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Critics hammer Trump admin’s ‘taxpayer funded bribe’ to kill massive wind energy project
“The most corrupt presidency ever—and it’s not even close,” said one critic.
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How a media campaign of lies and innuendo created the myth of ‘Iran’s nuclear weapons’
70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about Iran’s “nuclear program.” This is not an accident.
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From former slave to anarchist: Lucy Parsons’ radical life and legacy
“She was very much ahead of her time… this is a formerly enslaved Black woman who was speaking with an unfettered, unrestrained ra...
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Start the steal? Inside Trump’s effort to rig the midterm elections
“As the president becomes more unpopular, his actions will become more extreme, but that doesn't mean they're going to be any more...
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Meet the data analysts exposing ICE’s plans
“If you understand what an organization like ICE is doing, and you can quantify it… you can resist effectively,” says Michael Wris...
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Yanis Varoufakis knows who’s going to lose the war in Iran
“The vast majority of Americans, Europeans, Iranians, of people in the Global South, who now see increases in the price of food be...
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‘Beyond the pale’: general says US military will create a ‘camp’ at Gitmo to ‘deal with’ Cubans fleeing Trump blockade
One foreign policy expert noted that fears of a “mass exodus” of refugees come “as the US starves Cuba of energy and food.”
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ICE deporting parents without allowing them to bring or find care for children: report
Federal immigration agents are required to allow parents to “make alternative care arrangements” for their children before they’re...
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Israel urges Iranian uprising while privately saying they’d ‘get slaughtered’
Israeli officials told US diplomats that the Iranian government is “not cracking” in a State Department cable.
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AI-powered robot dogs guarding reviled data centers is where we have arrived
These robots, known as “quadrupeds,” are being used to patrol the sprawling energy-sucking complexes, which are increasingly being...
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Fisherwoman Diane Wilson is on hunger strike to stop Dow’s pollution of Texas Gulf Coast
“We're saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’... I think we're way too polite and way...
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The AI bubble, like the housing bubble, is a big problem and it’s not complicated
There is a tremendous premium in intellectual circles on making the AI bubble problem more complicated than it is.
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‘There are scarcities of everything’: Trump isn’t helping Cuba, he’s strangling it
“It's a very dire situation in Cuba right now… [Trump] has made every aspect of life in Cuba much more difficult,” Medea Benjamin...
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Israel launches ‘targeted’ invasions of Lebanon as world focuses on Iran war
A senior Israeli official told Axios the military is “going to do what we did in Gaza.”
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Thousands of Colorado meatpacking workers are on strike
A strike in Colorado shows what happens when thousands of workers confront one of the most concentrated industries in the American...
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Paul Coates: The US is killing people in Cuba
“We have a moral responsibility to join the Cuban people—people of conscience around the world, but especially Black people and pe...
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‘Serious threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump admin wins first antifa terror charge
“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protest,” one l...
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Freedom for Immigrants launches interactive map to track U.S. detention centers and connect families to resources
The new tool compiles information about ICE facilities and offices, resource providers, and news and updates sourced from the larg...