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News & Views | 12/15/20

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A grizzly bear takes a stroll on an autumn day in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (Photo: Ania Tuzel Photography/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Today's rule will have devastating consequences for some of America's most iconic species, including the grizzly bear, whooping cranes, and Pacific salmon."

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his then-wife MacKenzie Bezos—now Scott—participated in the opening ceremony of the Washington Post's new location January 28, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Jeff Bezos owns the newspaper. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The bulk of these gifts are to the works of mercy during this pandemic—food banks, direct social service organizations, emergency funds, and support services for the most vulnerable."


Young people, clergy members and essential workers rallied to call on congressional leaders to pass federal relief that goes directly to individuals and state governments on May 15, 2020 in Los Angeles. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Congress cannot continue to ignore the hunger, pain, and economic uncertainty that millions of people are facing," argues a grassroots coalition.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Uber and Lyft must be ecstatic. If you have a newfangled scheme to undermine workers by deploying the language of management consultants and futurism... Pete is the credulous mark you seek."

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President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event to announce new cabinet nominations at the Queen Theatre on December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We cannot move forward in a new direction with just the same people, including some of the people who are responsible for the mess we are in."


The group Public Citizen has launched a new web tool to track the Trump administration's (Image: Public Citizen)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The online tool "will help journalists and all Americans track the final, vindictive actions of this hateful administration."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Global public health officials fear that the push for international solidarity "has mostly been lost" as the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe has claimed a vast majority of the available vaccines. 


A deep injection well used for disposal of wastewater is seen in California's Kern County, located over the Monterey Shale, which has endured a dramatic increase in oil drilling and hydraulic fracking in recent years. (Photo: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"PGE throwing another lawsuit at us to try to bring us to heel, when our community has overwhelmingly said 'hell no' multiple times."


The federal government has failed to extend Endangered Species Act protection to the monarch butterfly, despite a 90% drop in population this century. (Photo: John Flannery/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The immediate answer is two things. One, we restore a lot of habitat. And two, we try to convince our fellow citizens and particularly our politicians that we have to do something about greenhouse gases."


Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks alongside a bipartisan group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress on December 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
One worker advocate warned that, if passed, corporate liability protections would "lead to more illness and death."


Diane Yentel of the National Low Income Housing Coalition said that the consequences of congressional inaction on housing relief "will be deadly and costly—for children and families, for communities, and for our country's ability to contain the pandemic." (Photos: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images and John Moore/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Blackstone was a huge winner coming out of the global financial crisis, and I think something similar is going to happen," said the private equity firm's billionaire CEO Stephen Schwarzman as millions brace for eviction.

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Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, and his ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos arrive on the red carpet at the Amazon Studios after-party celebrating the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. (Photo by Paul Mounce/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Chuck Collins
Scott, a newcomer on the billionaire wealth scene, has surrounded herself with advisors that come from under-resourced communities, not the folks that typically sit on foundation boards.


Healthcare workers roll a patient into the emergency room at Maimonides Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brooklyn borough of New York, United States, Dec. 14, 2020. (Photo: Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty)

by Richard Eskow
Why aren't more of us demanding action to save lives now?


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, speaks to the media after the Republican's weekly senate luncheon in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 8, 2020. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
This is beyond immoral. This is ghastly, and should have been at the top of every news story in America for the past six months.


People wait in line to vote in Georgia's Primary Election on June 9, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
Voters purged are likely to be "young voters, voters of lower income and citizens of racial groups that have been denied their sacred right to vote in the past," a report from the Georgia American Civil Liberties Union states.


Amazon’s workers have no union to protect them. (Throughout its 25-year history, the corporation has aggressively fought union organizing.) (Photo: Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
Bezos, as well as every major employer in America, can easily afford to protect their workers.


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
If Biden, on becoming president, lifts the US financial and trade blockade on Iran, Tehran will immediately return to scrupulously observing the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

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