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March 23, 2023
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Cancer Patients Challenge Biden Admin's Refusal to Lower Price of Lifesaving Drug <[link removed]>
"We request HHS to consider this appeal directly... because the NIH has repeatedly demonstrated its unwillingness to even acknowledge that the Bayh-Dole Act includes an obligation to make products invented with federal funds 'available to the public on reasonable terms.'" <[link removed]>
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Consumer Advocates Applaud as Federal Court 'Yet Again' Finds CFPB's Funding Constitutional <[link removed]>
"If the Supreme Court follows suit," said one watchdog, "it will mark a major win for everyday consumers impacted by abusive fees, predatory lenders, and corporate greed." <[link removed]>
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Climate Advocates Call Out House GOP Push to Fast-Track Mountain Valley Pipeline <[link removed]>
"Time and time again the people have risen up against the backroom deals and slimy maneuverings at the federal level to push MVP through, and we will keep standing up," vowed one organizer. <[link removed]>
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US Progressives Stand Against 'Xenophobic' TikTok Ban <[link removed]>
"If you think the U.S. needs a TikTok ban and not a comprehensive privacy law regulating data brokers, you don't care about privacy, you just hate that a Chinese company has built a dominant social media platform," said one digital rights campaigner. <[link removed]>
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Manhattan DA Accuses House GOP of 'Unlawful Incursion' Into Trump Probe <[link removed]>
"The district attorney is obliged by the federal and state constitutions to protect the independence of state law enforcement functions from federal interference," wrote the district attorney's general counsel. <[link removed]>
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'Never Seen Anything Like This': US Librarians Report Book Bans Hit Record High in 2022 <[link removed]>
"Each attempt to ban a book by one of these groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore," said one intellectual freedom advocate. <[link removed]>
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NLRB Says Amazon Illegally Union-Busted by Limiting Worker Access to Warehouses <[link removed]>
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Tlaib Revives Bill to Remove Medically Necessary Debt From Credit Reports <[link removed]>
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Biden, Congress, and Nuclear Disarmament Leadership <[link removed]>
It's time to chart a new path before disaster strikes. Congress and the Biden administration need to show real courage and move the world away from the nuclear brink. <[link removed]>
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Russian War Crimes in Ukraine 20 Years After US Criminal Invasion of Iraq <[link removed]>
How can there be real accountability for war crimes when international law is replaced by an undefined "rules-based order"? <[link removed]>
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Why We (Still) Need a Federal Reserve for the People-Not Wall Street <[link removed]>
The Fed is a public institution, created by an act of Congress. But the people who are supposedly represented by that Congress don't seem to have much of a voice there. That must change. <[link removed]>
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