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Oil Companies Ask Supreme Court For Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card

  For generations fossil fuel companies have known that their products were responsible for climate change as well as life-threatening…

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The Dawning of the Second Enlightenment

By Sophie Daushvili LMFT In the midst of a flurry of doomsday warnings, perhaps a slightly different look on the…

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The Danger Isn’t That AI Is Too Smart—It’s That It’s Stupid

  “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” read…

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California Progressive Group Endorses 2026 Ballot Slate

  By Angela Chavez Courage California announced its YES endorsements of propositions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 40 – and…

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No Kings Shifts From Protest to Power at the Polls

  “No Kings: Vote Early is a different tactic,” said Kristi Fischer, with Indivisible Long Beach. “This No Kings is…

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When Oligarchs Control the Culture, Free Speech Pays the Price

“Curtailing free expression by threatening one’s livelihood is especially dangerous for artists, who feel deeply and often reflect cultural shifts…

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State Supreme Court Reigns In Rogue Sheriff In Ballot Seizure Case

  The California Supreme Court has unanimously rejected San Bernardino Sheriff Chad Bianco’s attempt to seize ballots in violation of…

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Erasing the Record: The Trump Administration’s Drive to Control US History

https://www.projectcensored.org/erasing-the-record-the-trump-control-us-history/?doing_wp_cron=1790017193.9375860691070556640625   By Steve Macek, Sept. 17  On Sept. 8, historian Lonnie G. Bunch III announced that he was resigning as…

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A New System of Labor Threatens Farmworker Power

Farmworkers began harvesting watermelons as soon as there was enough light to see, in a field near Arvin, California, in…

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I Am a Veteran of the Anti-War Movement

  Endless wars and trillions in debt This week, it was reported that Trump approved a $2.8 billion arms “sale”…

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