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Sending taxpayer-funded ships on taxpayer-funded missions to essentially unplug functional taxpayer-funded ocean monitoring systems is baffling, writes @erikasiegfried of @UCSUSA. https://t.co/WUthVY1ciZ

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Fans should not have to skip seeing their favorite band, team, or performer because a monopolistic corporation has found another way to extract money from them, writes @JoeGarcia. https://t.co/JF8jftAX1y

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Last week alone, US petroleum reserves fell by 10.6 million barrels, to the lowest level seen since 2004, writes @jricole. https://t.co/3BTzkQQZAA

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The human and financial costs of US military aggression will continue to grow unless Congress stops funding endless war, writes @HannaHomestead of @natpriorities. https://t.co/Z4P5xi9hvg

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Dear Democrats: Put Impeachment of Trump Front and Center | Remember, with Trump the worst is yet to come https://t.co/t19PKGFEW4

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"Even though the interest in today’s sale was tepid, the new leasing still poses significant threats to habitat, iconic wildlife, and Indigenous ways of life​," said @Earthjustice. https://t.co/YoRHDJmus4

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Middle-income households were "squeezing more life out of every dollar before deciding to spend it" last month, while low-income families and individuals "showed greater financial strain."​ https://t.co/mQixj0RX3k

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Rights Group Sounds Alarm After Israel Sends Gaza’s Dr. Abu Safiya to Solitary Confinement https://t.co/V6h3jUXtJF

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'Pay-to-Play Loyalty Program': Trump Ballroom Donors Have Been Handed $50 Billion in Federal Contracts

​"Corporations wrote big checks to build Trump’s golden ballroom. Now they’re receiving billions... in kickbacks—paid for by your tax dollars." https://t.co/2fktdDWbBV

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“This ruling reaffirms a basic principle: The federal government cannot shut down lawful immigration pathways or discriminate against people based on where they come from,” said one advocate. https://t.co/FrMuk3pudc

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John Fetterman Under Fire for Letting 'Crony Trump Judge' Advance https://t.co/qHIkCorKA4

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'A Strong Working-Class Agenda With Moral Clarity': UAW Endorses Abdul El-Sayed

Michigan's largest and most influential union said El-Sayed was "someone we can trust to have our backs." https://t.co/GFZlHq3GzI

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"Some places are too important to sacrifice," said one local Indigenous leader of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. https://t.co/GKY28kbHIh

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DOGE Wanted To Falsely List Millions of People as Dead in Social Security Data Base: Whistleblower https://t.co/FdJXIgnPti

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"The silence from Democrats when Muslim colleagues and candidates are attacked is a cancerous rot." https://t.co/483EHdtEAv

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In an allegory to Palestinian history with Palestinian homes bombed into pieces from Israeli government violence, one flotilla boat, the KASR-Sadabad, found its way home to Gaza. https://t.co/7Ekrj9Kglp

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Unions Condemn Executive Order Allowing Trump to Replace Federal Workers With 'Political Loyalists'

The president of the AFGE said Trump was "eliminating employees’ due process rights so they can be fired for political reasons." https://t.co/EP8aRQLXCY

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UN Agency Warns Trump's Illegal Iran War Pushing Millions Into Hunger https://t.co/ceTcW4OwdM

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The media matter hugely for democracy, much more than campaign financing, writes @DeanBaker13. https://t.co/KOikKLU7CH

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As anti-democracy billionaires continue their march across the American media landscape and pour billions into elections, it falls to us to resist, writes @Thom_Hartmann. https://t.co/xG0cj52m5P