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Pompeo and Barr Are Finding Out What Loyalty to Trump Is Really Worth William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr are what you get when you maul the bottom of the barrel with the back end of a claw hammer. Neither man has any moral or professional business holding their respective positions, yet there they are, shining and stinking like the proverbial mackerel by moonlight. How much longer they will last, and what else are we about to find out?
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Trump Wants Alligator Moats at the Border Because He's a Medieval Tyrant Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Centuries ago, brutal monarchs reigned through murder and terror that stood out for creative cruelty, even by the standards of their day. Today, with his draconian border proposals, Donald Trump is engaging in fantasies of violence that come straight out of medieval archives and mid-20th-century fascist playbooks. This isn't about politics; it's about a race-based, terroristic, totalitarian vision of the United States.
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Why the Mauna Kea Protests Are So Challenging to the Mainstream Climate Movement Elias König, Truthout The mainstream climate movement has remained surprisingly silent on the ongoing struggle at Mauna Kea, a sacred site for Native Hawaiians who have opposed the installation of a telescope on its peak. The reason likely is the contradiction between Western science-based environmentalism and Indigenous relationships to nature. Any environmental movement must begin with an acknowledgement of colonialism's link to the climate crisis and a commitment to decolonization.
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California Rebukes Predatory Wall Street Megabanks With New Public Bank Law Jake Johnson, Common Dreams On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the Public Banking Act, allowing the state's cities and counties to establish public banks as an alternative to private financial institutions. The historic legislation makes California the second state in the U.S. to allow the creation of public banks, which can invest in local projects like affordable housing, small businesses and clean energy.
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Conservative Groups, Foreign Governments Booked Trump Hotel Rooms They Don't Use Igor Derysh, Salon House investigators are probing allegations that groups, including at least one foreign government, have tried to curry favor with President Trump by booking rooms at his hotel but never actually using them. The investigation into these "ghost bookings" could factor into the House impeachment inquiry into Trump.
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California Moves to Ban For-Profit Prisons, Including Immigrant Jails Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! In California, a Cameroonian immigrant died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just weeks after state lawmakers passed a bill that would ban private prisons, including immigrant jails, statewide. The legislation also orders the closure of four ICE prisons -- with a holding capacity of 4,500 migrants -- and is currently awaiting the signature of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Trump Allies Outspend Democrats by Millions Amid Impeachment Inquiry Yue Stella Yu, Center for Responsive Politics In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's impeachment inquiry last week, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee quickly set up an "Official Impeachment Defense Task Force," sending out fundraising emails to conservative voters asking them to defend Trump's presidency. While Trump supporters are sending out strong anti-impeachment messages, their Democratic counterparts are acting gingerly without mentioning impeachment.
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In Week Three of the GM Strike, Strikers Hold Firm for Making Temps Permanent Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes General Motors (GM) workers have been on the picket lines for 18 days now. While the company continues to play hard ball, strikers stand firm in their demands for GM to confer full-time status and benefits to temporary workers and amend the unfair tiered-worker system contributing to wage inequality at the company.
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Preserving a Community Is a Labor of Love Tiitu Takalo, North Atlantic Books In this excerpt of the graphic novel Me, Mikko, and Annikki: A Community Love Story in a Finnish City, author and artist Tiitu Takalo illustrates the labor of love that went into restoring not only her home, but the community around her, and the rich history that she and her partner Mikko have become a part of in that process.
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UN Secretary-General Calls on Biggest Polluters to Step Up Climate Efforts António Guterres, The Guardian Our planet needs climate action on a truly planetary scale that can neither be achieved overnight nor without the full engagement of those contributing most to the crisis. Young people, the UN and a growing number of leaders are mobilizing, but we need many others to take climate action if we are to succeed.
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How Do We Protect Children on a Trumpian Planet? Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch Donald Trump is making the future so much more perilous for children by lowering the bar for nuclear war and accelerating the pace of the climate crisis. The future doesn't belong to him or to me. It belongs to my kids and your kids and all the generations to follow.
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How Can We End Child Sexual Abuse Without Prisons? Victoria Law, Truthout How do we address child sexual abuse in ways that don't rely on policing and prisons? What does love with accountability look like, particularly in families and communities hardest hit by mass criminalization and incarceration? These are all questions that Aishah Shahidah Simmons and 39 other Black survivors of abuse attempt to address in the new book Love WITH Accountability.
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Airbnb Rentals Are Displacing Mexico City Residents as Rents Surge Tamara Pearson, Truthout In the neighborhood of Juárez, a vibrant artistic and historic area of Mexico City with LGBTQ bars and restaurants and a large Korean population, long-term renters are losing their homes as apartments are being converted into more profitable day-rate Airbnb rentals. Neighborhood groups are fighting back, and experts say Airbnb must be regulated to prevent the displacement of locals in a city where rents are rising much faster than wages.
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