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We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned
A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide." The story is completely fal ...[Read more]
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Sotomayor Says 13 People Executed During Trump Killing Spree ‘Deserved More From This Court’
"This is not justice," said the liberal Justice after the state murder of Dustin John Higgs as she excoriated the court's conservative majority for essentially rubber-stamping the administration's rushed death penalties. ...[Read more]
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White supremacists are building international networks to spread their violent ideology
During the past two years, U.S. counterterrorism officials held meetings with their European counterparts to discuss an emerging threat: right-wing terror groups becoming increasingly global in their reach.American neo-Nazis were traveling to train and fi ...[Read more]
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Stop Trying to Make This About Unity. There is no uniting with fascists
Calls for unity with Republicans do not make sense in the light of the downward extremist spiral of GOP. ...[Read more]
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FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack
FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members of Congress, raising potentially thorny legal questions. Using special emergency powers and other measures, ...[Read more]
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Some right-wing pundits and politicians who cry censorship are actually ‘thriving’: conservative
During the Biden era, pundits at Fox News and other right-wing media outlets have had a lot to say about "cancel culture" — claiming that conservatives who speak their minds are facing censorship from the left. Never Trump conservative Tim Miller tac ...[Read more]
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73% of US Voters—Including 57% of Republicans—Back Biden’s $2.25 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Poll
A new poll released Tuesday shows that a large, bipartisan majority of voters in the United States supports President Joe Biden's proposal to spend $2.25 trillion over eight years to upgrade the nation's physical and social infrastructure. The survey (pdf ...[Read more]
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U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops
It was a huge election-time story that prompted cries of treason. But according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.” ...[Read more]
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Fan-Owned Clubs Can Help Democratize Football
The European Super League fiasco has sparked a heated debate about money in football, with many pointing to Germany’s fan-owned clubs as an alternative. Fan ownership is an important step — but it’ll only work if fans are organized and thinking poli ...[Read more]
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Lifting IP Restrictions Could Help the World Vaccinate 60% of Population by 2022
As new coronavirus cases surge across India, overwhelming hospitals and crematories, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to stop hoarding excess supply of COVID-19 vaccines and to loosen intellectual property restrictions preventing more countr ...[Read more]
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Opposing PRO Act, Uber and Other Gig Companies Spend Over $1 Million Lobbying Congress
Even as President Joe Biden called for Congress during his joint address last week to pass labor reform legislation, a slate of gig companies has spent over $1 million lobbying Congress to influence the PRO Act and other related issues in 2021 alone, acco ...[Read more]
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