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**The Week in Review**
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March 25, 2023 <[link removed]>
'Extremely Dangerous Escalation': Putin to Station Russian Nukes in Belarus <[link removed]>
"Putin's nuclear provocations are dangerous and unacceptable. U.S. and NATO must resist calls to respond in kind and avoid injecting nuclear weapons deeper into this war," said Global Zero's Derek Johnson. <[link removed]>
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March 25, 2023 <[link removed]>
'When We Fight, We Win!': LA School Workers Secure Deal After 3-Day Strike <[link removed]>
"The agreement addresses our key demands and sets us on a clear pathway to improving our livelihoods and securing the staffing we need to improve student services," said SEIU Local 99. <[link removed]>
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March 24, 2023 <[link removed]>
Trump Rally in Waco Called Not a Dog Whistle, But a 'Blaring Air Horn' to Far-Right <[link removed]>
"There's not really another place in the U.S. that you could pick that would tap into these deep veins of anti-government hatred-Christian nationalist skepticism of the government," said one extremism expert. <[link removed]>
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Progressives Slam House Passage of GOP Book Banning Bill That Turns Children Into 'Pawns' <[link removed]>
"Republicans say they oppose government overreach," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "But they're the ones passing bills that ban books in our libraries." <[link removed]>
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March 23, 2023 <[link removed]>
'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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March 22, 2023 <[link removed]>
'Shocking and Immoral': Report Details Private Equity's Stranglehold on US Healthcare <[link removed]>
"The damage that private equity has wrought on Americans' healthcare from cradle to grave, simply for profit, has become a life-or-death situation." <[link removed]>
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March 22, 2023 <[link removed]>
Fears of Monarch Butterfly Extinction as Numbers Plummet 22% in Annual Count <[link removed]>
"Despite heroic efforts... we could still lose these extraordinary butterflies by not taking bolder action," warned one conservationist. <[link removed]>
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March 22, 2023 <[link removed]>
Seymour Hersh Accuses USÂ of 'Cover Up' Over Nord Stream Sabotage <[link removed]>
The veteran investigative journalist alleged that Biden administration officials have been "feeding" the press false stories to "protect a president who made an unwise decision and is now lying about it." <[link removed]>
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Biden Chooses Fossil Fuels Over Us <[link removed]>
The administration's approval of the Willow oil project in Alaska communicates a disconnect from reality and a disregard for the people who elected him. <[link removed]>
Magnolia Mead <[link removed]>
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Steven Rattner's Not Afraid Of Work From Home, He's Afraid Of Worker Power <[link removed]>
The real terror for Wall Street titans like Rattner? That workers aren't going to put up with whatever he and his fellow bosses throw at them anymore. <[link removed]>
Max Moran <[link removed]>
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Beware This Libertarian Oligarch's Ecological Utopia in Texas <[link removed]>
Even as one arm of Elon Musk's empire was extolling his vision of a Garden of Eden situated along the beauty of the Colorado River, another arm was scheming to pollute it! <[link removed]>
Jim Hightower <[link removed]>
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Reckless Capitalist Banks Rescued by Government Socialism - Again! <[link removed]>
The financial system gets another bailout. <[link removed]>
Ralph Nader <[link removed]>
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