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A Washington woman is taking Big Oil to court over her mother’s death in a historic heatwave, opening a new front in the fight to hold polluters legally accountable for climate-fueled deaths.

The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.

The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.

Everyone wants Palestinian statehood but Israel, and Israel won't change on its own. Recognition must be a big package of policy, one with teeth and bricks alike, or it will end up like all the other failures.

Removing this toxic force from power requires both the broadest possible anti-MAGA front and a radical contingent aware of just how deep the roots of US fascism run.

Harvard became the first university to push back and sue Trump over his intrusions into academia. Before Harvard, Columbia folded. As with the law firms, the question is, who will bend the knee and who would tell the tyrant-in-the-making NO!

Kennedy announced by tweet that Covid vaccines have been removed from the CDC's recommended schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, bypassing any rigorous decision process. Health care for millions is at stake.

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A former CIA officer who once headed American schemes to train right wing contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s has been working with the Israelis to hatch a new aid organization... To say something stinks here is an understatement.