An unlikely crew of environmentalists who took on the powerful Pennsylvania fracking industry in a David vs. Goliath battle to keep an injection well out of their community have notched an important victory in their fight. Using a novel strategy — seeking legal rights for nature itself — the rural …
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White House physician Sean Conley says President Donald Trump has tested negative for the new coronavirus. But the administration has been intentionally spreading disinformation, which gives us little confidence in the veracity of this most recent statement. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham released a statement on Saturday that said …
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Former Congressman Aaron Schock came out as gay in an Instagram post on Thursday. I don’t think there’s any need to employ the obvious, eponymous pun on whether that news had been expected. In a year where an openly married gay man won the first presidential nominating contest and President …
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President Trump held a press conference on Saturday to give an update on how the government is handling the coronavirus. Per usual, the president’s words included a mixed bag of half-truths and misinformed statements. Trump first told Americans that “there’s no reason to panic at all” and although “additional cases …
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The day after President Trump announced Vice President Mike Pence would be in charge of the country’s response to coronavirus, Pence found time in his schedule to speak at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference that claims to be the “largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world.” …
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Black History Month ends Saturday, both too soon and not soon enough. It is contained within the shortest month, but the whole enterprise can be rather exhausting. Twenty-eight days is not enough time to forgive past sins, yet we still see too many in America treating it like racial Lent, …
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A day after federal prosecutors loyal to Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, filed charges against him for being a member of a “criminal organization,” Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept was in good enough spirits. The Brazilian government’s decision to hit him with 126 felony charges came out …
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WASHINGTON — There is a comically large Darth Vader action figure on the table next to Congressman Justin Amash‘s desk. It’s one of the first things he put on display after he recently moved offices. You can’t miss it: the face of the Evil Empire staring you down as you …
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Roger Stone on Friday became the latest in a long line of Trump World figures to add “convicted felon” to his resume since the president took office. The vultures now appear to be circling around Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney who is currently waist-deep in a quagmire of corruption the …
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The morning after Kellyanne Conway was portrayed onSaturday Night Liveorchestrating a press conference for a dog, the real Kellyanne made the rounds on the Sunday morning news shows, and the results were no less comical. Visiting CNN’s State of the UnionandFox News Sunday, Conwayplayed dumb when asked if withholding Ukraine …
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