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July 17, 2023

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Georgia Supreme Court Rejects 'Desperate and Frivolous' Attempt by Trump to Kill 2020 Probe

One attorney said that the former president's "stupid and desperate motion gets treated like a stupid and desperate motion."

Jessica Corbett

As Manchin Headlines New Hampshire Event, Critics Slam 'Bullsh*t Idea' of Presidential Run

"One more time for the people in the back: No Labels, and their candidates like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema aren't 'bipartisan,'" said one progressive activist. "They are 'corporate-donor-first.'"

Brett Wilkins

Guterres: Hundreds of Millions of People 'Will Pay the Price' for Russia Quitting Grain Deal

"Today's decision by the Russian Federation will strike a blow to people in need everywhere," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

Kenny Stancil

Rights Groups Sue Over Anti-Immigrant Florida Law 'Designed to Inflict Cruelty'

One critic called S.B. 1718 "an attempt to scapegoat and terrorize vulnerable families and workers already burdened by the difficulty of the federal immigration process and to pick a fight with the federal government."

Jessica Corbett

'Five-Alarm Fire': GOP Adds Over 200 Poison Pills to House Spending Bills

"We cannot allow policy that harms regular people, threatens our rights, hurts the environment, and does any number of other terrible things to ride along with the appropriations package," said Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert.

Brett Wilkins

'The New Normal': Extreme Heat Imperils Millions Across Northern Hemisphere

"Getting off fossil fuels is the only way to stop this crisis from getting worse," said one campaigner.

Kenny Stancil

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Opinion

Cop City Crackdown Reflects Broader Criminalization of Environmental Protest

The first step in fighting back is to develop a shared understanding of militarization of law enforcement, stigmatization of protest, and corporate capture of government as an intertwined strategy to undermine democracy.

Basav Sen,Gabrielle Colchete

How Can the Government Combat Extremism in the Military?

I worry about how much more extreme and violent this country has become in this century of failed wars.

Nan Levinson

When It Comes to the Climate Emergency, It’s No Fun Saying, ‘I Told You So’

The dawning El Niño, which will produce worse chaos than we’ve seen so far, offers what I think may be our last viable political opening to make the large-scale global corrections in time to really limit the heating.

Bill Mckibben

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