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animals, nature, some books, some things old some things new. Younger then some older then most. Trying to see with eyes wide open, with out becoming blind.
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How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died duri...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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✊ Weekly Roundup: Power to the People — Knowledge, Action & Progress
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✊ Weekly Roundup: Power to the People — Knowledge, Action & Progress
Each week, People Power United delivers truth, tools, and inspiration to act — because freedom wins when people rise. From reproductive rights and climate justice to court reform and democracy defense
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October 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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DONALD TRUMP VS JIMMY KIMMEL: Let's show Disney that capitulating to Trump is unacceptable. Bring back Kimmel NOW! action.eko.org/a/disney-kim...
Disney: bring back Jimmy Kimmel
Disney-ABC just voluntarily destroyed free speech, suspending the leading nighttime talk show (Jimmy Kimmel) after Trump's goons went public demanding it. All because Kimmel was mildly critical of Don
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September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Join me in protecting the Great Lakes from the proposed Enbridge Line 5 crude oil pipeline tunnel. Take action at www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/submit_egle_...
Demand EGLE Comprehensively Review Enbridge's Line 5 Oil Tunnel Project
Submit your comment to EGLE. Ask them to evaluate this oil tunnel project because nobody else has.
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August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Join me in protecting the Great Lakes from the proposed Enbridge Line 5 crude oil pipeline tunnel. Take action at www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/submit_egle_...
Demand EGLE Comprehensively Review Enbridge's Line 5 Oil Tunnel Project
Submit your comment to EGLE. Ask them to evaluate this oil tunnel project because nobody else has.
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August 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Life in Activism: Five Things to Do When Donald Trump, or Anyone Else, Threatens Your Livelihood
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Life in Activism: Five Things to Do When Donald Trump, or Anyone Else, Threatens Your Livelihood
Last Thursday, Donald Trump's whirlwind of revenge and attacks on our democracy spun uncomfortably close to home when he issued a presidential memorandum attacking ActBlue.
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May 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Where is our friends list?
May 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
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April 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline
While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s ...
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April 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.
The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Will Extreme Spending and Partisanship Undermine Trust in State Supreme Courts?
The millions in campaign funding poured into the Wisconsin Supreme Court election spotlights the increasing partisanship around these supposedly neutral court roles. It also feeds a growing concern na...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading? www.texastribune.org/2025/02/26/t... via @texastribune.org
Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?
The group is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches with varied beliefs and leadership structures — and with sometimes strained relations with authorities.
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April 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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apnews.com/article/chin... slaps a 34% tax on all US imports in retaliation for Trump's tariffs
China slaps a 34% tax on all US imports in retaliation for Trump's tariffs
China will impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S.
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April 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Morning Digest: Victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court race tops strong night for Democrats
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Morning Digest: Victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court race tops strong night for Democrats
Across the country, the party racked up key wins and big overperformances
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April 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are fighting for equal governance and sovereignty over their own health data.

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Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty
When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, set out to earn her doctorate in tribal health 15 years ago, she focused her research on tribal cultural and heal...
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March 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Exclusive: As Trump Threatens to Deport Him, Momodou Taal Says It’s “Time to Escalate for Palestine”
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Exclusive: As Trump Threatens to Deport Him, Momodou Taal Says It's "Time to Escalate for Palestine"
Momodou Taal, a Cornell student suing the Trump administration over free speech —and now facing deportation threats — shares his story.
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March 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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📢 Dictator Don Is Turning Our Military Into a Joke
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📢 Dictator Don Is Turning Our Military Into a Joke
The United States is hurtling toward a dangerous crossroads, where democratic principles and transparency are being overshadowed by authoritarian control and government secrecy.
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March 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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'Major Victory': New Law Makes NY Second State to Hold Big Polluters Accountable www.commondreams.org/news/new-yor...
'Major Victory': New Law Makes NY Second State to Hold Big Polluters Accountable | Common Dreams
Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law, making fossil fuel giants financially responsible for environmental damages. This victory for working people, youth, and ...
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March 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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What causes the powerful winds that fuel dust storms, wildfires and blizzards? A weather scientist explains
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What causes the powerful winds that fuel dust storms, wildfires and blizzards? A weather scientist explains
One long line of powerful winds can whip up dust storms, spread wildfires, spin up tornadoes and fuel blizzards – all at the same time across different states.
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March 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That’s bad news for these tribes. | grist.org/indigenous/a...
A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That's bad news for these tribes.
A new investiment of $250 million has been given to the Canadian company that plans to build a lithium mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada.
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March 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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apnews.com/article/trum... and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs
Canada and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said as the United States is “applying tariffs worth 28 billion dollars, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros,” or about $28...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM