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apnews.com/press-releas...: Shareholders of 30 Companies Worth $13 Trillion Vote Overwhelmingly to Defeat Anti-DEI Proposals
Impactivize: Shareholders of 30 Companies Worth $13 Trillion Vote Overwhelmingly to Defeat Anti-DEI Proposals
EUGENE, Ore., July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shareholders of 30 major corporations, collectively valued at more than $13 trillion, have voted overwhelmingly to reject anti-DEI proposals during 2025 prox...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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How we've failed the promise of making “genocide” a crime
How we've failed the promise of making “genocide” a crime
The lawyer Raphael Lemkin hoped to use international law to curb abuses of power. But his efforts were curtailed from the start.
www.motherjones.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Researchers said 14 million people around the world could die in the next five years because of the Trump administration’s cuts to humanitarian aid.
USAID cuts could lead to millions of deaths, researchers warn
From disaster relief to fighting world hunger, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was at the center of it all. But now, several medical researchers are issuing a chilling w...
www.nbcwashington.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Bruce!
Wow. Listen to Bruce Springsteen kick off his European tour, talking about what is happening here.
May 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Elon Musk will be remembered as one of the most harmful unelected “politicians” in US history. It isn’t over yet. The harm he has done in the world will keep expanding in time.
Bill Gates Has Harsh Words For Elon Musk’s Effect On Humanity
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” the Microsoft mogul said bluntly.
www.huffpost.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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U.S. Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and documented the aftermath. For years, the military tried to keep the photos from the public.
The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn’t Want the World to See
When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Trump to deport Afghanis who helped the US during the war.

This is wrong on so many levels.

Since the Taliban has taken over, it has targeted and killed citizens who helped the United States during the war

www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g...?
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Afghans
As soon as May 20, thousands of Afghans living in the U.S. will lose a protection that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.

Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Jewish Voices for Peace is antisemitic?
April 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Our latest:

America ain’t dead yet
We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out
America ain’t dead yet
We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out
www.thealtmedia.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign.

This is Rafah today.
April 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Ohh "America First" was a hit list
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Funded by the US taxpayer.
In one of the Gaza war's darkest nights, the IDF killed nearly 300 women and children
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www.haaretz.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM