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The World’s Largest Solar Geoengineering Study Is Launching in the U.S.

By 2022, Harvard researchers plan to disperse small amounts of two materials into the stratosphere in the hopes of replicating the atmospheric cooling effects of a large volcanic eruption.

March 28, 2017
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Category: Science

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Dems Rejected Public Option With Congressional Control. What Awaits Sanders' Call for Single-Payer?

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Wendell Potter, a health insurance executive turned whistleblower, on the GOP failure to repeal Obamacare and what lessons the 2009 defeat of the public option - when Democrats controlled Congress - can offer

March 28, 2017
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Category: Politics

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Advocate of Saddam/Al Qaeda Conspiracy Will Save Us From Fake News

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The New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg (3/26/17), alarmed by right-wing websites with “no commitment to truth,” is eager to balance them out with some respectable conservative journalists—and seems to think he has found one in Weekly Standard editor-

March 28, 2017
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Local Lawmakers Fight Back Against AG Sessions's Threats to Cut Funding to Sanctuary Cities

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The Trump administration has unveiled its latest attempt to target sanctuary cities that are refusing to help federal agents detain and deport undocumented immigrants. On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the

March 28, 2017
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Category: Politics

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Immigrant Communities in Fear as Trump Ups ICE Raids Targeting Sanctuary Cities

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Philadelphia City Councilmember Helen Gym and Austin City Councilmember Gregorio Casar talk about fear spreading in immigrant communities, as well as the growing resistance to federal immigration policy.

March 28, 2017
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Category: Justice

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The U.N. Is Currently Meeting To Negotiate A Complete, Global Ban on Nuclear Weapons

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Scientists have joined together to urge the UN to stigmatize nuclear weapons in the same manner as biological and chemical weapons. They believe a false alarm could soon trigger an all-out war, and that the UN is correct in considering a total ban.