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'Racist, Classist Garbage': Trump Brags to Suburbia About His Repeal of Housing Desegregation Rule "This is blatant racism from the President of the United States," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "And it's disgusting." Read more |
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Global Witness Reveals 2019 Was 'Deadliest Year on Record' for Eco-Defenders, With 212 Murdered Worldwide "Those that defend our land and environment are on the front lines of #ClimateAction. But we are failing them badly." Read more |
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Citing Fears of a Defeated Trump Who Won't Go Willingly, Warren Calls on Cabinet Officials to End Deployment of Federal Agents Against Protests "This is an urgent matter for American democracy and for the safety of Americans peacefully protesting in their communities." Read more |
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Texas Republican Louis Gohmert Becomes Latest Anti-Mask Lawmaker to Test Positive for Covid-19 The GOP lawmaker was quickly accused of exposing "every single person in yesterday's hearing." Read more |
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As Big Tech CEOs Face Historic Anti-Trust Hearing, New 'Merger Tracker' Reveals Outsized Power of Silicon Valley Titans "Policymakers and enforcers have allowed these big tech barons to bully workers, consumers, and businesses for far too long." Read more |
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'Wow, Just Wow': Jaws Drop Over Trump Endorsement of Doctor Who Believes Masks Don't Work, a Covid-19 Cure Exists, and Some Interesting Things About Alien DNA "Forgive me for repeating myself but it's important," said Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. "Donald Trump and the Republican party are a threat to your life. They are a threat to your life right now." Read more |
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Yale Study on $600 Unemployment Lifeline Championed by Democrats Destroys Favorite GOP Talking Point The analysis comes as Senate Republicans are trying to cut the expanded benefits for workers who have lost jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more |
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'Not One More Pandemic Relief Dollar for the Pentagon': 75 Groups Slam GOP Effort to Use Covid-19 Funds for Weapons of War "Make no mistake: the Senate GOP is choosing to let people die in order to line the pockets of weapons manufacturer CEOs." Read more |
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'This Is...Kidnapping': Video Shows Plainclothes NYPD Officers Throwing Protester Into Unmarked Van "Our civil liberties are on the brink," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This is not a drill. There is no excuse for snatching women off the street and throwing them into unmarked vans." Read more |
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In Light of Supreme Court Ruling, ACLU Says Trump's Latest Move to Undermine DACA 'Patently Illegal' "There is absolutely no reason for this," said immigration rights activist Erika Andiola. "Nothing. Not a legal reason. Not a political reason. Just hate." Read more |
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Real Answers Demanded After Barr Dodges on Government Authority to Aim 'Intrusive Surveillance Tools' at Protesters "The public needs to know whether Attorney General Barr thinks President Trump can conduct mass surveillance of protesters without congressional authorization." Read more |
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'This Is How It's Done': Must-Watch TV as Jayapal Tears Into William Barr at Judiciary Hearing "Mr. Barr... I'm starting to lose my temper." Read more |
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'Voters Will Know Who to Blame': Poll Shows At Least 7 in 10 Americans Support $1 Trillion State and Local Aid GOP Refuse to Provide "Senators can no longer ignore the calls of voters, local elected officials, and economists who have repeatedly called for this relief." Read more |
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Progressive Caucus Demands Democrats Reject GOP Plan to 'Unleash Widespread Suffering' on the American People "The Republican proposal is nothing less than a policy of mass evictions, mass homelessness, mass poverty, and mass hunger." Read more |
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Majority of Americans Back Black Lives Matter Protests and Think Demonstrations Will Help Racial Justice: Poll A new Gallup survey shows that 65% of U.S. adults support the protests. Read more |
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Climatologist Michael Mann on 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: "Hate to Say, 'We Told You So'" Citing his pre-season forecast predicting as many as 20 named storms, the expert now warns that "if anything, that might be too low..." Read more |
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'Unacceptable, Un-American, and Unconstitutional': Six Mayors Demand Congress Block Federal Agents From US Cities "This provocation is resulting in direct physical harm to our communities and must end." Read more |
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Watchdog Group Lays Out Case for William Barr's Impeachment Ahead of Testimony Before Congress "An impeachment inquiry is the only way to put an end to the dangerous path we are on." Read more |
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"F-35s Don't Help Families Pay Their Bills": GOP Under Fire for Slipping $30 Billion Pentagon Gift Into Coronavirus Plan "Just how twisted is the Senate GOP coronavirus bill you ask? It includes $686 million for new F-35 fighter jets." Read more |
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Brazilian Health Workers File ICC Complaint Arguing Bolsonaro Covid-19 Response Has Been Crime Against Humanity Catholic bishops in Brazil are also accusing the government of systematically using "unscientific arguments... to normalize a Covid-19 plague that is killing thousands." Read more |
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'History Will Not Judge This Kindly': DNC Platform Committee Votes Down Medicare for All Amendment "It's like opposing the New Deal during the Great Depression. Unforgivable." Read more |
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'Pathetic Would Be Too Mild a Word': Sanders Rips GOP Plan to Subsidize Business Meals as Children Go Hungry "Millions of families in this country are facing hunger; there's not an additional nickel in their package for nutrition programs for children or for working people." Read more |
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'Utter Disgrace': GOP Proposes Legal Immunity for Corporations, $0 in Funding for States, and Deep Cuts to Unemployment Benefits "Republicans have wasted months coming up with a proposal that, remarkably, would make the pandemic and economic pain even worse—especially a corporate immunity provision that would be a literal death sentence to countless Americans." Read more |
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Sen. Warren Demands Eviction Moratorium as New Reporting Sheds Light on Nation's Stark Housing Inequality "This pandemic is deepening our country's already historic levels of inequality." Read more |
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Progressives Applaud AOC Proposal to Ban 'Insidious Practice' of Military Recruiting in Schools "It's important that our youth understand that joining the military isn't the only way to pay for college or find stability in life." Read more |
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New Investigation Reveals How Fossil Fuel Giants Are Amplifying Militarized Police Forces "This report sheds a harsh and needed light on the ways police violence and systemic racism intersect with the climate crisis." Read more |
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Pressured by Climate Activist Groups, Deutsche Bank Ditches Drilling in the Arctic The bank joins a list of two dozen others that will not back Arctic drilling projects. Read more |
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"No, I Won't Be Going": Trump Says He Will Not Pay Respects to John Lewis Lying in State Trump said in January 2017 that Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders, was "all talk" and "no action." Read more |
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'Incapable Leadership': Trump Response to Coronavirus Eroding US Credibility Worldwide "Totally avoidable. Entirely foreseeable." Read more |
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New ACLU Analysis of Crime Data Shreds GOP's Argument Against Decarceration During Pandemic "With additional decarceral efforts, many further infections can be prevented in the... cities analyzed and many others." Read more |
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GOP Plan to Slash Unemployment Benefits by $1,600 Per Month Condemned as 'Absolutely Unacceptable' "The country is on fire and the chief concern for Senate Republicans is that unemployed people have too much money." Read more |
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Inner Circle Infection as Trump's National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien Tests Positive for Covid-19 The White House claims there is no risk to the president or vice president. Read more |
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'We Have Never Endorsed You,' Sunrise Movement—Which Backs Ed Markey—Reminds Joe Kennedy III "It is now day 309 of trying to figure out why Kennedy decided to run for Senate. He obviously doesn't even know either."... Read more |
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'Red Line for a Humane Society': 360+ DNC Delegates Vow to Oppose Democratic Platform If It Doesn't Support Medicare for All "Democrats who understand the profound need for Medicare for All don't want a pat on the head. We want a genuine political commitment to healthcare as a human right." Read more |
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'Could Mean a Huge Gap in Payments': Memo Warns GOP Unemployment Benefit Formula Would Take Months to Implement "You know Republicans are in pretty bad shape when they have to go with a plan based on rough ideas that Donald Trump's own Secretary of Labor says are unworkable." Read more |
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With Just 100 Days Left Until the Election, New Polls Signal Americans Are Disappointed in Trump "Our country is in crisis... And Trump is unable to govern at even the most elementary level." Read more |
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Casket of Rep. John Lewis Carried Across Edmund Pettus Bridge 55 Years After Selma's Bloody Sunday "An incredibly moving and fitting tribute for John Lewis, a man who carried the baton of justice until the very end." Read more |
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Federal Crackdown in Portland Provokes Solidarity Protests Across the Country "This is my first protest," said a 45-year-old woman who joined the "Wall of Moms" at a Saturday demonstration in Seattle. Read more |
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Senate GOP Slammed for Allowing Eviction Moratorium to Expire, Putting Millions of US Families at Risk During Covid-19 Crisis "Relief is needed now to ensure that the public health emergency does not result in further devastation for our nation's poorest and most vulnerable families." Read more |
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Massive Protests in Portland Continue After Judge Denies State Request for Restraining Order Against Federal Agencies "If the state of Oregon does not have standing to prevent this unconstitutional conduct by unidentified federal agents running roughshod over her citizens, who does?" Read more |
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ACLU and Immigrant Rights Groups Challenge Latest Trump Effort to 'Rig the Census for Partisan Gain' "The census—and our fight—is about ensuring that our communities are fully represented in this country." Read more |
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'This Whole House of Cards Is Gonna Collapse': GOP Shutters Senate With US on Verge of Economic Catastrophe "The magnitude of suffering this is about to cause is so immense." Read more |
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With GOP Refusing Urgent Relief for Main Street, Tens of Thousands of Shuttered US Businesses Now Closing... Permanently Permanent closures now account for 55% of all closed businesses since March 1. Read more |
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Twenty-One State Attorneys General File Suit to Stop 'Illegal' Effort by Trump to Skew the Census for Political Gain The effort by the president to thwart the counting by excluding undocumented immigrants, said New York AG Letitia James, is "another election-year tactic to fire up his base by dehumanizing immigrants and using them as scapegoats for his failures as a leader." Read more |
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Polling Shows Trump's Secret Police in Portland—and GOP Lawmaker Complicity—Could Have 2020 Consequences MoveOn says voters are "fed up" with GOP senators from the battleground states of Arizona, Maine, and North Carolina "carrying water for him as he trundles toward authoritarianism." Read more |
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'For a Greener Future': Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels "We need more safe, healthy, good paying jobs—not more corporate polluter giveaways." Read more |
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Public Health Experts Denounce New CDC Document Pushing School Reopenings as 'Politically Driven' and 'Irresponsible' "With outbreaks raging in the U.S., this can spell disaster." Read more |
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UN Calls for Temporary Basic Income for World's Poorest 2.7 Billion People as 'Lifeline' Amid Pandemic "The case for implementing this proposal is unimpeachable and world leaders should proceed immediately." Read more |
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'Lawlessness Upon Lawlessness': Iran Foreign Minister Condemns US for Dangerous Mid-Air Harassment of Civilian Plane Iranian officials accused the U.S. military of "endangering innocent civilian passengers"—some of whom were injured. Read more |
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'Disturbing—and Dangerous': Journalists Denounce Judge's Order for Outlets to Turn Over Protest Footage to Seattle Police "This turns journalists into an arm of the government. We are not here to do surveillance for police." Read more |
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'We're Ready': Trump Threatens to Deploy 75,000 Federal Agents Into US Cities "Watching moms, reporters, medics, and peaceful protesters get tear gassed and beaten by federal agents on a regular basis," said one critic, "isn't the imagery I'd choose as a cornerstone of my campaign." Read more |
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'Going to Lead to Desperation for Millions': Wyden Slams GOP for Leaving Town as Unemployment Benefits Set to Expire "Republicans move mountains for corporations and special interests, but when it comes to helping workers their message is clear: you're on your own." Read more |
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The 'Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds,' Says Weingarten as Trump Cancels GOP Convention While Urging Schools to Reopen "It seems the lives of kids and teachers are less important to the president than those of GOP delegates." Read more |
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'Victory for the Rule of Law': Federal Judge Curbs Powers of Trump's Secret Police in Portland "This injunction is a critical protection for journalists and legal observers exercising their fundamental right to record and observe police activities at these important protests." Read more |
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'Shut It Down, Start Over, Do It Right': Medical Experts Urge US Lockdown to Stop Covid-19 Spike "Our decision-makers need to hit the reset button. Continuing on the path we're on now will result in widespread suffering and death." Read more |
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GOP Coronavirus Relief Package to Include Romney Bill That Would 'Fast-Track Social Security and Medicare Cuts' "They will use every opportunity and every crisis—including the mass death and economic carnage from Covid—as cover for their sick desire to destroy our Social Security system." Read more |
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'It Is Political': Progressive Challenger Alex Morse Rips Rep. Richard Neal for Inaction on Opioid Crisis "It's easy to say that addiction and loss aren't political when you haven't experienced them personally, or when you have the money to afford the best treatment options." Read more |
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Day After Voting Down 10% Pentagon Cut, 37 Senate Dems Join GOP to Approve $740 Billion War Budget " I don't want to hear anyone tell me that we can't afford to expand enhanced unemployment benefits when we spend more on endless wars than the next ten countries combined," said Rep. Ro Khanna. Read more |
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'Cruelty of the Occupation Knows No Bounds': Israel Demolishes Covid-19 Clinic in Epicenter of West Bank Outbreak "There is no humanity in destroying grassroots attempts to support an already deprived health system suffocated by occupation." Read more |
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'War Is Not a Game': AOC to File Amendment Banning US Military From Recruiting on Twitch "It's incredibly irresponsible for the Army and the Navy to be recruiting impressionable young people and children via live streaming platforms." Read more |
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Amid Disappointment Over Party's Draft Platform, 25,000+ People Urge DNC to Adopt Climate Panel's Ambitious Policies Critics charge Democrats' current proposal "will not go nearly far enough to secure a just and equitable transition." Read more |
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McConnell Accused of 'Doing Everything He Can to Suppress the Vote' by Proposing $0 in Election Assistance "It is outrageous that this proposal contains not one penny to help states conduct safe elections during a global pandemic." Read more |
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As McConnell Tees Up Next Aid Package With Corporate Liability as 'Red Line,' Polluters Pushing to Secure Shield Against Covid-19 Lawsuits "Corporate liability waivers are just the next phase of a Trump polluter bailout." Read more |
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'Unconscionable': As Unemployment Claims Tick Upward, GOP Seeks to Gut $600 Weekly Benefit "A disaster of Congress' making is looming for those who have lost their livelihoods during the global pandemic." Read more |
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After Sexist Attack by GOP Colleague, AOC Says on House Floor That Her Parents 'Did Not Raise Me to Accept Abuse From Men' "This issue is not about one incident. It is cultural. It is a culture of... impunity, of accepting violence and violent language against women." Read more |
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'This Is a Pandemic. You Cannot Hide It': Experts Denounce White House Secrecy in Private Warning to Cities to Take 'Aggressive' Covid Action "The more that we can provide information to people to keep themselves and their families safe, the better off we'll be." Read more |
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Activists Ramp Up Pressure on Other Insurers After Swiss Company Ditches 'Climate-Wrecking' Trans Mountain Pipeline "Zurich's decision to walk away from the pipeline just underlines how risky this project has become." Read more |
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ACLU Sues Trump Administration Over 'Unconscionable' Attacks on Portland Medics "This lawlessness must end." Read more |
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Showing 'Contempt for the American People,' GOP Floats Slashing Boosted Unemployment Payments to $100 Per Week "Senate Republicans are wildly out of touch with reality. Seriously, just $400 a month? Cutting monthly income for 30 million families by $2,000 would cost the country millions of jobs." Read more |
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'White Collar Crime Pays': Decade After Dodd-Frank, Executives Still Lining Their Pockets "It's 2008 all over again. Congress is bailing out Big Business and enriching CEOs while workers scrape by as the economy lurches downward in a pandemic." Read more |
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New Local Lawsuit Challenges 'Violent and Unlawful' Attacks on Portland Protesters by Trump's Secret Police Force "There is no positive delegation of authority in any law that makes the federal government's recent forays into general policing in Portland either legal or constitutional." Read more |
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'Flagrantly Unconstitutional': Trump Issues Order to Block Undocumented Immigrants From Being Counted in Census "This is another attempt by Trump to use scaremongering against immigrants and rig the system," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Read more |
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With Sweeping $775 Billion Investment in Child and Elder Care, Biden Goes Big to End 'Caregiving Crisis' "If we truly want to reward work in this country, we have to ease the financial burden of care that families are carrying," the presumptive Democratic nominee said. Read more |
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"The Fight Isn't Over," Say Anti-War Groups as 139 House Democrats Vote With GOP to Reject 10% Pentagon Budget Cut "Though our amendment didn't pass, progressive power is stronger than ever. We will keep fighting for pro-peace, pro-people budgets until it becomes a reality," said Rep. Mark Pocan. Read more |
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Amid Tense Primary Fight, Powerful Democrat Rep. Richie Neal Condemned for Supporting Predatory Medical Billing Policy "Neal is one of the most powerful members of Congress, and it's clear he's using that power to benefit Wall Street fund managers instead of regular Americans." Read more |
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'This Is a Flashing Red Light': Trump Triggers Alarm With Another Baseless Attack on Mail-In Voting "It is #VoterSuppression during the #Covid19 pandemic." Read more |
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103 Democrats Join GOP in Voting Down Omar Amendment to Accelerate US Withdrawal From Afghanistan "There are people saying that we shouldn't be too hasty in leaving. Too hasty? It's been two decades." Read more |
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As Poor and Working Class in US Face Financial Cliff, Bezos Grew Record-Setting $13 Billion Richer on Monday "In ONE DAY Jeff Bezos made well over 4,000 times what the average American earns in their ENTIRE LIFETIME." Read more |
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'This Is Not Frugal. This Is Stupid': EU's $2.1 Trillion Coronavirus Deal Falls Short on Demand for Just, Green Recovery "They have cut funding for health, research, and climate, and failed to guarantee that public money won't go to polluting industries." Read more |
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GOP Congressman Yoho Overheard Calling Ocasio-Cortez 'F**king B*tch' After Accosting Her on Capitol Steps "That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me—ever," said New York Democrat after the exchange. Read more |
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'Choose People Over Pentagon': Americans Urged to Call Lawmakers as Congress Set to Vote on 10% Military Budget Cut "In a moment of pandemic and urgent protest, we refuse to let Congress put defense contractors over peoples' needs" Read more |
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Progressive Community Mourns Death of Michael Brooks, A 'Passionate Fighter for Justice' "Michael believed in bringing people together in the struggle for love and justice, fighting for all poor and working people, a struggle that he understood to be global." Read more |
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Progressives Demand Democrats Reject 'Outright Shameful' GOP Plan to Raid Social Security and Cut Unemployment Benefits "The plan put forth by Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans will do nothing but double down on the failed policies that put corporate profits before workers and families." Read more |
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With Bill to Mandate Identifying Info on Officer Uniforms, AOC Says US 'Should Not Have Secret Police' "If an officer violates their agency's policies, their victim should have the ability to report them to their agency and demand accountability." Read more |
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Despite Surging Need Amid Pandemic, GOP Moves to Roll Back SNAP When Food Assistance 'Matters Now More Than Ever' "SNAP delivered. Like it always does." Read more |