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Articles from truthout.org

Warren: Musk Is Using Tesla to Prop Up Twitter's Debts and Failures | Musk has racked up potential labor concerns and conflicts of interest in his Twitter dealings, Warren wrote. (truthout.org)
2022-12-21 Tesla Twitter

GOP Blocks Funding to Cut Child Poverty After Approving $858 Billion for Defense | The GOP is refusing to negotiate on reviving the expanded Child Tax Credit, which cut child poverty by over 40 percent. (truthout.org)
2022-12-21 Tax Republican

Israel Deports Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Who Sent War Crimes Case to ICC | Salah Hammouri had been held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial since March. (truthout.org)
2022-12-21 Israel

House Passes Bill to Allow Puerto Ricans to Vote on Statehood or Independence | Ocasio-Cortez said the vote to let Puerto Rico decide on statehood, independence, or otherwise was a “watershed moment.” (truthout.org)
2022-12-21 Puerto Rico

Ron DeSantis Is a Case Study in the Threat of Fascism in the US (truthout.org)
2022-12-20

Community-Based Programs Offer Alternative to Detention for Asylum Seekers | Community-based programs for asylum seekers are grossly underfunded, while detention and surveillance are expanding. (truthout.org)
2022-12-19

Facing Threat of Far Right Violence, Library Workers Seek Safety in Unionization | Libraries are necessary social infrastructure, and the safety of workers is imperative to their continuing function. (truthout.org)
2022-12-19 Far-right

What Organizers Can Learn From a Rank-and-File Coal Miners' Victory 50 Years Ago | In 1972, labor militants ousted corrupt and entrenched leadership at the mine workers' union in an unprecedented win. (truthout.org)
2022-12-18

Virginia Democrats Call on Senate to Finally Certify Equal Rights Amendment | “The ERA would finally guarantee full and equal protections to women in the U.S. Constitution,” the lawmakers said. (truthout.org)
2022-12-18 U.S. Democrat Senate Virginia

For-Profit Child Care Chains Donated to Manchin After He Blocked Universal Care | The chains called on Manchin to support legislation that would only help low-income families, protecting their profits. (truthout.org)
2022-12-18

UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty Despite US Opposition | The U.S. joined Saudi Arabia, Iran and North Korea in voting against the resolution. (truthout.org)
2022-12-18 U.S. Korea Arabia Iran Saudi Arabia

“Lay Off the Proto-Fascism”: AOC Flames Musk for Banning Accounts on Twitter | “Maybe try putting down your phone,” she said. (truthout.org)
2022-12-18 Twitter

Internal Documents Reveal Big Oil's Plan for Profiting Amid Climate Pressures | The largest oil and gas companies are leveraging the climate crisis to further entrench their domination of energy markets. (truthout.org)
2022-12-15 Energy Climate

Sanders Vows to Vote Against $858B Defense Bill, Calls for Medicare for All (truthout.org)
2022-12-13 Medicare

DOJ Is “On a Path to Charge” Trump, Former U.S. Attorney Says (truthout.org)
2022-12-13 Trump U.S.

Crypto Industry Ally Joins House GOP Leadership, Nixing Hopes for Reform | Future House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has interfered with investigations of crypto firms such as FTX. (truthout.org)
2022-12-11 Republican

As NYT Staffers Strike, Sanders Calls to Empower Workers Battling Media Giants | “We need to rebuild and protect a diverse and truly independent press,” wrote Sen. Sanders. (truthout.org)
2022-12-11

Student Debt Relief Opponent Runs to Chair Education Committee for GOP | Rep. Virginia Foxx has said she would eliminate the Department of Education if given the chance. (truthout.org)
2022-12-11 Republican Virginia

Top Recipient of War Industry Money to Head GOP House Armed Services Committee | Rep. Mike Rogers, now set to influence military budgets, took more defense sector money than any other lawmaker in 2022. (truthout.org)
2022-12-11 Republican

Renewable Energy to Become World's Top Electricity Source by 2025, Report Says | A new report notes the war in Ukraine has spurred governments to speed up development of renewable energy sources. (truthout.org)
2022-12-11 Energy Ukraine Renewable

Musk Gives Right Wingers Access to Internal Twitter Systems to Spread Propaganda | The “Twitter Files” elevate false narratives and serve to uplift dangerous right-wing figures. (truthout.org)
2022-12-10 Twitter

The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards | The far right built an elaborate new infrastructure for attacking public education in the run-up to the midterms. (truthout.org)
2022-12-10 Far-right

Dozens of Groups Urge Congress Not to Extend Trump's Corporate Tax Cuts | Corporations like Amazon and Northrop Grumman have been lobbying for the tax breaks. (truthout.org)
2022-12-9 Trump Amazon Tax

We Are Living in a Digital Police State. You Can Thank Big Tech. (truthout.org)
2022-12-8

New Film Exposes Israel's Cover-Up, US Response to Shireen Abu Akleh's Murder | “We want there to be accountability. We want there to be justice,” Shireen's niece Lina Abu Akleh says. (truthout.org)
2022-12-5 Israel

Reformers Win Big in United Auto Workers Election, Reject Entrenched Leadership | The progressive Members United slate may win every seat they ran for and force the union president into a runoff. (truthout.org)
2022-12-5

Financial Technology Firms Made “Massive Profits” on PPP Loans, Engaged in Fraud | A congressional report finds lax anti-fraud standards, execs who cashed in, and contempt for small loan applicants. (truthout.org)
2022-12-5 PPP

Railroad Workers Slam Biden for Siding With Bosses to Avoid Strike - Frustrated railroad workers consider allying with a third party after a push for paid sick leave failed in Congress. (truthout.org)
2022-12-5

Police Units Formed by Republicans to Find Widespread Voter Fraud Come Up Short (truthout.org)
2022-11-29 Republican

Rent Is Too Damned High: US Tenants Mobilize to Demand Rent Controls (truthout.org)
2022-11-28

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