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Schuyler Mitchell

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TikTok Shouldn’t Be Banned, But It Still Values Profit Over Privacy

TikTok Shouldn’t Be Banned, But It Still Values Profit Over Privacy

A ban would be a nightmare for civil liberties. But TikTok, like all Big Tech platforms, is no friend to the left.

22.01.2025 10

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By Voting for Laken Riley Act, Democrats Cede More Power to Anti-Immigrant Right

By Voting for Laken Riley Act, Democrats Cede More Power to Anti-Immigrant Right

Republicans are pushing the new legislation, which will bring an already hostile immigration status quo into chaos.

17.01.2025 1

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Mutual Aid Networks That Emerged in Housing Crisis Are Mobilizing Amid LA Fires

Mutual Aid Networks That Emerged in Housing Crisis Are Mobilizing Amid LA Fires

“If you can make a sandwich, you can start a mutual aid network,” one Los Angeles organizer told Truthout.

17.01.2025 8

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While Los Angeles Burns, AI Fans the Flames

While Los Angeles Burns, AI Fans the Flames

Artificial intelligence is a water-guzzling industry hastening future climate crises from California's own backyard.

11.01.2025 20

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LA Gave More Money to Cops While Cutting Fire Budgets. Now It’s Burning.

“The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist. The post LA...

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Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss

Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss

We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day. Nearly five years since COVID-19 was declared a global...

07.01.2025 100

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What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term

The autumn sun was sinking low behind the Blue Ridge Mountains as we pulled into Swannanoa. It was Thanksgiving Day, and two months since Hurricane...

25.12.2024 3

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Luigi Mangione’s Indictment Is Another Example of the Dangers of Terror Charges

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing...

21.12.2024 4

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After 86 Years, Disabled Workers Could Finally Receive Minimum Wage Protections

For nearly 90 years, the wealthiest country in the world has allowed thousands of disabled people to be paid mere pennies on the dollar. Now, after...

07.12.2024 2

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ICJ Hearings Offer New Chance to Get Rich Countries to Pay for Climate Crisis

Five years ago, a group of 27 law students at the University of the South Pacific came together and hatched a bold new plan to bring the issue of...

04.12.2024 2

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What Could We Lose With Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. in Charge of Our Health?

The United States healthcare system is so broken, sometimes I forget that it used to be even worse. After all, 15 short years ago, pregnant people...

29.11.2024 3

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Inside Christian Nationalists’ Legal Long Game to End Church-State Separation

When schoolchildren across Texas return to classrooms next fall, thousands could encounter new, Bible-infused lessons. The Texas board of education...

25.11.2024 6

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Bernie Sanders’ Vote on Gaza Genocide Forces Senators to Go on the Record

Since last October, Israel has been able to wage a genocidal war on Gaza while receiving little more than a light slap on the wrist. President Joe...

20.11.2024 1

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Germany and US Are in a Race to the Bottom on Suppressing Pro-Palestine Speech

Last week, 52 Democrats voted to embolden a fascist. Let’s back up. For the past year, leading members of the Democratic Party have increasingly...

19.11.2024 20

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Trump Reelection Looms Over COP29 as Climate Conference Continues to Disappoint

For decades, making progress on global climate action has felt like trying to tunnel through a mountain with only a spoon and some elbow grease....

14.11.2024 1

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Grassroots Organizing Wisdom Will Be Crucial With a Fascist in the White House

We’ve been here before. This is not 2016, when Donald J. Trump’s surge to victory shocked much of the nation. We know how Trump operates and...

06.11.2024 2

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As Trump and Harris Tout Their Economic Records, What Do the Numbers Say?

There’s an old saying that goes, “If you put 10 economists in a room, you’ll get 11 opinions.” The data, meanwhile, shows that if you ask U.S....

31.10.2024 20

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Harris’s Silence on FTC Chair Shows Billionaires Are Winning the Election

The Veepification of U.S. politics reached its climax this month, as Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on a swing state campaign tour alongside...

26.10.2024 20

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Time Is Running Out for the Senate to Confirm Biden’s Federal Judges

On the morning of June 24, 2022, I woke up, checked my phone and saw that nearly 50 years of legal precedent had fallen. We’d heard it was coming,...

23.10.2024 1

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As Election Day Nears, Pitfalls of Austerity at USPS Are Clearer Than Ever

Oh poor, embattled Postal Service — your plight embodies the platitude, “We hurt the ones we love the most.” Year after year, you’re trotted...

18.10.2024 1

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The EPA Is Mandating Removal of All Lead Pipes. What Will Replace Them?

On October 8, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a landmark rule aimed at tackling lead contamination in drinking water. Utility...

11.10.2024 30

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Hit Hard by Hurricane Helene, Georgia’s Migrant Farmworkers Struggle to Get Aid

As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, residents are bracing for their second catastrophic storm in less than two weeks. Since September 26,...

08.10.2024 2

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Hurricane-Struck North Carolina Prisoners Were Locked in Cells With Their Own Feces for Nearly a Week

“We thought we were going to die there. We didn’t think anybody was going to come back for us.” The post Hurricane-Struck North Carolina...

04.10.2024 3

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As North Carolina Flooded, My Home State Turned From Climate Haven to Calamity

After the fire had retreated and the evacuation orders were lifted, my mother took me on a walk through our backyard. The pale dust of the southern...

02.10.2024 1

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Amazon Union Effort in North Carolina Is Latest Attempt to Organize the South

Workers at a sprawling Amazon warehouse outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, have taken their first formal step forward in their fight to organize...

29.09.2024 5

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Both Harris and Trump Cite Right-Wing Myths About Fentanyl in Border Policy

When it comes to the overdose crisis, Donald Trump would like you to believe that the problem — along with almost every other problem currently...

26.09.2024 10

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Biden Joined the UAW Picket Line Last Year. Will He Do the Same With Boeing?

More than 33,000 Boeing factory workers in the Pacific Northwest voted to strike on September 13, in a monumental moment for labor that could...

20.09.2024 2

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Climate Crisis Is the Defining Issue of Our Time. Where Was It at the Debate?

On one of the most consequential nights in the 2024 presidential race, the fate of our entire planet received all of 120 seconds. Vice President...

16.09.2024 2

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The Gun Industry Is Beginning to Lose Immunity From the Violence It Fuels

The morning after a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, left four people dead and nine injured, members of the Georgia...

15.09.2024 3

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As Harris Rejects Fracking Ban, Will Anyone Listen to What Pennsylvanians Want?

With the presidential election just two months away, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s campaigns have each spent...

07.09.2024 3

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US Finally Agrees to Back Limits on Plastic Production. Here’s Why That Matters.

Plastic waste is pummeling the South Pacific, polluting coral reefs and lagoons, washing up in tons on sandy shores and accumulating in a giant...

05.09.2024 10

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Unionized Rideshare Drivers Vow Future Strikes After Jamming Nashville Airport

Summer is winding down, but the Tennessee Drivers Union is just getting started. Following a vote to unionize in late August, a coalition of...

04.09.2024 7

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Instead of Ignoring Trans Rights at DNC, Dems Should’ve Vowed to Protect Them

I don’t want to mince words: Transgender people in the United States are facing an existential threat. You’ve likely heard the numbers, but they...

30.08.2024 6

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DNC Climate Panels Offered Empty Rhetoric Instead of Specific Plans

The climate crisis didn’t receive much primetime attention during this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC). But away from the bright...

24.08.2024 2

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In 2024 Platform, Democrats Lurch Right on Policing and Immigration

As thousands of delegates flock to Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention (DNC), much of the public will be watching to see how...

20.08.2024 20

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Want to Support Palestinian Liberation? Boycott Chevron.

In the eastern reaches of the Mediterranean Sea lie vast reserves of natural gas. For more than a decade, Israel has generated billions of dollars...

18.08.2024 3

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Universal Health Care Was Big on the 2020 Democratic Platform. Where Is It Now?

The last time the Democratic Party released a platform, mass death and illness were haunting the political landscape. By mid-August 2020, more than...

16.08.2024 2

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Activists Are Bringing the Heat to the Doorstep of Banks Funding Climate Crisis

As the world broils under month after month of record-shattering temperatures, thousands of activists are engaging in a new campaign of civil...

14.08.2024 1

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Viral TikTok Videos Erase Kamala Harris’s Record as California’s “Top Cop”

In the weeks since Joe Biden announced the end of his presidential campaign, a troubling phenomenon has taken hold of my TikTok “For You” page:...

31.07.2024 3

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Why Did AOC and Bernie Sanders Keep Backing Biden in His Campaign’s Last Days?

In the turbulent final weeks of Joe Biden’s doomed reelection bid, as Democratic Party leaders coalesced in a full-throttle push to end the...

25.07.2024 3

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This Week’s RNC Highlighted the Right’s Strategy for Courting the Working Class

Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters union, took to the stage on the first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC) with some fiery...

19.07.2024 2

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