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April 18, 2023
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'Not Surprised, But Disgusted': Fox Avoids Trial by Settling With Dominion for $787.5 Million <[link removed]>
"There better be whole bunch of broadcast apologies in this settlement." <[link removed]>
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13 Years After BP Disaster, Oceana Urges Biden to Block New Offshore Drilling <[link removed]>
A report from the ocean conservation organization details how the president can still keep a key campaign promise. <[link removed]>
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Sanders Counters GOP Giveaways With Tax Hike on Estates of Ultra-Wealthy <[link removed]>
"Over and over again, Republicans in Washington have professed their deep concern about the national debt and yet virtually all of them have signed onto legislation that would provide a $1.8 trillion tax giveaway to billionaires." <[link removed]>
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'Damning Exposé' Details Industry Push to Greenwash Fracked Gas as 'Certified' <[link removed]>
"We cannot afford to put support behind the next Theranos of climate solutions," said one campaigner. <[link removed]>
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'Heartbreaking and Unconscionable': Biden Admin Ignored Warnings of Migrant Child Labor <[link removed]>
"I feel like short of protesting in the streets, I did everything I could to warn them," said one former official. "They just didn't want to hear it." <[link removed]>
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Group of Wealthy Americans Warns US Democracy 'Will Not Survive' Unless Rich Are Taxed Heavily <[link removed]>
"For my future, my grandchildren's future, and our country's future, we need to tax the rich," said Morris Pearl, chair of the Patriotic Millionaires. <[link removed]>
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Experts Demand 'Pause' on Spread of Artificial Intelligence Until Regulations Imposed <[link removed]>
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Progressives Applaud Biden Executive Order to Expand, Improve Care Economy <[link removed]>
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Drilling Operations, Wildfires Emitting Far More Methane Than Previously Known: Studies <[link removed]>
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Jeff Merkley Leads New Bill to Ban 'Deeply Corrupt' Stock Trading in Congress <[link removed]>
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Susan Collins Helps Sink Hopes of Replacing Dianne Feinstein on Judiciary Committee <[link removed]>
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When the Fascists Arrive Holding Hands With the Oligarchs <[link removed]>
Once the Nazis took power in Germany they banned books, outlawed drag shows, and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they'd never again lose an election. Sound familiar? <[link removed]>
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Stop the Attack on Our Nation's Public Schools <[link removed]>
The "one-two punch" of teaching restrictions and vouchers threatens one of U.S. democracy's greatest assets. <[link removed]>
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Why the Ciudad Juárez Fire Was a 'Made-in-USA Inferno' <[link removed]>
Brutal U.S. immigration policies force asylum seekers through countless circles of Hell. <[link removed]>
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