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A man holds a sign reading "You're Fired" during a worker's rally in Copley Square in Boston just after Joe Biden was declared the president-elect in Boston on November 7, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The only thing that is acceptable at the Social Security Administration is a new commissioner and a new deputy commissioner who believe in the system, the movement won't accept anything less."

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Then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (2nd R) meet on March 10, 2011 with their delegations in Moscow. (Photo: Alexey Druzhinin/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"After four years of efforts to kill arms control and chase the false security of nuclear dominance, the U.S. is coming back to its senses," said one peace activist. "Unless you're a defense contractor, this is good news for everyone."



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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The federal oil and gas program is nothing but an injustice," said Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Democrats are in a fight; they just often don't act like they know it," says analyst Anand Giridharadas. "That has to change if this country is to be saved and Biden is to have a shot."



A woman retrieves a copy of The New Yorker magazine from her condominium cluster mailbox in Santa Fe, New Mexico in September 2020. (Photo: Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This isn't about not being grateful," said a former contributor. "It's really just about paying rent."



President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Directing his nominees and appointees to disclose detailed records of consulting work for businesses and foreign governments is the first step in helping restore faith in government."



Robin Bell, who has claimed credit for earlier projected protests at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., tweeted an image of the projection. (Photo: @bellvisuals/Twitter)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"He's no longer president," said another group, "but accountability isn't over."



Then-President Donald Trump after signing an Executive Order for "Ensuring Access to United States Government Covid-19 Vaccines" during an Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit at the White House complex on Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020.(Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"There is nothing for us to rework," said one of President Biden's Covid advisers. "We are going to have to build everything from scratch."



LGBTQ Americans and allies rallied outside the White House to protest President Donald Trump's effort to ban trans people from military service. (Photo: Ted Eytan/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Human Rights Campaign applauded the directive as "a turning point in our fight for equality under the law."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Biden can cancel all $1.7 trillion of student debt by executive order," said The Debt Collective.


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Visitors to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum view a large scale panoramic photograph of the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, on August 5, 2020 in Hiroshima, Japan. Between 90,000 to 146,000 people were killed and the entire city destroyed in the first use of a nuclear weapon in armed conflict. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

by Joseph Gerson
"Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist."



Like Biden's climate team, which includes global and domestic leadership posts, and leadership posts all across various agencies—I urge him to build a similar one for Biodiversity. (Photo: Don Sutherland/flickr/cc)

by Subhankar Banerjee
This silence is disheartening because the biodiversity crisis is just as significant, just as expansive, just as severe, and just as consequential as the climate crisis.



To save the democracy we thought we had we must take democracy to where it’s never been. (Photo: Small Planet Institute)

by Frances Moore Lappé
Dispersions of power, transparency, and mutual accountability.



 American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the the 59th inaugural ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Photo by Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)

by Mark Hertsgaard
Climate change action is about human survival.



Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible and their children Ashley and Hunter look on during the 59th Presidential Inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik - Pool/Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
Perhaps the racism and craziness are stunning enough for Biden to realize that centrist cliches and corporate obeisance are no longer adequate counters. They no longer hold their own against the possibility of fascism to come.



Slaying this monster once and for all has to start with ending the culture of legalized bribery and corruption, in which wealthy individuals and corporations can fund far-right extremism inside and outside government, often anonymously. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Basav Sen
The oil, gas, and coal industries support and fund white supremacy and far-right politics.


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