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These States Want to Make Planning A Pipeline Protest A Crime
A slew of bills proposed in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota – all states with controversial pipeline projects currently under consideration – take the criminalization of protest one step further.
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Capturing Minds: Is There Life After Facebook?
The new crypto-social network Minds allows for the same level of high-functioning interaction as Facebook, but a big difference is that it is completely open-source, decentralized and user-owned.
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Shell Knew, Too: New Docs Show Oil Giant's Scientists Secretly Warned About Climate Threat Decades Ago
"Just like Exxon, Shell knew about the dangers of climate change and instead chose to embark on a decades-long campaign of deception," said 350.org executive director May Boeve.
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'Sabotage' of Democracy as Trump Adds Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
"This administration is now using the census as a weapon against immigrants."
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The Alt-Right Is Literally Killing People. What Will It Take To Stop Them?
The Florida high school massacre, unfortunately, is another data point in a complex and disturbing portrait of the developing, fundamentally disorganized group known as the alt-right.
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The Next Stage of Net Neutrality Conflict Begins
There are multiple fronts of struggle to make net neutrality a reality: Congress, the courts, states and communities.
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The Racist History of the 'Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors
61 years before teens in Parkland, Fla., survived a mass shooting only to be labeled “crisis actors,” nine African American teens who braved racist crowds to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were also accused of being impostors.
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Trump’s ‘Marching Orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a Grand Military Parade
Shows of military strength are not typical in the United States — and they don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it.
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Far-Right Trump Backers Biggest Purveyors of Sensationalist, Low-Quality News: Oxford Study
Right-wingers' consumption of "junk news" is harmful to democracy, researchers find.
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Beyond Denial: Poland's New Holocaust Bill Provokes International Outrage
On Thursday, the Polish Senate agreed to pass new legislation that would impose heavy fines and up to 3 years in prison for anyone who openly associates the complicity of Polish citizens or the Polish state with Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.