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May 22, 2023
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Chinese Immigrants Sue Florida Over DeSantis's Discriminatory Law Banning Home Purchases <[link removed]>
"All Asian Americans will feel the stigma and the chilling effect created by this Florida law, just like the discriminatory laws did to our ancestors more than a hundred years ago." <[link removed]>
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To Return FCC to 'Full Strength,' Progressives Call for Swift Confirmation of Anna Gomez <[link removed]>
"The FCC has a mandate to increase the diversity of local-media ownership and to ensure broadband access is affordable, open and reliable for all," said one advocate. "We need all five FCC commissioners as soon as possible to fully move this work forward." <[link removed]>
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Watchdog to Biden DOJ: Don't Defend 'Unconstitutional' Debt Ceiling Against Lawsuit <[link removed]>
"Garland has no reason to defend the nonsense which is the debt ceiling, besides a vague sense of formality and tradition driven by elite political etiquette," said Jeff Hauser of the Revolving Door Project. <[link removed]>
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Global South Saw More Than 90% of All Extreme Weather Deaths in Last 51 Years: UN Agency <[link removed]>
The findings from a World Meteorological Organization report released Monday are another example of how those who did the least to cause the climate crisis are most vulnerable to its impacts. <[link removed]>
Olivia Rosane <[link removed]>
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In Victory for Online Privacy, Facebook Fined $1.3 Billion for Sending EU User Data to US <[link removed]>
"Unless U.S. surveillance laws get fixed," said one privacy campaigner, "Meta will have to fundamentally restructure its systems." <[link removed]>
Julia Conley <[link removed]>
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GOP Pushes for Even Larger Pentagon Budget Amid 'Unconscionable' Profiteering <[link removed]>
"Free advice for the speaker of the House: if you want to cut spending so bad, start and end with the Pentagon budget," said one watchdog group. <[link removed]>
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Make No Mistake: A GOP-Forced Default Will Cause Next Great Recession <[link removed]>
Holding a historically strong labor market hostage to force an unrelated agenda onto the country risks an economic catastrophe we can't afford. <[link removed]>
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Message to Biden: Stop Negotiating With GOP Economic Terrorists <[link removed]>
The president should continue paying the government's bills and the United States must never default. If McCarthy and his band of right-wing Freedom Caucus radicals don't like this, let them take the Biden administration to court. <[link removed]>
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Trump or DeSantis? Two Equally Bad Choices to Carry the Fascist Mantle <[link removed]>
Why asking which of these two horrible and dangerous men would be worse is asking the wrong question. <[link removed]>
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