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Thursday, December 19, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


'Shame': Homeless Woman Was in Labor and Needed Care, But Was Given Ticket Instead

One advocate called out "the politicians who paved the way for this tragedy."

By Julia Conley



James Zogby Launches Bid for DNC Leadership With Pledge to Take on 'Dark Money'

"Democratic voters should decide who wins our primaries, not outside groups," said the longtime Democratic National Committee member and outspoken progressive.

By Jake Johnson



'President Musk' Trends After Trump's Top Oligarch Torpedoes Federal Spending Deal

"Welcome to the Elon Musk presidency," wrote Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia.

By Eloise Goldsmith



Doctors Without Borders Says Israel's Assault on Gaza Bears 'Clear Signs of Ethnic Cleansing'

"People in Gaza are struggling to survive apocalyptic conditions, but nowhere is safe, no one is spared, and there is no exit from this shattered enclave," said the humanitarian group's secretary-general.

By Jake Johnson



New Biden Emissions Targets Seen as No Match for Looming Trump Attacks on Climate

With Donald Trump beginning his term next month, "it'll be up to states and other national leaders to defy Trump and move us quickly away from planet-heating fossil fuels."

By Julia Conley



Teamsters Union Launches 'Largest Strike Against Amazon in US History'

"We are fighting against a vicious union-busting campaign, and we are going to win," said one Amazon warehouse worker.

By Jake Johnson,Eloise Goldsmith


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■ Opinion


If Musk Blocking a Key Spending Bill Isn’t Oligarchy, I Don’t Know What Is

You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.

By Robert Reich


President Trump, Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Authoritarianism

Trump didn’t win because he ran a better or longer campaign; Trump won because a plurality of the people who voted in this election bought what he was selling.

By Steven Day


With AI, Big Tech Is Ruining the Planet to Push a Product Most People Don’t Want

The true AI doom scenario is not a sentient robot uprising but the oncoming environmental catastrophe caused by the expansion of AI infrastructure.

By Omar Ocampo,A.J. Schumann