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Business empires have long used “refusal to deal” tactics to protect their monopolies — but now, judges are pushing back.
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Monopolists Just Got Their Hall Pass Revoked
Business empires have long used “refusal to deal” tactics to protect their monopolies — but now, judges are pushing back.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Regulators won hundreds of millions in refunds for U.S. consumers — now the Trump administration is set to terminate them.
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Trump Is Holding On To $360 Million In Americans’ Refunds
Regulators won hundreds of millions in refunds for U.S. consumers — now the Trump administration is set to terminate them.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Tesla’s board of directors has capitulated to CEO Elon Musk with a $29 billion stock package after he threatened to exit the company if he wasn’t paid more.
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Musk Bullies Tesla Into $29 Billion Payout
Tesla’s board of directors has capitulated to CEO Elon Musk with a $29 billion stock package after he threatened to exit the company if he wasn’t paid more.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Why did CBS cancel Stephen Colbert’s show mere days after the company settled a lawsuit with Donald Trump?
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Trump, Colbert, And The War On Truth
Why Stephen Colbert is a victim of a larger movement to silence free speech.
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July 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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ADD YOUR NAME: Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/gop-ref...
ADD YOUR NAME: We support faith based aid to immigrants and refugees
Donald Trump's allies in Congress are ramping up their attacks on religious charities that help immigrants. As Christians, we need to speak up now.
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July 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The nation’s biggest fossil fuel, technology, and financial firms joined Trump this week as he announced $90 billion of private investment in artificial intelligence and natural gas infrastructure.
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Big Tech Taps Natural Gas For Its Coal Country “AI Revolution”
The nation’s biggest fossil fuel, technology, and financial firms joined Trump this week as he announced $90 billion of private investment in artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, includi...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Google has sabotaged its phones’ open-source technology in order to stamp out its competitors and intensify surveillance of its customers.
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How Google Ruined Your Phone
Google has sabotaged its phones’ open-source technology in order to stamp out its competitors and intensify surveillance of its customers.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Businesses linked to Trump’s cabinet stand to benefit from privatizing weather monitoring agencies — leaving Americans to pay for lifesaving weather forecasts themselves.
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Trump’s Allies Could Profit Off Privatizing Weather Forecasting Agencies
Businesses linked to Trump’s cabinet stand to benefit from privatizing weather monitoring agencies — leaving Americans to pay for lifesaving weather forecasts themselves.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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A vanity sculpture garden? A tax break for online bookies? Incentives for Wall Street to fire you? What actually passed in Trump’s sprawling “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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Eight Dirty Tricks Hiding In Trump’s Tax Bill
A vanity sculpture garden? A tax break for online bookies? Incentives for Wall Street to fire you? What actually passed in Trump’s sprawling “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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July 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash floods.
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Amid Deadly Floods, Lawmakers Left Gap In Warning System
Before the Texas disaster, Congress and successive presidents ignored demands to fully fund a nationwide system monitoring rivers for signs of flash floods.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Democrats are using Trump’s apocalyptic bill as a campaign gimmick — and ignoring their role in its cruelty.
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A Big, Bipartisan Betrayal
Democrats are using Trump’s apocalyptic bill as a campaign gimmick — and ignoring their role in its cruelty.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Years of multimillion-dollar investments by conservative advocacy groups delivered Trump and congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful Betrayal.
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How Pharma, Oil, And Wall Street Funded Trump’s Tax Scam
Years of multimillion-dollar investments by conservative advocacy groups delivered Trump and congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful Betrayal.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright submitted a resume to Congress with what appears to be false information about working in solar energy. He’s repeated the claim in almost every public appearance since.
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Is Trump’s Energy Czar Lying About His Solar Past?
Energy Secretary Chris Wright submitted a resume to Congress with what appears to be false information about working in solar energy. He’s repeated the claim in almost every public appearance since.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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🚨 Don’t let the USPS fall into privatizers’ hands. The Board of Governors is picking the next Postmaster General — tell them: NO privatizers!📬 Take 30 seconds to act: actionnetwork.org/letters/post...
URGENT ACTION - send a message on the USPS
The USPS Board of Governors announced its intention to appoint David Steiner, reportedly the White House’s preferred candidate, as the next Postmaster General. The appointment of a FedEx board member ...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Pharmaceutical manufacturers are exploiting patent law to expand their brand-name drug monopolies for years past their original expiration date.
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The Patent Loophole Keeping Your Drugs Expensive
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are exploiting patent law to extend their brand-name drug monopolies for years past their original expiration date.
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June 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Sheriffs should not do ICE's job for them. Thanks to pressure from Donald Trump's ICE, more sheriffs' departments are harassing, detaining, and jailing our undocumented neighbors. Add your name and tell sheriffs to stop taking orders from ICE. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/NSA-ICE...
Add Your Name - Sheriffs should not do ICE's job for them
Thanks to pressure from Donald Trump's ICE, more sheriffs' departments are harassing, detaining, and jailing our undocumented neighbors. Add your name and tell sheriffs to stop taking orders from ICE.
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June 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This week’s deportation raids and plane crash followed the Republican administration’s moves to change the government’s focus.
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The Trump Era’s Trade-Offs
This week’s deportation raids and plane crash followed the Republican administration’s moves to change the government’s focus.
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June 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Amid the fear, chaos, and violence playing out on the streets, the protections promised by neoliberalism are nowhere to be found.
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Amid Trump’s Immigration Onslaught, There Is No Sanctuary
Amid the fear, chaos, and violence playing out on the streets, the protections promised by neoliberalism are nowhere to be found.
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June 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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A new legislative carveout could redirect billions in funding for rural broadband construction to Elon Musk’s satellite company.
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Trump Just Quietly Teed Up $20 Billion In Starlink Contracts
A new carveout could redirect billions in funding for rural broadband construction to Elon Musk’s satellite company.
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June 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop ICE Raids and Military Escalation Against Protestors
ICE is conducting raids in communities across the country. These raids impact all of us, and threaten the rights of all of us. We must take action, together, and demand our Senators do the same!
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June 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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A new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over private financial information of residents sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children.
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Whistleblower Lawsuit Exposes Trump’s Secret ICE Plot
The complaint by Gov. Jared Polis’ labor official also accuses the governor of illegally ordering state officials to aid the immigration crackdown.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🚨 Don’t let the USPS fall into privatizers’ hands.
The Board of Governors is picking the next Postmaster General — tell them: NO privatizers!
📬 Take 30 seconds to act:
#USMailNotForSale
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URGENT ACTION - send a message on the USPS
The USPS Board of Governors announced its intention to appoint David Steiner, reportedly the White House’s preferred candidate, as the next Postmaster General. The appointment of a FedEx board member ...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Stop Trump's secret police now!!
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Stop Trump's secret police now!!
“We told them there was absolutely no need to have troops on the ground here in Los Angeles.” — Mayor Karen Bass
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June 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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We must protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness forever
A vast collection of peer-reviewed science shows that if the proposed Twin Metals mine was built along the rivers and streams flowing into the Wilderness, pollution and environmental degradation would...
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June 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Federal regulators have authorized hundreds of drugs without evidence they work, and many are dangerous.
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FDA Approved — And Ineffective
Federal regulators have authorized hundreds of drugs without evidence they work, and many are dangerous.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM