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Pooty Poot accuses Europeans of sabotaging peace efforts on Ukraine and meets US delegation
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IHIP News: 🚨 The trump Demented Psychotic CRASHES OUT in the Middle of the Night and Gets SUED!
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Environment & Energy
Expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water contributed to the End of the Last Ice Age
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Cable News Clips
Trump's Cuts to AIDS Prevention Are Devastating LGBTQ+ Communities Globally: Steven Thrasher
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Drug Policy
Trump's pardon of Honduras's ex-president shows counter-drug effort is 'based on lies and hypocrisy'
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Israel/Palestine
Italian, Canadian foreign nationals robbed, beaten in settler attack in Jericho
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Activist Headquarters
TODAY "All in for Aftyn" Virtual Phonebank (6pm ET). (From Indivisible)
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Omaha Steve's Labor Group
Starbucks Strike Enters Third Week Deadlocked With Both Sides Holding Firm
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National Security & Defense
Trump says Hegseth told him he didn't order killing of boat crew
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Education
Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
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Media
AI's Job Shake-Up Is Accelerating. Is It Time For Universal Basic Income, UBI? ⏰ CNN
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Single Payer Health Systems
Some respite from the extremism of absurd medical bills - Michigan lawmakers introducing legislation aimed at reducing
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LGBT Civil Rights and Activism
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died
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Gun Control & RKBA
St. Paul passes assault weapon ban, gun rights groups file lawsuit in response
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Campaigns
Give now to help Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher DEFEAT Lauren Boebert and flip this seat blue!
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Occupy Underground
Deadline Legal Blog-Not guilty verdict in ICE case sends stark message to Trump DOJ's political prosecutions
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Disability
CDC Removes Disability As Reasonable Accomodation for Remote Wk, Backtracks, Union Pressure AFGE
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Congress
House turns back effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar over remarks about Charlie Kirk
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Race & Ethnicity
'Binary thinking': Why Zohran Mamdani's African identity doesn't fit US racial boxes
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