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AG William Barr to Testify Before House Judiciary Committee... in Six Weeks The development comes amid increased scrutiny over the attorney general's actions, including his apparent role in reducing the recommended sentence for Trump ally Roger Stone, which prompted four career prosecutors handling the case to withdraw. Read more |
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Trump Demands Senate Reject Iran War Powers Resolution as Lawmakers Debate Measure to Assert Constitutional Power "If the Senate passes Sen. Tim Kaine's War Powers Resolution, both chambers will have taken a stand for peace and for their constitutional authority." Read more |
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'Age Old Divide and Conquer Tactics': Union Leader Sara Nelson Rips Buttigieg Comments on Healthcare "Anytime the word 'they' is used with workers, it's a sign of union-busters at work. The only pronoun that represents unionism and builds power is we/us." Read more |
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Senate Democrats' Plan for Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 Is 'Wishful Thinking' on Solving Crisis, Climate Action Groups Say "We need binding emission reduction targets, in line with what climate justice and historical responsibility demand, far sooner than 2050." Read more |
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Progressives to Voters Skeptical of Bernie Sanders: This 'Big Tent' Movement Is a Winning and Practical Choice "Sanders is much more pragmatic and less ideological than his opponents would like to admit." Read more |
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Warren Says AG William Barr Must 'Resign or Face Impeachment' for Intervening in Roger Stone Case "Congress must act immediately to rein in our lawless attorney general." Read more |
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'Mass Murder': New Report Says Air Pollution From Fossil Fuel Combustion Causing 4.5 Million Deaths Each Year "Moving our energy generation sector from fossil fuels to renewables is an essential step towards preventing catastrophic climate change and protecting our health." Read more |
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Ilhan Omar Unveils Bold Proposal for US Foreign Policy 'Deeply Rooted in Justice' "I believe that when the United States says it champions human rights, democracy, and peace, we should mean it!" Read more |
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Iowa and New Hampshire Voters Show Medicare for All and Climate Crisis Top Issues for Democrats in 2020 "Bernie's victory in New Hampshire shows just how ready we are as a country to elect Green New Deal leaders at all levels of office," declared an organizer with the youth-led Sunrise Movement. Read more |
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Biden Attempts to Revive 'Doomed' Campaign in South Carolina After Fifth Place Finish in New Hampshire The former vice president also came in fourth place in Iowa last week. Read more |
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Trump Quietly Slashed Pay Raise for Federal Workers a Day Before Claiming US Economy Is Best 'In History' "This is just the latest action in Donald Trump's war on civil servants." Read more |
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'Do They Never Learn?': Progressives Rip Media Attempts to Downplay Bernie Sanders Win in NH Primary "The story of the night is that Bernie Sanders is the favorite to win the Democratic nomination... Why is this so hard for people to see?" Read more |
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'The Saddest Thing Is That This Won't Be Breaking News': Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm "Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!" Read more |
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Fueled by Diverse Working Class Voters, Sanders' New Hampshire Win Celebrated as 'Major Victory for Progressive Movement' "If you want to see how we're going to beat Trump in November, look at what just happened in New Hampshire." Read more |
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'Language of Monarchy': Trump Asserts He Has 'Absolute Right' to Tell Justice Department What to Do "Trump spends his days threatening the Justice Department in order to keep his criminal buddies out of prison, while Bill Barr grotesquely pillages the rule of law." Read more |
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'This Is Corruption': Trump and Barr Accused of Blatant Abuse of Power as DOJ Intervenes to Reduce Roger Stone Sentence "Presidents and attorneys general cannot put their thumbs on the scales of justice for any reason—including to aid friends associates—or we cease to be a nation of laws." Read more |
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'Hey Everyone, Bernie Is 2-0': Sanders Wins New Hampshire Primary After nabbing popular vote victory in Iowa, Sanders takes the Granite State. "Tonight New Hampshire sent a message that working people are ready for a political revolution in this country," Sanders declared. Read more |
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More Than 75% of Democrats Would Support a Socialist for President: Gallup "When Americans—especially millennials—think of 'socialism,' they primarily think about Bernie Sanders, Western European democracies, income equality, and access to healthcare." Read more |
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NH Voter Says Live on MSNBC That Network's Effort to Tear Down Bernie Sanders Made Her Vote for Him "The kind of 'Stop Bernie' cynicism that I heard from a number of people... It made me angry, so I said, Bernie's got my vote." Read more |
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'We're Just Getting Started,' Says Union Leader, as Worker Strike Activity Hits 35-Year High Under Trump "Trump's economy is not a workers' economy, and workers know solidarity is the best way to fight back." Read more |
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Mega-Billionaire Bloomberg's $350 Million Ad Spending Blitz Is 'What Plutocracy Looks Like' "Money is not speech. Bloomberg's attempt to buy the presidency is a corruption of our democracy." Read more |
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Just as Trump Slashes Global Health Funds, Experts Warn Coronavirus Could Infect 60% of World Population "The goal is to stay at least a couple of steps ahead of the epidemic curve." Read more |
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Bloomberg Said This of Murder Suspects in 2015: 'Just Take the Description, Xerox It, and Pass It Out to All the Cops. They Are Male, Minorities, 16-25.' In a separate resurfaced audio recording, the billionaire and former NYC mayor said of stop and frisk, "I think we disproportionately stop whites too much, and minorities too little." Read more |
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'This Merger Is a Monopolistic Disaster': Consumer Groups Decry Approval of T-Mobile/Sprint Deal "Expect prices to rise and service to suffer," warned Public Citizen. Read more |
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'Outrageous and Un-American,' Sanders Says of City in Kansas Jailing People for Unpaid Medical Debt The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate denounced the fact that people in the U.S. "are being thrown in jail for being unable to pay their medical bills." Read more |
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Sanders Crushes Trump by 18 Points Among Independent Voters in New National General Election Poll "Bernie Sanders is undeniably the strongest candidate against Donald Trump," tweeted journalist Walker Bragman. Read more |
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'Indefensible': MSNBC's Chuck Todd Under Fire for Reciting Quote Comparing Sanders Supporters to Nazis "When Chuck Todd attacked us, including Jews like me with family erased by the Holocaust and pogroms, for being 'brownshirts,' it's bad enough. But the implication also is that Bernie Sanders, whose family was executed by Nazis, is Hitler." Read more |
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At New Hampshire Rally, Sanders Calls on 7,500+ Supporters to 'Transform America' on Primary Day "The one percent may be powerful, but there are a lot more people in the 99 percent." Read more |
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'We Are at a Crossroads in Our Democracy,' Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at New Hampshire Bernie Rally "We have to nominate somebody with a political revolution at their back." Read more |
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Watch: What Is a 'Practical' Democratic Candidate? Sanders Co-Chair Nina Turner Has Some Thoughts "Does being 'practical' mean that we don't say to the American people that you deserve better than what you are getting?" Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Takes Lead Nationally as Biden Nosedives Post-Iowa: Quinnipiac Poll "This poll reflects a fundamentally different race than pre-Iowa, one in which Bernie Sanders is the clear front-runner." Read more |
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Amplifying Urgent Need to Slash Emissions, New Map Series Shows How Climate Crisis Could Impact Europe An E.U. agency's new project illustrates how heatwaves, droughts, forest fires, windstorms, heavy rain, flooding, storm surges, and sea level rise could affect certain regions and cities across the continent. Read more |
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Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse New papers detail severe threats facing insects, how their plight is intertwined with humanity's, and the available solutions to address the crisis. Read more |
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'Of, By, and For the 1%': Sanders Condemns Trump Budget as 'Immoral Document' Designed to Hurt Families and Children "What kind of unbelievable moral framework allowed this White House to propose $182 billion in cuts to nutrition assistance from needy families, when nearly one in seven households with children are food insecure?" Read more |
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Pro-Sanders Canvassers Target Youth Vote With Unprecedented GOTV Ahead of New Hampshire Primary "We've never, ever seen this kind of organization and mobilization before," said one volunteer. Read more |
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With Primary 24 Hours Away, Sanders Extends Lead Over Buttigieg in New Hampshire Poll "The name of the game here is electorate expansion," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, "and bringing people out to vote that the normal political establishment counts on not turning out." Read more |
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Calling for Global Action, WHO Chief Says World May Only Be Seeing 'Tip of the Iceberg' With Coronavirus The outbreak, first reported in China late last year, has killed at least 910 people and infected over 40,500 others worldwide. Read more |
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Schumer Demands Every Agency Inspector General Investigate Trump's "Shameful" and "Illegal" Retaliation Against Whistleblowers The Senate Minority Leader warned of a "dangerous, growing pattern of retaliation against those who report wrongdoing only to find themselves targeted by the president and subject to his wrath and vindictiveness." Read more |
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Trump Budget to Propose 'Savage' Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security While Hiking Pentagon and Wall Funds "This budget is Trump's pledge that as long as he stays in office, slashing Social Security, Medicaid, and whatever's left of SNAP will remain a White House priority." Read more |
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Buttigieg Confirms Status as 'Austerity Candidate' With Call for Democrats to Prioritize Reducing Deficit "This is substantively disqualifying and politically insulting to Democrats—and any left of center person." Read more |
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Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids "Indigenous rights equals climate justice." Read more |
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As Sanders Rallies Crowd at Keene State, Supporters Emphasize 'Once in a Lifetime Opportunity' Bernie Represents "We want to do all we can to help Bernie get elected." Read more |
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With Two Days to Go Until Primary, New Polling Finds N.H. Voters See Sanders as Most Electable Against Trump "This seems like a pretty big deal." Read more |
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Because Defeating NRA 'Takes a Movement,' March for Our Lives Co-Founder Joins Sanders Campaign as Gun Violence Prevention Advisor "Gun violence prevention is a winning issue. It's a life saving issue and this campaign is set out to save lives." Read more |
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Chris Matthews Slammed for Spreading Misinformation About Sanders' Democratic Socialist Agenda on Post-Debate Panel " Because in American media, peddling wild conspiracies about socialism isn't disqualifying—being a socialist is." Read more |
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'Something Big Is Shifting': As Georgetown Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment, Students Across US Demand Their Schools Follow Suit The decision came after 90% of students who voted on a referendum voted in favor of divestment. Read more |
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'Consistent With a Mass Extinction': New Study Warns Climate Chaos Driving Rapid Decline of Bumblebees The research "adds to a growing body of evidence for alarming, widespread losses of biodiversity and for rates of global change that now exceed the critical limits of ecosystem resilience." Read more |
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'Which Side Are You On?': Sanders Calls Out Buttigieg for Raking in Billionaire Donations "Do you think if you're collecting money from dozens of dozens of billionaires you're going to stand up to the drug companies and you're going to throw their CEOs in jail if they're acting criminally?" Read more |
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New Report Details How Fossil Fuel Industry's Climate Destruction Also Exacerbates Human Rights Abuses "Even in the face of the clearest scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels is literally setting the planet on fire, this sector continues to invest in the same old model and often misinforms society about the climate crisis and its causes." Read more |
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'Not Good Enough': After Judge's Ruling, Greenwald Vows to Take Press Freedom Case to Brazil's Supreme Court "We want a clear ruling from the Supreme Court that will enduringly protect the right of a free press against further assaults from the Bolsonaro government." Read more |
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'Bombshell': Iraqi Officials Say ISIS—Not Iran—Likely Behind Rocket Attack Trump Used to Justify Soleimani Assassination "Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11 and we went to war with Iraq. If this report is true, ISIS attacked the U.S. and we nearly went to war with Iran." Read more |
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Record-Breaking Temperature of Nearly 65ºF Logged in Antarctica as Scientists Sound Alarm Over Rapid Ice Melt The Antarctic peninsula was warmer than the United Kingdom when the the temperature was recorded Friday. Read more |
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Andrew Yang—That 2020 Hopeful With the 'Math' Pin—on Iowa Results: 'Looks Like Bernie Won' In the (almost) final popular vote tallies—with 99.9% of precincts reporting—Sanders leads Buttigieg by 6,114 votes (43,671 to 37,557) in the first alignment, and by 2,631 votes (45,826 to 43,195) and the final alignment. Read more |
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'Victory for Workers!': House Praised for Passing Landmark PRO Act to Strengthen Unions and Labor Rights "Trump claimed to be 'pro-worker'... If that was anything other than his usual phony rhetoric, Trump will push the Senate to pass the bill and sign it." Read more |
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'Blatant Lie': Seema Verma Claims Trump Not Cutting Medicaid as He Pushes Plan Doing Just That "Make no mistake: the Trump administration has spent the past two years actively dismantling Medicaid by fiat—after failing to gut it legislatively." Read more |
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While Sanders Declares Victory in Iowa Popular Vote, Buttigieg Chided for Claiming He 'Officially Won' Based on Error-Filled Delegate Count The Sanders campaign issued a statement Thursday night highlighting more than a dozen "discrepancies in the state delegate equivalent data" that it sent to the Iowa Democratic Party. Read more |
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California Communities Sue Fossil Fuel Companies, Demanding State Court Hold Them Accountable for Climate Crisis "It's about getting them to pay for the damages they knowingly created." Read more |
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'Colonialism In All Its Ugliness': Indigenous Land Defenders Condemn Violent Police Raid on Camp Blocking Pipeline Construction "We are in absolute outrage and a state of painful anguish as we witness the Wet'suwet'en people having their Title and Rights brutally trampled on and their right to self-determination denied." Read more |
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Trump's Final Plan to Open Treasured Public Lands in Utah Called 'Sellout' to Big Oil The administration's new managment plans "are the latest in a series of insults... that began when Trump illegally dismantled Bears Ears and Grand Staircase at the behest of corporate interests two years ago." Read more |
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'Because I Got 6,000 More Votes': Bernie Sanders Declares Victory in Iowa Caucus "From where I come, when you get 6,000 more votes that's generally regarded to be the winner." Read more |
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'Beyond Absurd': DNC Chair Tom Perez Demands 'Recanvass' of Iowa Caucus Before Results Fully Reported "The timing of this (right as Sanders is likely going to be declared a victor both on delegates and the popular vote) could not possibly be more suspicious." Read more |
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'In Law School They Called This Conflict of Interest': Tlaib Objects to Paid Bloomberg Staffers on DNC Committees "Out of tens of millions of qualified people, Tom Perez's DNC is seating two Bloomberg campaign surrogates on bodies that can propose changes." Read more |
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Fueled by 'Eco-Anxiety,' Majority in US Believe Climate Crisis Most Crucial Issue Facing Society: Poll The survey, which also showed that young people are stressed about the planetary emergency and how it affects their lives, comes after Iowa caucusgoers indicated the issue is a top priority for voters. Read more |
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After Trump Acquittal, White House Press Secretary Threatens 'Maybe Some People Should Pay' for Impeachment "They have to know when the White House speaks, those words weigh a ton, and they are giving encouragement to people to do things," responded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Read more |
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#BernieWonIA Trending as Bernie Supporters Take Messaging Into Their Own Hands Amid Iowa Debacle Buttigieg "is not a victim here," said journalist and commentator Krystal Ball. "Pete got three days of saying he was the winner." Read more |
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Sanders' $25 Million January Haul More Than Any Other Democrat Raised in Any Full Quarter of 2019 "Working class Americans giving $18 at a time are putting our campaign in a strong position to compete in states all over the map." Read more |
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New Iowa Results: With 97% of Precincts Reported, Sanders Extends Popular Vote Lead Over Buttigieg to More Than 2,500 "We are on the path to victory," said Misty Rebik, Iowa state director for the Sanders campaign. Read more |
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Senate Republicans Acquit Trump in 'Cowardly and Disgraceful Final Act to Their Show Trial' "Make no mistake about it, this was nothing more than an attempted partisan coverup for the shameless and illegal conduct of Donald Trump." Read more |
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Over 60 Green Groups Call on House Dems to Pass Sweeping Worker Rights-Boosting PRO Act "There is no way to build a greener, more inclusive economy without strong, thriving labor unions." Read more |
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'America in a State of Denial About the Level of Poverty in This Country,' Says Ocasio-Cortez "We do not want to recognize the level of poverty in this country because if we did, it would be a national scandal." Read more |
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'Trumpian': Biden Campaign Under Fire for Questioning Legitimacy of Iowa Results Showing Candidate in Distant Fourth Place "This is not going to help anyone trust the process." Read more |
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'Today Marks a Countdown to Nuclear Chaos': Trump Urged to Extend Key Treaty With Russia "The collapse of New START would be a global disaster—and can be avoided at the stroke of a pen." Read more |
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US Has Knowingly Sent Migrants and Refugees to Danger in El Salvador for Years: Report "Absolutely horrific." Read more |
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Progressive Outrage Boils Over as 'Utter Trainwreck' of Iowa Caucus Continues "It is genuinely scandalous that the Iowa Democratic Party has only released 75% of the results to the caucus." Read more |
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'Big Win for Justice' as Calif. Gov. Newsom Pardons Late Civil Rights Icon Bayard Rustin In addition to the posthumous pardon for Rustin, Newsom announced a new initiative for clemency for others who fell victim to the state's criminalization of the LGBTQ community. Read more |
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#ImWithFred Trends After Father of Parkland Victim Kicked Out of SOTU for Protesting Trump's Gun Control Lies "We've been listening to the NRA lies from Trump and his NRA allies in Congress for too many years... You represent all of us who want to shout at Trump and his enablers." Read more |
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Greenpeace Greets New BP CEO by Shutting Down London Headquarters With Oil Barrels and 500 Solar Panels "Their new CEO needs to accept that if BP wants to keep trading in the twenty-first century, they need to switch to 100% renewable energy." Read more |
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'Trump Is Getting a Little Bit Nervous,' Says Sanders Campaign as GOP Plots Anti-Bernie 'Victims of Socialism' Videos "The president's campaign is quickly realizing that the only way to attack someone who spent his entire life standing with the working class is to lie." Read more |
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'Both Disgusting and Pure Right-Wing Genius': Trump Awards Bigoted Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Medal of Freedom "You gotta hand it to Trump. He knows how to keep the base onboard." Read more |
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'We Will Continue to Fight,' Protesters Vow After Canadian Court Dismisses Indigenous Challenge to Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion "It is alarming that Canada is so dead-set on pursuing the TMX when oil prices are declining, forests are burning, and more and more animal species are on the edge of extinction." Read more |
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270+ 'Reject the Cover-Up' Protests Planned Across US as Senate GOP Prepares to Acquit Trump "The Senate has failed to hold Trump accountable, so the American people will." Read more |
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'No Better Distillation of Washington': Democrats and GOP Join Trump in Standing Ovation for Failed Venezuelan Coup Leader Juan Guaidó "Intervening in Venezuela's internal politics is the one thing that is bipartisan! How sad," said CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin. Read more |
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Sanders Rips Trump for Lacking 'Courage' to Confront Fossil Fuel Industry After President Bragged About Oil Boom "President Trump is turning his back on the children of America and on future generations, and dooming them to live in a planet increasingly unhealthy and uninhabitable." Read more |
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WATCH: Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump's Third State of the Union Address The Democratic presidential candidate spoke from an event in New Hampshire, just a day after the Iowa caucuses. Read more |
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Global Witness Accuses Exxon of 'Exploitative' Contract That Robs People of Guyana of $55 Billion in Lost Oil Revenue "That money could be spent on upgrading infrastructure, health service, schools, parks, quality of life. Instead it will be plundered by oil barons." Read more |
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Based on 62% of Iowa Caucus Results, Bernie Leads Popular Vote by 1,200 But Trails Buttigieg With Delegates Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden are currently sitting at third and fourth, respectively, in both metrics. Read more |
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Ruling Against Rape Victim in Alabama, Say Critics, Shows Stand-Your-Ground Laws 'Not Created for Women' Brittany Smith's attorneys plan to appeal the decision. Read more |
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Teachers, Farmers, Veterans, and Grassroot Leaders: Sanders Campaign Unveils Yuuge Slate of California Endorsements "As a proud immigrant, long-time union leader, and advocate for women's rights, civil rights, and environmental justice, I have a moral responsibility to support the candidate whose values align with mine," said one of hundreds of people in the Golden State to announce their official support on... Read more |
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'None of This Is Normal': AOC Joins Pressley, Other Dems in Boycotting Trump's State of the Union "I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump's lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution." Read more |
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Biden, Warren Raise Objections After Iowa Democrats Say Only Half of Caucus Results Will Be Released First "I think that's a bit disingenuous," said Sanders campaign advisor Jeff Weaver. Read more |
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'Not a Good Night For Democracy': Sanders Releases More Internal Results Hinting at Iowa Victory, But Laments Caucus Chaos "I don't know how anybody declares victory before you have an official statement as to an election result, so we're not declaring victory." Read more |
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Latest Poll Shows Sanders With 'Commanding Lead' as Democratic Hopefuls Head to New Hampshire At 32%, Bernie Sanders has more voter support than the next two candidates—Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden—combined. Read more |
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Vowing No Repeat of Iowa Caucus Fiasco, Nevada Dems Say They Won't Use Secretive Shadow Inc. App "There is no doubt that Nevada should disregard this app," Jeff Weaver, senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, said ahead of the announcement. Read more |
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Amid Global 'Extinction Crisis,' Donald Trump Jr. Auctions Himself Off for Luxurious Wildlife Slaughter Vacation Fundraiser featuring son of U.S. president denounced as "business as usual for the trophy hunting industry." Read more |
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Rejecting 'Profoundly Disturbing' Logic That Criminalizes Empathy, Judge Reverses Convictions of Border Humanitarians This is the second time in recent months that a federal judge has granted a faith-based defense raised by volunteers prosecuted for providing aid to migrants traveling through the dangerous Arizona desert. Read more |
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'Majority of Mine Victims Are Children': EU Condemns Trump Rollback of Landmine Restrictions "Their use anywhere, anytime, and by any actor remains completely unacceptable to the European Union." Read more |
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#TomPerezResign: DNC Chair Under Fire for Iowa Disaster, Favoritism for Billionaire Oligarch Bloomberg "The Dem establishment has been screaming that our movement is sowing divisiveness and is going to ruin party unity but they're nailing that to the wall all by themselves." Read more |
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Trump Reportedly Compiling Nixonian 'Enemies List' as He Seeks Revenge for Impeachment "McConnell hasn't even held the final vote to launch the post-checks and balances era, and already the would-be authoritarian is escalating his abuses of power." Read more |
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After Epic 'Nightmare' in Iowa, Democratic App Built by Secretive Firm Shadow Inc. Comes Under Scrutiny "This outfit is inexcusably secretive." Read more |
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Amid Iowa Results Debacle, Sanders Campaign Signals Victory by Releasing Portion of Its Internal Caucus Data "We recognize that this does not replace the full data from the Iowa Democratic Party, but we believe firmly that our supporters worked too hard for too long to have the results of that work delayed," said senior campaign advisor Jeff Weaver. Read more |