back federal assistance at the height of the crisis would mean self-inflicted disaster, devastation, and additional deaths. That must not happen." Read more |
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EPA Chief Says Trump's Evisceration of Regulations "Make Things Better"—But Forgets to Add "For Polluters" "For Wheeler to claim these rollbacks were for the good of the nation is absurd and insulting," says environmental leader. Read more |
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National Day of Mourning Slams Trump and GOP's Failed Covid-19 Response as US Death Toll Nears 100,000 "We need to drive home to this administration that Trump's lies and inadequate response to this pandemic have had real, fatal consequences." Read more |
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Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy Help Launch Global Green New Deal Project With Worldwide Invitation "The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction." Read more |
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Two-Thirds of Interior Dept Meetings Attended by Fossil Fuel Interests as Trump Lavishes Industry With Covid Relief: Report "With energy corporations mounting an intense lobbying campaign to receive emergency bailouts from the government, it is important to know who has the ear of the Trump administration." Read more |
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After Dams Fail, Dow Admits Floodwaters in Midland, Michigan 'Commingling' With Toxic Chemical Storage Ponds "This has the potential to be a major environmental disaster." Read more |
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'Ticking Time Bomb': Corporate Lawyers Openly Discussing Suing Nations Over Profits Lost to Covid-19 Measures "It's so unbelievably shocking to see corporate lawyers actively discussing having foreign investors use ISDS to challenge countries over their coronavirus lockdown measures, and try to extract 'expected future profits' from them." Read more |
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After Coronavirus Triggers 17% Emissions Drop, Experts Say Only 'Fundamental Structural Change' Can Save Humanity's Future The research "underscores a simple truth," says climate scientist Michael Mann. "Individual behavior alone ...won't get us there." Read more |
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Lavish Taxpayer-Funded Dinners Hosted by Pompeo Spark Concern Over Real Purpose "The CEO of Chick-fil-A is not someone I would say is involved in foreign policy." Read more |
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"They Don't Care for Our Lives": McDonald's Workers Strike Across US to Demand Better Protections From Covid-19 Organizers say scores of McDonalds workers have tested positive for Covid-19 in at least 16 states, but the company often doesn't notify employees when their coworkers are sick. Read more |
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'They Are Executing an Innocent Man!': Final Words of Walter Barton Spark Fresh Demand for End to US Death Penalty "The only way to avoid executing an innocent person is to abolish the death penalty altogether." Read more |
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Small Business Owners to McConnell: Stop Using Our Plight to Push for Covid-19 Corporate Immunity "With this perverse cost-shift, corporate immunity could result in only the most irresponsible corporations surviving the pandemic." Read more |
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"He Doesn't Want You to Vote": Trump Threatens to Block Funding to Michigan for Sending Absentee Ballot Forms to All Voters Amid Covid-19 "Blackmailing states to prevent them from holding a fair election in November." Read more |
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'Staggeringly Cruel': With 36 Million Newly Out of Work, Trump Says He's Willing to Let Boosted Unemployment Benefits Expire "This is the worst economic crisis in 100 years and Donald Trump is doubling down on Herbert Hoover's economic playbook and pushing workers to risk their health for his political benefit." Read more |
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'The Corruption Is on Full Display: Trump Executive Order Directs All Agencies to Gut Business Regulations Amid Covid-19 "Trump's corporate-friendly executive order aimed at rolling back even more regulations that protect the public is just the latest sign that his solution to the pandemic is the opposite of what the public needs." Read more |
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Think Trump and Republicans Wouldn't Try to Cancel an Election? Look at What GOP in Georgia Just Pulled Off " Having NO election is rigging an election." Read more |
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No—Argue Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters, Monia Mazigh, and 100+ Others—Canada Does Not Deserve UN Security Council Seat "Despite its peaceful reputation, Canada is not acting as a benevolent player on the international stage," warns open letter from activists, artists, and academics. Read more |
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Progressives Slam Oil-Soaked Steny Hoyer for Backing Joe Kennedy III Over Green New Deal Champion Ed Markey "Hoyer does not actually have a problem with primary challengers, he has a problem with progressives." Read more |
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Right-Wing Hungarian Government Pulls Nation 'Back Towards Dark Ages' by Ending Legal Recognition of Trans People "Viktor Orbán is using the Covid-19 health crisis as cover to push through discriminatory legislation that will be devastating to the lives of transgender people in Hungary." Read more |
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'This Is Only the Beginning': JPMorgan Chase Faces Investor Revolt Over Financing Climate Destruction "Shareholders today sent the message that it is past time for Chase to catch up with its peers, implement a strategy to decarbonize and de-risk its lending portfolio, and help build a more secure future for all." Read more |
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Economists Warn 'Prolonged Depression Guaranteed' If GOP Refuse Federal Aid to State and Local Governments "The economy is currently approaching a knife edge in how recovery will proceed." Read more |
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'Democracy Has Prevailed': Federal Court Rules NY Primary Must Go Forward With Sanders, Yang, and Others on Ballot "The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today confirmed what we knew: the state of New York acted illegally in trying to cancel the Democratic presidential primary." Read more |
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'More Testing, Not More Bombs': 29 House Democrats Demand Cuts to Pentagon Budget Amid Pandemic "America needs a coronavirus cure, not more war." Read more |
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In Tense Exchange Over Bailouts, Warren Accuses Mnuchin of Putting 'Wall Street Buddies' Before US Workers "We're in a situation where 35 million Americans have filed for unemployment. You're in charge of nearly half a trillion dollars... and you are leaving the American people behind." Read more |
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As Millions of Factory Farmed Animals Sent to Mass Slaughter, These 'Lucky 1,000' Chickens Rescued "We must critically examine and dismantle the country's unsustainable and unethical meat production pipeline." Read more |
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'Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm' Amphan Barrels Towards India, Bangladesh Meteorologists say there's "catastrophic storm surge potential." Read more |
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Poor New York City Neighborhoods Seeing Deaths From Covid at More Than Twice the Rate of Affluent Areas The Health Department released the new data on the heels of reports that many New Yorkers in wealthy neighborhoods left the city by May 1. Read more |
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'Shell Must Fall,' Climate Activists Declare at Oil Giant's Headquarters During Shareholders Meeting "At shareholders meetings like this, money is the only priority—even if it is at the expense of integrity, people's lives, and the climate." Read more |
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Civil Rights Groups Vow to Fight Back as GOP Builds Massive Voter Suppression Machine for 2020 Election "We will use every tool in our arsenal to block efforts aimed at discouraging participation by eligible voters this election season." Read more |
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'This Is Dangerous. Ignore Him': Doctors Warn Against Following Trump's Lead as President Claims He's Taking Hydroxychloroquine "There is no evidence of benefit and there is evidence of harm. Trump is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands. Let's not add to that number." Read more |
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Pompeo Openly Admits He Asked Trump to Fire Inspector General Because He Wasn't Doing What 'We Had Tried To Get Him To' "Trump has decimated the foundation of independent oversight within the executive branch." Read more |
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'Written for His Base and to Deflect Blame': Trump Sends Letter Threatening Permanent Freeze of US Funding to WHO "This is a phenomenally damning letter—of the president's own response. All of those early dates? Late December and January? Were known to U.S. officials and relayed to Trump. Who did nothing." Read more |
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Ousted Inspector General Was Also Probing Possible Illegal Pompeo-Trump Effort to Force Through Saudi Arms Deal "Since day one, this president has thought he's above the law, above criticism, and can get away with anything—including a fake 'emergency' to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. Read more |
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Climate Campaigners Applaud Biden on Vow to Pull Plug on Keystone XL Permit "We'll need just this kind of climate ambition to make way for a livable planet in the next four years." Read more |
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'Not Just Bad, It's Pathological': While Pushing Big Oil Bailouts, Trump Slaps Wind and Solar Industry With $50 Million in Old Rent Bills " Robbing from a clean energy f uture to prop up the dirty energy past." Read more |
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As Invasive Covid-19 Tracing Technologies Loom, ACLU Unveils Guidelines to Guard Against Overreach The civil liberties group also challenged so-called "immunity passport" proposals that could create "a new health surveillance infrastructure that endangers privacy rights." Read more |
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Rights Groups Demand House Democrats Fix Bill That Gives FBI Power to Search Browser Histories Without Warrant "Collecting this information is as close to reading minds as surveillance can get. It is digital mining of the personal lives of Americans." Read more |
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Bolstering Case for Nationwide Vote-by-Mail, New Study Shows Wisconsin In-Person Election Exploded New Covid-19 Infections While counties with the most in-person polling places on April 7 saw large case spikes in the following weeks, counties that used widespread absentee balloting saw the opposite effect. Read more |
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Teachers Union Says 'Flimsy' CDC Flowchart on School Reopenings Shows Trump Disregard for Student Safety "The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives... Once again, this administration has politics trumping science." Read more |
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'Save the News' Campaign Urges Immediate Covid-19 Relief Funds to Sustain Local Journalism in Time of Crisis "Americans need access to information about their local communities more than ever, and yet layoffs and furloughs are only increasing as this pandemic continues." Read more |
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'National Day of Mourning' Protests This Week to Condemn GOP Failures Amid Mass Suffering Caused by Covid-19 "This should be political suicide. Let's make sure it is." Read more |
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Global Health Experts Caution Against 'Vaccine Nationalism' as Scientists Search for Solution to Pandemic "Either we get through this pandemic together, or we fail. Either we stand together, or we fall apart." Read more |
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Arundhati Roy and Bill McKibben Argue Covid-19 an Opportunity for Humanity to Get Off Dangerous Path If the world is able to "flatten the carbon curve" in the same way it is now desperately trying to flatten the infection rate curve "then people might look back in 50 years at this time and thank us, you know, instead of curse us." Read more |
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'Neither Ironic or Funny': Cell Data Reveals Right-Wing Lockdown Protesters May Be Spreading Covid-19 "The behavior we're seeing at protests carries a high risk of infection," said Dr. Rob Davidson, an emergency care physician and executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare. Read more |
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'One Crisis Doesn't Stop Because Another Starts': 2,000+ Kids' Shoes Form Climate/Covid Protest in London "Many young people feel suffocated by fear of what is to come," says an Extinction Rebellion Youth activist, "and now with this pandemic maybe others will start to understand our fear for the future." Read more |
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House Democrats Demand Trump State Department Turn Over 'Secret Plan' to Slash Social Security Amid Pandemic "The idea that we would ask Americans to sell out their retirement and long-term security for assistance during a crisis is insane." Read more |
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'More Naked Corruption': Inspector General Ousted by Trump Was Investigating Whether Pompeo Used Staffer for Personal Chores "There is no form of corruption too small for this administration. Leave nothing behind. They'll take the doorknobs too if they can figure out how to unscrew them." Read more |
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Trump Calls Legally Protected Whistleblowing a 'Racket' as Fired Scientist Rips President's Failed Covid-19 Response "How can federal employees feel safe to speak up when the president wants to take away their legal protections?" Read more |
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'Long Overdue': Antitrust Cases Reportedly Brewing Against Google at State and Federal Level "If you thought the antitrust cases of big tech were a memory, you'd be mistaken." Read more |
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'Reality is Radicalizing': As Pandemic Pushes Biden to Embrace Progressive Ideas He Once Spurned, Left Says We Told You So "It's almost as if...the left was right all along." Read more |
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Eric Trump Goes on Fox News to Claim That Coronavirus Lockdowns Being Used to Hurt His Father's Re-Election Bid MSNBC 's Stephanie Ruhle wondered why, in that case, the interview was not being held face-to-face. Read more |
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"Massive Explosion in Downtown LA" Leaves Buildings Afire: Developing "Major smoke screen, ash is raining for blocks." Read more |
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Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small Businesses in 'Stealth Bailout': Report "In the name of 'small business,' we're shoveling out billions of dollars to big corporations and rich guys." Read more |