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**The Week in Review**

 

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June 10, 2023 <[link removed]>

'Landmark Victory': New York Passes Nation's First Legislation Restricting Bee-Killing Pesticides <[link removed]>

The Birds and Bees Protection Act would eliminate 80 to 90% of the neonics used in New York each year by banning applications that are either easily replaceable or do not give an economic boost to farmers. <[link removed]>

 

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June 10, 2023 <[link removed]>

'Tax Scam': Republicans Follow Debt Ceiling Fight by Proposing Tax Cuts for Wealthy <[link removed]>

"If House Republicans were actually serious about the deficit, they would demand wealthy corporations pay their fair share in taxes," one advocate said. <[link removed]>

 

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June 09, 2023 <[link removed]>

Wyden Calls McCarthy Social Security Commission 'A Glide Path to Reduce Benefits' <[link removed]>

"Everything I've heard about it, it's a prescription for trouble," the Senate Finance Committee chair said of the House speaker's debt reduction panel. <[link removed]>

 

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June 09, 2023 <[link removed]>

As 'Absolutely Devastating' Trump Indictment Unsealed, Special Counsel Stresses Gravity of Charges <[link removed]>

"The criminal evidence unsealed in the indictment shows in painstaking detail that he acted as if he is above the law, while willfully and recklessly endangering our national security," said MoveOn Political Action's executive director. "Now is the time for Donald Trump to be held accountable." <[link removed]>

 

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June 09, 2023 <[link removed]>

'Disturbing': 12 Million US Adults Think Violence Is Justified to Put Trump Back in White House <[link removed]>

"We're heading into an extremely tumultuous election season," said one expert. "What's happening in the United States is political violence is going from the fringe to the mainstream." <[link removed]>

 

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June 08, 2023 <[link removed]>

As Canada Burns, Docs Reveal Oil Giant Weighed In on Government Carbon Plan <[link removed]>

"Carbon capture and storage is a scam, and as these documents show, the call is coming from inside the house," said one campaigner. <[link removed]>

 

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June 06, 2023 <[link removed]>

House GOP Plan to Create 'Fake Hysteria' Over Gas Stoves Backfires <[link removed]>

"An incredible embarrassment for the House Republican leadership," said one observer. "The morning McCarthy tries to turn the page, conservatives slap him and his leadership team in the face." <[link removed]>

 

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June 06, 2023 <[link removed]>

'People Didn't Listen': Complete Loss of Arctic Summer Sea Ice Now Inevitable, Warn Scientists <[link removed]>

"As scientists, we've been warning about the loss of Arctic summer sea ice for decades," said one researcher. <[link removed]>

 

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June 05, 2023 <[link removed]>

250,000 Floridians Get Kicked Off Medicaid as DeSantis Rakes in Big Donor Cash <[link removed]>

"One of these individuals is a seven-year-old boy in remission from Leukemia who is now unable to access follow-up-and potentially lifesaving-treatments," said local advocacy groups. <[link removed]>





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Abolish the Debt Ceiling for a Better Future <[link removed]>

While Biden was able to hold off the worst harm, this deal still causes significant harm to ordinary people and sets a terrible precedent for more hostage-taking. <[link removed]>

Karen Dolan <[link removed]>

 

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Choking on Smoke? There Are Very Specific People to Blame <[link removed]>

These people have names like Jane Fraser, John Dugan, and Mark Mason of Citi Group <[link removed]>

Arielle Swernoff <[link removed]>

 

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Through the Smoky Haze, Can We See Clearly Now the Climate Emergency? <[link removed]>

Today is our chance to understand what it really feels like every day on a fossil-fueled planet, for the billions of people unlucky enough to really bear the brunt. My eyes are stinging a bit from the smoke, but I've never seen more clearly. <[link removed]>

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Why Billionaires Hate Social Security <[link removed]>

The real goal of billionaire-funded Social Security rhetoric is to prevent the public from drawing a connection between Social Security's finances, the working-class retirement crisis, and the ludicrous amounts of wealth held by America's billionaires. <[link removed]>

Richard Eskow <[link removed]>





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