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Your Week in Review
'Foolishness': House Passes Infrastructure Bill But Postpones Build Back Better Act
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by Kenny Stancil
"Passing the infrastructure bill without passing the Build Back Better
Act first," said Rep. Ilhan Omar, "risks leaving behind child care, paid
leave, healthcare, climate action, housing, education, and a roadmap to
citizenship."
One in Four US Senators Still Hold Fossil Fuel Investments Even as World Burns
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by Brett Wilkins
Reporting reveals the households of at least 28 senators own a combined
minimum of $3.7 million and as much as $12.6 million in fossil fuel
assets.
'How Many More?': Outrage Over Israeli Killing of 13-Year-Old Palestinian Boy
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by Brett Wilkins
"Our country must stop enabling the killing of children," asserted U.S.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
Greta Thunberg Accuses World Leaders of 'Pure Madness' for Climate Failures at COP26
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by Julia Conley
"We don't need any more distant, non-binding pledges. We don't need any
more empty promises... Yet that is all that we are getting and no, that
is not radical to say."
Study Warns 'Luxury' Pollution by the Global Mega-Rich Is Imperiling the Planet
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by Jake Johnson
"The emissions from a single billionaire spaceflight would exceed the
lifetime emissions of someone in the poorest billion people on Earth."
Moderna Reports 'Obscene' Profits From Covid Vaccine Funded by US Taxpayers
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by Jake Johnson
"The U.S. must use its vast legal powers to force or compel Moderna to
share the tech and help boost global production of the vaccine."
'The Big Tobacco of Our Generation': Study Shows Huge Scale of Facebook Climate Lies
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by Jake Johnson
"The flood of disinformation unleashed by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
is drowning audiences around the world."
Dems Told to Kill Filibuster After All Senate Republicans But One Block John Lewis Voting Rights Bill
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by Jessica Corbett
"We've had enough of these theatrics," declared an Indivisible activist,
calling on Democrats to "remove the filibuster from the Senate
Republicans' obstructionist toolbox."
'We're Going to Beat Rand Paul': Charles Booker Files for US Senate Run in Kentucky
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by Jessica Corbett
"This is for all of us," he said. "This is about the people of Kentucky,
this is about the challenges that we are facing, that we are sick of
being ignored and abandoned and left behind."
Democrats Have a Choice: Embrace Progressive Populism or Suffer a Trumpian Fascist Future
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by Thom Hartmann
Neoliberalism is a wounded, dying animal. America is returning to
populism, whether our politicians want it or not: the big question is
will it be progressive or fascist populism?
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