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News & Views | 4/21/20
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'Deliberately Cruel': Millions of US Citizens Blocked From Stimulus Payments Because They Married Immigrants
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We're flat broke. We don't know what's gonna happen."
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'Democrats Cave': Senate Interim Funding Bill for Coronavirus Relief Spurns Progressive Priorities
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This isn't good."
WATCH: Bernie Sanders Holds Virtual Town Hall With Postal Union Leaders on How to Save USPS
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Post Office will likely run out of money sometime between July and
September of this year. If they run out of money, then the people lose
the service."
'Oh, Hi, Corruption': Trump Organization Seeks Rent Relief for DC Hotel From Trump Administration
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Whoever would have imagined this relationship would prove complicated
and fraught? Oh, right, the Founders. Who prohibited it. In the
Constitution."
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'The Opposite of #PeopleBeforeProfit': Trump Orders Big Oil Bailout Just a Day After Historic Price Collapse
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Democratic lawmakers and climate advocates on Tuesday condemned an
announcement on Twitter from President Donald Trump that he had directed
the U.S. Departments of Energy and the Treasury to make funding
available to American oil and gas companies negatively impacted by the
ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Warnings of 'Suspension of Democracy' in New York as State Officials Weigh Removing Sanders From Primary Ballot
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We think this is a power play on the part of the governor."
Big Banks Sued for Putting Large Corporations Ahead of Main Street Small Business Owners for Covid-19 Rescue Loans
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Small businesses filed class-action lawsuits against three large banks
Monday, accusing them of manipulating the application process for a
government program aimed at providing relief for small companies.
'Enough Is Enough': In Largest Strike Yet, Amazon Workers Call In Sick Over Unsafe Working Conditions
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Hundreds of Amazon workers from across the U.S. on Tuesday called in
sick to demand better safety standards at the ecommerce giant's
warehouses, in the largest coordinated action at the company since the
coronavirus pandemic began.
'Listen... And Take Action': In Front of White House, Nurses Read Names of Colleagues Who Have Died From Covid-19
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are here because our colleagues are dying. I think that right now
people think of us as heroes, but we're feeling like martyrs. We're
feeling like we're being left on the battlefield with nothing."
Warning of 'Hammer Blow' From Pandemic, UN Food Agencies Say Coronavirus Could Double Global Levels of Acute Hunger
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Top food security experts at the United Nations on Tuesday will present
to the U.N. Security Council a new report on how the coronavirus
pandemic could double the number of people around the world suffering
from acute hunger unless wealthy countries step up humanitarian aid
immediately.
Milan's Plan to Limit Cars After COVID-19 Lockdown Lauded as 'Excellent Example of #BuildBackBetter'
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate activists from across the globe on Tuesday welcomed an ambitious
new plan for Milan that will, according to the Guardian, transform 22
miles of street space currently reserved for cars "with a rapid,
experimental citywide expansion of cycling and walking space to protect
residents as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted."
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American Carnage: How Donald Trump Is Killing Us
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by Pierre Tristam
Arrogance and chaos define the federal response to the pandemic.
Will America’s Corruption End on a Ventilator or in a Mushroom Cloud?
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by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A political system that is structurally incapable of acting for the
common good, even when millions of lives are at stake, is not just
failing to solve our problems. It is the problem.
Coronavirus Has Made Incarceration a Potential Death Sentence
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by Jesse Jackson
Prisons should be a priority for supplies, for tests, and for early
release of as many inmates as possible, particularly the elderly and the
vulnerable.
Live from Planet Television, Donald Trump – Every Night!
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by Michael Winship
Deprived of rallies to inflate his ego, the president muscles in on
sickness and death.
Another Republican "Grassroots" Movement Hijacks the Media
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by Mike Lofgren
Protests against COVID-19 restrictions, like the Tea Party protests, are
corporate fronts.
US Oil "Technically Worthless," and Coal Plants Shuttered, as a Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies Looms
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by Juan Cole
The oil companies are likely looking at multi-billion-dollar tort
lawsuits because they hid the dangers of the climate emergency and even
actively muddied the waters by funding denialism.
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EPA Waters Rule Is a License to Pollute
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Groundbreaking Climate Lawsuit Challenges Commission’s Failure to Factor Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Fossil Fuel Approvals
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