Post Overview
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Analysis
7 years ago+9 9 0Lessons of the 'Baseball Shooting': Gun Makers' Marketing Ensures That Gun Violence Feeds on Itself, and No One Is Safe
Guns are largely marketed to right-wing male power fantasies, but this latest tragedy shows that no one is immune. Wednesday’s terrifying assault on a group of Republican congressmen at baseball practice demonstrated that no one is protected from the ...
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7 years ago+1 1 0Construction underway on FPL’s next eight solar power plants | Protecting Your Pocket
Construction is underway on Florida Power & Light's next eight solar power plants, which in total will produce enough energy to power 120,000 homes, company officials said Wednesday. The plants under construction are in Indian River, St. L ...
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7 years ago+15 15 0Trump Administration Seeks 'Drastic Remedy' to Derail Kids Climate Lawsuit
The Trump administration filed a writ of mandamus petition with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday, seeking an extraordinarily rare review of a Nov. 10, 2016 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken to deny its motion to dismiss Juliana ...
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7 years ago+12 12 0The Senate Is Finalizing a Health Care Bill But You're Not Allowed to See It
GOP leaders are keeping the legislation close to the vest.
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7 years ago+17 17 0Roger Waters Won't Hide His Disdain for Donald Trump
I don't know how this will go down in Kansas City, frankly," Roger Waters says to me of the highly political messages that pepper his Us + Them tour, which begins this Friday, and his new album, Is This The Life We Really Want?, out June 2. ...
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7 years ago+1 1 0 x 1Big Pharma boss caught giving execs two middle fingers after they complain about EpiPen price gouging: report
Mylan is still facing public outrage over its decision to jack up EpiPen prices, but a new report from the New York Times claims that Mylan’s chairman isn’t worried about the backlash at all.
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7 years ago+19 19 0Supreme Court Once Again Strikes Down Racial Gerrymandering In North Carolina
The justices scrapped 28 state legislative districts drawn to disadvantage black voters. A special election may be on the horizon.
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7 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Donald Trump: The Panic President
The claim that political correctness, rather than violent attackers, is to blame for the attack puts the cart before the horse. Even if were situated properly, though, it would remain dubious, as the U.K. has aggressively surveilled Muslims it believ ...
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7 years ago+12 12 0Paris Exit Was 'Victory Paid and Carried Out' by Republican Party for the Koch Brothers
"This is the victory paid and carried out for 20 years by two people, David and Charles Koch. They have bought and purchased the top of the Republican party. Trump is a tool in this."
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7 years ago+9 9 0Expect More Murders: Why the Radical Right Kills
With the demonizing narratives of the Trump administration, we should brace ourselves for more violence from the radical right.
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Analysis
7 years ago+12 12 0Climate change evidence: How do we know?
The current warming trend is very likely mostly human-induced and proceeding at an unprecedented rate in the past 1,300 years.
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9 years ago+13 13 0Trade Rules Create Obstacle Course for a Better Food System
There were some decidedly Kafkaesque aspects of the Congressional debate this week on Fast Track legislation, designed to speed through the passage of secret trade deals that could have a serious impact on our food system. At first, the Senate refuse ...
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Expression
10 years ago+21 21 014 Pictures Comparing Life Today With How It Used To Be. No 4 Is Spot-on!
Let's face it, times have changed! Although not always for the better, one thing is certain, things will continue to change and it is up to us to ensure it does not change for the worse.
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10 years ago+23 23 0 x 2Here’s What Happens When You Install the Top 10 Download.com Apps
We installed the top 10 apps from Download.com, and you’ll never believe what happened! Well… I guess maybe you might have a good guess. Awful things. Awful things are what happens. Join us for the fun!
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10 years ago+21 21 0BP Oil Spill Is Much Worse Than People Think, Scientists Say
"Yes, I'm concerned," lead researcher Charles Fisher said. "The ocean is under a lot of pressure ... and the deep sea is starting to feel it as well."
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10 years ago+7 7 0America's 10 most hated banks
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, these financial institutions draw the most complaints.
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10 years ago+16 16 0Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Drop to Eight-Year Low
The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in more than eight years, reflecting what could be a pickup in auto making during a typically slow time of year.
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Review
10 years ago+7 7 0Sensory overload: Tokyo's Robot Restaurant - CNET
"Restaurant" is something of a misnomer when it comes to Tokyo's Robot Restaurant. While you can eat there, the venue is not designed around eating, but light, colour, with every surface fluorescent and polished to a mirror gloss, and ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0Getting the facts straight about the Founding Fathers
IIt’s not just claims on social media. Pundits and politicians get things wrong time and time again when they use the Founding Fathers to support their political views. Over the years, PolitiFact has found numerous errors about what the Founding Fath ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0Gulf oil cleanup continues: 1,250-pound tar mat uncovered in Florida
A Florida Department of Environmental Protection monitor who regularly surveys Gulf of Mexico beaches for remnants of the BP oil spill hit jackpot this weekend at Fort Pickens, discovering a 1,250 pound mat of tar, sand and shells at Fort Pickens. Th ...