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Supreme Court Will Decide If Workers Can Be Fired for Being Trans or LGBQ Gabriel Arkles, Truthout Obviously, it's illegal to fire people for being trans or LGBQ -- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act makes that clear. But on October 8, the Supreme Court will hear three cases that could result in decisions stripping TLGBQ employees of protections they have had for years. Such rulings would also harm anyone who relies on protections against discrimination both in and beyond the workplace.
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Republicans and Right-Wing Media Show Signs They'll Break With Trump Alexis Goldstein, Truthout Cracks in the Republicans' united defense of President Trump are showing up among GOP politicians as House Democrats pursue their impeachment inquiry. As the evidence against Trump continues to build, Republicans are effectively trapped: If they defy Trump, they enrage their base, which still supports Trump in large numbers. But if they defend Trump, they are binding themselves to his scandals, and they have no idea how deep his scandals go.
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Trump Agrees to Let Turkey Invade Kurdish-Controlled Syrian Area Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! U.S. troops have begun withdrawing from northeast Syria as Turkey prepares to invade Kurdish-controlled areas of the country. For years, the Kurds have been close allies to the United States in the fight against ISIS. On Sunday, however, the White House announced that Turkey would be "moving forward with its long-planned operation in Northern Syria."
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Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth Dean Baker, Truthout With Democratic presidential contenders proposing new taxes on the rich to pay for their policy proposals, Dean Baker examines the differences between a financial transactions tax and a wealth tax. While there are good reasons for wanting to tax the very rich, a financial transactions tax is almost certainly a better economic policy and would have much better political prospects.
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A Decolonial Education Takes Shape at Mauna Kea's Ecological University Laurel Mei-Singh and Sarah Marie Wiebe, Truthout Located near Mauna Kea's summit, Pu'uhonua o Pu'uhuluhulu is a refuge established to protect Mauna Kea from construction of an unneeded, unwanted ThirtyMeter Telescope. As some refer to Mauna Kea as an ecological university, now offering daily classes, Pu'uhonua o Pu'uhuluhulu demonstrates how anti-colonial struggles widen opportunities for decolonial education.
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Sanders Unveils Plan to Get Corporate Money Out of Politics Jon Queally, Common Dreams Holding up the small-donor campaign model his campaign has revolutionized as proof alternatives exist, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday unveiled an ambitious new plan to get corporate money out of politics. The Sanders plan aims to end the corrupting influence of dark money by dramatically curbing the ability of corporations to dominate giving to political parties, replacing the Federal Election Commission with a new enforcement agency.
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Supreme Court Takes First Abortion Rights Case With Kavanaugh on the Bench Jessica Mason Pieklo, Rewire.News The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it would hear its first major abortion rights case since Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the bench, in a case challenging a clinic shutdown law in Louisiana. The case threatens to upend the 2016 decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt and could have a wide array of effects on reproductive health care.
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State Borders Create Medicaid Haves and Have-Nots Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News State borders have become arbitrary dividing lines between Medicaid's haves and have-nots, with Americans in similar financial straits facing vastly different health care fortunes. This affects everything from whether diseases are caught early to whether people can stay well enough to work.
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"Environmentally Friendly" Charcoal Is Subsidizing Destruction of Gran Chaco Joel E. Correia, The Conversation The Gran Chaco, which spans from Bolivia and Brazil to Paraguay and Argentina, is extremely biodiverse, with more than 3,400 plant and 900 animal species, and home to at least 30 Indigenous groups. Now, due to the some of the fastest deforestation in the world, this once-enormous ecosystem may soon be gone outside of protected areas.
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The U.S. Border Security Industry Could Be Worth $740 Billion by 2023 Michelle Chen, Truthout The budgets of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection have exploded in recent years. Much of the funding is plowed into public-private contract deals with large firms that furnish immigration agencies with everything from tear gas canisters to health care for imprisoned migrants. Meanwhile, migrant jails, euphemistically described as "detention centers," have mushroomed across the country.
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It's Time for the Left to Abandon AMLO Tom Sullivan, Truthout Last year, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known popularly as "AMLO," became the first left-wing president of Mexico since the 1930s. Now that it is time for action and implementation, the Mexican left can no longer afford unquestioning loyalty to a pseudo-revolutionary president, and run the risk of institutionalization and patronization of progressive social movements.
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