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**The Week in Review**

 

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'Huge': Nationwide Federal Order Bars Starbucks From Firing Workers for Union Activity <[link removed]>

"Starbucks continues to violate the law in egregious ways, thus requiring a nationwide cease and desist order," said the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board. <[link removed]>

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East Palestine Residents Told Water Was Safe After 'Sloppy' Testing Paid for by Rail Company <[link removed]>

"We're not getting any truth," said one resident who is now planning to move away from the town. <[link removed]>

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Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization <[link removed]>

"The railroads, their CEOs, and the hedge fund robber barons will not listen, but railroad workers have the solution to managing and operating critical railroad infrastructure." <[link removed]>

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'Absolute Hypocrisy': GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt <[link removed]>

One economist noted that the measure is backed by the "same members who are pushing us to a debt limit crisis on claims they care about the deficit." <[link removed]>

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Sanders Says His New Bill to Raise Teacher Pay Could Be Fully Funded by Taxing Rich Estates <[link removed]>

"If we can provide over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1% and large corporations, please don't tell me that we cannot afford to make sure that every teacher in America is paid at least $60,000 a year." <[link removed]>

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Progressives Demand Buttigieg Act on Rail Safety Amid Toxic Ohio Disaster <[link removed]>

The transportation secretary's refusal to fortify freight train regulations and crack down on Norfolk Southern "only signals to the railroads that this type of incident will be tolerated," said one watchdog. <[link removed]>

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Sanders-Warren Plan Would Tax the Rich to Increase Social Security by $2,400 a Year <[link removed]>

"Right now, a Wall Street CEO who makes $30 million pays the same amount into Social Security as someone who makes $160,000 a year," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Our bill puts an end to that absurdity." <[link removed]>

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Over 30 Million in US Face 'Hunger Cliff' as Food Benefit Cuts Loom <[link removed]>

As one advocate put it, "People had this budget, things haven't gotten better, and now you're going to a grocery store where things are more expensive." <[link removed]>

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Indictments for Accountability: Georgia, the DOJ, and the Fight to Stop Future Election Subversion <[link removed]>

Why the potential upcoming charges in Georgia should alarm Trump and his GOP backers nationwide. <[link removed]>

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Yes, Wall Street Would Kill Your Granny for a Few Extra Bucks <[link removed]>

Some 70% of nursing homes are now corporate operations run by absentee executives who have no experience in nursing homes and are guided by one thing: profit. <[link removed]>

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20 Years Ago Today: We Didn't Stop the Invasion of Iraq, But We Did Change History <[link removed]>

The global protests proved the war's clear illegality and demonstrated the isolation of the Bush administration's policies-and later helped prevent war in Iran in 2007 and the bombing of Syria in 2013. And they inspired a generation of activists. <[link removed]>

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How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine <[link removed]>

The American people must demand that U.S. political and military leaders tell the truth about this horrific war and our country's role in it. And we must also demand that the media transmit the truth to the public. <[link removed]>

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