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House GOP Using Omnibus Fight as 'Trial Run' for Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare, Critics Warn <[link removed]>
"MAGA extremists in Congress are dusting off an old conservative playbook for when they seize power," said one progressive watchdog.
Jake Johnson
Cori Bush Unveils 'Visionary' Bills to Fund Climate-Friendly Light Rail, Bus Systems <[link removed]>
"For too long, we have let rail and bus services, which are fundamental infrastructure for essential workers and our public transit-reliant residents, go dramatically underfunded," said the Missouri Democrat.
Jake Johnson
Temporarily Passing Paris Climate Targets Could 'Significantly' Raise Tipping Point Risk: Study <[link removed]>
"To effectively prevent all tipping risks, the global mean temperature increase would need to be limited to no more than 1°C-we are currently already at about 1.2°C," noted one scientist.
Jessica Corbett
Top US CEOs Make More in Seven Hours Than Average Workers Earn in an Entire Year: Analysis <[link removed]>
"Public outrage over these extreme pay gaps is now so high that a majority of Americans across the political spectrum favor a cap on CEO pay relative to worker pay."
Jake Johnson
Boric Says Chile Will Open Embassy in Occupied Palestine <[link removed]>
"We cannot forget a community that is suffering from an illegal occupation, a community that is resisting, a community that is seeing its rights and dignity violated every day," Chile's leftist president said.
Brett Wilkins
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The Real Lessons From the Railway Labor Dispute <[link removed]>
The outrage and alarm produced by the mere threat of these workers to withhold their labor reveal that our economy functions because workers... work.
Thomas Meisenhelder
An Epidemic of Loneliness and the Dark World of Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists <[link removed]>
What I found in the deepest reaches of the Internet and the lost art-and political potency-of true human connection.
Andy Kroll
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Below are many nonprofit groups working for causes furthering environmental and consumer health and safety, economic well-being, and peace.
Ralph Nader
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