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It's Open Season on Climate Scientists
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For GOP, Suddenly a Dimmed Zeal for Investigations
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Gregg Popovich: San Antonio Spurs Coach Speaks Out on Racial and Social Justice in the Age of Trump
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"DREAMer" Arrested in Deportation Raids
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Charles P. Pierce: Requiem for a Backbone
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Senior GOP Source: Puzder Nomination Is "Dead"
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Ahead of Netanyahu Meeting, White House Official Says US Won't Insist on Two-State Solution
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[Michael Flynn Is Out -- Will Trump Be Next?](
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Calls to impeach President Donald Trump are growing louder as the White House grapples with the resignation of Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser. A grassroots campaign says Flynn is a symptom of Trump's toxic presidency, but the real grounds for impeaching Trump rest in his refusal to divest from business interests.
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[Uber and Lyft's Trumpian Problem: It's Not the App, It's the Exploitation!](
Laura Flanders, Truthout: In this interview, Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance talks about her union's solidarity strike in the name of the many Muslim, refugee and immigrant workers who drive the city's taxis. It was the first workforce strike against the Trump administration, a deeply anti-labor government.
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[Translating the White House's White Words](
William C. Anderson, Truthout: The words coming from the White House, whether as tweets or executive orders, are invariably full of racialized criminal imagery. The "Blue Lives Matter" and "Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking" orders use coded language and themes to make clear that, more than ever, the police under Trump will be working in the service of white supremacy.
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[When the Government Really Did Fear a Bowling Green Massacre -- From a White Supremacist](
A.C. Thompson, ProPublica: Those deeply worried about domestic far-right terrorism believe that both US authorities and the corporate media have regularly underplayed the threat of white supremacist violence. Perhaps we have become trapped in one view of what constitutes the "terrorist" threat, and as the case of Richard Schmidt shows, that's a problem.
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[Opioid Overdose Treatment Prices Have Skyrocketed](
Steve Williams, Care2: Kaléo Pharmaceuticals has dramatically increased the cost of an easy-to-use injection device for the opioid overdose reversal drug known as naloxone. The device was listed at $690 in 2014; it now reportedly costs $4,500. The price hike could put lives at risk.
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[The Stephen Miller Story: From Pestering Latino Students in High School to Drafting Muslim Ban](
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Before he was one of the architects of Trump's Muslim ban, Stephen Miller was known at his high school for heckling Latino classmates. One of Miller's former classmates, immigration defense lawyer Cynthia Santiago, and Univision reporter Fernando Peinado discuss Miller's White House role.
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[Zaid Jilani on the Yemen Raid: "This Is a Country That's in a Tremendous Crisis"](
Janine Jackson, FAIR: While Trump's Yemen raid is being called tactically flawed, the near-bottomless credulity with which elite media accept the official line on US actions in Yemen would seem unchanged. Zaid Jilani, a reporter for The Intercept, discusses the attack.
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[Trump Administration Delays Listing of Rusty Patched Bumblebee as Endangered](
Shreya Dasgupta, Mongabay: Last month, the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared that it was placing the rusty patched bumblebee on the US endangered species list, making it the first bumblebee species to be protected. Now, thanks to an executive order by US President Donald Trump, the listing has been delayed.
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[Seventy Activists Arrested While Calling for Ohio University to Be a Sanctuary Campus](
Rosa Cowen and Grant Stover, Socialist Worker: Protesters calling for Ohio University to proclaim itself a sanctuary campus for those threatened by the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies were arrested for peacefully occupying a university building. Despite repression, the university's students, staff and faculty are not backing down.
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[Trump's Trade Reforms Will Not Increase US Wages](
Adam Dean and Jamie McCallum, Labor Notes: Donald Trump claims he will use international trade policy to bolster the middle class and reduce income inequality. But while Trump's proposals for high tariffs might sound good, he plans to combine them with policies that further weaken unions.
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