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[] ['President Hate, Not Welcome in Our State': Thousands Counter Trump With March for Love and Solidarity in Pittsburgh](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi by Jake Johnson, staff writer As President Donald Trump arrived in Pittsburgh on Tuesday amid opposition from local officials and activists who argued the man responsible for stirring so much racist hatred should not visit the site of a deadly mass shooting motivated by anti-Semitism, thousands of peaceful demonstrators flooded... [] [] News... [] ['We Have Less Time Than We Thought': Alarming New Study Shows Oceans Have Retained Far More Heat Than Previously Believed](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) ["We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted. But we were wrong," Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the new study, told the Washington Post. ](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) by Common Dreams staff Offering a stark warning that humanity may have even less time to drastically cut carbon emissions than the United Nations suggested in its latest alarming report on the climate crisis, new research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday shows that Earth's oceans have retained 60 percent more heat each year over the past 25 years than scientists previously believed. --------------------------------------------------------------- [High Early Voting Turnout Gives Hope to Progressives As Black, Latino, and Young Voters Go to Polls in Record Numbers](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) 1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi by Julia Conley, staff writer President Donald Trump has traveled the country in recent weeks telling crowds that a vote for Republican politicians is a vote for his agenda—and high early turnout among typically Democratic groups suggests that anti-Trump voters are taking in that message as well. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Is Our Darkest Hour': With Declaration of Rebellion, New Group Vows Mass Civil Disobedience to Save Planet](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) [Activists gathered under the banner Extinction Rebellion in London on Wednesday to issue their Declaration of Rebellion against the U.K. government's climate inaction. (Photo: Extinction Rebellion)](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer To underscore the planetary emergency and denounce the U.K. government's inaction on the climate crisis, a new group calling itself Extinction Rebellion rallied over 1,000 people to block Parliament Square in London on Wednesday. The direct action marks the launch of a mass civil disobedience campaign, with the group issuing a "Declaration of Rebellion" against the government because the activists "refuse to bequeath a dying planet to future generations by failing to act now." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. We can’t fall short -- our survival depends on it. 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Ted Cruz in next week's midterm election, blasted President Donald Trump in a televised interview on Tuesday night for inviting the nation "to hate openly, unapologetically" and inciting violence. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) [] [] Views... 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(Photo: Whitehouse/Flickr) ](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) by Omar Jadwat Birthright citizenship is one of the bedrocks of this country --------------------------------------------------------------- [Big Oil Is Sloshing a Crude Tsunami Across the Country](1f9d0/ct30_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) [At a rally at the University of Colorado in Boulder last week, Chris Hoffman wears a sign to promote a proposition to limit fracking. (David Zalubowski/AP)](1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) by Bill McKibben The sums the oil companies are investing are so large that they may well overwhelm science and common sense --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct32_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIbf3M6hBi) [] [] Newswire... 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