by Brett Wilkins Frances Haugen said the company's leaders know how to make their platforms safer, "but won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people."
by Jake Johnson "We need Medicare for All now, and this resolution sends a strong message that the leadership of our nation's capital puts patients first—and we demand Congress do the same by backing Medicare for All."
by Andrea Germanos The current administration is using Title 42 "to rebuff the pleas of thousands of Haitians and myriad others arriving at the Southern Border who are fleeing violence, persecution, or torture."
by Jake Johnson "It's clear that for the future generations, we have to act now in a very fast way," said newly minted Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi, a theoretical physicist at the Sapienza University of Rome.
by Jake Johnson "It's almost as if Facebook's monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
by Brett Wilkins The Mount Rushmore State "now rivals Switzerland, Panama, the Cayman Islands, and other famous tax havens as a premier venue for the international rich seeking to protect their assets from local taxes or the authorities."
by Kenny Stancil If congressional Democrats don't act fast, they "could soon be powerless to stop the GOP's takeover of the U.S. House and state Capitols for the next decade," warned one voting rights expert.
by Peter Bloom Their supposed "seriousness" poses a serious threat to everyone but the small group of elites whose short-term interests they actually represent.
by Norman Solomon To call the Pentagon's massive and escalating budget a "defense" budget is nothing less than internalized corruption of language that undermines our capacities to think clearly and talk straight.
by Rebecca Jacobs, Hajar Hammado CREW counted at least 51 instances where agencies enlisted DEA to secretly monitor protesters engaged in First Amendment-protected activity.
by Jesse Jackson What Republicans label as "socialist" would simply provide American families with the kind of basic shared security that is enjoyed by families in industrial nations across the world.
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