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A new publication warns that the surveillance technology in schools could exacerbate racial biases. Source: Privacy Advocates Demand...
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Elliott Abrams will simultaneously continue as the administration’s envoy for Venezuela, making him responsible for two defining...
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The activist’s primary win against Rep. William Lacy Clay in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District is a milestone for the movement...
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Six students and three staff members at North Paulding High School have reported infections. Source: North Paulding High School in...
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A tangled legal doctrine in Kentucky means a kind of self-defense stalemate that leaves a lot of questions over what charges a...
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The animating force of American government is war. Every year, the United States bombs multiple countries, conducts special forces...
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“Rushing to reopen our schools will directly jeopardize the lives of our students and educators, and that is a risk we cannot...
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The AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center has a long history of working hand in glove with the US government in undermining democracy and left...
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Baltimore Police leaders, citing the death of George Floyd that sparked protests want substantial changes in how police officers in...
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Hawaii’s first all-mail-in election produced the highest turnout in the state in almost a quarter century, with 51 percent of...
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Conservative filmmaker Michael Pack is a true believer in Trump’s version of a global war of ideas, which is likely why the Senate...
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“It’s not a goddamn joke, Ted,” Sen. Ed Markey said. Source: Weeks After Voting for $740 Trillion Pentagon Budget,...
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Nurses are losing lives and jobs while execs rake in million after million. Source: Within Healthcare USA, Risk and Reward Have Never...
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Shortages of personal protective equipment and medical supplies could persist for years without strategic government intervention,...
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Trump is saying that he’ll eliminate Social Security tax next year, should he be reelected—and that would likely mean the end of the...
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The Lebanese public wants answers and accountability for last week’s port explosion—not scapegoats. Source: Lebanon’s...
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Critics of Lexipol warn that the company is committed to its bottom line rather than transformed policing: The policies it sells tend...
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The TV mogul also featured her image on the cover of the September issue of her magazine. Source: Oprah Buys 26 Billboards in...
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In the past week, two videos have appeared showing the presidential nominees of the two major political parties in action. Each is...
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The experts—including Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz,...
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To recap: 1/ Evictions: No eviction moratorium or new rental $, asks HUD to “consider” if evictions should stop 2/...
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The Cold War is over and all presidents make mistakes. Yet they still have sole control over whether to start a nuclear war. Source:...
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Emails from a California detention center show ICE limited testing because it didn’t have space to isolate detainees. Source: ICE...
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One progressive critic called the president’s promise “a full-on declaration of war against current and future Social...
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Known as the Make Billionaires Pay Act, the tax would be effective until the end of the calendar year. If adopted, the proposal would...
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The nation’s top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access...
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The number means the country holds about a quarter of global cases of the virus and also tops the list with the most reported deaths...
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By Dec. 1, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 could reach nearly 300,000. That’s the grim new projection from researchers at the...
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Government watchdogs, Democratic lawmakers, and pro-democracy advocates declared it a “Friday Night Massacre” for the...
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The Times’ article added, “The bank’s cooperation with Mr. Vance’s office is significant because other...
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In most states it is completely legal to record police when they are on duty. It’s a basic right that keeps the government...
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In the distorted view of reality that Trump and his advisors have of the current conjuncture, there is a belief that hard line,...
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As metro Phoenix’s sheriff from 1992 through 2016, Arpaio is most well known for launching immigration crackdowns, some of which...
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@ProjectLincoln This defunds Medicare. This defunds Social Security. Tax collection is just deferred. You’ll still owe these taxes...
read moreSanders hit back at Musk, calling him out for criticizing programs that help the vast majority of Americans when he and his companies...
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Wins are due to energy from the Black Lives Matter movement, failure of conventional policy and the solid infrastructure of...
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Journalists like to think they would go to jail to protect a source. Well Assange is in jail, in failing health in London’s Belmarsh...
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The Sanders wing has scored a lot of victories in the Democratic platform—but didn’t get all it wanted on Israel. Source: Presumptive...
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Six students and three staff members at school have reported infections. Source: Nine at North Paulding High School in Georgia test...
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President Donald Trump cannot delay or stop a defamation lawsuit by a former advice columnist who has accused him of rape, a judge in...
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Mounting evidence suggests COVID-19 could cause brain damage in adults and kids Source: 55% of coronavirus patients still have...
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White House advisors on Sunday walked back President Trump’s statement that he would make “permanent cuts” to the payroll tax if...
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A remarkable new opinion connects a doctrine protecting abusive police officers to America’s racist history. Source: U.S....
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The newspaper’s own reporters are challenging the Trumpian opinion section. Source: Believing ‘Wall Street Journal’ Op-Eds Can Be...
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An extraordinary leaked document gives a glimpse of the breadth and complexity of the US government’s plan to interfere in...
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How the sick and elderly are held despite coronavirus concerns. Source: Photos Show California Prison Crowding Before COVID-19 | The...
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these technologies, like 5G and its predecessors, may be harmful to not only human health, but environmental health as well. The...
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As Latin America becomes the new focal point for the devastating spread of Covid-19, Cuba stands virtually alone in having saved its...
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Youth across the U.S. are organizing for police-free schools and resources that prioritize their well-being. Source: Young People Are...
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Several of Biden’s informal advisers and confidants are Obama administration veterans who have embraced fossil fuels and fracking....
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“Elliott Abrams has made a career of lying and committing criminal acts that have led to the death and suffering of innocent...
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Former Trump aides are out of prison during the pandemic, while the woman who leaked information about Russian election interference...
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Despite being outraised 250-1 by her establishment-backed opponent, progressive environmentalist Marquita Bradshaw scored a stunning...
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New Zealand has enacted a new law that will guarantee pay parity between men and women, ensuring that no individual should be paid...
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The evangelical Christian personality had faced pressure to resign after he posted a photo on Instagram in which his pants were...
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Genealogy and DNA-testing giant Ancestry.com announced Wednesday it is selling 75 percent of the company to asset manager Blackstone...
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The Latin American right-wing leader became the first former president to receive this type of arrest order, suspected of trying to...
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In fact, there have been so many reports of intimidation by Canadians toward people with U.S. license plates the premier of British...
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“We must never allow this painful past to repeat itself.” Source: ‘Self-Centered Nationalism’ Could Lead to...
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White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci agreed on Wednesday that the United States has the worst coronavirus outbreak in...
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To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient. Source: A 2020...
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Both COVID testing and the census have been thwarted to benefit those in power, to help them stay in power. Source: Trump Isn’t...
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“By taxing 60% of the wealth gains made by just 467 billionaires during this horrific pandemic, we could guarantee healthcare...
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Wolf, who became the acting chief of the department late last year, was a lobbyist for over a decade at Wexler & Walker before he...
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Prosecutors have been slow to challenge police who lie on the stand. That may be changing. Source: How to address police...
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“Schiff has been trying to sneak ratification of such surveillance through Congress.” Source: ‘Dangerously...
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Tennessee’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the option for all eligible voters to cast their ballots by mail due to the ongoing...
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Court order follows an outbreak at the Mesa Verde Detention Center and evidence that officials opted not to test detainees for fear...
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All four Native candidates running for office in Kansas won their primary elections Tuesday, including one who is the presumptive...
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Imprisoned leader of Wikileaks Julian Assange has been ordered to testify in a lawsuit concerning Seth Rich’s death. Assange...
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This might be the final stretch for his failed policy of maximum pressure. Source: Trump’s Desperate, Last-Ditch Effort to Hike...
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Facebook and Twitter both penalized the campaign for posting video from a Fox News interview in which Trump says children are “almost...
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“There is no legal principle justifying this stay. The only ‘principle’ animating it is the belief of the...
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If Joe Biden wants to signal his commitment to the message of the Black Lives Matter movement, he shouldn’t pick a former police...
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New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit on Thursday that seeks to “dissolve” the National Rifle Association...
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Americans and U.S. companies will be banned from making transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, in 45 days,...
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“Republicans cannot be allowed to suppress the vote in the middle of a pandemic.” Source: Warning of GOP Voter...
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US media have a well-documented history of supporting right-wing coups and regimes around the world, and not much seems to be...
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For Christian fundamentalists, being taught to suppress critical thinking begins at a very early age. It is the combination of the...
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U.S. leaders knew we didn’t have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway. Source: Dropping Atomic Bombs...
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“The Federal Reserve could prevent massive public sector layoffs. Instead, they’ve structured their lending so it’s...
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Two theoretical physicists specializing in complex systems conclude that global deforestation due to human activities is on track to...
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Jeff Bezos is richer than hundreds of countries, and earns my entire salary in under a minute Source: To understand how rich...
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At least 68 people have driven their cars into Black Lives Matter protesters since May 25. The incidents, most incited by civilians...
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A proposal to change the DNC charter to bar corporate PAC donations and ban corporate lobbyists was hastily rejected. Source:...
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We know the Trump administration has been unlawfully expelling unaccompanied minors, or children who come to the U.S. by...
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In July, the Trump Administration issued a memo calling for the exclusion of undocumented immigrants “from the apportionment base...
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Gun safety organization March For Our Lives, founded by survivors of the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting in 2018, claimed credit for...
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“The Constitution says everyone is entitled to equal protection of the law—even at the hands of law enforcement,”...
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“Maybe we do teach the liberal bastions how things can be done by these county bumpkins over here,” said one winning candidate....
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The Sanders wing has scored a lot of victories in the Democratic platform—but didn’t get all it wanted on Israel. Source:...
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“President Trump just betrayed seniors, ordering cuts in Social Security funding because Congress wouldn’t go along with...
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has tested positive for COVID-19 and plans to quarantine at his home for the next 14 days, his office announced...
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The German bank, which has been a longstanding source of financing to Trump’s real estate empire, obeyed the subpoena and handed over...
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CNN fact checker Daniel Dale on Thursday showed how President Donald Trump’s campaign has been blatantly manipulating photos of...
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SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, have become a hot product. As usual, that’s good news for the big guys and bad news...
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The Compton division of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department are under investigation after one deputy blew the whistle on fellow...
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Last week, the Louisiana Supreme Court denied a request from Bryant to hear a review of his life sentence. Six of the seven justices...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders maintains progressive candidates won because they campaigned “not only against Trump, but for an agenda...
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