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Minneapolis Discovered Its Own Strength Fighting ICE Tyranny [link removed]

Minneapolis is showing America how to resist Trump’s intolerable tyranny—and perhaps more importantly, what this country could be, if we allowed our belief in free institutions to guide our action.

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Private Equity Saks Another Retail Outlet [link removed]

Retailers are a particularly attractive target for private equity because their stores are often valuable real estate. Part of the extraction strategy is to sell off the real estate, pocket the money, and then burden the retailer with rent.

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Meet the Members of Congress Trying to Cut Your Power Bill [link removed]

Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY) and more than a dozen other House Democrats are launching a new Congressional Lowering Utility Bills Caucus to tackle the affordability crisis in electricity, gas, water, and more. 

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New York’s Bold Congestion Plan Triumph [link removed]

By almost every metric, New York’s decades-in-the-making plan has exceeded expectations in year one. The vision for congestion pricing was twofold: reducing traffic tie-ups and air pollution and sourcing billions of dollars in revenues to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It turned out to be a tremendous success. [link removed]

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We Don’t Know How Many People Have Been Harmed by ICE [link removed]

While dozens of independent reports in the last year have described vicious assaults by ICE agents [link removed], we know more about the number of individuals injured by cows [link removed] each year than we do about people injured by our own government. This is a decision that has been driven not by a lack of technological sophistication, but by a lack of action.

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