Keystone XL Pipeline Delayed Again as Judge Revokes Permit

“Keystone XL and other proposed fossil fuel pipelines would devastate frontline communities and wreak havoc on our environment.” The Keystone XL oil pipeline has encountered another obstacle to its competition. Montana Chief District Judge Brian Morris invalidated a permit issued by the US Army Corps of Engineers (COE) on environmental grounds Wednesday. The original Keystone [...]

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Protestors Clog Streets in Michigan, Symbolizing Growing Partisan Divide in Coronavirus Response

“It was a political rally that is going to endanger peoples’ lives, because this is precisely how COVID-19 spreads.” On Wednesday, thousands of protestors rallied on foot and by car in Lansing, Michigan’s capital to express their discontent with Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to extend the state’s stay-at-home order to help fight the spread [...]

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Billionaires’ Short-Term Greed Could Upend America and Destroy Their Own Wealth

“For the past 40-plus years, a group of “conservative” billionaires have been working as hard as they can to reshape our federal government from one that provides education, health care, housing, food and other necessities into one that does nothing more than run the military and fight wars. It’s time to give them what they’ve [...]

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100+ Lawmakers Demand Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs to Ensure Access to Services ‘Essential to Survive’ During Coronavirus Crisis

“There is absolutely no excuse left for Congress to exclude basic human needs from the next coronavirus stimulus package, or in general,” said Food & Water Action’s Rianna Eckel. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Over 100 federal lawmakers on Wednesday demanded a nationwide moratorium on utility shutoffs with a letter to congressional leadership demanding the [...]

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Conspiracy Theorists (CT), This One Is For You: Though Nearly All of Your Conspiracy Theories are Just Foolish Half-Baked Ideas

As an associate professor of mathematics in the nation's capital at the University of the District of Columbia, and the director of faculty development for our college, I certainly don't fall under the category of conspiracy theorist (CT). However, I do give CT their day with this article-sort of. While, it laments the ridiculous claims I regularly see (keeping in mind that I am also a very active rapper, and these claims run wild through Hip Hop), and have recently written about as part of a comprehensive team of mathematicians, scientists, and health experts on a 100 page COVID-19 guidebook, it also does lend validity to the idea that through 5G big brother will be watching.

"I am not a conspiracy theorist. However, I am aware some conspiracies factually do occur. With that said, I believe the 5G conspiracy theorists (CT) are right. But the CT are right about the wrong thing. 5G has zero connection to the spread of COVID-19. Did I really need to write that? OK, this is except for the fact that the “sheep” (who think everyone else out there are sheep) bashing 5G towers probably need to have now, more than ever, the best communication systems they can possibly have available to them (so they can flock with other sheep of course). Still, 5G technology is only going to add to the rate of which the pandemic of misinformation will be spread around the globe."

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Long Breadlines Form Outside of Food Banks as America Struggles to Cope With COVID-19 Fallout

MintPress News spoke to a number of people on the front lines attempting to keep America fed during the worst pandemic in a century. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) At least 10,000 cars line up in an orderly fashion in San Antonio, all full of hungry, increasingly desperate people. Thousands already arrived the night before just [...]

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Distance Learning Fails Students and Teachers during School Shutdown

One of the first steps taken by governments worldwide to stop the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, colleges and universities. This obviously has had a major impact on students and teachers due to the drastic changes this has necessitated. Parents are also struggling as many of them attempt to work from home [...]

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‘Biggest Coronavirus Stimulus of All’: Richest Man in the World Jeff Bezos Now $24 Billion Richer Amid Pandemic

“Our society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much, while so many have so little,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Amplifying fresh critiques of wealthy inequality that have mounted throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—the world’s richest man—has added nearly $24 billion to his already massive fortune [...]

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Why Mrs. Charlotta Bass for VP? Her Agenda, not her Gender in 1952

Would a political party in modern times really add a woman to the ballot for the country's No. 2 job based on gender and not her ideas?
Is that going forward or going backward?

Charlotta Bass' candidacy for Vice President nearly 70 years ago might surprise people--not because she was a black woman, but more because of the value her political party gave her ideology.

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Can Democracy Survive the Coronavirus?

The COVID-19 global pandemic has prompted a major question about leadership in a time of crisis: how to balance the importance of public health with the respecting of individual liberty? The virus respects no borders. It cares little for how nations are run, whether through democratic governance or authoritarianism. But democratic governments have already used [...]

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‘Mrs. America’ Explores Feminist History Through the Eyes of Phyllis Schlafly

A new drama miniseries depicts the true story of the quest to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and how it was opposed by a famous conservative woman, Phyllis Schlafly. Premiering on FX on Hulu, the nine-part miniseries stars Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, who was a Harvard educated nuclear proliferation [...]

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Trump Claims ‘Total Authority’ as States Band Together

“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total.” President Donald Trump alone has the power to reopen the US economy, he declared at his Monday evening briefing, according to the New York Times. “The president of he United States calls the shots. [Governors] can’t do anything without the approval of the [...]

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Why This Farmer Went From Raising Chickens to Growing Industrial Hemp

There is a way out of our cruel, unjust food system. Mike Weaver is a trailblazer, boldly speaking out against the very industry that provided his livelihood. In 2016, he exposed the inhumane conditions and unfair labor practices that hold many farmers prisoners inside big animal agriculture farms, and found a way out, transitioning from [...]

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