This weekend, with the NRA's obscenity underway, 38 people were shot, eight fatally, in gun violence across Chicago. And that was not all of the gun violence.
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As Elon Musk’s Twitter barrels toward insolvency, he has only himself to blame for lacking this basic business sense about social networks.
Over 500 advertising and PR agencies have now pledged to cut ties with world’s biggest fossil fuel polluters.
No matter how much the defenders of the militaristic status quo have tried to relegate Daniel Ellsberg to the past, he has insisted on being present.
Chubb stated that they will not underwrite oil and gas extraction projects in protected areas designated by state, provincial or national governments.
In a sharp rebuke to the GOP's expulsion vote, all 36 members of Nashville's Metropolitan Council voted to reinstate Jones to his seat representing their district.
In the minds of Republicans in Congress, and especially in state capitals, there's an unequivocal message—just go for it. You can trample on Democracy with few meaningful consequences.
The Tennessee GOP expelled two Black, duly elected, Democrats from their chamber—a clearly racist move—and then immediately began fundraising their base saying, "Our fight is just beginning."
Two Black members of the Tennessee House of Representatives were expelled by the Republican majority for joining protests against gun violence and the recent murders of three 9-year-old children.
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The GOP-controlled legislature's expulsion efforts came after thousands of Nashville students walked out of their classrooms to demand action on gun violence.
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Instead of negotiating a first union contract as required by law, Starbucks has chosen to fire Alexis Rizzo, a union leader in Buffalo who worked for Starbucks for seven years.
The porn star said she is unafraid of facing the former president in court: "I've seen him naked. There's no way he could be scarier with his clothes on."
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California is now the first state to penalize big oil companies for their rampant and unrestrained price gouging which has California drivers paying the highest gas prices in the country.