Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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21 Protesters Arrested in Pennsylvania for Blocking New Gas Pipeline Construction
Police arrested 23 opponents of the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline Monday afternoon after they blocked the movement of a backhoe to prevent the beginning of construction on farmland owned by a Catholic order of nuns.
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‘A Soulless Coward’: Coach Gregg Popovich Responds to Trump
The Spurs coach speaks about Trump’s latest outrage.
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How "Team Internet" Is Mobilizing Activists Nationwide Against FCC Threat to Net Neutrality
The battle for net neutrality heats up this month as Demand Progress and Fight for the Future team up with Netflix, Reddit, Vimeo and others in nationwide actions within a powerful, growing coalition: Team Internet.
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Leaked ICE Guide Offers Unprecedented View of Agency's Asset Forfeiture Tactics
An internal handbook obtained by The Intercept provides a rare view into the extensive asset seizure operations of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, an office that trains its agents to meticulously appraise the value of property before taking it.
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Malta Car Bomb Kills Panama Papers Journalist
Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a "one-woman WikiLeaks."
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The Fight To Keep Arctic Oil In the Ground Heats Up In Norway, Part I
Norway, which started drilling for oil in 2013 in the Barents Sea, has recently opened up 93 blocks for exploration licences in the area between Hámmárfeasta, the Svalbard archipelago and Arctic Russia.
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Texas Activists Combine Social Media With Old-School Tactics to Resist Conservative Agenda
Intersectional movements are helping the left gain ground, not just play defense.
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ANTIPA: Take a Knee to Toxic Masculinity and White Patriarchy
The suppression of women is of course nothing new, but astonishing aspects of it are reemerging so profoundly and swiftly in our “democracy” that it is staggering.
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PG&E power lines linked to Wine Country fires
The spotlight has turned to PG&E, the giant San Francisco-based utility, raising questions about how well it maintained its equipment and whether it adequately cut back trees from power lines to reduce fire risk as required by state law.
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How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation
A new economic study found that a UBI of $1,000/month to all adults would add $2.5 trillion to the U.S. economy in eight years.
