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Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the victory "should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chelsea Manning Faces Contempt Hearing After Refusal to Answer Grand Jury Questions](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO by Julia Conley, staff writer Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning expressed no regrets Thursday when she revealed that she faces a contempt hearing— and possible jail time—after declining to answer a grand jury's questions. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sparked by Ilhan Omar's 'Valid Criticism' of Israel, House Overwhelmingly Passes Broad 'Anti-Hate' Resolution](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We're happy to see a resolution that condemns real bigotry, rather than going after Rep. Ilhan Omar and her vision of a world free of racism and oppression." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Plan for Wheelchair-Accessible Cells at Gitmo Paint 'Chilling Picture' of Detainees Held Without Trial For Rest of Their Lives](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO by Julia Conley, staff writer A decade after President Barack Obama signed an executive order calling for Guantanamo Bay to be shuttered, newly-revealed plans for the prison's expansion confirm that the Trump administration's focus is keeping detainees there well into old age—and likely for the rest of their lives. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Outrageous Violation of First Amendment': Leaked Docs Reveal Trump Tracked Journalists and Rights Advocates at Border](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO by Eoin Higgins, staff writer The Trump administration is keeping a database to track and harass journalists and immigration rights activists focused on refugees arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. "This is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment," said the ACLU. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) [] [] Views... [] [It’s Not Just Our Planet That Needs a Green New Deal—Our People Do Too](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) [Some might say that the Green New Deal is too costly. It would be even more costly not to enact it. (Photo: Shutterstock) ](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) by Hannah Estrada, Michael Estrada We stood up to our senator to save our future. Will you join us? --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s Nuclear Doctrine Increases the Likelihood of Human Extinction](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) [These aggressive and short-sighted policy gestures by Donald Trump have sparked serious concern among nuclear non-proliferation advocates that such decisions could trigger a chain reaction of nuclear proliferation. (Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) by Nate Singham Given the current policy direction, peace activists have been quick to point out that for the first time in half a century, U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals will not be bound to any bilaterally negotiated oversights --------------------------------------------------------------- [From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) ["It does make me sad that, after all this time, #MeToo notwithstanding, women in this country seem to have made so little progress towards loving our astonishingly beautiful bodies, ourselves." (Photo: Screenshot/](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) by Rebecca Gordon How young women learn to hate their genitals --------------------------------------------------------------- [This Jew Tells Speaker Pelosi: "You May Well Prove Ilhan Omar Correct"](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) 1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO by Jeff Cohen Unfortunately, all the vague media references to Rep Omar's so-called "anti-Semitic remarks" obscure how truthful and non-hateful those comments were --------------------------------------------------------------- [Re-Inhabiting Planet Earth](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) [“Humans might be the first species to knowingly choose self-extinction.” (Photo: Kevin Gill/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) by Robert C. Koehler What may be history’s ultimate moment of human arrogance: the belief in a sense of separateness from and superiority to nature so thorough that we have, with our monstrous intelligence, the ability and therefore the right to play Bad God and make the whole planet go poof --------------------------------------------------------------- [1.7 Million Students Attend Schools With Police But No Counselors, New Data Show](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) [ We found that schools with police reported 3.5 times as many arrests as schools without police. (Photo: Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) by Evie Blad "Schools are under-resourced and students are overcriminalized." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3Abq3fabWGO) [] [] Newswire... 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