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New Lancet Report: 40 Percent of US COVID Deaths Could Have Been Avoided
The scathing new report is an indictment of both Trump and a health care system that values profit over human life. ...[Read more]
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Police Deployed Potentially Lethal Chemical During Black Lives Matter Protests
The hexachloroethane smoke that police used against protesters can cause vomiting, respiratory distress and even death. BLM protesters were no strangers to tear gas and smoke — after all, the Portland Police had gassed them many times since the George ...[Read more]
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Charged with murder, Kyle Rittenhouse disappears after ill-advised bail release
Prosecutors have requested a new arrest warrant for Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen who killed two men and severely injured one more when he openly fired at protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration last year. Rittenhouse was charged... ...[Read more]
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‘I don’t trust the people above me’: Riot squad cops open up about disastrous Capitol insurrection response
The enemies on Jan. 6 were Americans: thousands of people from across the country who had descended on the Capitol, intent on stopping Congress from certifying an election they believed was stolen from Trump. They had been urged to attend by Trump himself ...[Read more]
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Reading Edmund Burke Shows That Conservatism Is All About Defending Traditional Hierarchies
Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies. ...[Read more]
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The Capitol Siege Was White Supremacy in Action. Trial Evidence Confirms That.
New footage aired at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump has flooded the U.S. once again with images of the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last month, reigniting our horror and attempt as a nation to make sense of the event. What we witnessed was ...[Read more]
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Profiting From COVID Desperation: Oxygen Tanks Become an Underground Market in Mexico
Water became a commodity traded on Wall Street in December amid fear of scarcity, and now oxygen is being speculated on in Mexico. With most hospitals full, many Mexicans are battling COVID-19 at home. Oxygen tanks and oxygen concentrators (devices that ...[Read more]
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Ebola outbreak in Guinea: Four things you need to know
Guinea has declared an outbreak of Ebola after seven confirmed cases and at least three deaths, a leading health official in the West African nation said on Sunday. In a region that was previously the starting point for the world’s worst outbreak of ...[Read more]
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1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says
Twenty-six percent in a survey of 2,200 people conducted in 2012 answered that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and fewer than half correctly answered a question about human origins. ...[Read more]
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Ted Cruz reportedly flies to Cancun as millions of Texans freeze in the dark
A hunt was taking place on Thursday morning for Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, who appears to have been photographed lining up for a flight to the sunny Mexican tourist resort of Cancun as millions of his constituents endure deadly power out ...[Read more]
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AOC Raised $1 Million for Struggling Texans as Cruz Prioritized Post-Cancun PR Mess
While Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was dealing with an embarrassing public relations disaster of his own making — flying to Cancún, Mexico, with his family while his home state was reeling from blackouts and water shutdowns amid frigid temperatures — his ...[Read more]
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