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Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
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Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
Why we need to keep pushing for the end of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even if that means an uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Rich Countries at COP30 Are Robbing the Global South of Climate Financing truthout.org/articles/ric...
Rich Countries at COP30 Are Robbing the Global South of Climate Financing
Loans, accounting tricks, private investment, and meager pledges undermine a key tool for addressing climate crisis.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Who gets SNAP benefits to buy groceries and what the government pays for the program – in 5 charts
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Who gets SNAP benefits to buy groceries and what the government pays for the program – in 5 charts
Nearly 60% of Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are either children under 18 or adults who are 60 or older.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers by @sambiddle.com
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As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The World Is Running Out of Fresh Water. What Happens If We Do? truthout.org/articles/the...
The World Is Running Out of Fresh Water. What Happens If We Do?
The pace of freshwater depletion is staggering. An area twice the size of California is drying up annually.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Enforcement Actions Against Over 100 Corporations Stopped by Trump www.citizen.org/news/enforce...
Enforcement Actions Against Over 100 Corporations Stopped by Trump - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has dropped, withdrawn or halted investigations and enforcement actions against over 100 corporations in its first…
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October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets truthout.org/articles/ita...
Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets
The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.
truthout.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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In First Address on Climate Change, Pope Leo Signals Continuity With Francis—and Opposition to Trump - Inside Climate News
The pontiff called on people all over the world to demand action on climate from their governments. Right-wing pundits in the U.S. immediately denounced his message as “woke.”
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October 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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These Countries Recognized Palestine, but Still Send Arms to Israel
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These Countries Recognized Palestine, but Still Send Arms to Israel
Canada, France, and the United Kingdom recognized Palestine as a state this week but continue to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
theintercept.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South truthout.org/articles/big...
Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South
The American South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day www.commondreams.org/opinion/comp...
A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day | Common Dreams
Most of the long-overdue planks on this Domestic Compact for America are supported by both liberal and conservative families who live, work, and raise their children here.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Green Social Housing: Lessons from Vienna climateandcommunity.org/research/vie...
Green Social Housing: Lessons from Vienna - Climate and Community Institute
Vienna is the global capital of social housing. Over 40 percent of the city’s housing units are social housing, providing homes for the majority of the …
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September 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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AI has a hidden water cost − here’s how to calculate yours
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AI has a hidden water cost − here’s how to calculate yours
AI systems’ water usage can vary widely, depending on where and when the computer answering the query is running.
theconversation.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Commentary: Living in the Shadow of the American Dream dailyyonder.com/commentary-l...
Commentary: Living in the Shadow of the American Dream | The Daily Yonder
I live in Shenandoah County, Virginia. I’m a factory worker. A farmer. A father of twogirls, one still in diapers. I get up before the sun, and most days
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August 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much
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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much
In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.
theconversation.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A new youth-led lawsuit is challenging Trump’s fossil fuel orders wagingnonviolence.org/2025/07/ligh...
A new youth-led lawsuit is challenging Trump's fossil fuel orders
In Lightiser v. Trump, 22 young people are using the protections of the Constitution to demand a livable future.
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August 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The Role of a Mission-Oriented Framework for a Progressive Economy - Roosevelt Institute
The time to put forward ideas for how to build innovative, sustainable economies is now. If we get this wrong, we are only setting the groundwork for reactionary populism to rise further. Rethinking t...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Which companies are opposed to the SEC’s new climate change disclosure law? www.brookings.edu/articles/whi...
Which companies are opposed to the SEC’s new climate change disclosure law? | Brookings
Addisu Lashitew and Youqing Mu analyze corporate comments on the SEC’s draft climate disclosure law to identify which companies opposed the regulation.
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July 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Climate change: mountain glaciers
Present since the last ice age, most of the world's glaciers are now shrinking or disappearing altogether as the climate gets warmer.
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July 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The rule of law is key to capitalism − eroding it is bad news for American business
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The rule of law is key to capitalism − eroding it is bad news for American business
Uncertainty is the new norm.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
theconversation.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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After Mamdani Victory, Progressives Call for Primary Challenges to Democratic Establishment www.commondreams.org/news/mayor-r...
After Mamdani Victory, Progressives Call for Primary Challenges to Democratic Establishment | Common Dreams
Zohran Mamdani's victory over Cuomo in NYC's mayoral primary has sparked a progressive movement demanding change in the Democratic Party. Will this seismic shift lead to more insurgent candidates chal...
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June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Netanyahu and Trump Are Trying to Have It All
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Netanyahu and Trump Are Trying to Have It All
Netanyahu can distract from his many crises at home — and Trump can appease both his faux anti-war backers and the hawks.
theintercept.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities, and that’s no accident – a public health historian explains how the system was shaped to serve profit and politicians
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US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities, and that’s no accident – a public health historian explains how the system was shaped to serve profit and politicians
Research shows that decades of policy choices shaped today’s fragmented health care system – which is precisely why reform is so difficult.
theconversation.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire
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Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire
The world seems to have avoided truly catastrophic climate scenarios, and global emissions may be about to peak. But we’re by no means out of danger
theconversation.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM