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US Corporations a Driving Force Behind 'Unprecedented Wave' of Global Land Privatization: Report

Lawmakers Rebuke Dept. of Veterans Affairs for Using 'Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Cruel, Painful Experiments on Dogs'

Jon Queally, staff writer

"The Inspector General's report makes it clear that the Department of Veteran Affairs misled the public while conducting cruel experiments on dogs in violation of federal law," said Rep. Titus in a statement. (Photo: Molly Wald / Best Friends Animal Society)

"Congress needs to pass legislation to permanently ban these gruesome experiments."

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Endangering Lives and Food Supply, Trump Labor Dept. Refuses Covid-19 Protections for Guest Farmworkers

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Agricultural laborers pick lemons inside the orchards of Samag Services, Inc., in Mesa, California on March 27, 2020. (Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

"The Trump administration should be prioritizing the health and safety of the...

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In Dead-of-Night Ruling, Supreme Court's Right-Wing Majority OKs First Federal Execution in 17 Years

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Bill Pelke of Anchorage, Alaska expresses his opposition to the death penalty during a protest near the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana where Daniel Lewis Lee was scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020. Lee was ultimately killed the following morning after an overnight decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Condemning the state-sanctioned murder of Daniel Lewis Lee, critics accused the...

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'A Change That Should Have Been Made a Long Time Ago': After 87 Years, Washington's NFL Team Drops Racist Name

A federal judge on Monday blocked Tennessee's latest restrictive abortion law within an hour of the state's GOP governor signing off on it. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

'Critical Win for People in Tennessee': Federal Judge Immediately Blocks Sweeping State Abortion Ban

'Inappropriate, Unjust, and Unreasonable': 300+ Groups Slam Duckworth Water Privatization Bill

Abraham Bonowitz of Columbus, Ohio, joins fellow members of the Abolitionist Action Committee during an annual protest and hunger strike against the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court July 1, 2019 in Washington, D.C. The committee has been organizing the "Starvin' for Justice: Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty" protest for 26 years.

Citing Likelihood of 'Extreme Pain and Needless Suffering,' US Judge Halts Resumption of Federal Executions

President Donald Trump makes a statement with Attorney General William Barr in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Report Exposes Trump DOJ's Secretive Efforts in Obtaining Drugs to Resume Federal Executions

Clairton Coke Works

From Fossil Fuel Companies to Schools, 350+ Facilities Stopped Tracking Water Pollution Under EPA's Temporary Pandemic Policy

'An Outrage': Trump-Appointed Head of Global News Agency Won't Extend Visas for Foreign Journalists

The Confederate soldiers and sailors statue is hoisted down to the ground by a crane on July 8, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. The vast majority of monuments recently removed were erected decades after the 1865 dissolution of the Confederacy, note the organizers behind the new mapping project, and "served as a means of racist intimidation in a period when Black people had gained expanded political, social, and economic freedoms" in the South. (Photo by Eze Amos/Getty Images)

New Interactive Map Details 67 Confederate Monuments (and Counting) Removed Since George Floyd Murder

Holding US Government to Its Treaty Promises 'For Once,' Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma Still Native American Territory

Vice President Mike Pence speaks after leading a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the Department of Health and Human Services on June 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

'Height of Child Hunger Chutzpah': Pence Uses Guise of 'Nutrition' to Claim Schools Must Reopen in Fall

Medicare for All advocate Ady Barkan along with his wife, Rachael, and his two young children Carl and Willow, as they speak via conference with presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden. (Photo: Screengrab/BeAHeroFund/NotThisNews)

Biden Defends Undying Allegiance to For-Profit Healthcare During Interview With Dying Medicare for All Advocate Ady Barkan

Civil Rights Groups Say Internal Facebook Audit Confirms Company Business Model 'Relies on Racism and Hate'

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Nepotism Barbie to Huddled Masses: Try Something New To Eat With Your Cake!

Marking Bastille Day though in truth they likely didn't know it because, books, Trump and his clueless daughter Ivanka Antoinette just launched their latest sick joke of a balm to 50 million Americans out of work with benefits ending and immunocompromised parents and kids about to be forced into plague-ridden classrooms: a shiny new ad campaign and website - with no attendant plan, money or support - touting the vapid slogan, "Find Something New!" And yes, many people plan to on Nov. 3.

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NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL Pro-Choice America Responds to Supreme Court’s Reckless Decision to Green Light Trump’s Attacks on Birth Control Access

ACLU

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Asylum Transit Ban

Campaign Legal Center

States Can Require Presidential Electors to Follow Popular Vote, U.S. Supreme Court Rules

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Women Face Rising Risk of Violence During Covid-19

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Civil Rights Groups Take on City of Graham’s Protest Limitations

ACLU

North Carolina City Ordinance, One of the Most Speech-Restrictive in the Country, Effectively Bans Any Protest

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Thom Hartmann

Will Americans Reject Trump and the GOP Death Cult This Fall?

John Buell

Unless We Take Urgent Action, Covid-19 Won't Be the Last Virus That Jumps From Animals to Humans

Asadullah Haroon

'Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death': 13 Years Without Trial at Guantanamo, My Hunger Strike Is All I Have Left

Daniel Jenks, Ernesto Castañeda

Defunding the Police Is an Immigrants' Rights Issue, Too

Alec Connon

What Do the Racial Wealth Gap, Police Brutality, and the Climate Crisis Have in Common? Wall Street

Jonathan Coopersmith

Racism at the Polls: It Takes a Long Time to Vote

David Bacon

Will the New NAFTA Make the Pandemic Worse for Mexicans?

Todd Cronan, Charles Palermo

Take It Down!: Symbolic Politics Is Just That

Gwyneth Bernier

This Independence Day, Generation Z Celebrates Its Moment of Radical Hope

Jeffery Robinson

This Fourth of July, Time To Tell the Truth About the Confederacy and Its Symbols

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