As US Begins Crackdown on PFAS, Indigenous Communities Are Getting Left Behind
This story was initially revealed by Grist. Join Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Laurie Harper, director of training for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig College, a Okay-12 tribal faculty on the Leech Lake Band Indian Reservation in north-central Minnesota, by no means thought {that a} class of chemical compounds known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, can be […]
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A White Mob Attacked a Black Riverboat Captain. This Time, His Life Mattered.
That the dock employee was not presumed to be the aggressor in opposition to the attacking white mob is a victory for Black lives. On Saturday, August 5, a bunch of white boaters violently attacked Damien Pickett, a Black riverboat co-captain in his 60s who requested the boaters to maneuver their pontoon so the riverboat […]
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Wisconsin GOP Threatens to Impeach Justice Who May Reject Gerrymandered Maps
The Republican chief of Wisconsin’s Meeting late final week threatened impeachment proceedings in opposition to liberal state Supreme Courtroom Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she doesn’t recuse herself from instances involving Wisconsin’s legislative maps, which GOP lawmakers have aggressively gerrymandered to present themselves what consultants say is an illegal electoral advantage. In a radio interview on […]
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Colonialism Set the Stage for the Wildfire Destruction of Maui
The demise toll from the Maui wildfires is now about 100 and is predicted to proceed to climb in what’s now the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century and the worst pure catastrophe in Hawaii’s historical past. As restoration efforts proceed, many residents are asking why Hawaii’s early warning system, with about 80 alarms on […]
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New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It
“There needs to be no non-public prisons, interval, none, interval. That’s what they’re speaking about — non-public detention facilities. They need to not exist. And we’re working to shut all of them.” That’s what President Joe Biden said throughout an April 2021 speech in Georgia, the place he discovered himself confronted by immigrant rights activists. […]
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America Is in Existential Danger
Britain slept within the Nineteen Thirties as an inevitable struggle with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had just a few brave companions to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. One of the vital stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant—Leo Amery, a polymath […]
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FBI Agent Corroborates IRS Whistleblower Claim of Hunter Biden Tipoff
A former FBI supervisory particular agent who labored on the Hunter Biden investigation corroborated assertions by two IRS whistleblowers that FBI headquarters tipped off the Secret Service and the Biden presidential transition staff about investigative plans, in response to a brand new transcript. The transcript released Monday by the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee compounds […]
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State Pension Fund Is Invested in Deal to Drain Arizona’s Dwindling Groundwater
As rural Arizonans face the prospect of wells operating dry, international companies are sucking up huge quantities of the state’s groundwater to develop hay for Saudi Arabia and different rich nations. Now it seems {that a} key investor on this water switch scheme is Arizona’s personal worker retirement fund. In La Paz County, a rural […]
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Argentina’s Presidential Primary Winner Has Vowed to “Chainsaw” Public Spending
Javier Milei, an admirer of Donald Trump, needs to abolish the central financial institution and calls local weather change a “socialist lie.” Javier Milei, an admirer of former U.S. President Donald Trump who believes local weather change is a “socialist lie” and desires to impose excessive austerity on Argentina’s financial system, received the Latin American […]
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As Trump Indictments Mount, His Rivals Finally Go on the Offensive
On a near-daily foundation, former President Donald Trump faces both solely new indictments or add-ons to existing ones. He’s now bought a rap sheet that features two separate units of federal indictments and state expenses in New York. He has been discovered liable, in a civil case, for sexual assault, and his enterprise empire has […]
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