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June 26, 2023
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Wife's Oil and Gas Leasing Deal Raises New Ethics Concerns About Justice Alito <[link removed]>
"Alito doesn't have to come across like a drunken Paul Thomas Anderson character gleefully confessing to drinking our collective milkshakes in order to be a real-life, run-of-the-mill political villain," quipped the founder of one ethics watchdog. <[link removed]>
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Oxfam Reveals How Rich Nations Are Helping For-Profit Health Industry Exploit Poor Patients <[link removed]>
Development finance institutions run by wealthy countries have fueled "a free-for-all of private greed over public good," the humanitarian group shows in a new report. <[link removed]>
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SCOTUS Lets Stand Decision Ensuring 'Publicly Funded Charter Schools Are Not Above the Law' <[link removed]>
"Girls at public charter schools have the same constitutional rights as their peers at other public schools-including the freedom to wear pants," said the ACLU Women's Rights Project director. <[link removed]>
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'Big Win for Democracy' as SCOTUS OKs Redrawing of Rigged Louisiana Congressional Map <[link removed]>
"Gerrymandering has been denying Black Louisianans fair representation-but that is about to change," said one voting rights group. <[link removed]>
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Spanish H&M Workers Strike for Better Wages and Conditions <[link removed]>
Unions UGT and CCOO called for strike action June 12 after months of negotiations over staffing, hours, and pay. <[link removed]>
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'Change Is Possible': How Campaigners Are Using Deep Canvassing to Build a Just Future <[link removed]>
"Beliefs are not fixed," said Eboni Taggart, training manager at the Deep Canvass Institute. "We don't want to write people off as unreachable. I think there's a real danger in that." <[link removed]>
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Fossil Fuels Made Up 82% of Global Energy Consumption in 2022: New Data <[link removed]>
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10 Years After Supreme Court Gutted Voting Rights, Advocates Say Congress Must Reverse Damage <[link removed]>
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Montana Train Derailment Raises Fears of Similar Disasters on Proposed Uinta Basin Railway <[link removed]>
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A Year After Dobbs, Advocates Demand Expanded Court, Congressional Action to Protect Abortion Rights <[link removed]>
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How Pro-Trans Rights Lawmakers Can Fight the Right Wing's Weaponization of Courts <[link removed]>
State legislators and their allies are our nation's first and most important line of defense against the full-on right-wing assault on our democracy, including in the fight for trans and LGBTQIA2S+ people's fundamental rights and freedoms. <[link removed]>
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What Now for Russia After the Short-Lived Mutiny by Prigozhin? <[link removed]>
Although suppressed, millions oppose Putin and hope for change. The head of the Wagner mercenary group is no "man of the people," but the aborted rebellion open the door for wider dissent in the country. <[link removed]>
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Systemic Racism and the US War Machine <[link removed]>
We must realize that a nation so profoundly affected by individual and structural racism at home is apt to be affected by such racism in its approach to war. <[link removed]>
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