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A Former IRS Chief on Trump’s Attempts to Gut—and Weaponize—His Agency

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The Internal Revenue Service, as the New York Times reported this week, is mulling Donald Trump’s request to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University after Harvard refused to cave in to the president’s demands for a sweeping right-wing overhaul. The Times also reported, just yesterday, that a Treasury official had emailed a high-level official […]

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Trump Signs Executive Order Delaying Negotiations for Prescription Drug Prices

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One policy advocate described the move as “a total capitulation to the demands of drug corporation lobbyists.”

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How to Call Congress—When the Phone Isn’t an Option

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As someone who is deaf, Sara Nović says, “the phone has long been my nemesis.”  Nović, an organizer and author of the novel True Biz, has tried to call their representatives in Congress by phone—but they’ve been hung up on. When they started organizing earlier this year with fellow deaf people on issues like Donald […]

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If Trump Doesn’t Fix This Blunder, “People Would Die in Their Homes”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The summer of 2021 was brutal for residents of the Pacific Northwest. Cities across the region from Portland, Oregon, to Quillayute, Washington, broke temperature records by several degrees. In Washington, as the searing heat wave settled over the state, 125 people […]

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Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

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With no recourse in US courts or Congress, the Taxpayers Against Genocide movement pivots to UN Human Rights Council.

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How GOP Lawmakers’ Districts Benefited from Biden’s Energy Spending

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President Trump’s overarching embrace of fossil fuels includes repealing a landmark Biden legislative achievement, the Inflation Reduction Act, which has helped support major investments in clean energy infrastructure.  While this will be the 55th time Republicans will have tried to roll back part or all of the $370 billion IRA, a Mother Jones analysis shows […]

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Bernie Sanders Demands a $17 Minimum Wage as Trump’s Tariffs Embarrass GOP

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Hungry for an economic populism that challenges Trump, Democrats line up behind Sanders’s latest minimum wage push.

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Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]

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Trump’s “Pincer Attack” on Journalism Is Working. But There’s Hope.

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David Folkenflik occupies a unique role at NPR: He’s a journalist who writes about journalism. And that includes the very organization where he works, which is once again being threatened by conservatives in Washington. The second Trump administration has aggressively gone after the media in its first few months. It’s kicked news organizations out of […]

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Nearly 40% of Those in Mike Johnson’s District Rely on Medicaid as He Eyes Cuts

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Without Medicaid, many can’t afford health coverage in a state where the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

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