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July 16, 2023
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'Ancient Heat Records Will Be Broken': Southern Europe Braces for Unprecedented Temperatures <[link removed]>
"If the disasters we're seeing this month aren't enough to shake us out of that torpor, then the chances of our persevering for another hundred and twenty-five thousand years seem remote." <[link removed]>
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Ocasio-Cortez Rallies With Teamsters and Rips UPS Greed as Historic Strike Looms <[link removed]>
"Let's remind them who's actually the boss in this, and that's the workers." <[link removed]>
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Catastrophic Flooding and Landslides Kill 20+ in South Korea <[link removed]>
"Nowhere is immune any longer from the explosion of extreme weather brought about by the collapse of the climate," said one scientist. <[link removed]>
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Medicaid Purge Has Now Impacted at Least 2.1 Million People-Including Many Children <[link removed]>
"States like Florida and Arkansas are weaponizing the bureaucracy against the poor and revoking healthcare for millions, the vast majority for incomplete paperwork." <[link removed]>
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'Disgraceful': GOP Advances Bill That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers From Classrooms <[link removed]>
"If left to their own devices, Republicans would gleefully take public education to the graveyard," said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro. <[link removed]>
Jake Johnson <[link removed]>
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At Least 289 Children Have Drowned Trying to Reach Europe This Year: UNICEF <[link removed]>
"Children are dying not just in front of our eyes; they are dying while we seem to keep our eyes closed," laments one UNICEF official. "Hundreds of girls and boys are drowning in the world's inaction." <[link removed]>
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'Get Back to the Negotiating Table,' Says Teamsters as UPS Trains Scabs for Strike <[link removed]>
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UN Report Finds 165 Million Were Pushed Into Poverty Over Past Three Years <[link removed]>
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Workers at World's Largest Starbucks in Chicago Announce Union Drive <[link removed]>
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Biden EPA Launches $20 Billion Initiative to Boost Green Economy <[link removed]>
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Death Valley Expected to Record Highest Temp Ever on Earth as Climate Crisis Roars <[link removed]>
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Why Is Biden's Medicaid Office Holding Out on Voter Registration? <[link removed]>
Several states have attempted to implement automatic voter registration based on Medicare enrollment-but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is still stalling. <[link removed]>
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The GOP's Autocratic Attack on Education Imperils Life on Earth <[link removed]>
Where information and educational systems are increasingly being used as tools for thought control, more and more people will be going through life ill-equipped to understand how much ecological peril humanity faces, or how deep a transformation will be required of us. <[link removed]>
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The Climate Emergency Is Now Turbo-Charged-And This Is What It Looks Like <[link removed]>
We can stop this. As the U.N. says, our world is dying before our eyes. <[link removed]>
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